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We take a look at a few exciting features coming to Linux kernel 5.6, including the first steps to multipath TCP.
Plus the latest Intel speculative execution vulnerability, and Microsoft's troubled history with certificate renewal.
Links:
Oregon company makes top bid for Microsoft check - CNET
Microsoft’s failures to renew: Teams, Hotmail, and Hotmail.co.uk | Ars Technica
Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate - The Verge
Browser review: Microsoft’s new “Edgium” Chromium-based Edge | Ars Technica
Linus Torvalds pulled WireGuard VPN into the 5.6 kernel source tree | Ars Technica
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support - Phoronix
Multipath TCP Support Is Working Its Upstream - First Bits Landing With Linux 5.6 - Phoronix
MultiPath TCP - Linux Kernel implementation
Upstreaming multipath TCP
LPC2019 - Multipath TCP Upstreaming - YouTube
LPC2019 - Multipath TCP Upstreaming - Slides
LPC2019 - Multipath TCP Upstreaming - Paper
Using MultiPath TCP to enhance home networks
Linux 5.6 Crypto Getting AVX/AVX2/AVX-512 Optimized Poly1305Poly1305CacheOut
CacheOut PaperIntel Responds to ZombieLoad and CacheOut Attacks | Tom's Hardware
New CacheOut Attack Targets Intel CPUs, Leaks Data From VMs And Secure Enclave
It's a storage showdown as Jim and Wes bust some performance myths about RAID and ZFS.
Plus our favorite features from Fedora 32, and why Wes loves DNF.
Links:
What's new in Fedora 32 Workstation
Fedora 32 ChangeSet
Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32
TechSNAP 428: RAID Reality Check
ZFS...
Published 05/29/20
Jim and Wes take the latest release of the Caddy web server for a spin, investigate Intel's Comet Lake desktop CPUs, and explore the fight over 5G between the US Military and the FCC.
Links:
Caddy offers TLS, HTTPS, and more in one dependency-free Go Web server
Caddy 2
Caddy v2 Improvements...
Published 05/15/20
We dive deep into the world of RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.
Plus Cloudflare steps up its campaign to secure BGP, and why you might want to trade in cron for systemd timers.
Links:
AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with...
Published 05/01/20