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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...

Mesa Developers Discussing Again Whether To Fork Or Drop Non-Gallium3D Drivers

Phoronix - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 15:53
Back in December was a developer discussion over dropping or forking non-Gallium3D drivers. Since then the Intel "Iris" Gallium3D driver has successfully become the default OpenGL driver for Broadwell/Gen8 and newer while the non-Gallium3D drivers continue to just face bit rot. The discussion over dropping/forking non-Gallium3D Mesa drivers has been reignited...

3 Ways to Create a Network Bridge in RHEL/CentOS 8

Tecmint - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 15:38
A network bridge is a data-link layer device that interconnects two or more network segments, offering communication between them. It creates a single network interface to set up a single aggregate network from multiple...

Why I switched from Mac to Linux

opensource.com - Mon, 03/30/2020 - 15:02

In 1994, my family bought a Macintosh Performa 475 as a home computer. I had used Macintosh SE computers in school and learned to type with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, so I've been a Mac user for well over 25 years. Back in the mid-1990s, I was attracted to its ease of use. It didn't start with a DOS command prompt; it opened to a friendly desktop. It was playful.


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