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Firefox 84 Beta Begins Enabling WebRender By Default On Linux
With Firefox 83 released, like clock-work Mozilla has released the beta of Firefox 84...
AMD Lands AV1 Decode For Radeon RX 6000 Series In Mesa
One day ahead of the Radeon RX 6800 / RX 6800 XT, AMD has merged support for AV1 decode support on these RDNA2 GPUs into Mesa...
Chrome 87 Released With More Performance Improvements
In addition to the release of Firefox 83 today (along with word Servo is moving to the Linux Foundation), over in Google land they have shipped Chrome 87...
GNOME Foundation Planning For More Initiatives In 2021
In soliciting for year-end donations, the GNOME Foundation shares some of how they plan to use generated funds over the next years...
Mozilla Punts Servo Web Engine Development To The Linux Foundation
Ever since the mass layoffs at Mozilla earlier this year and some Mozilla projects in jeopardy many have been wondering: what about Servo? Well, today it's heading off to the Linux Foundation...
Firefox 83 Released With Warp'ed JavaScript, HTTPS-Only Mode Option
Firefox 83.0 is now shipping as a notable update to the Mozilla web browser and this time around are some exciting changes...
Intel Tidies Up CET While Waiting For It To Land In The Linux Kernel
Intel's SGX enclaves support patches for the Linux kernel have been through 40+ rounds of review at this point over the past many months as they try to get this security feature into the mainline Linux kernel. But SGX isn't the only Intel security feature that's been having a long process for mainlining: Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) is in a similar boat...
More Intel Tiger Lake Fixes Heading Into Linux 5.11, eLLC Caching For Display Buffers
Another round of Intel graphics driver changes were submitted last week to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 5.11 merge window...
AMDVLK 2020.Q4.4 Released
AMDVLK 2020.Q4.4 is out this morning as the newest source snapshot of this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver...
Linux's Stateless H.264 Decode Interface Ready To Be Deemed Stable
The Linux kernel's stateless video decoder interface is used for video decoding where no state needs to be kept between processed video frames and allows for independently decoding each video frame. The H.264 stateless decode interface for the Linux kernel has been in the works for a few years and is now deemed ready and stable for dealing with modern stateless codecs...
A Bit Late: Linux PCH Temperature Support Mistakenly Missing From The Intel C620 Series
While Intel is normally very punctual with their Linux hardware support and ensure that the full capabilities of the hardware are exposed under Linux, especially when it comes to server and workstation hardware, occasionally oversights are made...
More OpenCL 3.0 Bits Merged For Mesa 20.1
It's still short of the full OpenCL 3.0 implementation, but more of the CL 3.0 enablement patches for Gallium3D's "Clover" OpenCL state tracker have now been merged into Mesa 20.1-devel..
GCC 11 Ends Feature Development While Still Waiting For AMD Znver3 Support
As was expected, formal feature development is now over for GCC 11 and it's time for bug fixing...
AMD Launches Arcturus As The Instinct MI100, Radeon ROCm 4.0
AMD is marking the SC20 virtual conference this week by launching the AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator, which is based on their CDNA architecture. Also notable and coinciding with the MI100 launch is the Radeon Open eCosystem 4.0 (ROCm 4.0) Linux release.
We Have Been Testing The Radeon RX 6800 Series On Linux
But can't tell you yet how it performs.....
GNOME Work Moving Ahead On Deep Color Support, Triple Buffering
It's been a while since having any major break-through changes to talk about for GNOME contributed by Canonical's prolific developer Daniel Van Vugt, but he's been at the grind making progress on some big ticket items...
AMD Zen1/Zen2/Zen3 PowerCap RAPL Support Queued For Linux 5.11
The work reported on back in October for RAPL PowerCap patches for AMD Zen CPUs from Zen 1 through Zen 3 are set to arrive with Linux 5.11 in early 2021...
Linux Might Wipe Out The Notorious Intel Poulsbo/Moorestown 2D Acceleration
Longtime Linux users still likely cringe when hearing "Poulsbo" as Intel's first-generation Atom processors that featured "GMA 500" graphics that were based on Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX IP. The Linux driver support was just awful and now as we prepare for 2021 the Intel Linux kernel driver might just drop its 2D acceleration support for Poulsbo and the short-lived Moorestown platform...
Linux 5.10-rc4 Released But The Kernel Hasn't Calmed Down Yet
Traditionally we should be past the half-way point of the release cycle at the fourth weekly release candidate, but with today's RC4 release of Linux 5.10 the activity hasn't calmed down at all...
Google Is Already Experimenting With WebP2 As Successor To WebP Image Format
Google engineers are already working on WebP2 as the next-generation version of their still image file format...
Tiger Lake H Thunderbolt Support Comes To Linux 5.10
Coming as a late addition to the Linux 5.10 kernel is Thunderbolt support for Tiger Lake H...
KDE Plasma Mobile On Track To End 2020 With Quite A Polished Linux Mobile Experience
KDE Plasma Mobile continues working its way into increasing polished form and with deployments on the likes of the PinePhone have shown it can be quite a capable open-source mobile Linux contender...
Desktop BSDs: NetBSD-Based os108 9.1 + MidnightBSD 2.0 Released
For those looking to experiment with some BSD desktop operating systems this weekend, FreeBSD-based MidnightBSD 2.0 is out along with NetBSD-based os108 9.1...
LuxCoreRender 2.5 Beta Open-Source Renderer Brings NVIDIA OptiX Support
The open-source, cross-platform LuxCoreRender physically based renderer is closing in on its version 2.5 release and most noticeable is supporting NVIDIA's OptiX library for faster acceleration on NVIDIA RTX GPUs...
A Specification Is Being Discussed For Passing Firmware/Bootloader Logs To The OS
Stemming from a GRUB bootloader inquiry and discussion that started over one year ago, a new specification is being proposed for possible adoption by the Linux kernel in being able to pass bootloader or system firmware logs to the operating system kernel for in turn exposing them to user-space...
Fedora's Qt-Based Media Writer Seeing Improvements
Fedora Media Writer is the project's cross-platform utility for deploying Fedora install images to USB drives in an easy-to-user manner and for selecting from the various Fedora spins. One of Red Hat's engineers has recently been working on some modernization improvements to this Fedora image writer...
Linux App Summit 2020 Videos Now Available From Steam/Valve To GNOME Circle
The 2020 Linux App Summit just concluded as a conference focused on the Linux user-space/applications. Given the pandemic, it was a virtual conference and the video recordings are now available...
Building A Large L-Shaped Desk For Accommodating Plenty Of Computers
Four years ago I chronicled building a massive L-shaped desk for a better workflow, more monitors and space. For those that may be wanting to procure a new computer desk if you are working from home or eyeing L-shaped desk options, here is a new build I recently finished up as an improvement over my original design
LLVM Has Fleshed Out Its Plan For Replacing "Master" With "Main"
Back during the summer LLVM developers began devising plans for a new default branch name in Git for fostering the development of the open-source compiler stack. Like a growing number of open-source software projects, they have been working to move away from Git's current default of "master" as the main development branch. Beginning next month, that should now be a reality...
KDE Sees A Number Of Fixes To Dolphin, Plasma On Wayland
It's been another busy week of bug fixing in the KDE space along with other feature work, including on the Plasma Wayland front...
Intel Preparing Linux Support For The "Protected Xe Path" PXP Functionality
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers have begun preparing support for a new feature previously not talked about publicly: Intel PXP or the "Protected Xe Path"...
OpenMP 5.1 Released With Better Interoperability For CUDA / AMD HIP / OpenCL
For the Supercomputing SC20 week there is the release of the OpenMP 5.1 specification with some exciting additions...
Mesa 21.0 Adds EGL_EXT_platform_xcb Support
The newly-opened Mesa 21.0 development window has merged support for EGL_EXT_platform_xcb...
Proton 5.13-2 Released With A Variety Of Game Fixes, VKD3D-Proton 2.0
In time for the weekend Linux gamers is an updated Proton release from Valve and CodeWeavers for powering Steam Play to enjoy the latest Windows games on Linux...
Mageia 8 Linux OS Is Inching Closer To Release
"The road to get Mageia 8 is winding, slow but steady," begins the project's latest status update...
SpiderMonkey's Warp Upgrade Is Ready For Firefox 83
Back in September Firefox Nightly enabled the JavaScript "Warp" code for SpiderMonkey and now for next week's Firefox 83.0 release it is remaining on by default for this web browser update...
Many More AMD Ryzen 5000 Series "Zen 3" Linux Benchmarks
Over the past week we have published our Linux performance reviews of the Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, and Ryzen 9 5900X + 5950X "Zen 3" processors. For as much data that has been available in those reviews, here is even more data accumulating thanks to the open-source Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org. Thousands of data points are building up for these very exciting AMD Zen 3 desktop processors...
Oracle Linux 8 U3 Released With Better NVDIMM Support, Latest RHEL8 Work
Oracle has released Oracle Linux 8 Update 3 as the newest version of their RHEL8-based operating system...
Linux VirtIO Memory Prepares For "Big Block Mode"
Red Hat engineers are working on a "big block mode" for the VirtIO-MEM code and could land for the Linux 5.11 cycle...
Mesa 21.0 RadeonSI Merges Buffer Modifier Support
The long-standing patches by Bas Nieuwenhuizen on implementing DMA-BUF modifier support for the RadeonSI code within Mesa has now been merged for next quarter's Mesa 21.0 feature release...
New i10 I/O Scheduler Proposed For Linux To Optimize Batching
A new Linux I/O scheduler has been proposed that is optimized for batching such as for MMC and TCP-based/remote storage...
Linux 5.10 Adds Intel Alder Lake DPTF Support - Still A Thorn For Open-Source
A late notable change for the Linux 5.10 kernel that was merged today as a "fix" is DPTF support for Intel Alder Lake hardware...
OpenZFS 2.0-RC6 Released With More Fixes For ZFS On Linux / FreeBSD
Just one week after OpenZFS 2.0-RC5, a sixth release candidate is now available for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation currently geared for Linux and FreeBSD systems...
Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R6U1 Prepares For AMD Milan, Adds WireGuard
After announcing Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 back in March as their modified kernel based currently on the Linux 5.4 source tree while adding and back-porting extra features, UEK R6U1 was released today as their first major update to this kernel that can be found on the likes of Oracle Linux and powering the Oracle Cloud...
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Linux Performance
Over the past week we have looked at the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X/5950X Linux performance as well as that of the lower-end -- but still very powerful -- Ryzen 5 5600X. Today we are striking in the middle in looking at the last Zen 3 CPU model for the moment: the Ryzen 7 5800X. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is a $449 USD processor that is packing eight cores / sixteen threads, a 3.8GHz base clock. 4.7GHz boost clock, 32MB L3 cache, and has a 105 Watt TDP.
Debian 11 Picks Its Default Theme
For those wondering the outcome of last month's Debian 11 "Bullseye" artwork voting, a new default theme for this 2021 GNU/Linux distribution release has been decided...
TTM Multihop + Intel Keem Bay Display Support Queued For Linux 5.11
The Translation Table Maps (TTM) video memory management code used within the Linux kernel by DRM drivers such as Nouveau and Radeon/AMDGPU is seeing some improvements with the forthcoming Linux 5.11 kernel cycle...
systemd 247-RC2 Released With Experimental OOMD, Various Fixes
Following last month's systemd 247-RC1 release that was headlined by the systemd-oomd service being merged for better low memory / out-of-memory handling and many other changes, a second release candidate is now available...
Fedora Developers Discuss The Idea Of "Lightly Maintained" Packages
Fedora stakeholders and the folks at Red Hat have been discussing the idea of having a "lightly maintained" package repository (or some RPM metadata otherwise to indicate such light maintenance) for packages that are either very new, not receiving much packaging attention, or simply used as a build dependency for other packages...
PAPPL 1.0 Beta Released For Ultimately Replacing CUPS Printer Driver
PAPPL as the printer application framework created by the CUPS founder is approaching the v1.0 release...
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