Open-source News

How to create Let's Encrypt SSL certificates with acme.sh on Linux  TechRepublic

Not too surprising given the Steam Deck is inching closer towards release and we've known Valve has been working to improve the anti-cheat situation for games on Linux, but today EAC owner Epic Games officially announced Easy Anti-Cheat for both Linux and macOS...

Linux Systems Specialist  IT-Online

The promising FUTEX2 work focused on improving the Linux performance for running Windows games via Wine/Proton by extending futex to wait on multiple locks is still moving forward...

AMD's Older Radeon GPUs Get Ray Tracing Support on Linux  Tom's Hardware

AMD's Older Radeon GPUs Get Ray Tracing Support on Linux  Tom's Hardware

The Linux Foundation & edX Teach Open Source to 2 Million Learners  PRNewswire

A Fix Is Pending For That Linux 5.15 Performance Regression  Phoronix

Last week was the article on noticing various workloads performing slower on the Linux 5.15 development kernel. There is now a patch pending that in testing so far does indeed correct the performance drop on this forthcoming kernel.

Microsoft's "CLOn12" effort to allow OpenCL over DirectX 12 by leveraging Mesa now has landed a major rework to its code within Mesa...

EnduraData Updates File Synchronization for Ransomware & Linux Containers  PRNewswire

EnduraData Updates File Synchronization for Ransomware & Linux Containers  KPVI News 6

Qing Zhao of Oracle presented yesterday during the LPC2021 GNU Tools Track around the work they and others have been engaged in for improving the security of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

Most Linux distributions are currently coming up short from offering adequate security around full disk encryption and authenticated boot. Prominent Linux developer Lennart Poettering even argues that your data is "probably more secure if stored on current ChromeOS, Android, Windows or macOS devices."..

Lennart: Linux Comes Up Short Around Disk Encryption, Authenticated Boot Security  Phoronix

The latest batch of miscellaneous Direct Rendering Manager changes are on their way to DRM-Next for Linux 5.16. Notable from this new drm-misc-next batch is the new "panel-edp" driver...

Linux / Unix desktop Gnome 41: performance boost and better settings dialog  Market Research Telecast

Kali Linux or parrot OS, which is more suitable for security - Chrome OS  BleepingComputer

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