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OpenMandriva is one of the few Linux distributions (and arguably the only prominent one) that uses LLVM Clang as its default compiler toolchain over GCC for building its packages and the preferred C/C++ compiler exposed to its users. One of the last hold outs for this Clang'ed Linux distribution has been the kernel build but that is now no longer a blocker...

Linus Torvalds To Add "Lockdown" Security Feature In Linux 5.4  Fossbytes

USB Armory MkII: A USB-C Thumb Drive Based Linux Computer For Pentesters  Hackaday

Latest Feature Kernal 'lockdown' included in Linux  California Times USA

The virtual GPU/display landscape particularly for having accelerated guest graphics was once non-existent and then suffering for the open-source Linux virtualization stack around QEMU, but that is no longer the case. There are options these days to rival the GPU/display offerings of VirtualBox and VMware albeit to newcomers may not be so clear...

1. Linux to get kernel 'lockdown' feature  ZDNet
2. Latest Feature Kernal 'lockdown' included in Linux  California Times USA
3. Linux Will Receive New “Lockdown” Security Feature  TechnoStalls Media
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Linux to get kernel 'lockdown' feature  ZDNet

It turns out Linux 5.3 shipped with potentially subpar performance for the allocation of hugepages but that should be rectified in the now open Linux 5.4 cycle for trying to provide a sane default allocation strategy on NUMA boxes...

Wine-Nine-Standalone is the project making it easier to make use of Gallium3D's Direct3D 9 state tracker within Wine. Wine-Nine-Standalone 0.5 is out as the first new release since March for this project making it easier to use the Direct3D 9 Gallium state tracker within Wine...

Displaying items by tag: Linux smartphone  iTWire

First batch of new Linux phones starts shipping  iTWire

Joining DXVK 1.4.1 with a new release this weekend is D9VK 0.22 as the similar project achieving faster Direct3D 9 performance over Wine/Proton via translating the API calls to Vulkan...

Linux 5.4 Features Are Huge From exFAT To New GPUs To Enabling Lots Of New Hardware  Phoronix

The Linux 5.4 merge window is set to end today with the release of Linux 5.4-rc1. With the major pull requests in, here is a look at the prominent changes and new features coming with Linux 5.4. As is standard practice, there will be about eight weekly release candidates of Linux 5.4 prior to officially releasing this kernel as stable in late November or potentially early December depending upon how the cycle plays out.

A second batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes for the Linux 5.4 kernel have landed...

The Chromium-based Microsoft Edge ‘edges’ closer to Linux  WindowsLatest

Intel's SNA "Sandybridge New Acceleration" for 2D acceleration via their deprecated xf86-video-intel X.Org driver has seen some improvements, which is rare these days considering the for this driver that has been in perpetual version 3.0 development for the past six years...

With all of the CPU security bugs over the past two years and heightened concerns about hardware vulnerabilities in general, the upstream Linux kernel has been working to create a formal process for dealing with the disclosure process and addressing said issues within the kernel code...

The Linux Kernel Firms Up The Process For Dealing With Nasty Hardware Vulnerabilities  Phoronix