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- Linux Action News 192
An old Linux distro gets a new trick, and all Linux users get a few excellent quality of life updates.
Plus, the new initiative that has Apple, Google, and Microsoft all working together.
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- GRUB Adds Backup/Restore Safeguard
" rel="noopener noreferrer">grub-install: Add backup and restore" rel="noopener noreferrer">fs: Use 64-bit type for filesystem timestamp" rel="noopener noreferrer">fs/xfs: Add needsrepair incompat feature support" rel="noopener noreferrer">fs/xfs: Add bigtime incompat feature support- PipeWire 0.3.29
- WebRTC Work
- Firefox 89.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
- Forming the WebExtensions Community Group | WebExtensions Community Group
- WebExtensions Community Group
- Browser Extension Community Group — Browser Extension Community Group
- Web Extensions Group Charter
- Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old This Week - Phoronix
- The Insane Power Use Of Benchmarking Linux Every Day
- OpenBenchmarking.org
- LinuxBenchmarking.com
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 Released - Built Using Same Binary Packages As SUSE Linux Enterprise - Phoronix
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 Bridges Path to Enterprise
- GNOME’s Need To Broaden Its Audience For Greater Impact & Funding
- Atari VCS finally actually launches (in the US) on June 15 | GamingOnLinux
- Atari VCS Controller Support Added To SDL2 - Phoronix
25 min - Linux Action News 191
Our reaction to the new Freenode developments, and Audacity's latest shock to the community.
Plus Pwned Passwords goes open source, the public release of Fuchsia, and Valve's rumored Linux handheld.
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- After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for ‘policy violations’
— All told, it appears something like 700 Freenode channels have been seized and re-permissioned, supposedly because the channels mentioned Libera Chat in violation of Freenode's advertising policy.- Freenode IRC staff resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s “crown prince”
- IRC Announcement - Fedora Magazine
- Ubuntu, Wikimedia jump ship to the Libera Chat IRC network after Freenode channel confiscations
- One week of Libera Chat
— It’s been an exciting first week, and we’d like to say a massive thank you for your support, enthusiasm, and patience as we continue to work to bring Libera.Chat up to full capacity. In these first few days, we’ve been able to reach 16,500 simultaneous connections and 20,000 registered accounts.- kline on mastodon: “andrew lee just seized over 700 channels on freenode”
- PSA: Ubuntu’s IRC Channels Have Moved from Freenode to Libera Chat
- Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked
— Today (2021-05-26) a large number of Gentoo channels have been hijacked by Freenode staff, including channels that were not yet migrated to Libera.chat. We cannot perceive this otherwise than as an open act of hostility and we have effectively left Freenode.- Pwned Passwords, Open Source in the .NET Foundation and Working with the FBI
- Pwned Passwords is now open source!
- Troy Hunt on Twitter RE: the news
- The FBI will feed compromised passwords to Have I Been Pwned
— As Hunt explained, the FBI is involved into all sorts of investigations into digital crimes, such as botnets, ransomware, online child sexual exploitation and terrorism. The compromised passwords they find are often being used by crime rings, so the passwords' quick addition to the HIBP database would be extremely helpful. That said, the website doesn't have a way for the feds to quickly feed passwords into its database yet.- Google is releasing Fuchsia OS, starting w/ 1st-gen Nest Hub
— Google’s long-in-development, from-scratch operating system, Fuchsia, is now running on real Made by Google devices, namely, the first-generation Nest Hub.- Here’s an easier way to try Fuchsia OS on your computer
- Linux Action Show 431
- Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC
— On Tuesday, SteamDB operator Pavel Djundik spotted the change in Steam's code, which pointed to a new device named "SteamPal".- New Audacity Owners Want a CLA
— For those not yet aware, we are introducing a Contributor License Agreement (CLA), which contributors to Audacity will need to sign in order to contribute code to the project.- Information About Our New Contributor License Agreement
- Nextcloud iOS app Open Sourced
- GitHub: nextcloud/ios/COPYING.iOS
- Nextcloud iOS app License Guidelines
- List of Open-Source iOS Apps
- Jami on the Mac App Store
- mediaU on the App Store
- Linux Game Development at Tesla?
— Some of you might have heard, our dear technoking is bullish on games and making an awesome platform for all gamers in Tesla vehicles. The latest Model S on our website can give you a hint of what we're aiming for in terms of platform capability (sorry, can't divulge much more for now). The Tesla infotainment OS and platform software are based on a standard Linux, so of course, we're interested in helping the gaming community make Linux gaming excellent.33 min - Linux Action News 191
Our reaction to the new Freenode developments, and Audacity's latest shock to the community.
Plus Pwned Passwords goes open source, the public release of Fuchsia, and Valve's rumored Linux handheld.
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- After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for ‘policy violations’ — All told, it appears something like 700 Freenode channels have been seized and re-permissioned, supposedly because the channels mentioned Libera Chat in violation of Freenode's advertising policy.
- Freenode IRC staff resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s “crown prince”
- IRC Announcement - Fedora Magazine
- Ubuntu, Wikimedia jump ship to the Libera Chat IRC network after Freenode channel confiscations
- One week of Libera Chat — It’s been an exciting first week, and we’d like to say a massive thank you for your support, enthusiasm, and patience as we continue to work to bring Libera.Chat up to full capacity. In these first few days, we’ve been able to reach 16,500 simultaneous connections and 20,000 registered accounts.
- kline on mastodon: “andrew lee just seized over 700 channels on freenode”
- PSA: Ubuntu’s IRC Channels Have Moved from Freenode to Libera Chat
- Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked — Today (2021-05-26) a large number of Gentoo channels have been hijacked by Freenode staff, including channels that were not yet migrated to Libera.chat. We cannot perceive this otherwise than as an open act of hostility and we have effectively left Freenode.
- Pwned Passwords, Open Source in the .NET Foundation and Working with the FBI
- Pwned Passwords is now open source!
- Troy Hunt on Twitter RE: the news
- The FBI will feed compromised passwords to Have I Been Pwned — As Hunt explained, the FBI is involved into all sorts of investigations into digital crimes, such as botnets, ransomware, online child sexual exploitation and terrorism. The compromised passwords they find are often being used by crime rings, so the passwords' quick addition to the HIBP database would be extremely helpful. That said, the website doesn't have a way for the feds to quickly feed passwords into its database yet.
- Google is releasing Fuchsia OS, starting w/ 1st-gen Nest Hub — Google’s long-in-development, from-scratch operating system, Fuchsia, is now running on real Made by Google devices, namely, the first-generation Nest Hub.
- Here’s an easier way to try Fuchsia OS on your computer
- Linux Action Show 431
- Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC — On Tuesday, SteamDB operator Pavel Djundik spotted the change in Steam's code, which pointed to a new device named "SteamPal".
- New Audacity Owners Want a CLA — For those not yet aware, we are introducing a Contributor License Agreement (CLA), which contributors to Audacity will need to sign in order to contribute code to the project.
- Information About Our New Contributor License Agreement
- Nextcloud iOS app Open Sourced
- GitHub: nextcloud/ios/COPYING.iOS
- Nextcloud iOS app License Guidelines
- List of Open-Source iOS Apps
- Jami on the Mac App Store
- mediaU on the App Store
- Linux Game Development at Tesla? — Some of you might have heard, our dear technoking is bullish on games and making an awesome platform for all gamers in Tesla vehicles. The latest Model S on our website can give you a hint of what we're aiming for in terms of platform capability (sorry, can't divulge much more for now). The Tesla infotainment OS and platform software are based on a standard Linux, so of course, we're interested in helping the gaming community make Linux gaming excellent.
33 min - Linux Action News 190
Our take on the Freenode exodus, Linux Apps going public in Chrome OS, and Red Hat's desktop hiring spree.
Plus the new Firefox security features in beta, great news for F-Droid, and Apple transfers CUPS to a new home.
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- Chrome OS’s Linux app support is leaving beta
— Google announced at I/O that Linux on Chromebooks would finally be coming out of beta with the release of Chrome OS 91.- Android 12 will finally let alternative app stores update apps on their own
— In Google's official blog post announcing Android 12 the company confirmed that it’s "delivering on [its] promise to make third-party app stores easier to use on Android 12."- Red Hat Is Hiring Even More Graphics Engineers
— Red Hat is now hiring two more graphics engineers working on the Linux graphics drivers. This will be focusing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and upstream graphics drivers for the open-source code around Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA.- Senior Software Engineer - GPU Hardware Enablement
- Software Engineer - GPU, Input and Multimedia
- Principal Engineer - Hardware Enablement for Infotainment/Automotive
- New opportunities in the Red Hat Desktop team — Christian F.K. Schaller
— We also have flexibility for people who want to work remotely, so as long as there is a Red Hat office in your home country you can work remotely for us.- OpenPrinting Now Developing Upstream CUPS, Apple Bows Out
— Apple has decided not to pursue feature development further on CUPS and upstream feature development has been effectively transferred to the OpenPrinting project.- Introducing Firefox’s new Site Isolation Security Architecture
— Site Isolation builds upon a new security architecture that extends current protection mechanisms by separating (web) content and loading each site in its own operating system process.- Linux 5.13 Reverts + Fixes The Problematic University of Minnesota Patches
— Linux kernel developers have finally finished reviewing all UMN.edu patches to address problematic merges to the kernel and also cleaning up / fixing their questionable patches.- Freenode IRC staff quit after new owner "seizes" control of network
— Founded 26 years ago and home to some 80,000 users over 40,000 channels, the freenode is reportedly the largest IRC network and has enjoyed something of a rollercoaster history.- Freenode Debacle Prompts Staff Exodus, New Network
— Through a complex series of events which actually started several years ago, control of Freenode has been taken from the community and put into the hands of an enigmatic and wealthy entrepreneur who claims his ultimate goal is to revolutionize IRC and return it to the forefront of online communication.- Upheaval at freenode
— Evidently there has been a change of control within the volunteer-run organization that has led to the resignations of multiple different volunteers, at least in part due to a concern about the personal information of freenode users under the new management.- Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management
- Welcome to Libera Chat
— We’re excited to announce the launch of Libera.Chat, and welcome you to a next-generation IRC network for free and open source software projects and similarly-spirited collaborative endeavours.- [HN comments] Welcome to Libera Chat
- CentOS IRC channels moving to irc.libera.chat
- Freenode IRC and Gentoo
- Spaces: The next frontier
— Spaces rethink groups in Element and Matrix, and today we’re launching public beta testing on Element Web, Desktop and Android (with iOS coming soon!).- [FOSDEM 202] Building massive virtual communities in Matrix
— In this talk, we'll explain all the features we've been adding to let Matrix scale to support massive virtual communities such as FOSDEM itself, Mozilla, KDE and others.- JB Matrix Server
27 min - Linux Action News 190
Our take on the Freenode exodus, Linux Apps going public in Chrome OS, and Red Hat's desktop hiring spree.
Plus the new Firefox security features in beta, great news for F-Droid, and Apple transfers CUPS to a new home.
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- Chrome OS’s Linux app support is leaving beta — Google announced at I/O that Linux on Chromebooks would finally be coming out of beta with the release of Chrome OS 91.
- Android 12 will finally let alternative app stores update apps on their own — In Google's official blog post announcing Android 12 the company confirmed that it’s "delivering on [its] promise to make third-party app stores easier to use on Android 12."
- Red Hat Is Hiring Even More Graphics Engineers — Red Hat is now hiring two more graphics engineers working on the Linux graphics drivers. This will be focusing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and upstream graphics drivers for the open-source code around Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA.
- Senior Software Engineer - GPU Hardware Enablement
- Software Engineer - GPU, Input and Multimedia
- Principal Engineer - Hardware Enablement for Infotainment/Automotive
- New opportunities in the Red Hat Desktop team — Christian F.K. Schaller — We also have flexibility for people who want to work remotely, so as long as there is a Red Hat office in your home country you can work remotely for us.
- OpenPrinting Now Developing Upstream CUPS, Apple Bows Out — Apple has decided not to pursue feature development further on CUPS and upstream feature development has been effectively transferred to the OpenPrinting project.
- Introducing Firefox’s new Site Isolation Security Architecture — Site Isolation builds upon a new security architecture that extends current protection mechanisms by separating (web) content and loading each site in its own operating system process.
- Linux 5.13 Reverts + Fixes The Problematic University of Minnesota Patches — Linux kernel developers have finally finished reviewing all UMN.edu patches to address problematic merges to the kernel and also cleaning up / fixing their questionable patches.
- Freenode IRC staff quit after new owner "seizes" control of network — Founded 26 years ago and home to some 80,000 users over 40,000 channels, the freenode is reportedly the largest IRC network and has enjoyed something of a rollercoaster history.
- Freenode Debacle Prompts Staff Exodus, New Network — Through a complex series of events which actually started several years ago, control of Freenode has been taken from the community and put into the hands of an enigmatic and wealthy entrepreneur who claims his ultimate goal is to revolutionize IRC and return it to the forefront of online communication.
- Upheaval at freenode — Evidently there has been a change of control within the volunteer-run organization that has led to the resignations of multiple different volunteers, at least in part due to a concern about the personal information of freenode users under the new management.
- Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management
- Welcome to Libera Chat — We’re excited to announce the launch of Libera.Chat, and welcome you to a next-generation IRC network for free and open source software projects and similarly-spirited collaborative endeavours.
- [HN comments] Welcome to Libera Chat
- CentOS IRC channels moving to irc.libera.chat
- Freenode IRC and Gentoo
- Spaces: The next frontier — Spaces rethink groups in Element and Matrix, and today we’re launching public beta testing on Element Web, Desktop and Android (with iOS coming soon!).
- [FOSDEM 202] Building massive virtual communities in Matrix — In this talk, we'll explain all the features we've been adding to let Matrix scale to support massive virtual communities such as FOSDEM itself, Mozilla, KDE and others.
- JB Matrix Server
27 min - Linux Action News 189
Our reaction to System76's Launch keyboard, Google's new Fuchsia contributor that's a big name, and the repairable Linux Laptop with a few new tricks.
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- Audacity’s new management hits rewind on telemetry plans following community outrage • The Register
— "What wrong-footed us completely was that the news got out before we were ready to make an announcement about it.""It was a completely innocent mistake that ended up doing the announcing for us... in the worst way imaginable."- Actions we propose to take on PR #835 · Discussion #889 · audacity/audacity · GitHub
- USPTO Audacity Trademark Assignment
— Recorded: 12/29/2020- Samsung is now a contributor to Google’s Fuchsia OS - 9to5Google
— Samsung’s “Flash-Friendly File System.” Better known as “F2FS,” the project is an alternative system for managing the files on a storage device, such as the built-in storage of a smartphone.- Ubuntu Touch OTA-17 Released for Ubuntu Phones with NFC Support, Many Improvements - 9to5Linux
— According to UBports, NFC support can allow app developers to implement the ability to read and write NFC tags in their apps, as well as to communicate with another device that supports the NFC protocol.- Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open
— A thin, lightweight, high-performance 13.5” notebook that can be upgraded, customized, and repaired in ways that no other notebook can.- Framework’s repairable laptop is up for preorder, starting at $999 | TechCrunch
- Framework Laptop upgradable, repairable & modular laptop pre-orders opened for $799 and up - CNX Software
- Launch Keyboard - System76
— The Launch Configurable Keyboard is engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient.- Meet System76’s First Mechanical Keyboard
- Launch's Firmware based on Qmk
25 min - Linux Action News 189
Our reaction to System76's Launch keyboard, Google's new Fuchsia contributor that's a big name, and the repairable Linux Laptop with a few new tricks.
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- Audacity’s new management hits rewind on telemetry plans following community outrage • The Register — "What wrong-footed us completely was that the news got out before we were ready to make an announcement about it."
"It was a completely innocent mistake that ended up doing the announcing for us... in the worst way imaginable."- Actions we propose to take on PR #835 · Discussion #889 · audacity/audacity · GitHub
- USPTO Audacity Trademark Assignment — Recorded: 12/29/2020
- Samsung is now a contributor to Google’s Fuchsia OS - 9to5Google — Samsung’s “Flash-Friendly File System.” Better known as “F2FS,” the project is an alternative system for managing the files on a storage device, such as the built-in storage of a smartphone.
- Ubuntu Touch OTA-17 Released for Ubuntu Phones with NFC Support, Many Improvements - 9to5Linux — According to UBports, NFC support can allow app developers to implement the ability to read and write NFC tags in their apps, as well as to communicate with another device that supports the NFC protocol.
- Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open — A thin, lightweight, high-performance 13.5” notebook that can be upgraded, customized, and repaired in ways that no other notebook can.
- Framework’s repairable laptop is up for preorder, starting at $999 | TechCrunch
- Framework Laptop upgradable, repairable & modular laptop pre-orders opened for $799 and up - CNX Software
- Launch Keyboard - System76 — The Launch Configurable Keyboard is engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient.
- Meet System76’s First Mechanical Keyboard
- Launch's Firmware based on Qmk
25 min - Linux Action News 188
We start you off with the headlines that matter this week, then share our thoughts on Audacity's new owners proposing user tracking.
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- Linux 5.10 LTS Will Be Maintained Through End Of Year 2026
— Linux 5.10 as the latest Long Term Support release when announced was only going to be maintained until the end of 2022 but following enough companies stepping up to help with testing, Linux 5.10 LTS will now be maintained until the end of year 2026.- Visual Studio Code April 2021
- Native wayland support with newest electron
— Use --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland.- VMware Prepares Linux Driver For Next-Gen Virtual GPU
— With SVGA v3 also comes the ability to enjoy 3D guest acceleration on 64-bit ARM.- Audacity ‘scared and excited’ to be bought and brought under Muse Group’s roof, promises to stay free and open source
— Veteran audio editor Audacity has been purchased by Muse Group, although its new management has pledged to keep the platform free and open source.- ‘A massive middle finger’: Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture
- Audacity Telemetry and Why Free Software Means Better Privacy – Purism
— The ultimate reason that free software means better privacy is the fact that users can remove any code that violates their privacy and use the rest.- The Audacity Pull Request
- Policies/Telemetry Policy - KDE Community Wiki
- [pdf] IEEE Statement
— One of the PC members briefly mentioned a possible ethical concern in their review, but that comment was not significantly discussed any further at the time; we acknowledge that we missed it.- LKML: Kees Cook: Report on University of Minnesota Breach-of-Trust Incident
— This report summarizes the events that led to this point, reviews the "Hypocrite Commits" paper that had been submitted for publication, and reviews all known prior kernel commits from UMN paper authors that had been accepted into our source repository. It concludes with a few suggestions about how the community, with UMN included, can move forward.24 min - Linux Action News 188
We start you off with the headlines that matter this week, then share our thoughts on Audacity's new owners proposing user tracking.
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- Linux 5.10 LTS Will Be Maintained Through End Of Year 2026 — Linux 5.10 as the latest Long Term Support release when announced was only going to be maintained until the end of 2022 but following enough companies stepping up to help with testing, Linux 5.10 LTS will now be maintained until the end of year 2026.
- Visual Studio Code April 2021
- Native wayland support with newest electron — Use `--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland`.
- VMware Prepares Linux Driver For Next-Gen Virtual GPU — With SVGA v3 also comes the ability to enjoy 3D guest acceleration on 64-bit ARM.
- Audacity ‘scared and excited’ to be bought and brought under Muse Group’s roof, promises to stay free and open source — Veteran audio editor Audacity has been purchased by Muse Group, although its new management has pledged to keep the platform free and open source.
- ‘A massive middle finger’: Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture
- Audacity Telemetry and Why Free Software Means Better Privacy – Purism — The ultimate reason that free software means better privacy is the fact that users can remove any code that violates their privacy and use the rest.
- The Audacity Pull Request
- Policies/Telemetry Policy - KDE Community Wiki
- [pdf] IEEE Statement — One of the PC members briefly mentioned a possible ethical concern in their review, but that comment was not significantly discussed any further at the time; we acknowledge that we missed it.
- LKML: Kees Cook: Report on University of Minnesota Breach-of-Trust Incident — This report summarizes the events that led to this point, reviews the "Hypocrite Commits" paper that had been submitted for publication, and reviews all known prior kernel commits from UMN paper authors that had been accepted into our source repository. It concludes with a few suggestions about how the community, with UMN included, can move forward.
24 min - Linux Action News 187
A spicy mix of distro news, including Rocky Linux's first milestone release, and our follow-up on the University of Minnesota’s kernel ban.
Plus a major step in Apple M1 GPU support.
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- FAQ: CentOS Stream Updates
— CentOS Stream 9 will launch in Q2 2021 as part of the RHEL 9 development process.- Fedora Linux 34 is officially here!
— Following the introduction of BTRFS as the default filesystem on desktop variants in Fedora Linux 33, we’ve introduced transparent compression on BTRFS filesystems.- Fedora 34 Changes
- Gnome40
- DefaultPipeWire
- XwaylandStandalone
- WaylandByDefaultForPlasma
- BtrfsTransparentCompression
- EnableSystemdOomd
- Remove Support For SELinux Runtime Disable
- UnifyGrubConfig
- An update on the UMN affair
— None of the three patches that contained real bugs were accepted by maintainers, though the reasons for rejection were not always the bugs in question. The paper itself has been withdrawn and will not be presented in May as was planned.- Owncast Streaming Application | Linode Marketplace | Linode
- “Full disclosure” from the University of Minnesota
— The researchers at the University of Minnesota have posted a description of the work they did as part of their "hypocrite commits" project. It includes a list of the buggy commits they posted and how they were handled.- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 arrives
— The latest version of Red Hat's flagship Linux operating system is designed to be deployed on the computing edge.- Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1 Released For This New RHEL Alternative
— The first release candidate of Rocky Linux 8.3 is out, the project's inaugural release as a new binary-compatible alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).- Rocky Linux 8.3 Release Candidate 1
— The intent of a release candidate is for the community to test and validate expected functionality of Rocky Linux and report any bugs if present.- CentOS replacement distro AlmaLinux gets commercial support options
— CloudLinux Inc has announced that it will offer commercial support for the AlmaLinux community distribution. The new support plans will include regular patches and updates for AlmaLinux's kernel and core packages, patch delivery SLAs, and 24/7 incident support.- Commercial Support for AlmaLinux OS from CloudLinux
— CloudLinux Inc will start providing multiple support options for AlmaLinux OS in May 2021.- 8.4 Beta of AlmaLinux Released
— This is a BETA release and should not be used for production installations. The provided upgrade instructions should not be used on production machines, unless you don't mind if something breaks. 😉- Ubuntu Bug Breaks EFI on 21.04 Update With Older Machines
— The exact nature of the hardware likely to fail is still unclear. Canonical software engineer Dave Jones suggested modern machines would be unaffected but older machines such as a ThinkPad 420 from 2011 and a MacBook Air from 2012 were affected by the bug.- elementary OS 6 Beta Available Today
— Developers and testers, it’s the day you’ve been waiting for: elementary OS 6 Beta is available now! We first started talking publicly about elementary OS 6 in August of last year.- New Spectre Exploits Beat All Mitigations: Fixes to Severely Degrade Performance
— Researchers from two universities have discovered several new variants of Spectre exploits that affect all modern processors from AMD and Intel with micro-op caches. Existing Spectre mitigations do not protect the CPUs against potential attacks that use these vulnerabilities.- PDF: I See Dead ﾂｵops: Leaking Secrets
- M1 Mesa Driver Upstreamed
— I’ve begun a Gallium driver for the M1, implementing much of the OpenGL 2.1 and ES 2.0 specifications. With the compiler and driver together, we’re now able to run OpenGL workloads like glxgears and scenes from glmark2 on the M1 with an open-source stack. To top it off, the compiler and driver are now upstreamed in Mesa!- mesa - Add asahi Gallium driver
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