Category Archives: Linux

O3DE 23.10 Released With Many Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine

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Back in July of last year the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) engine launched as part of the Open 3D Foundation and initially was a spin-out of Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine. Out this week is O3DE 23.10 as the newest half-year update to this project…

Source: Phoronix – O3DE 23.10 Released With Many Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine

[$] Progress on no-GIL CPython

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Back at the end of July, the Python steering council announced
its intention to approve the proposal to make the global interpreter lock
(GIL) optional over the next few Python releases. The details of that
acceptance are still being decided on, but work on the feature is
proceeding—in discussion form at least. Beyond that, though, there are
efforts underway to solve that hardest of problems in computer
science, naming, for the no-GIL version.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Progress on no-GIL CPython

Smooth Sailing and Continued Growth at All Things Open 2018

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Between now and the opening of All Things Open 2023 on October 15, which will begin the conference’s second decade, FOSS Force is each day taking a look at an individual year in ATO’s history. In today’s article we’re looking at All Things Open 2018, which was the conference’s sixth outing.

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Source: FOSS Force – Smooth Sailing and Continued Growth at All Things Open 2018

AMD EPYC 8324P / 8324PN Siena 32-Core Siena Linux Server Performance

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Last month AMD launched the EPYC 8004 “Siena” 4th Gen EPYC processors to round out their Zen 4 server processors with the expansive Genoa, Genoa-X, Bergamo, and Siena product portfolios. The new EPYC 8004 series are designed to maximize the power efficiency for server deployments from the data center to edge, teclo, and other non-traditional server environments. Up for testing today is an initial look at the Siena performance in the form of the EPYC 8324P and EPYC 8324PN 32-core parts for seeing how they stack up against 32-core Intel Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” performance.

Source: Phoronix – AMD EPYC 8324P / 8324PN Siena 32-Core Siena Linux Server Performance

A remote code execution vulnerability in GNOME

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The GitHub blog describes
a vulnerability in the libcue library (which is used by the GNOME
desktop) that can be exploited by a remote attacker to run code on a
desktop system if the target can be convinced to click on a malicious link.

The video shows me clicking a link in a webpage, which causes a cue
sheet to be downloaded. Because the file is saved to ~/Downloads,
it is then automatically scanned by tracker-miners. And because it
has a .cue filename extension, tracker-miners uses libcue to parse
the file. The file exploits the vulnerability in libcue to gain
code execution and pop a calculator.



Source: LWN.net – A remote code execution vulnerability in GNOME

HTTP/2 "Rapid Reset" DDoS Attack Disclosed By Google, Cloudflare & AWS

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Google, Cloudflare and AWS today disclosed a new zero-day vulnerability called the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack. This attack that is being seen in the real-world relies on a weakness in the HTTP2 protocol for carrying out “hyper volumetric” Distributed Denial of Service attacks…

Source: Phoronix – HTTP/2 “Rapid Reset” DDoS Attack Disclosed By Google, Cloudflare & AWS

Another Bug Found That Limits GNOME's Performance For Secondary GPU Setups

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Daniel van Vugt of Canonical’s desktop team for Ubuntu Linux has been on a spree recently tackling various GNOME bugs — often performance issues — while also continuing to work on the dynamic triple buffering support and other GNOME desktop enhancements. His latest discovery is around finding another performance bottleneck for multi-GPU setups…

Source: Phoronix – Another Bug Found That Limits GNOME’s Performance For Secondary GPU Setups