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Worked out in recent months by an Amazon engineer was optional L1 data cache flushing on context switches to allow for greater computer security in an era of data sampling vulnerabilities and other data leakage issues via side channels. It was sent in for Linux 5.8 but Linus Torvalds characterized it as "beyond stupid" and not being convinced by it. Well, now it's been revised but isn't yet clear if it will appease Torvalds for mainline inclusion...

L1d Flushing Patches Revived After It Was Rejected From Linux 5.8 As "Beyond Stupid"  Phoronix

Linux Software Market 2020 Growth Prospects, COVID-19 Impact Analysis on Leading Players – Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Novell, etc.  Owned

The Beta Version Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.3 Is Now Available  Fossbytes

At times, you may need to host more than one domain or website on your Nginx web server. For that to happen, a Server Block (Virtual Hosts) needs to be configured to encapsulate all

One of the new network drivers now queued up for Linux 5.9 is the SFC EF100 driver for the EF100 NIC architecture...

Linux 5.9 To Support New EF100 NIC Architecture Developed By Xilinx  Phoronix

Global Linux Software Market International Effect of COVID-19 Industry Size, Percentage, Gross Margin, Future Demand, Analysis during forecast period 2020-2027  My Kids Health

While LLVM 11.0 was branched almost two weeks ago with many new/improved features for this open-source compiler stack, it has taken until today to get into shape for issuing the first release candidate...

"Navy Flounder" as the codename for another Navi 2 GPU following the "Sienna Cichlid" Linux driver work has made it into Mesa 20.2 for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

AMD "Navy Flounder" Support Merged Into Mesa 20.2  Phoronix

Linux on Chromebooks: Here's how to install Linux apps  Best gaming pro

UNISOC Joins the Largest Patent Non-Aggression Community in History  AiThority

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 beta released  ZDNet

Microsoft Engineer Proposes "TRAMPFD" For Improving Linux Security  Phoronix

A Microsoft engineer is proposing the Trampoline File Descriptor "TRAMPFD" as a new kernel API for securely dealing with trampoline code on systems. There are concerns already over the potential performance implications but there does seem to be some interest in this approach...

What's Pushing More and More Windows Users to Linux?  Softpedia News

Valve appears to have hired yet another open-source graphics driver developer and will initially be working on the Mesa Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver...

Valve Hires Another Developer To Work On RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver  Phoronix

How to use Pushover to get notifications sent to your Android device from your Linux servers  TechRepublic