Open-source News

TrueNAS 12.0 CORE, which up until the new TrueNAS / FreeNAS branding unification would have been called FreeNAS, will in its next release support ZFS async copy-on-write functionality...

Tips for Remote Troubleshooting Mac, Windows, and Linux Systems  Security Boulevard

Disclosed last week was the Load Value Injection attack affecting Intel CPUs and requiring new mitigations. While the GNU Assembler mitigation options were quickly added, on the LLVM toolchain side the developers there continue evaluating the proposed LVI mitigation along with another option that looks to mitigate more than just LVI. The "SESES" proposal looks more broadly at mitigating CPU side-channel vulnerabilities but with shattering performance hits...

Intel's open-source team responsible for their Rust-based cloud hypervisor today issued a big feature update...

Compact, rugged Whiskey Lake module supports Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux Mint Officially Releases Debian Edition LMDE 4 "Debbie"  Fossbytes

Zorin OS Core Makes GNOME More Comfortable  LinuxInsider.com

Linux Fu: Mapping Files  Hackaday

DXVK 1.6 is out in time for weekend gamers wishing to enjoy recent Windows games on Linux...

DXVK 1.6 Released With D3D9 Performance Work, Various Game Fixes  Phoronix

BS4 ... adding Beautiful Soup in Python on a MX Machine - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Here's a look at what's new in Linux Mint Debian Edition 4  Neowin

Here's a look at what's new in Linux Mint Debian Edition 4  Neowin

Here's a look at what's new in Linux Mint Debian Edition 4  Neowin

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 4 'Debbie' is here, but you don't want it  BetaNews

Given this week's general availability release of OpenJDK 14, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at all the major releases from OpenJDK 8 through 14 while looking at the JVM performance across multiple workloads.

The Linux Mint crew has released LMDE 4 "Debbie" as their hedge against anything dramatic happening to Ubuntu that would limit their ability to offer Linux Mint and for those preferring the upstream Debian base...

Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 Released - Finally Supports SecureBoot, Home Encryption  Phoronix

Intel's IWD wireless daemon for Linux systems has added full MAC randomization support as well as manual MAC override capabilities, similar to the MAC spoofing capabilities generally offered by other Linux networking components...

IWD Linux Wireless Daemon Adds Full MAC Randomization, Override Support  Phoronix