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Mozilla Punts Servo Web Engine Development To The Linux Foundation

Phoronix - Wed, 11/18/2020 - 00:00
Ever since the mass layoffs at Mozilla earlier this year and some Mozilla projects in jeopardy many have been wondering: what about Servo? Well, today it's heading off to the Linux Foundation...

Firefox 83 Released With Warp'ed JavaScript, HTTPS-Only Mode Option

Phoronix - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 23:20
Firefox 83.0 is now shipping as a notable update to the Mozilla web browser and this time around are some exciting changes...

Intel Tidies Up CET While Waiting For It To Land In The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 21:53
Intel's SGX enclaves support patches for the Linux kernel have been through 40+ rounds of review at this point over the past many months as they try to get this security feature into the mainline Linux kernel. But SGX isn't the only Intel security feature that's been having a long process for mainlining: Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) is in a similar boat...

More Intel Tiger Lake Fixes Heading Into Linux 5.11, eLLC Caching For Display Buffers

Phoronix - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 19:39
Another round of Intel graphics driver changes were submitted last week to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 5.11 merge window...

AMDVLK 2020.Q4.4 Released

Phoronix - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 19:19
AMDVLK 2020.Q4.4 is out this morning as the newest source snapshot of this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver...

Linux's Stateless H.264 Decode Interface Ready To Be Deemed Stable

Phoronix - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 16:32
The Linux kernel's stateless video decoder interface is used for video decoding where no state needs to be kept between processed video frames and allows for independently decoding each video frame. The H.264 stateless decode interface for the Linux kernel has been in the works for a few years and is now deemed ready and stable for dealing with modern stateless codecs...

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