Fedora Looks To Introduce The Storage Instantiation Daemon
As one of the last minute change proposals for Fedora 33 is to introduce the Red Hat backed Storage Instantiation Daemon "SID" though at least for this first release would be off by default. The Storage Instantiation Daemon is one of the latest storage efforts being worked on by Red Hat engineers...
Crust Drops Paywall For Open-Source CRM Alternative To Salesforce
The Crust CRM suite that aims to compete with Salesforce has been open-source under an Apache 2.0 license but now its paywall has been dropped to make it more compelling as a free software CRM suite...
Fedora Developers Discussing Possibility Of Dropping Legacy BIOS Support
Fedora stakeholders are debating the merits of potentially ending legacy BIOS support for the Linux distribution and to only support UEFI-based installations...
Benchmarking The Performance Overhead To Linux's Proposed FGKASLR Security Feature
One of the security improvements being worked on in recent months by Intel's open-source team has been FGKASLR. But how is the performance overhead compared to just traditional KASLR? Here are benchmarks looking at the performance impact of FGKASLR on top, just KASLR, and then no address space layout randomization.
Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 Provisional Specification
The Khronos Group has announced the provisional specification of SYCL 2020 as the newest version of this higher-level programming model originally designed for OpenCL that is based on pure single-source C++...
Firefox 78.0 Released - Also Serves As The Newest ESR Version
Firefox 78.0 is available this morning as the newest version of Mozilla's web browser. Firefox 78.0 is also significant in being the newest Extended Support Release (ESR) series...
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.6 Brings More Performance Tuning
The AMD Radeon Vulkan driver developers are ending out June by shipping their sixth open-source snapshot of the quarter...
KDE Completes Transition To GitLab For Developer Portal
KDE has completed its transition to its own self-hosted GitLab instance for Git hosting and other developer services for handling of bug reports and merge requests...
Intel vs. AMD, Systemd-Homed, Kernel Advancements Top H1'2020 For Linux
It's been quite an unfortunately wild year thus far with everything going on in the world, but at least within the open-source / Linux scope it's been an exciting time as ever. Here is a look at the top stories on Phoronix during the first half of this year...
Fedora Looking To Offer Better Upstream Solution For Hiding/Showing GRUB Menu
Fedora for the past few releases doesn't show the GRUB boot-loader menu by default when only Fedora is installed on the system as there is little purpose for most users and it just interrupts the boot flow. But for those wanting to access the GRUB bootloader menu on reboot, they offer integration in GNOME to easily reboot into this menu. The other exception is the menu will be shown if the previous boot failed. This functionality has relied on downstream patches but now they are working towards a better upstream solution.