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Linux Mint 20 Beta is Now Available to Download

Tecmint - Tue, 06/16/2020 - 13:59
Linux Mint continues to grow in popularity and maintain its stellar reputation as one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions. It comes highly recommended for beginners thanks to its easy-to-use user interface and tons...

Fedora Developers Are Looking At Better Managing Retired Packages

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2020 - 12:29
A change proposal for Fedora 33 would introduce the concept of "fedora-retired-packages" for removing retired packages when upgrading Fedora...

Radeon RADV Driver Merge Request Opened To Use ACO By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2020 - 06:49
A merge request opened at the end of last week would now have the Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver default to using the Valve-backed ACO shader compiler in place of the default LLVM AMDGPU back-end...

CentOS 8 Rebased Against RHEL 8.2

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2020 - 03:48
The CentOS crew maintaining this community enterprise Linux operating system rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux have announced their RHEL 8.2-based release...

Running Linux 5.8-rc1 Benchmarks On The Intel Core i9 10900K + Radeon RX 5700 XT

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2020 - 01:42
Since yesterday's big release of Linux 5.8-rc1 I have begun benchmarking this new kernel on various systems. Here are some tests on the first system that was being vetted, the Intel Core i9 10900K Comet Lake with Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics...

Intel Confirms CET Security Support For Tiger Lake

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2020 - 21:00
Intel is confirming today that Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (Intel CET) will premiere with upcoming mobile Tiger Lake processors...

Qt 6.0 Sees Its First Development Snapshot

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2020 - 20:28
Being about six months out from the planned release of Qt 6.0, The Qt Company has issued its first snapshot of this forthcoming tool-kit update...

New Patches Aim To Improve Smoothness & Latency Of NVIDIA On GNOME

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2020 - 20:16
Canonical's Daniel van Vugt who is known for his prolific contributions to GNOME the past several years particularly in regards to performance has a new merge request open for helping with the "smoothness" of the NVIDIA driver on GNOME Shell...

Another Attack Vector Uncovered For Bypassing Linux Lockdown Via ACPI Tables

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2020 - 19:06
This weekend we reported on how injecting ACPI tables could lead to bypassing Linux's lockdown / UEFI Secure Boot protections and let attackers load unsigned kernel modules. That earlier issue was found on a patched version of the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS kernel while now a similar attack vector has been discovered on the mainline Linux kernel...

Entangle 3.0 Released For Tethered Shooting With DSLR Cameras On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 06/15/2020 - 18:54
Entangle 3.0 has been released as the newest feature update to this software for controlling your DSLR camera under Linux with tethered shooting capabilities...

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