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Linux 5.10 Media Changes Bring A New "Vidtv" Virtual Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 12:00
The media subsystem of the Linux kernel is seeing a number of changes with the in-development Linux 5.10...

Ansible in the partner ecosystem: 5 lessons in 5 years

Red Hat News - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 12:00

This week, Red Hat is celebrating an important milestone. It’s been five years since we acquired Ansible, an open source community project with a new way to approach managing systems and applications.

AMD SEV-ES Sent In For Linux 5.10 To Further Secure Guest VMs

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 08:42
While the mainline Linux kernel for quite a while now has supported AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization for EPYC processors as a means of better securing guest virtual machines (VMs) and public clouds with hardware memory encryption and using one key per VM to not only protect between guests but also the hypervisor, with Linux 5.10 comes AMD SEV-ES as another step forward for secure virtualization on AMD EPYC...

Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver "V3DV" Merged Into Mesa 20.3

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 07:00
Good news for Raspberry Pi 4 users... The V3DV Vulkan driver developed over the past year for newer Broadcom VideoCore hardware with an emphasis on the Raspberry Pi 4 support is now mainlined in Mesa 20.3!..

Android 12 Appears To Support Using WireGuard

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 06:50
WireGuard has long been available as an app on the Google Play store for those wishing to use this cross-platform, open-source secure VPN tunnel solution on Google's mobile operating system. But for Android 12 it appears there will be a form of official support...

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