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Updated 2025-09-14 10:30
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...
Wine 6.6 Released With Better Plug & Play Driver Support
Wine 6.6 is out as the open-source project's first release of April for running Windows games and applications primarily on Linux and macOS platforms. With Wine 6.6 comes more feature work that will ultimately be incorporated into the Wine 7.0 release due out in early 2022...
X.Org Server Git Lands Support For Hardware-Accelerated XWayland With NVIDIA
The NVIDIA-led work to allow XWayland OpenGL and Vulkan acceleration with their proprietary driver has just been merged into X.Org Server Git...
AMD EPYC 7003 Series Working Out Well With The Supermicro H12SSL-i
Following last month's launch of the AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" series prominent motherboard vendors have been fairly quick to enable Milan support for capable motherboards originally launched for the prior EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors. For those in the market for a 1P ATX motherboard that will work with these exciting new server processors, the Supermicro H12SSL-i is a nice entry-level motherboard that gets the job done and with its BIOS v2.0 release is working well for the new Zen 3 server CPUs.
Fedora 34 Adding SEVCTL Utility For Managing AMD SEV
The upcoming release of Fedora 34 will make it the first major Linux distribution to have sevctl available, an open-source utility for managing AMD EPYC systems with Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV)...
HPVM 1.0 Released As LLVM-Based Compiler For CPUs / GPUs / FPGAs / Accelerators
The latest open-source compiler infrastructure effort seeking to target a wide spectrum of devices from CPUs through GPUs, FPGAs, and accelerators is HPVM. The HPVM project today celebrated its 1.0 milestone...
FFmpeg 4.4 Released With AV1 VA-API Decoder, SVT-AV1 Encoding
FFmpeg 4.4 is out today as a large update to this widely-used multimedia library and with it comes many new features including new demuxers, AV1 support improvements, and other enhancements...
Linux 5.13 Poised To Allow Randomizing Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call
The ability to randomize the kernel stack offset at each system call looks like it will land for the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle. This optional feature makes it much more difficult to carry out stack-based attacks on the Linux kernel...
AMD ROCm 4.1.1 Released To Clarify Some HIP Bits
Toward the end of March was the AMD ROCm 4.1 release with a few new features. Released today is ROCm 4.1.1 with seemingly no real code changes but just to clarify two items around ROCm's HIP...
Google's VirtIO-GPU "Venus" Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.1
It was just a few days ago was the talking of the VirtIO-GPU Vulkan driver looking to be upstreamed into Mesa and now this Google "Venus" project has indeed landed...
Google's VirtIO-GPU "Venus" Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mes 21.1
It was just a few days ago was the talking of the VirtIO-GPU Vulkan driver looking to be upstreamed into Mesa and now this Google "Venus" project has indeed landed...
Initial Apple M1 SoC Support Aims For Linux 5.13 Kernel
While the independent effort to get the Apple M1 ARM-based SoC working under Linux has just been happening for a few months, with the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle the very preliminary support for Apple's M1 and initial M1-powered devices looks to land...
Xen 4.15 Hypervisor Brings Live Updates To Xenstored
Out today is version 4.15 of the open-source Xen hypervisor. The focus of Xen 4.15 is on "broader accessibility, performance and security" with a number of noteworthy additions...
GnuPG 2.3 Released With New Experimental Key Database Daemon, TPM 2.0 Daemon
Werner Koch announced the availability today of GnuPG 2.3 as the start of the (fairly stable, effectively production ready) test releases leading up to the GnuPG 2.4 stable update...
GCC 10.3 Compiler Released With AMD Zen 3 Tuning Backported, Nearly 200 Bug Fixes
GCC 10.3 is out today as the latest stable release of the GNU Compiler Collection, weeks ahead of the GCC 11.1 feature release as the first stable version of GCC 11...
AMD Finally Flipping On ASPM For Navi 1x To Lower Power Consumption
AMD engineers have a patch pending to improve the idle power consumption for Radeon RX 5000 "Navi 1x" GPUs on Linux...
Fedora 35 Looking To Make Use Of Debuginfod By Default
Red Hat engineers spearheaded the work on Debuginfod for being able to fetch debuginfo/sources from centralized servers for a project to cut-down on manually having to install the relevant debug packages manually on a system as well as that occupying extra disk space and just being a hassle. The Fedora project is now getting their Debuginfod server off the ground and for Fedora Linux 35 are planning to make use of it by default...
XScreenSaver 6.0 Released With Increased Security, Better EGL & GLSL/GLES 3.0 Support
XScreenSaver as the open-source screensaver solution for Linux as well as macOS systems this last week reached version 6.0. With XScreenSaver 6.0 comes increased security and other enhancements...
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