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Various open-source patches have gone back to at least 2017 for enabling Intel's Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) for the Linux kernel and related components. This is the Intel feature for helping prevent ROP and COP/JOP style attacks via indirect branch tracking and a shadow stack. Recently there has been a fair amount of CET improvements to the various open-source components...

Intel CET Support Still Getting Squared Away For Linux In 2020  Phoronix

While there aren't yet any Arm SoCs we are aware of at least offering Thunderbolt connectivity, that will eventually change with at least USB4 being based on Thunderbolt. But in any case Thunderbolt software support can work on Arm today if using a Thunderbolt add-in PCIe card...

Linux Thunderbolt Support Can Work On Arm Systems  Phoronix

The ZFS file-system has long offered transparent file-system compression via the likes of LZ4 and Gzip and while now Zstd compression is under review for OpenZFS and seeking testing from the community...

Zstd Compression Under Review For OpenZFS  Phoronix

Zstd Compression Under Review For OpenZFS  Phoronix

5 Best Linux Distributions For Gaming  Techlomedia

Week in review: Kali Linux 2020.2, sensor-based ransomware detection, 10 most exploited vulns  Help Net Security

PR.com - Toradex i.MX 8X-based System on Modules Gain AWS Certification and Support for Torizon Embedded Linux  IT News Online

The Cheap Linux Tablet That Everybody Wants Is Finally Just Around the Corner  Softpedia News

Discussions about open values in the workplace often focus on leaders creating high-level strategies and visions for their teams and organizations. But a unique set of leaders, managers, bears additional responsibilities, such as generating business performance, creating work environments, representing the larger organization to the associate, and coordinating day-to-day operations—and they do this through their relationships with employees.

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Since last year's GCC 9 release the C++17 support has been considered stable and with the changeover to it as the default C++ dialect having not happened for the recent GCC 10 release, developers are now looking at increasing the default C++ version to 17 for next year's GCC 11 release...

Several days back was the proposal to "remove AGP support" from Radeon/Nouveau/TTM. This did formulate into a set of patches that would disable the AGP mode in the Radeon driver and deprecate the AGP code in TTM memory management. However, as was pointed out in the ensuing discussion, AGP graphics cards will still be operable on Linux with this level of deprecation by using the PCI GART mode...

Patches Proceed For Disabling Radeon AGP GART, Deprecating TTM AGP  Phoronix

What's new in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0, coming soon  BleepingComputer

This week I began benchmarking the AMD Ryzen 7 4700U on Linux using the new Lenovo IdeaPad featuring this new Zen 2 "Renoir" APU. The initial CPU benchmarks were quite positive as were the Vega graphics comparison tests. Amid other follow-up articles for AMD Renoir Linux support/performance, for your weekend viewing pleasure are a large set of data points between the Ryzen 7 4700U up against the Intel Core i7 1065G7 "Ice Lake" processor...

100+ Linux Benchmarks Between The AMD Ryzen 7 4700U vs. Intel Core i7 1065G7  Phoronix

Half-Life: Alyx Is Coming To Linux Along With Modding Tools, Vulcan Support And More  Hot Hardware

DXVK 1.7 is out this weekend as the important library translating Direct3D 9/10/11 usage into Vulkan API and is leveraged by the likes of Steam Play for running modern Windows games on Linux...