Proton 5.0-8 Release Candidate Brings Game Fixes, Performance Improvements
Valve and CodeWeavers have been preparing a new release of the Proton 5.0 series for powering Steam Play with running modern Windows games on Linux...
Squeezing Extra Performance Out Of The Intel Core i9 10900K With Clear Linux
Besides disabling CPU security mitigations (not recommended if security is of importance), for those wanting to squeeze extra performance out of Intel CPUs like Comet Lake with the Core i9 10900K, loading Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux is one such way. Here is a look at the current performance that can be gained out of using the latest rolling-release Clear Linux on the i9-10900K in comparison to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Improved DAX Support Lands In Linux 5.8 - Initially Benefiting XFS + EXT4
The improved DAX code led by Intel has landed in the Linux 5.8 kernel with EXT4 and XFS being the initial file-systems to make use of this improved direct access mode...
Jitter RNG Improvements, Arm CryptoCell CCTRNG Driver, AMD PSP SEV-ES For Linux 5.8
The usual assortment of cryptography updates have landed within Linux 5.8...
RADV Enables Zero vRAM Option For All Games With VKD3D
Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is now enabling the "zero vRAM" option for all VKD3D games -- Direct3D 12 titles running on Steam Play / Wine with this D3D12 to Vulkan layer -- in order to workaround various rendering bugs...
Linux 5.8 Tightens ARM 64-Bit Security With BTI, Shadow Call Stack Support
The 64-bit ARM (ARM64 / AArch64) architecture changes have already landed into the progressing Linux 5.8 codebase...
Ubuntu's ZFS Daemon Zsys 0.5 Released
As part of their work on ZFS support improvements for the in-development Ubuntu 20.10, Zsys 0.5 has been tagged and landing in the "Groovy Gorilla" repository for this ZFS daemon spearheaded by Canonical developers...
Devuan 3.0 Released For Debian 10 Without Systemd
Two years after the release of Devuan 2.0 and just a few months since the Beowulf beta, Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" is now officially available as this Linux distribution providing a Debian package set not dependent upon systemd...
SELinux Sees Nice Optimizations With Linux 5.8
Security Enhanced Linux is seeing some nice optimizations with the in-development Linux 5.8 kernel...
iXsystems Announces TrueNAS SCALE As A Linux-Based Offering
While iXsystems has been known as one of the leading FreeBSD-focused vendors with their various BSD-powered storage devices and servers as well as contributing significantly to upstream FreeBSD in addition to their former work on TrueOS/PC-BSD, they are now developing a new platform called TrueNAS SCALE that is based on Linux...