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TCP Authentication Option "TCP-AO" Support Nears For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 09/12/2023 - 18:00
One of the new Linux networking features we've been looking forward to seeing in the kernel is TCP Authentication Option (TCP-AO / RFC5925) as a means of improving TCP security and authenticity. The eleventh iteration of the TCP-AO patches were posted today for the Linux kernel with it looking like work on this network addition potentially wrapping up soon...

15 Best Open Source Music Making Software for Linux in 2023

Tecmint - Tue, 09/12/2023 - 12:15
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Mesa 23.3 Lands Optional Support For Allowing Game Tearing On Wayland

Phoronix - Tue, 09/12/2023 - 07:00
Merged for Mesa 23.3 today is the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) to allow for the "PresentOptionAsyncMayTear" option that can be used to enable tearing under (X)Wayland if desiring peak performance at the cost of possible imperfect rendering...

openSUSE Slowroll Released As A Slower Alternative To openSUSE Tumbleweed

Phoronix - Tue, 09/12/2023 - 06:24
The openSUSE Slowroll distribution is a middle-ground between the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution and the SUSE Linux Enterprise aligned openSUSE Leap with its fixed releases. The new openSUSE Slowroll is a rolling-release-like distribution with updates "every one or two months" but with constant bug/security fixes...

Intel Fixing Up Sub-NUMA Clustering For Linux So That It Behaves With RDT

Phoronix - Tue, 09/12/2023 - 02:44
Sub-NUMA Clustering with Intel Xeon processors allows for splitting up the CPU cores, cache, and memory into multiple NUMA domains for enhancing the performance of NUMA-aware applications. While SNC can help in a number of cases especially plenty of HPC and server workloads, currently it's not properly supported if making use of Resource Director Technology (RDT) on modern Intel CPUs. That is in the process of changing with new Linux kernel patches being worked on by Intel...

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