Open-source News

The second development release of the Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 cross-platform benchmarking software is now available for evaluation and testing...

On Friday I posted some initial numbers looking at the LVI mitigation impact when using the LLVM Clang compiler with that open-source, multi-platform compiler having landed its mitigation this week for Intel's Load Value Injection (LVI) vulnerability that was disclosed in March. Through the weekend I have been running some additional tests of this compiler-based mitigation and in this article are some numbers off Cascade Lake Refresh, which while recently released is reported by Intel to still be vulnerable to this new disclosure.

Both of IBM's s390 and POWER CPU architectures are seeing secure/protected guest virtual machine support with KVM on the in-development Linux 5.7 kernel...

KVM With Linux 5.7 Supporting Protected/Secure VM Guests For IBM POWER + s390  Phoronix

While XFS dates back to the 90's and has been in the Linux kernel for nearly two decades, this proven file-system continues aging gracefully and continuing to see more improvements. With Linux 5.7 is another step forward for XFS...

XFS Working Towards Online Repair, Many Underlying Improvements  Phoronix

Astro Slide is a Smartphone/Pocket-Computer that Supports Android and Linux  Beebom

KDE developers managed to squeeze some long-problematic I/O optimizations into the KDE code-base this week along with other enhancements to make for a nice first week of April...

The work led by VMware on allowing the Direct Rendering Manager's TTM memory management code support huge page tables has been added to Linux 5.7...

In Nine Lies About Work, authors Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall examine what we might consider "common theories" about aspects of contemporary organizational life—and they debunk those theories. The book's so-called "lies" are, therefore, not really lies but rather common beliefs about work that simply aren't accurate in actual working environments today.

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An important infrastructure change with the Linux 5.7 kernel now allows the ability to create a process in a different cgroup from the parent process...

Linux 5.7 To Support Spawning A Process In A Different Cgroup From Its Parent  Phoronix

The MIPS architecture improvements for Linux 5.7 are headlined by Loongson support improvements for those Chinese manufactured MIPS64 platforms...

Loongson Improvements Land In Linux 5.7 To Improve The Chinese MIPS CPUs  Phoronix

One of the most promising open-source game projects of the 2010s when it comes to gameplay and visual quality is the Unvanquished project but sadly in recent years has been fairly quiet although new code continues to be contributed to their repository. It looks like in the weeks ahead could finally be a new release...

Open-Source Unvanquished Game Aiming For A New Release Soon  Phoronix

How I turned an old Chromebook Pixel into a native Linux laptop running Ubuntu  About Chromebooks

Linux Beat IBM, Will Open-Source Software Beat Waymo And Tesla?  Forbes

As we have been expecting the new Samsung-developed file-system driver for Microsoft's exFAT has successfully landed into the Linux 5.7 kernel to replace the existing exFAT driver added in Linux 5.4 last year after Microsoft published the file-system specifications and gave their blessing to have the support mainlined in the Linux kernel...

The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Has Landed In Linux 5.7  Phoronix