Red Hat Volleys New Patches For Exposing More File-System Info + Mount Notifications
Longtime Linux kernel developer David Howells of Red Hat sent out his latest patch revision exposing new capabilities for exposing more VFS and mount information to user-space along with notification support for any file-system mount topology changes...
Intel Sends Out Latest Patches For Mitigating Graphics Flaw On Ivybridge/Haswell
It has been one month and a few days since Intel first made public the need for graphics driver patching of Gen 7/7.5 graphics for older Ivybridge / Haswell hardware to fix a graphics hardware flaw. That vulnerability also affected the common Intel Gen9 graphics but there the mitigation was uneventful and quickly merged without causing any performance hit. But for Ivybridge/Haswell one month later the graphics driver mitigation for CVE-2019-14615 is still being addressed...
GNOME 3.36 Beta 2 Released With Initial Setup Parental Controls, Lock-Screen USB Disable
GNOME 3.35.91 is out today as the second beta ahead of next month's GNOME 3.36 desktop release...
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Moves Ahead With Python 2 Removal - But Sticks Around For Derivatives
With Python 2 having been end-of-life since the start of the year and Ubuntu 20.04 being a long-term support release, Ubuntu developers are working hard to ensure Python 2 isn't shipped as part of this next Ubuntu LTS release...
Google Cloud Rolls Out "N2D" VMs Built Atop AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" CPUs
We are seeing more cloud providers now offering AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" series processors with the latest being Google now offering the new N2D VM family in beta for their public cloud...
Linux Looking To Sunset The Calxeda ARM Server Support
It's already been six years since the collapse of Calxeda as the first promising ARM server company. With that, the Linux kernel upstream developers are looking at dropping the Calxeda platform support...
Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 M3 Released With More Improvements For Benchmark Result Analysis
The third and likely last test release of Phoronix Test Suite 9.4-Vestby is now available for your cross-platform, open-source benchmarking needs...
Intel Continues Optimizing Linux Memory Placement For Optane DC Persistent Memory
With a new patch series for the Linux kernel, memory access performance by one measurement can improve by 116% on a dual socket Intel server with Optane DC Persistent Memory...
Linux 5.7 Picking Up Support For A High-End USB-C Audio Interface
More high-end audio gear is finally transitioning from Firewire to USB-C and one of these new high-end audio interfaces will be supported by the Linux 5.7 kernel this spring...
Intel ConnMan 1.38 Released With WireGuard Support
Intel's open-source ConnMan software for managing Internet connections on Linux particularly for embedded systems has seen a new release...