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GParted 1.2 Released With Support For exFAT File-Systems
GParted as the widely used, GUI solution for managing Linux partitions/file-systems on the Linux desktop now finally supports dealing with exFAT file-systems...
Patched Linux 5.11 Continues Looking Great For AMD Ryzen/EPYC Performance
While the initial AMD Linux 5.11 performance regression written about at the end of last year was of much concern given the performance hits to AMD Zen 2 / Zen 3 processors with the out-of-the-box "Schedutil" governor, with a pending patch the regression is not only addressed but in various workloads we continue seeing better performance than even compared to Linux 5.10. Here is the latest from several more days of extensive performance testing.
Radeon ROCm 4.0.1 Released For AMD Open-Source GPU Compute
Last month marked the release of the big Radeon Open eCosystem 4.0 update (ROCm 4.0) while today that has been replaced by a v4.0.1 point release...
AMD Celebrates Five Years Of GPUOpen
Today marks five years since AMD began the GPUOpen initiative for providing more open-source Radeon GPU code projects, code samples, and more for better engaging GPU/game developers in the open...
Mozilla Announces "Open Web Docs" Following Last Year's Layoffs
Last year during the big round of layoffs at Mozilla the entire Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) writers team was laid off. That was a particularly sad blow considering how valuable the MDN documentation has been to web developers as a very useful resource. Today the Mozilla folks are announced Open Web Docs in seemingly looking to have the community take over...
VKD3D-Proton Begins Working On DirectX 12 Ray-Tracing Atop Vulkan
Those working on VKD3D-Proton as the Direct3D 12 implementation atop the Vulkan API are beginning to work on DirectX Ray-Tracing support but it isn't yet ready for gamers...
Intel Alder Lake S Graphics Support Nearing The Mainline Linux Kernel
It looks like the open-source Intel kernel driver enablement work for the "Alder Lake S" processors coming to market late in the year will soon have the support mainlined in the kernel...
Apache Software Foundation Saw Assigned CVEs Up 24%, Security Issues Up 53% For 2020
The Apache Software Foundation that oversees 340+ Apache projects saw a measurable rise in security related issues during the course of 2020...
Vulkan 1.2.168 Released With Two New Extensions
Today's Vulkan 1.2.168 specification update brings the usual specification corrections/clarifications while also introducing two new KHR extensions...
UBports Aiming For An Exciting 2021 With Ubuntu Touch
Last week marked the last Q/A session for the UBports' Ubuntu Touch team working to advance the Linux smartphone platform where they laid out some of their upcoming objectives...
Alder Lake S Support Added To Intel's Open-Source Media Driver
Last quarter Intel began upstreaming their open-source Alder Lake S graphics support for Linux. It hasn't been too big of a feat or revealed many details since it's still Gen12 / Xe graphics seen since Tiger Lake. But it's been coming along and over the past month is now wired up into Intel's open-source Media Driver stack too...
Linux 5.11-rc5 Kernel Released Following A Busy Sunday
The fifth weekly release candidate of Linux 5.11 is now available for testing...
Pyston 2.1 Is Blowing Past Python 3.8/3.9 Performance
With this past week's release of Pyston 2.1 as an alternative Python interpreter I was curious to see how the performance compared to that of upstream Python... So here are some weekend benchmarks with a Ryzen 9 5900X system...
GNU Binutils 2.36 Released With Support For Intel AMX, AVX VNNI, Key Locker
GNU Binutils 2.36 is out today as the latest version of this collection of binary utilities for Linux/open-source systems...
Learn To Get Involved In Linux Kernel Development This Spring
The Linux kernel mentor program for the spring 2021 period is now accepting applications...
Intel Has A New Driver For Linux 5.12: Reporting Your Laptop's Hinge/Keyboard Angle
Intel's latest open-source Linux driver contribution is a hinge driver that is set to debut with Linux 5.12...
GTK4 Toolkit Seeing More Improvements To Its OpenGL Renderer
While GTK 4.0 has been released, there still is major work to look forward to with future GTK4 releases. One area seeing recent and ongoing improvements is with the toolkit's OpenGL renderer...
GCC's JIT Library Is No Longer Considered "Alpha" Quality
With the upcoming GCC 11 compiler release the GNU compiler's just-in-time (JIT) library is no longer considered to be of alpha quality...
Nouveau X.Org Driver Sees First Release In Two Years
Two years and nine patches later, xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.17 is out as the latest X.Org driver update for this open-source NVIDIA driver component...
Linux 5.12 To Allow Voltage/Temperature Reporting On Some ASRock Motherboards
Voltage, temperature, and fan speed reporting among desktop motherboards under Linux remains one of the unfortunate areas even in 2021... Many SIO ICs remain publicly undocumented and the Linux driver support is often left up to the community and usually through reverse-engineering. Thus the mainline Linux kernel support is left to suffer especially among newer desktop motherboards. At least for Linux 5.12 some ASRock motherboards will begin seeing their voltage/temperature reporting now function...
The First Online Conference Is Happening Today For The Godot Game Engine
For those interested in Godot as the premiere open-source 2D/3D game engine or just looking for some interesting technical talks to enjoy this weekend, the first GodotCon Online is today...
The State of GNOME 40's Threaded Input
One of many improvements we have been looking forward to with GNOME 40 is Mutter now having a separate input thread with its native back-end for Wayland...
KDE Saw Many Fixes + Improvements On Top Of Shipping Plasma 5.21 Beta
In addition to shipping the Plasma 5.21 beta this week, KDE developers were very active in not only working out fixes for next month's Plasma 5.21 desktop but also other improvements to KDE applications...
GNOME 40's Mutter Adds Atomic Mode-Setting Support
Adding to the list of big ticket changes for GNOME 40 is Mutter now supporting atomic mode-setting...
Pyston 2.1 Released With Striving For High Performance Python
Pyston started out as a fork of CPython and was very promising during its early days as a Dropbox project for delivering on high performance Python. Its performance was great but in 2017 Dropbox stopped supporting it. Then at the end of 2020, Pyston reappeared and Pyston 2.0 promoted ~20% faster performance than Python 3.8. Pyston 2.x was developed by many of the original developers from Dropbox now out working on their own firm...
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance As Of January 2021
With the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation within Mesa on a nice upward trajectory with most recently now having the backing of a Valve contract developer and a focus on getting the backlog of patches to this Gallium3D code upstreamed, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at where the performance currently stands when using Zink atop the RADV Vulkan driver compared to using the native RadeonSI driver with this round of testing from a Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card.
Apple M1 Open-Source GPU Bring-Up Sees An Early Triangle
The open-source/Linux Apple M1 work continues to be quite busy this week... The latest is Alyssa Rosenzweig who has been working on reverse-engineering the M1 graphics processor has been able to write some early and primitive code for rendering a triangle...
Linux 5.12 Set To See Support For The Nintendo 64
It's taken nearly twenty five years but the mainline Linux kernel this year will be able to boot on the Nintendo 64 game console... It's looking like the Nintendo 64 support will be merged with the upcoming Linux 5.12 kernel...
More Intel Graphics Work In Linux 5.12: Gen7 Improvements, Faster Suspend/Resume
New feature material for Linux 5.12 continues getting ready ahead of the merge window opening in February to formally kick off the cycle...
Eclipse OpenJ9 0.24 Released With A Ton Of Improvements
In addition to Oracle's GraalVM 21.0 being released this week, the Eclipse Foundation has released OpenJ9 v0.24 as the newest feature release for their high performance JVM...
Chrome 89 Preparing To Ship With AV1 Encoder For WebRTC Usage
Now that Chrome 88 released, attention is turning to Chrome 89 of which an interesting technical change is the enabling of AV1 encode support within the web browser...
Apache Superset Reaches Top-Level Status For Big Data Visualizations
The Apache Software Foundation announced on Thursday that Apache Superset reached "top-level" status...
Intel oneAPI Level Zero 1.1 Headers/Loader Released
The oneAPI Level Zero repository consisting of the Level Zero API headers, Level Zero loader, and validation layer have reached version 1.1...
Zink OpenGL On Vulkan Now Supports OpenGL 4.2 With Mesa 21.1
It was just earlier this month that mainline Mesa achieved OpenGL 4.1 for Zink, the Gallium3D driver allowing OpenGL to be implemented atop Vulkan. Now OpenGL 4.2 support is in place for this promising Mesa component...
Linux 5.11 Is Now Looking Great For AMD Zen 2 / Zen 3 Performance
Not only is the AMD "CPU frequency invariance regression" from that new support with the in-development Linux 5.11 kernel on course to address the performance shortcomings I outlined last month, but with the patched kernel for a number of workloads the performance is now ahead of where it was at with Linux 5.10.
KDE Plasma 5.21 Now In Beta With Much Improved Wayland Support
KDE Plasma 5.21 is now in beta as what will be the first major KDE desktop update of the new year...
The Unified Path Ahead For Building SUSE Linux Enterprise + openSUSE Leap
Red Hat hasn't been the only major enterprise Linux distribution shifting around their pieces with regards to how RHEL is formed with moving to CentOS Stream as its future upstream. Over the past year especially openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise having been moving closer together with the source trees now being more closely aligned between Leap and "SLE". SUSE has published an insightful blog post series detailing the prior way that openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap tied in with SUSE Linux Enterprise and then the direction they have been shifting...
Netgate Announces pfSense Plus With Greater Divergence From pfSense
Netgate has announced pfSense as a rebranded and improved edition of this popular BSD-based firewall/network OS platform...
More OpenGL Threading Improvements Land For Mesa 21.1
Even in 2021 longtime open-source AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák isn't done optimizing OpenGL for delivering the best possible performance with the Radeon graphics driver. Marek's latest work includes more OpenGL threading enhancements and other work seemingly targeted at SPECViewPerf workloads...
Ubuntu 21.04 To Stick With GNOME 3.38 Desktop
While Ubuntu normally ships with the latest GNOME desktop as of release time, April's release of Ubuntu 21.04 will not be shipping with GNOME 40 but sticking to GNOME 3.38...
Raptor Announces Kestrel Open-Source, Open HDL/Firmware Soft BMC
Raptor Engineering known for their work on open-source POWER9 systems has announced Kestrel, an open-source baseboard management controller (BMC) design that is open down to the HDL design and firmware...
Raspberry Pi Pico Announced As $4 Microcontroller
Following November's launch of the Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard computer there is another new product from the UK foundation and it's not a new Raspberry Pi SBC...
A Fix Has Been Proposed For The Slower AMD Performance On Linux 5.11
With the in-development Linux 5.11 kernel there are many great features and improvements especially for AMD users with some new drivers and other pleasant enhancements. But as I outlined back on Christmas day: Linux 5.11 Is Regressing Hard For AMD Performance With Schedutil. Fortunately, a fix is now en route to the Linux 5.11 kernel for fixing that performance regression affecting AMD Zen 2/3 desktops and servers...
Lightworks 2021.1 Released With UI Improvements, Other Video Editor Enhancements
Lightworks, the professional-grade video editing system that works well on Linux but has remained elusive of its long past open-source promise, is out with its first major release of 2021...
Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality
One of the last pieces of the puzzle for supporting an entirely Vulkan-based Wayland compositor is coming together with a new extension that looks like it will be merged soon and there already being work pending against Sway/WLROOTS to make use of the Vulkan path...
Rocky Linux Making Progress Towards Their First Release In Q2 As A Free RHEL Alternative
If Red Hat's new no-cost offering for up to 16 production systems for RHEL doesn't fit your requirements and are evaluating alternatives to CentOS 8 that will be EOL'ed this year, Rocky Linux remains one of the leading contenders and is on track for its inaugural release in Q2 of this year...
Initial Patches Posted For Bringing Up The Linux Kernel On Apple Silicon M1 Hardware
Following a very active past couple of days, developers from security startup Corellium have followed through on their word so far of publishing the Apple Silicon patches to the Linux kernel mailing list for possible upstreaming in the future that allow the Linux kernel to boot with Apple M1 hardware...
Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Small Production Environments
Following the announcement at the end of last year that CentOS 8 will be ending and instead focusing on CentOS Stream as the future upstream to RHEL, there have been many concerned by the absence of CentOS 8 past this year. In trying to fill that void, Red Hat announced today they will be making Red Hat Enterprise Linux free for small production deployments...
Mesa's R600 Driver Nears Feature Complete NIR Support For Radeon HD 5000/6000 Series
For those still making use of pre-GCN AMD graphics cards supported by the R600 Gallium3D driver (namely the Radeon HD 5000/6000 series), the open-source "R600g" Gallium3D driver now has nearly feature complete NIR support...
LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 Up For Testing This Open-Source Office Suite
LibreOffice 7.1 should be released at the start of February while now the second to last release candidate is available for testing of this leading cross-platform, open-source office suite...
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