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Flatpak 1.5.1 Prepares For Protected/Authenticated Downloads - Future App Purchasing

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2019 - 23:46
Flatpak 1.5.1 was released today as a new development release for this Linux application sandboxing technology. With Flatpak 1.5.1 it also begins laying the groundwork for a future payments system around Flathub as what's starting off for allowing donation-based software acquisition but could ultimately turn into a paid app store...

AMDVLK 2019.Q4.3 Released With New Extensions + Navi 14 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2019 - 23:15
AMD's Vulkan driver team has today volleyed their third open-source "AMDVLK" code drop of the quarter. This AMDVLK 2019.Q4.3 driver comes with new extensions as well as Navi 14 enablement...

WireGuard Could Be Mainlined Before Christmas

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2019 - 22:01
It's been a wild past few weeks for WireGuard as the secure VPN tunnel destined for the mainline Linux kernel and also supported on all other major platforms. It turns out WireGuard could quite well end up in the Linux 5.5 kernel rather than having to wait until Linux 5.6...

300+ Benchmarks With AMD Threadripper 3960X vs. Intel Core i9 10980XE

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2019 - 20:33
Complementing our launch-day Intel Core i9 10980XE and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X/3970X Linux benchmarks, here is much more data now that we've had the additional time for carrying out more tests... For your viewing pleasure this US holiday week are more than 330 benchmarks carried out on both the Core i9 10980XE and Threadripper 3960X in the same configuration while running Ubuntu Linux.

CentOS Working To Increase Transparency, Revamp Branding

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2019 - 19:30
Recently the CentOS Board met for the first time since the recent CentOS 8.0 and CentOS Stream releases. It was an interesting outcome...

Linux 5.4-ck1 Kernel Released With MuQSS Patched In

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2019 - 18:53
While the release of Linux 5.3-ck1 with MuQSS was quite tardy and only arrived a few weeks ago, Con Kolivas has returned to his punctuality in releasing Linux 5.4-ck1 with the updated MuQSS scheduler intended to improve the responsiveness of desktop/mobile class Linux systems...

Wayland's Weston 8.0 Bringing Direct-Display Extension, HDCP On DRM Back-End + More

Phoronix - Wed, 11/27/2019 - 18:08
Simon Ser has stepped up again to manage the upcoming release of the Weston 8.0 Wayland reference compositor. No Wayland update itself is planned with nothing real to release at this point, but Weston 8.0 should arrive before the end of January...

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