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How to Install Perl Modules Using CPAN on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Fri, 03/13/2020 - 14:17
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN in short) is a popular central repository of currently 188,714 Perl modules in 40,986 distributions. It is a single location where you can find, download and install any...

AMDGPU Driver Sees More Fixes For Linux 5.7 Development

Phoronix - Fri, 03/13/2020 - 12:00
Feature work of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics driver work for Linux 5.7 is winding down now that Linux 5.6 is almost to its sixth release candidate this weekend, but sent in this week by AMD were a few more AMDGPU items though mostly amounting to fixes for their graphics driver...

What Red Hat is doing to address coronavirus (COVID-19)

Red Hat News - Fri, 03/13/2020 - 12:00

As the new coronavirus, COVID-19, evolves, we continue to prioritize the health and well-being of both Red Hat associates and the communities where we live and work. In the spirit of transparency, we thought it would be useful if we shared measures Red Hat is taking as a company:

New guidance on March 13, 2020

Google Bringing WebAssembly Extensions To Network Proxies

Phoronix - Fri, 03/13/2020 - 07:42
In addition to WebAssembly's growing presence outside of the web browser thanks to various desktop run-times and interesting use-cases, WebAssembly is also popping up in other areas. Google has been working on WebAssembly support for extensions within network proxies typically reserved for C/C++ or the likes of Lua scripts...

The Brutal Performance Impact From Mitigating The LVI Vulnerability

Phoronix - Fri, 03/13/2020 - 04:32
On Tuesday the Load Value Injection (LVI) attack was disclosed by Intel and security researchers as a new class of transient-execution attacks and could lead to injecting data into a victim program and in turn stealing data, including from within SGX enclaves. While Intel has publicly stated they don't believe the LVI attack to be practical, one of their open-source compiler wizards did go ahead and add mitigation options to the GNU Assembler as part of the GCC toolchain. Here are benchmarks showing the performance impact of enabling those new LVI mitigation options and the significant impact they can cause on run-time performance in real-world workloads.

Debian 11 "Bullseye" To Begin Code Freeze In Early 2021

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2020 - 22:12
The Debian release team has published their tentative freeze dates for the next major version of their Linux operating system, Debian 11 Bullseye...

More AMD Family 19h (Zen 3) Code Trickling Into Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2020 - 22:04
We continue to see bits here and there of AMD Family 19h / Zen 3 support coming together for the mainline Linux kernel...

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