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Two More X.Org Server Security Advisories Issued - Possible Privilege Escalation

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 23:57
Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative has uncovered two more security issues with the aging X.Org Server that as we roll into 2021 is still powering most of the Linux desktops...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Linux Performance Exceeds The RTX 2080 SUPER - Costs Just $399 USD

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 22:00
NVIDIA tomorrow is launching the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with their Founder's Edition card and AIB variants are also expected. For about $400 USD, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti offers performance comparable or slightly faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER and especially much stronger performance for compute and RTX workloads. With the review embargo now lifted a day ahead of the launch, here are the initial Linux benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti under Ubuntu Linux.

Mesa Now 2~5x Faster For SPECViewPerf Following OpenGL Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 21:03
Well known open-source AMD Linux graphics driver developer Marek Olšák has just merged one of his largest set of optimizations in recent times: 2~5x faster performance for SPECViewPerf...

Linux Mint Continues Developing Hypnotix As New Open-Source IPTV Player

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 20:52
Linux Mint recently began developing a new open-source Linux IPTV player. That project "Hypnotix" is moving ahead and will be integrated with Linux Mint 20.1 while is also available as a standalone Debian package...

FreeBSD Merges WireGuard Support

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 19:24
The momentum of WireGuard continues with FreeBSD now having mainlined their port of this open-source secure VPN tunnel...

AMD's Zen 3 + RDNA2 Products Dominated November Along With The Apple M1

Phoronix - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 16:53
Another month of the tumultuous year that is 2020 is now in the books... At least in November were several exciting hardware announcements to help pass the time along with the exciting evolution of open-source software...

Try Jed as your Linux terminal text editor

opensource.com - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 16:02

You may have heard about Emacs and Vim and Nano, the quintessential Linux text editors, but Linux has an abundance of open source text editors, and it's my goal to spend December giving 31 of them a fair go.

In this article, I look at Jed, a terminal-based editor featuring a handy drop-down menu, which makes it especially easy for users who are new to terminal editors, as well as those who just don't like remembering keyboard combinations for every function.


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How this open source security tool halted significant DDoS attacks

opensource.com - Tue, 12/01/2020 - 16:01

In 2020, our ways of living and working were turned completely upside down in a matter of days. As COVID-19 began to spread across the globe, we brought our companies home, and staying connected to our colleagues, friends, and family online became a critical necessity.


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