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Devuan 4.0 Alpha Builds Begin For Debian 11 Without Systemd
Debian 11 continues inching closer towards release and it looks like the developers maintaining the "Devuan" fork won't be far behind with their re-base of the distribution focused on init system freedom...
Intel Compute Runtime 21.15.19533 Released With Initial Level Zero 1.1 Support
Intel's engineers working on their open-source Linux-based Compute Runtime stack just released their latest version...
GNU Assembly Launches As Collaborative Platform For GCC, Other Packages
Not to be confused with Assembly programming, the GNU Assembly is the new platform for a number of GNU toolchain projects like GCC, GNU C Library, GnuCOBOL, and other packages as a neutral home...
Mesa 21.2 Begins Seeing Intel Xe-HP Graphics Driver Changes
With Mesa 21.1 now branched for this collection of primarily OpenGL/Vulkan open-source drivers for Linux, feature development is on for Mesa 21.2 that will debut in Q3. One of the first major changes to land for Mesa 21.2 is the beginning of the graphics compiler support for Intel's forthcoming Xe-HP high performance graphics processor...
NVIDIA CUDA 11.3 Released - Previews Better Python Support
For GTC21 week NVIDIA has released version 11.3 of their CUDA toolkit...
Patches Resubmitted For Linux With Selectable Intel Graphics Platform Support
Back in early 2018 were patches proposed for selectable platform support when building Intel's kernel graphics driver so users/distributions if desired could disable extremely old hardware support and/or cater kernel builds for specific Intel graphics generations. Three years later those patches have been re-proposed...
The 12 Most Interesting Changes Of Linux 5.12 - PS5, N64, Intel VRR, RDNA2 OverDrive
If all goes well the Linux 5.12 stable kernel will be released this weekend. It's been a fairly calm week so far in Linux 5.12 Git land but if things tick up Linus Torvalds may defer the stable release by one week to allow for an eighth and final release candidate. In any case, Linux 5.12 is packing a lot of exciting changes...
NVIDIA RTX 30 Series OpenCL / CUDA / OptiX Compute + Rendering Benchmarks
Recently from NVIDIA we received the rest of the NVIDIA RTX 30 series line-up for cards we haven't been able to benchmark under Linux previously, thus it's been a busy month of Ampere benchmarking for these additional cards and re-testing the existing parts. Coming up next week will be a large NVIDIA vs. AMD Radeon Linux gaming benchmark comparison while in this article today is an extensive look at the GPU compute performance for the complete RTX 20 and RTX 30 series line-up under Linux with compute tests spanning OpenCL, Vulkan, CUDA, and OptiX RTX under a variety of compute and rendering workloads.
LXQt 0.17 Released For This Lightweight Qt5 Desktop
For fans of LXQt or those still looking for a nice lightweight Qt5 desktop, LXQt 0.17 is out as the latest version of this open-source desktop environment...
OpenZFS 2.1-rc3 Delivers More Fixes
OpenZFS 2.1 is nearing release as the next feature update to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation currently supporting Linux and FreeBSD systems...
Google Supports Getting Rust Into The Linux Kernel
It should come as little surprise -- especially given the recent news of Google allowing Rust to be used for Android system-level code -- but engineers at the search giant are in support of Rust code being used within the mainline Linux kernel...
LLVM 12.0 Released With Alder Lake + Sapphire Rapids Support, More C++20
After the release cycle dragged on an extra month due to blocker bugs, LLVM 12 was officially tagged on Wednesday night as the latest half-year update to this open-source compiler stack...
Hangover 0.6.5 Released For Running Windows Software On ARM64, POWER
A new release of Hangover is now available for getting Wine up and running with cross-architecture support so you can enjoy the likes of Windows games and applications under 64-bit ARM and IBM POWER hardware on Linux...
Metro Exodus Launches For Linux But Off To Bumpy Start
As scheduled, Metro Exodus saw its native Linux port debut today. This first person shooter from 4A Games launched on Windows and consoles in 2019 while the 4A Engine powered game only debuted today for macOS and Linux. Previously it would work with Steam Play but now there is a native Linux port albeit with some kinks still to work out...
Rust Support In The Linux Kernel Undergoing Another Round Of Discussions
Last month the initial infrastructure for allowing the Rust programming language to be used within the Linux kernel landed in the Linux-Next tree for more widespread testing ahead of its possible inclusion in the mainline kernel. Now a "request for comments" has been started again on the kernel mailing list around the prospects of Rust code for the Linux kernel...
Chrome 90 Released With AV1 Encode, New APIs
Google officially promoted Chrome 90 to its stable channel today as the latest feature update to their cross-platform web browser...
Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features
Feature development for this quarter's Mesa 21.1 release is now over with it having been branched from main and the first release candidate issued...
The Linux Kernel & GNOME Desktop Preparing For Privacy Screen Support
Over the past year there has been an uptick in Linux developers from different vendors working on laptop privacy screen support under Linux. When it comes to the support with newer Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, it looks like that kernel support could soon land and the GNOME desktop is already preparing to support this feature...
NVIDIA 465.24.02 Linux Driver Released As Stable
At the end of March NVIDIA released the 465 beta Linux driver while today has been promoted to stable in the form of the 465.24.02 release...
Windows 10 Rockets Ahead Of Ubuntu Linux On The Core i9 11900K For Some Workloads
For those wondering how the Windows vs. Linux performance compares with Intel's new Rocket Lake processors for both the CPU performance and some initial cross-platform exposure for the Xe Graphics, here are some preliminary benchmarks with the Core i9 11900K.
Gigabyte Motherboard WMI Temperature Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13
Earlier this month I reported on a WMI temperature driver for Gigabyte motherboards being worked on by an independent developer. That "gigabyte-wmi" driver is now slated for inclusion in the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle...
Mesa 21.1 Squeezes In Improvements For Direct3D 9 (Gallium Nine)
The feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 21.1 is imminent but last minute feature work continues to pour in. Hitting Mesa Git this morning as the latest activity were some fixes and improvements in Gallium Nine for providing Direct3D 9 support atop Gallium3D drivers to Wine/Windows programs...
Mesa's Virgl Straps On A Simple Disk Cache
The "Virgl" virtual 3D GPU project for providing OpenGL (and work-in-progress VirtIO-GPU Vulkan) acceleration within guest virtual machines continues to mature for improving the open-source Linux desktop virtualization stack...
Linux 5.13 To Allow For OpenBMC Development With A Lower-Cost ASRock Rack Motherboard
The Linux Foundation's OpenBMC project to provide an open-source BMC firmware stack is quite exciting for freeing this low-level aspect of servers, but finding a supported motherboard that works well with OpenBMC can be a challenge at this stage. Fortunately, Linux 5.13 is set to support a lower-cost motherboard option in hopes of boosting OpenBMC development/usage...
FreeBSD 13.0 Brings Better Performance, LLVM Clang 11, Obsolete GNU Bits Removed
FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is now officially available as the debut of the big FreeBSD 13 feature update...
System76 Developing "COSMIC" Desktop Environment For Pop!_OS
System76 has their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu and have long been customizing their GNOME-based desktop. However, the Linux PC vendor is now taking things a step further by developing their own desktop environment dubbed COSMIC...
X.Org Server 1.20.11 Released Due To New Security Advisory
Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative has uncovered another security issue with the X.Org Server...
SiFive Tapes Out Their First 5nm RISC-V Processor Core
SiFive's OpenFive business unit announced today they have completed their first tape out of a RISC-V processor core using TSMC's 5nm process...
Vulkan Video Arrives For New Industry-Standard Video Encode/Decode
For years we have been eager to learn more about the long mentioned Vulkan Video API, which was supposed to come in H1-2020, but now has finally arrived with today's v1.2.175 update in provisional form. The new Vulkan Video extensions allow for GPU-accelerated video encode/decode. The initial public work is treated as a provisional specification and with limited codec coverage but will be expanded upon in time...
Multigenerational LRU Code Updated For Enhancing Linux Kernel Performance
Last month Google engineers proposed multi-generational LRU for Linux to enhance the kernel performance and today the work has advanced to a second version...
Vulkan 1.2.175 Published With Many New Extensions
Vulkan 1.2.175 is now public as the latest Vulkan API specification and it's bringing with it many new extensions...
ROCm AOMP 13.0 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs
AOMP 13.0 is out today as the first update to AMD's Radeon OpenMP offloading compiler since AOMP 11.0 last December...
Slackware 15 Beta Process Begins
Back in February Slackware 15.0 went into alpha, nine years since Slackware 14.0 made its debut or even five years since Slackware 14.2. Now Slackware 15.0 is up to its beta phase...
Secret Memory Areas For Linux Might Finally Be Ready With memfd_secret
In development for more than one year has been the ability to create secret memory areas on Linux that would be visible only to the owning process and is not mapped for other processes or the kernel page tables. That "memfd_secret" system call has finally materialized in Linux-Next and looking like it could be ready for mainline...
Arcan Presents "Pipeworld" Dataflow Computing Interface
Arcan, the long running open-source display server built atop a game engine that has embraced technologies like XR/VR and Wayland and claims feature parity with X.Org this week announced their new Pipeworld project...
Google Talks Up Logica As Open-Source Programming Language For Data Manipulation
Google engineers are responsible for a number of programming languages like Go and Dart while their newest one to be made public is Logica...
NVIDIA Announces Grace CPU For ARM-Based AI/HPC Processor
NVIDIA announced today in kicking off GTC21 the "Grace" high performance Arm processor for AI and high performance computing workloads. But before getting too excited, this high performance Arm chip isn't expected to be ready until 2023...
Radeon Vulkan Variable Rate Shading Benchmarks For Boosting RDNA2 Performance
Landing in Mesa 21.1 on Friday was a variable rate shading (VRS) override for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver for providing significant performance boosts by effectively rendering less. This feature is limited to RDNA2 graphics processors while here are some benchmarks on what it means for 4K gaming with the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards on Linux.
KDE KWin Introducing Item-Based Scenes For Improved Wayland Support
More KDE KWin Wayland improvements are coming down the pipe...
Intel DG1 Graphics Card Nears Working State On Linux
While these kernel patches aren't expected to land until the Linux 5.14 kernel cycle later in the summer, a set of 19 patches published on Monday morning begin allowing a test system to boot with the DG1 graphics card...
MSM DRM Driver Picks Up Initial Support For The Snapdragon SC7280
The MSM DRM driver changes have been sent to DRM-Next for this Freedreno aligned project providing open-source graphics/display driver support for Qualcomm SoCs...
Intel Rocket Lake Target Added To GCC 11
While Intel is often very proactive in adding new CPU families to the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers where it tends to land a year or more in advance of the processors actually shipping, occasionally there are slipups. Today in fact the "Rocket Lake" support finally was merged into GCC 11 days ahead of that compiler release and after the CPUs were already launched at the end of March...
Linux 5.12-rc7 Kernel Released - It's Big And Causing Some Concern
The Linux 5.12 stable kernel release is quickly approaching but may be challenged by an extra release candidate...
Linux 5.13 Will Stop Restricting CPU Power Metrics Access For AMD Energy Driver
Following the PLATYPUS discovery last year that CPU energy information could be used for possible side channel attacks, the Intel RAPL counters were not only restricted to root but the "amd_energy" driver for exposing CPU energy information on supported Zen series CPUs was also dialed back to root-only in the name of security. Linux 5.13 is introducing a new mechanism so AMD CPUs will be able to still read the energy counters even if not operating as root...
Dynatron A38 Performance For Cooling 280 Watt AMD EPYC CPUs
Announced in March by Dynatron was their A38 CPU cooler for AMD Ryzen Threadripper and EPYC processors. This heatsink fan is rated for cooling up to 280 Watt SP3/sTRX4/TR4 processors making it capable of cooling even the newest high-end EPYC "Milan" processors with the EPYC 75F3 and 7763 processors. Here are some initial benchmarks of this cooler with the AMD EPYC 7763 server processor.
SiFive FU740 PCIe Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13
Arguably the most interesting RISC-V board announced to date is SiFive's HiFive Unmatched with the FU740 RISC-V SoC that features four U74-MC cores and one S7 embedded core. The HiFive Unmatched also has 16GB of RAM, USB 3.2 Gen 1, one PCI Express x16 slot (operating at x8 speeds), an NVMe slot, and Gigabit Ethernet. The upstream kernel support for the HiFive Unmatched and the FU740 SoC continues...
EXT4 With Linux 5.13 Looks Like It Will Support Casefolding With Encryption Enabled
While EXT4 supports both case-folding for optional case insensitive filenames and does support file-system encryption, at the moment those features are mutually exclusive. But it looks like the upcoming Linux 5.13 kernel will allow casefolding and encryption to be active at the same time...
LuxCoreRender 2.5 Open-Source PBR Renderer Released With NVIDIA OptiX/RTX Support
The LuxCoreRender open-source physically based rendering (PBR) software is out with its latest major feature release that now offers NVIDIA OptiX/RTX acceleration support alongside the existing CPU, NVIDIA CUDA, and OpenCL rendering paths...
KDE Lands More Crash Fixes, Activities Feature Working On Wayland
It's been another week of fixes and feature work for the KDE desktop as the march continues toward the Plasma 5.22 release this summer...
Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Option Of Rendering Less For ~30% Greater Performance
If your current Vulkan-based Radeon Linux gaming performance isn't cutting it and a new GPU is out of your budget or you have been unable to find a desired GPU upgrade in stock, the Mesa RADV driver has added an option likely of interest to you... Well, at least moving forward with this feature being limited to RDNA2 GPUs for now...
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