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Benchmarking The Performance Overhead To LKRG 0.8 For Better Security

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2020 - 01:49
Back in March I benchmarked the Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) as a means of achieving additional security safeguards for a ~5% performance hit. With LKRG 0.8 having been released a few days ago, here is a fresh look at the LKRG performance compared to the stock kernel on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

The Dark Mod 2.08 Released As One Of The Few Games Powered By Open-Source id Tech 4

Phoronix - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 23:31
There is finally a new release out of The Dark Mod, the original total conversion mod for Doom 3 that transformed into its own standalone game powered by the open-source id Tech 4 engine. This remains the lone flagship example of the open-source id Tech 4 game engine in action by the community (besides the DHEWM3 / RBDOOM-3-BFG engine work) with ioDoom3 having never taken off like ioquake3...

Intel Graphics Driver Fixes Include Assembly Sources To Satisfy GNU Linux-Libre Folks

Phoronix - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 22:03
Last month you may recall that the free software purists maintaining the GNU Linux-Libre kernel dropped the Intel "iGPU Leak" security fix for Ivybridge / Haswell as they considered the compiled shaders/kernels responsible for clearing those residual contexts to be binary blobs. A resolution is now pending for upstream...

Systemd 246 Is On The Way With Many Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 21:46
With it already having been a few months since systemd 245 debuted with systemd-homed, the systemd developers have begun their release dance for what will be systemd 246...

RadeonSI Switches To Make Greater Wave64 Use On Navi

Phoronix - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 19:11
While RDNA/Navi brought Wave32 support, the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for Linux has decided to switch to make greater use now of Wave64 for more shaders...

"Project Springfield" Is Red Hat's Effort To Improve Linux File-Systems / Storage

Phoronix - Wed, 07/01/2020 - 15:18
Following recent talk of Fedora potentially switching to Btrfs and Red Hat's Storage Instatiation Daemon among other Linux storage areas pursued by Red Hat, it turns out "Project Springfield" is some effort being pursued by the enterprise Linux giant for improving in this area...

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