Open-source News

Over the past year IBM engineers have been plumbing "future" processor support into the GCC compiler and related GNU toolchain components. The patches often referred to the work either as "future" or "powerxx" while today is christened as what was pretty much obvious all along: it's POWER10...

Linux and open source discussed in podcast, with Positive Internet  TechHQ

Linux Desktop OS Market Share is Dropping – 'Well, except for Ubuntu'  stopthefud

New Thunderbolt hack exposes your files: How to check if you’re safe  SlashGear

Thunderspy vulnerability in Thunderbolt 3 allows hackers to steal files from Windows and Linux machines  BetaNews

Given last week's release of Firefox 76 and promoting 77 to beta, here are some fresh benchmarks of the recent Mozilla Firefox releases on Ubuntu Linux...

Firefox 76 + 77 Beta Web Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux  Phoronix

Firefox 76 + 77 Beta Web Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux  Phoronix

Linux Software Market 2020:2024 by Coronavirus-COVID19 Impact Analysis With Top Manufacturers Analysis | Top Players: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat  3rd Watch News

A comprehensive coverage of Open vSwitch and its capabilities  TechTarget

Weekly Security News Roundup: Dacls RAT Begins Targeting Mac Users  Security Intelligence

The Zink Gallium3D driver project that is layering OpenGL over Vulkan is one step closer to exposing OpenGL 3.0 capabilities...

With the AMDGPU kernel driver adding Trusted Memory Zone support for the Linux 5.8 kernel, Mesa 20.2-devel has now landed support for the RadeonSI driver to make use of this TMZ functionality...

Just this weekend we were writing about the eleventh spin of the Linux FSGSBASE patches for this capability that can help out performance going back to Ivy Bridge era processors. Kicking off Monday, version twelve is already out and an explanation why a Microsoft developer has been stewarding these patches across the finish line...

FSGSBASE v12 Patches Published With Even Microsoft Intrigued By Its Performance  Phoronix

FSGSBASE v12 Patches Published With Even Microsoft Intrigued By Its Performance  Phoronix

The BUS1 API did see some activity back in March but with that in-kernel IPC mechanism not yet on approach for landing in the mainline Linux kernel, the Dbus-Broker project for a high-performance D-Bus implementation remains the best solution for the time being...

Linux Foundation claims 5G NFV first, based on China Mobile code  Rethink Research

How to check whether your PC is affected by the Thunderbolt vulnerability  Stuff Magazines

An alternative for the nmcli is the nmtui, short for Network Manager Text User Interface, the nmtui is yet another handy tool that allows you to easily configure your network interfaces in Linux distributions...