RADV ACO Adds A Version Hack/Workaround For An Extra 2~5% Boost In SotTR
While many hoped that with the adoption of Vulkan it would lead to avoiding driver-specific checks/workarounds, that's still not been the case to workaround various driver bugs and other issues. The RADV ACO compiler back-end has resorted to altering its version string in order to obtain 2~5% higher performance in Feral's latest Linux game release...
TAIWINS Is A Compact Wayland Compositor
For those on the hunt for another lightweight Wayland compositor option, TAIWINS is the newest option...
Initial AMD Ryzen 7 4700U Linux Performance Is Very Good
Since AMD Renoir laptops began shipping some weeks ago, I've been on the hunt for an interesting laptop to pick up for Linux testing and to potentially even use as my next main production laptop. Given the successes of AMD Zen 2 on the desktop and server front, I've been very eager to try out a Renoir laptop and last week picked up a Lenovo IdeaPad with Ryzen 7 4700U and the experience so far has been very good and with captivating Linux performance.
OpenZFS 0.8.4 Released With Support Through Linux 5.6, Bug Fixes
OpenZFS / ZFS On Linux 0.8.4 is out as the latest update to this leading open-source ZFS file-system base for Linux and FreeBSD and coming together as well for macOS...
Coreboot 4.12 Released - Drops Older Intel / AMD Platforms
Coreboot 4.12 is out today as the latest version of this open-source BIOS / system firmware implementation that saw more than 2,600 commits since the previous release...
Ubuntu's Server Installer Was Mistakenly Leaking Encrypted Storage Passphrase To Its Log
With the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the Ubuntu Server installer exclusively uses the "Subiquity" installer that Canonical has been working on in recent years in moving away from the classic Debian Installer. Unfortunately a security issue crept into Subiquity that has now been resolved...
Intel's Load Hardening Mitigation Merged Into LLVM 11 For LVI Protection
Intel's Load Value Injection mitigation has finally been merged into mainline LLVM...
Qt 5.15 Aiming For Release A Week From Today
Qt 5.15 is aiming to release next week while today marks the availability of the toolkit's second release candidate...
WireGuard Ported To The OpenBSD Kernel - Looking For Upstream Inclusion
With the WireGuard secure VPN tunnel having been upstreamed in the Linux 5.6 kernel, developer attention recently turned to OpenBSD and porting the very promising VPN technology to its kernel...
Proxmox VE 6.2 Released With Zstd Backups, Live Migration With ZFS Storage Replication
Version 6.2 of the Proxmox VE open-source virtualization environment has been released for this web-based, easy-to-use solution...