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AlmaLinux 8.4, Oracle Linux 8 Update 4 Released

Phoronix - Thu, 05/27/2021 - 08:22
Following last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, various downstreams are beginning to release their respective updates based against the RHEL 8.4 changes...

Linux Picks Up Fix For Latest "Confused Deputy" Weakness Going Back To 2.6.12 Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 05/27/2021 - 01:23
Merged today to Linux 5.13 Git and marked for back-porting to stable series is a new "confused deputy" weakness and affects kernels going back to Linux 2.6.12 from 2005...

Unreal Engine 5 Hits Early Access, Linux Still Supported

Phoronix - Wed, 05/26/2021 - 23:58
Epic Games today pushed Unreal Engine 5 out to early access. Like with UE4, Unreal Engine 5 continues offering native Linux support and allowing use of the Vulkan API...

Benchmarking AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Linux Performance With A $450 Lenovo Laptop

Phoronix - Wed, 05/26/2021 - 21:55
The AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with six cores / twelve threads within a Lenovo laptop at $449 USD is quite a steal. This is also my first time benchmarking the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U after waiting months on Ryzen 5000 series laptop availability. Here are some initial benchmarks of the Ryzen 5 5500U under Ubuntu 21.04 Linux against various other Intel/AMD laptops.

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