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With this week marking three years since Spectre and Meltdown were made public in ushering in a wave of CPU security disclosures that followed and mitigations that often resulted in measurable performance hits, here is a look at how the performance costs stand today with various new and older Intel CPUs as well as AMD processors too. This article is looking at the current performance costs under Linux with the default mitigations and then the run-time disabling of the relevant mitigations for each of the processors under test while using an up-to-date Ubuntu 20.10 paired with the new Linux 5.10 LTS kernel.

Linux Systems Engineer  Gi Media

How to view stats on your Linux servers with Saidar  TechRepublic

AMD has begun staging their new open-source driver code ahead of the next AMDVLK driver release that will likely occur this week or next. With this latest AMDVLK code dump, there is easy run-time switching support between the AMDVLK and RADV Vulkan drivers...

C++ Developer Backend Linux Python  Gi Media

Released at the end of November was the much anticipated OpenZFS 2.0 open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems. Today that has been succeeded by OpenZFS 2.0.1 with support for newer Linux kernels and many bug fixes...

DevOps Engineer Linux - Finance  Gi Media

Articles by Zachary Renz  Linux Journal

An Introduction to Linux Gaming thanks to ProtonDB  Linux Journal

Software Engineer (Linux, Device Drivers, C++)  Gi Media

Emmabuntüs DE4 Alpha 2 Released: An All-In-One GNU/Linux Distribution  Fossbytes

Yet another big change being eyed for Fedora 34 is to sign individual files within shipped RPM packages. The signatures will use the Linux Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) and in turn can be used to enforce run-time policies around only allowing the execution of trusted files...

Fedora 34 Looks To Sign Individual Files Within RPMs  Phoronix

How to use Windows 95 on modern PCs, Linux, macOS or Windows  Explica

Linux Operating System Industry Market 2020 – Impact of COVID-19, Future Growth Analysis and Challenges  LionLowdown

With Linux 5.12 the Broadcom BCM2711 SoC used by the Raspberry Pi 4 will see 10 and 12-bit color support with the VC4 Direct Rendering Manager driver...

Raspberry Pi "VC4" DRM Driver Sees 10/12 BPC Color Depth With Linux 5.12  Phoronix

Google engineers continue working on the Linux kernel around "Restricted DMA" for helping to protect systems that lack DMA access control for hardware without an IOMMU...

Google Continues Work On Linux "Restricted DMA" For Situations Like Remote WiFi Attacks  Phoronix

Two CentOS Replacements En Route After Red Hat's Unpopular Move to Drop Support  Data Center Knowledge