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Git Sees Another Round Of New Releases Due To Security Issue

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2020 - 03:12
Last week saw a slew of new Git releases due to a security issue over the newline character creating a possible credential leak. This week is another round of emergency Git releases due to a similar security bug...

OpenZFS Sees 3x Throughput Boost For ZVOL Sync Write Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2020 - 02:23
Last week brought FreeBSD support merged into OpenZFS and it turns out there is another recently-merged exciting advancement for this cross-platform open-source ZFS file-system code in terms of a big speed boost...

There Is Now A WireGuard Benchmark For Testing Linux Networking Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2020 - 00:28
With WireGuard added to the Linux 5.6 kernel and it being back-ported to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and its tools getting packaged up by more Linux distributions, it's finally the year of WireGuard. With its usage set to skyrocket as supported kernels and the WireGuard utilities become available out-of-the-box on more distributions, there is now a WireGuard benchmark for stressing the kernel and its support...

TUXEDO Computers Launches A Power/Thermal Control Center For Their Linux Systems

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2020 - 22:21
German Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers has launched the "TUXEDO Control Center" to provide a GUI-driven control panel for managing thermal and power settings on their systems...

Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2020 - 20:12
Earlier this month I looked at the X.Org vs. Wayland browser performance with Firefox and Chrome. Mozilla Firefox in particular was showing better performance on Wayland, so here are fresh tests of Firefox with using Fedora 32 and testing various X.Org/Wayland desktops.

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