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WireGuard – A Fast, Modern and Secure VPN Tunnel for Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 13:13
WireGuard is a modern, secure, cross-platform and general-purpose VPN implementation that uses state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be speedy, simpler, leaner and more functional than IPsec and it intends to be more performant than...

X.Org/FreeDesktop.org Is Looking For Sponsors Or May Have To Cut Continuous Integration Hosting

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 05:58
The cost of cloud hosting -- or in particular hosting their own GitLab instance and running continuous integration (CI) support for FreeDesktop.org projects -- is putting financial strain on the X.Org Foundation...

Linux 4.4.215 / 4.9.215 / 4.14.172 / 5.5.7 Kernels Bringing Intel KVM Security Fix

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 04:02
A few days back we reported on a security vulnerability within Intel's KVM virtualization code for the Linux kernel. That vulnerability stems from unfinished kernel code and was fixed for Linux 5.6 Git and is now being back-ported to the 4.4 / 4.9 / 4.14 / 5.5 supported kernels...

Linux 5.6 Tests On AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon 8280 2P With 100+ Benchmarks

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 02:57
The latest benchmarks for your viewing pleasure are looking at the dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 performance up against the dual AMD EPYC 7742 CPUs while using the in-development Linux 5.6 kernel as the first time trying out these highest-end server processors on this new kernel debuting as stable in about one month's time...

Red Hat's SPICE 0.14.3 Remote Display System Now Supports Microsoft Windows

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 01:26
The SPICE remote display system developed by Red Hat is up to version 0.14.3 with a few prominent additions...

Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Adds Experimental OpenGL ES 3.0 For Open-Source Arm Mali

Phoronix - Fri, 02/28/2020 - 00:47
Mesa's Panfrost Gallium3D driver for providing open-source support for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs now has experimental OpenGL ES 3.0 support...

Android-x86 9.0-r1 Finally Released For Bringing Android 9.0 Pie To Intel/AMD Systems

Phoronix - Thu, 02/27/2020 - 22:52
While test builds have been available for months, out today is Android-x86 9.0-r1 as the first stable release of the Android 9.0 "Pie" series brought to Intel/AMD x86/x86_64 hardware...

Initial Batch Of Radeon Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Thu, 02/27/2020 - 22:39
AMD Linux kernel graphics driver maintainer Alex Deucher has submitted the company's first batch of graphics driver updates to DRM-Next that in turn is for inclusion with the upcoming Linux 5.7 cycle...

RadeonSI + Gallium3D Video Code Fix Up 4:2:2 Support, YUY2

Phoronix - Thu, 02/27/2020 - 21:19
Stemming from incorrect rendering with VA-API and UYVY422 content with AMD Radeon graphics on Linux, a number of fixes were merged today for improving the Gallium3D video code...

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