Intel Makes Public Two More Data Leakage Disclosures
Intel last night made public two more data leakage disclosures, which tie back to Zombieload and November's TAA issue...
EFI Code Gets More Cleaning With Linux 5.6
The EFI kernel code has seen a variety of clean-ups and low-level improvements to it for the Linux 5.6 cycle...
Fedora Stakeholders Discuss Possibility Of Using Pre-Built Initramfs Images
Another alternative to slow initramfs generation could be distributing pre-built initramfs images to users. An additional benefit of that is possibly better security with measured boot capabilities, a matter currently being discussed by Fedora stakeholders...
9 Years After Starting, AppStream 1.0 Is Coming For Cross-Distribution Package Metadata
AppStream was started in 2011 as a means of drawing up cross-distribution (XML-based) standards for describing software components/packages metadata and for repositories to describe software collections. Now nearly a decade later, AppStream 1.0 should be coming in the next few months...
Power Management + ACPI Updates Submitted For The Linux 5.6 Kernel
Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki is punctual as always in sending in his feature pull requests for the new merge window...
AMD Prepares Fix To Address Clicking Issue With Audio Playback On Raven APUs
Unfortunately it wasn't a trouble-free experience at launch but with time Raven Ridge APUs have been getting cleaned up on Linux for a pleasant experience, thanks in part to the Google Chromebook play that has also seen these newer AMD APUs seeing HDCP content protection support and PSP / TEE trusted execution functionality...
SELinux For 5.6 Kernel Sees Largest Change Set In A While
SELinux maintainer Paul Moore sent in the Security Enhanced Linux updates for the 5.6 merge window, which amounts to "one of the bigger SELinux pull requests in recent years."..
FreeBSD Had A Very Busy End Of Year 2019 With Numerous Advancements
The FreeBSD project has issued their last quarterly status update for 2019...
Linux 5.5 SSD RAID 0/1/5/6/10 Benchmarks Of Btrfs / EXT4 / F2FS / XFS
Last month were benchmarks of RAID benchmarks on four hard drives in not visiting the Linux HDD RAID performance in a while. Stemming from that article were requests of fresh tests of the SSD RAID performance on Linux 5.5 Git, so here are those results for single drive performance and RAID0 / RAID1 / RAID5 / RAID6 / RAID10.
Btrfs Ready For Linux 5.6 With Async Discard For Better Efficiency + Performance
Btrfs in the now-stable Linux 5.5 kernel is exciting for its new RAID1C3/RAID1C4 capability allowing three/four copies of data rather than just two while looking ahead to Linux 5.6 is further feature work on this Linux file-system...