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Ubuntu 20.04 GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland Session Performance Impact For Gaming

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 03:05
In the past using the Wayland-based GNOME Shell session and other Wayland compositors has generally resulted in a performance hit in going through (X)Wayland but that is much less so these days. Here are some initial benchmarks of Ubuntu 20.04 running various Steam Linux gaming benchmarks both under the default X.Org-based session and then again when using the Wayland session and its (X)Wayland support.

Split Lock Detection Sent In For Linux 5.7 To Spot Performance Issues, Unprivileged DoS

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 01:46
The previously reported work on split lock detection due to its big performance hit is now queued up for Linux 5.7...

Google's OpenTelemetry Reaches Beta For Open-Source Telemetry Purposes

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2020 - 01:21
Nearly one year after announcing OpenTelemetry as the merger of the OpenCensus and OpenTracing projects, Google has announced today OpenTelemetry has advanced to its beta phase...

Linux 5.7 Staging's Spring Cleaning Sees Almost 30k Lines Of Code Dropped

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 21:10
Greg Kroah-Hartman began sending in his pull requests this morning for the areas of the Linux kernel he oversees. With the staging area changes for Linux 5.7 there is some nice spring cleaning...

Linux 5.6 Ships With Broken Intel WiFi Driver After Network Security Fixes Go Awry

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 18:26
For those that are normally spinning their own kernels and punctually upgrading to new releases, you will want to hold off on the new Linux 5.6 kernel for the moment if you use the Intel "IWLWIFI" WiFi driver...

WireGuard 1.0.0 Christened As A Modern Secure VPN Alternative To OpenVPN/IPsec

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 17:55
In-step with the Linux 5.6 release that mainlined the WireGuard kernel module for this secure VPN tunnel, WireGuard 1.0.0 has now been declared...

GNU Linux-libre 5.6-gnu Released After Deblobbing AMD Trusted Execution, Ath11k WiFi

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 17:41
Following last night's release of Linux 5.6, the GNU FSFLA folks have put out the Linux-libre 5.6-gnu kernel as their fully-free-software kernel that disallows loading binary kernel modules, disables functionality requiring closed-source firmware/microcode, and other aspects to ensure only free software code is running on the system...

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