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Awards roll call: November 2020 to February 2021

Red Hat News - Wed, 03/10/2021 - 13:00

Among 2020’s biggest buzzwords—unprecedented, pivotal, virtual—one emerged as a defining factor of Red Hat’s success amidst the chaos: resilience. Earlier this month, our President and CEO Paul Cormier outlined our path for 2021, which is built upon the resilience of our people and technology.

VirtIO Sound Driver Coming For Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Wed, 03/10/2021 - 13:00
The virtual sound driver for VirtIO has been queued up into the sound-next code ahead of the Linux 5.13 merge window this spring...

NVIDIA 470 Series Driver Looks Like It Will Bring OpenCL 3.0 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/10/2021 - 06:00
We are already quite eager for NVIDIA's 470 series Linux driver due to Wayland / DMA-BUF improvements coming to this next major feature release for their proprietary driver stack. Making it all the more exciting is it looks like the NVIDIA 470 series driver will have OpenCL 3.0 support...

OpenZFS 2.0.4 Released With Linux 5.11 Support, Early Linux 5.12 Compatibility Updates

Phoronix - Wed, 03/10/2021 - 04:48
OpenZFS 2.0.4 is out as the latest version of this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

"git clone" Hit By Vulnerability That Could Lead To Code Execution

Phoronix - Wed, 03/10/2021 - 03:13
Disclosed today is CVE-2021-21300 as a security vulnerability affecting git clone that could lead to specially crafted repositories being able to execute code during the Git clone process...

openSUSE Leap 15.3 Beta Performance Is Looking Good

Phoronix - Wed, 03/10/2021 - 02:17
Given the beta phase of openSUSE Leap 15.3 having started earlier this month, here are some preliminary benchmarks looking at the performance for openSUSE Leap 15.3 with the initial beta snapshot against Leap 15.2 with all stable release updates against the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed.

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