New WireGuard Snapshot Offers Better Compatibility With Distributions/Kernels

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New WireGuard Snapshot Offers Better Compatibility With Distributions/Kernels

16 September 2019, 07:54 AM

Phoronix: New WireGuard Snapshot Offers Better Compatibility With Distributions/Kernels

WireGuard sadly isn't slated for the now-open Linux 5.4 merge window, but lead developer Jason Donenfeld has put out a new development snapshot of this open-source secure VPN tunnel...

New WireGuard Snapshot Offers Better Compatibility With Distributions/Kernels - Phoronix

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WireGuard-0.0.20190913

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16 September 2019, 06:02 PM

I've been pessimistic about how ready WireGuard was/is, I did not mean that in a negative way. I truly wish there was more support for this effort.

Just taking Fedora as an example here, they wanted to "deprecate all these pre-AVX2 CPU" to improve performance... Why not focus on something as awesome as WireGuard instead?

Many other distros have similar examples.
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