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Debian Testing Is Enabling WireGuard Within Their Linux Kernel Build

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2020 - 18:35
Debian is the latest Linux distribution flipping on WireGuard within their kernel builds...

Even Apple Is Interested In Migrating Their C Code To Rust

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2020 - 18:12
Even Apple is on the bandwagon of transitioning select C code-bases of theirs over to Rust as well as expanding the code they are writing in Rust...

Proton 5.0-5 Brings Support For Newer Vulkan Extensions, Fixes Game Crashes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2020 - 17:49
As another update to their Wine-based Proton 5.0 series for powering Steam Play, Valve has been readying their next update for enhancing the experience of running Windows games on Linux under Steam...

3 metrics to measure your open source community health

opensource.com - Sat, 03/21/2020 - 15:00

Community building is table stakes in the success of any open source project. Even outside of open source, community is considered a competitive advantage for businesses in many industries—from retail, to gaming, to fitness. (For a deeper dive, see "When community becomes your competitive advantage" in the Harvard Business Review.)


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TrueNAS 12.0 CORE Supporting ZFS Async Copy-On-Write

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2020 - 12:49
TrueNAS 12.0 CORE, which up until the new TrueNAS / FreeNAS branding unification would have been called FreeNAS, will in its next release support ZFS async copy-on-write functionality...

Google Engineer Shows "SESES" For Mitigating LVI + Side-Channel Attacks - Code Runs ~7% Original Speed

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2020 - 07:10
Disclosed last week was the Load Value Injection attack affecting Intel CPUs and requiring new mitigations. While the GNU Assembler mitigation options were quickly added, on the LLVM toolchain side the developers there continue evaluating the proposed LVI mitigation along with another option that looks to mitigate more than just LVI. The "SESES" proposal looks more broadly at mitigating CPU side-channel vulnerabilities but with shattering performance hits...

Intel Cloud Hypervisor 0.6 Released With VFIO Device Hotplug, I/O Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2020 - 05:57
Intel's open-source team responsible for their Rust-based cloud hypervisor today issued a big feature update...

DXVK 1.6 Released With D3D9 Performance Work, Various Game Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 23:26
DXVK 1.6 is out in time for weekend gamers wishing to enjoy recent Windows games on Linux...

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