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New WiFi Authentication Vulnerabilities For Linux's IWD & WPA_Supplicant

Phoronix - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 22:16
Kicking off what may end up being a fairly busy Patch Tuesday are two WiFi authentication vulnerabilities being made public that affect Intel's IWD daemon as well as the WPA_Supplicant software -- between the two they are the most common solutions for wireless daemons on Linux systems...

The Current State & Plans For Porting Linux/BSD Software To Redox OS

Phoronix - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 22:03
A new blog post was posted by the Redox OS team that is working on their Rust-written micro-kernel designed open-source operating system. Their latest post lays out their porting strategy for getting more Linux and BSD user-space software running on this Rust-based OS...

Fedora 40 Cleared To Ship AMD ROCm 6, Packages May Reintroduce KDE X11 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 19:56
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) on Monday approved some last-minute features ahead of the Fedora Linux 40 release quickly coming up in February...

Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Sees "Massive Boost" With Indirect Draw Generation

Phoronix - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 19:33
Intel's Iris Gallium3D driver for providing open-source OpenGL support on Linux systems has implemented indirect draw generation. For software relying heavily on indirect draws will see a "massive boost" in performance...

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