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GameMode Seeing Improvement Work For Better Integration With GNOME

Phoronix - Sat, 07/06/2019 - 19:13
Feral's GameMode as the Linux gaming mode daemon to try to put the system in an optimized state automatically when running Linux games is seeing another possible addition thanks to GNOME developer Christian Kellner of Red Hat...

GCC 10 Lands The Zstd LTO Bytecode Compression Support

Phoronix - Sat, 07/06/2019 - 19:07
As a follow-up to the story about GCC eyeing Zstd compression for its LTO data, that support has now been merged into the GCC 10 code compiler...

Linux AEST Driver Sent Out For ARM Error Source Table

Phoronix - Sat, 07/06/2019 - 18:52
ARM Error Source Table is an extension of ACPI that provides a table for RAS errors. Support for this new error table is being worked on with the new "AEST" Linux kernel driver...

Confirmed: Microsoft Wants Security Advice From Linux - Forbes

Google News - Sat, 07/06/2019 - 17:14
Confirmed: Microsoft Wants Security Advice From Linux  Forbes

Microsoft is no stranger to security problems as I have reported here at Forbes on far too many occasions for my liking. From the BlueKeep ticking time bomb that ...

Microsoft applies to join Linux security inner sanctum - MSPoweruser

Google News - Sat, 07/06/2019 - 07:38
Microsoft applies to join Linux security inner sanctum  MSPoweruser

Microsoft recently revealed that it runs more Linux than Windows 10 jobs on their Azure servers. Keeping all those instances secure is obviously very important ...

Wine 4.12 Supports More Plug & Play Drivers, Better Visual Studio Remote Debugging

Phoronix - Sat, 07/06/2019 - 04:58
Wine 4.12 is now available as the newest bi-weekly development release of this program for running Windows software on Linux...

Microsoft wants to join private Linux security developer board - Windows Central

Google News - Sat, 07/06/2019 - 04:35
Microsoft wants to join private Linux security developer board  Windows Central

Microsoft has applied to join a private group of Linux developers responsible for reporting and discussing security issues before they go public.

Google Chromebook Challenger PineBook Pro Gets Privacy Switches And July Pre-Order Date - Forbes

Google News - Fri, 07/05/2019 - 23:29
Google Chromebook Challenger PineBook Pro Gets Privacy Switches And July Pre-Order Date  Forbes

The PineBook Pro is shaping up to be a fantastic value for $199, especially after a surprise announcement privacy advocates will love.

Golang Malware Targets Linux-Based Servers - Infosecurity Magazine

Google News - Fri, 07/05/2019 - 22:51
Golang Malware Targets Linux-Based Servers  Infosecurity Magazine

A cryptominer campaign has been targeting Linux-based servers using a new Golang malware, according to research published by F5 Labs. Though not often ...

Lessons in Vendor Lock-in: Google and Huawei - Linux Journal

Google News - Fri, 07/05/2019 - 19:39
Lessons in Vendor Lock-in: Google and Huawei  Linux Journal

What happens when you're locked in to a vendor that's too big to fail, but is on the opposite end of a trade war? The story of Google no longer giving Huawei ...

Linux's Performance-Boosting FSGSBASE Support Dropped For Now Over Serious Bugs

Phoronix - Fri, 07/05/2019 - 18:45
While we had been looking forward to Intel FSGSBASE support for yielding some performance benefits especially in areas impacted by Spectre / Meltdown / Foreshadow / Zombieload, after the support was queued for merging into Linux 5.3, the code has now been reverted over "serious bugs" with the implementation...

New Google "GVE" Driver Queued For Upcoming Linux 5.3

Phoronix - Fri, 07/05/2019 - 18:37
Adding to the list of Linux 5.3 kernel features is a new "GVE" network driver from Google...

New Google "GVE" Driver Queued For Upcoming Linux 5.3 - Phoronix

Google News - Fri, 07/05/2019 - 18:37
New Google "GVE" Driver Queued For Upcoming Linux 5.3  Phoronix

Adding to the list of Linux 5.3 kernel features is a new "GVE" network driver from Google. The new GVE driver is nearly four thousand lines of kernel code and is ...

Arm's Komeda Driver Adding Variable Refresh Rate Support

Phoronix - Fri, 07/05/2019 - 18:31
Arm's Komeda Linux DRM/KMS display driver for supporting their latest display IP such as the Mali D71 is seeing VRR support ala Adaptive-Sync / HDMI VRR...

Intel Icelake Thunderbolt Support Not Coming Until Linux 5.4

Phoronix - Fri, 07/05/2019 - 18:23
While the Linux support around Intel Icelake is largely settled, one area that has gone under the radar until now has been the Thunderbolt support, which now is available in patch form but won't be mainlined until Linux 5.4...

Intel Icelake Thunderbolt Support Not Coming Until Linux 5.4 - Phoronix

Google News - Fri, 07/05/2019 - 18:23
Intel Icelake Thunderbolt Support Not Coming Until Linux 5.4  Phoronix

While the Linux support around Intel Icelake is largely settled, one area that has gone under the radar until now has been the Thunderbolt support, which now is ...

GRUB 2.04 Bootloader Released With RISC-V Support, Native UEFI Secure Boot, Btrfs RAID

Phoronix - Fri, 07/05/2019 - 18:08
It's been two years since the release of GRUB 2.02 while today it's finally been replaced by the long-awaited GRUB 2.04 bootloader release...

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