Amazon AWS Launches Linux-Based Bottlerocket For Hosting Containers
The newest open-source project out of Amazon Web Services is Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system designed for hosting containers and largely written in Rust code...
Intel P-State Changes Could Improve iGPU-Bound Performance - Some Cases ~15%, ~43% Perf-Per-Watt
We've known that Intel's P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver in general can be a bit quirky and especially so when dealing with Intel integrated graphics where the iGPU and CPU share the same power envelope. This has been shown with examples like using the "powersave" governor to boost iGPU performance while discrete graphics owners are generally best off switching over to the "performance" governor. As the latest though on helping the iGPU front with P-State, there is a new patch series talking up big
LVI Attack Hits Intel SGX - Defeats Existing Mitigations, More Performance Hits
Load Value Injection (LVI) is being disclosed today as a new class of transient-execution attacks and the researchers claim can defeat all existing mitigations around Meltdown, Foreshadow, Zombieload, RIDL and Fallout. The researchers say LVI can affect virtually any access to memory and compiler-based mitigations can be expensive...
The Staging exFAT Driver Set To Be Nuked In Linux 5.7, Thanks To Samsung's New Driver
With the Linux 5.7 kernel this spring there is going to be a new exFAT file-system drive developed by Samsung as outlined last week. While that is being added to the formal file-system area of the kernel rather than staging so both could co-exist for a transition period, already with Linux 5.7 will be the removal of the existing staging driver...
RenderDoc 1.7 Released With Vulkan Improvements, Better D3D12 Capture Performance
RenderDoc 1.7 is out today for this cross-platform graphics debugging/profiling tool that supports Vulkan, Direct3D, and OpenGL graphics APIs across all major platforms...
Git 2.26-rc1 Released With More Improvements For This Distributed Version Control System
Git 2.26-rc1 is out this morning as the newest test version of this distributed version control system...
Firefox 74 Begins Rolling Out With DNS-Over-HTTPS, Disabling TLS 1.0/1.1
While we are very excited for Firefox 75 with Wayland and video acceleration improvements along with maturing Flatpak support, out today is Firefox 74.0 as the newest version of Mozilla's web browser...
Sculpt OS 20.02 Released - Built Off Genode, Now Includes File Manager + Editor
Sculpt OS is the general purpose operating system built off the Genode operating system framework. Out now is their version 20.02 update that tries to make the OS more approachable...
VideoLAN's dav1d 0.6 Released With More AVX2 + AVX-512 Optimizations
Dav1d 0.6 is now available as a big update to this open-source AV1 video decoder developed by the VideoLAN crew...
LibreOffice 7.0's Qt5 Support To Offer HiDPI Scaling
The LibreOffice open-source office suite's Qt5 tool-kit integration so far has lacked HiDPI scaling support for dealing with modern high pixel density displays. But adding to the excitement for the LibreOffice 7.0 release later this year is now the Qt5 HiDPI scaling capability...