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Microsoft Adding Azure "MANA" Driver To Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 08:32
Microsoft is preparing the Linux kernel for some yet-to-debut Azure network functionality...

ARM in the Datacenter - Virtualization Review

Google News - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 07:14
ARM in the Datacenter  Virtualization Review

KFence Memory Safety Error Checking Is Looking Good For Minimal Overhead On Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 04:16
Of the many new features coming with Linux 5.12 is KFence, short for the Kernel Electric Fence. KFence is a low-overhead memory safety error detector/validator for the kernel with lower expected overhead costs than say the Kernel Address Sanitizer. I just wrapped up some benchmarks looking out for any overhead impact of KFence on Linux 5.12 in its near-final state...

Google Deprecating RenderScript In Favor Of Vulkan Compute

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 01:59
Google announced today that with Android 12.0 they will be deprecating their RenderScript APIs. Moving forward Android developers should primarily target the Vulkan API for high performance compute needs...

Firefox 88 Released With FTP Support Disabled, Support For JavaScript In PDFs

Phoronix - Mon, 04/19/2021 - 23:40
Firefox 88.0 is out today as the latest version of Mozilla's web browser...

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