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Free Software Foundation Celebrates Its 35th Birthday
The Free Software Foundation on Sunday marked thirty five years since its founding by Richard Stallman...
Easier CPU/GPU Comparisons On OpenBenchmarking.org, Other New Features
With the new OpenBenchmarking.org that's been out in public form since last month and being developed as part of the soon-to-be-released Phoronix Test Suite 10.0, here is the latest feature now enabled in making it much easier for quickly carrying out high-level processor (CPU) and graphics card (GPU) component comparisons along with other improvements...
Linux 5.9-rc8 Released To Provide An Extra Week Of Testing
While normally the Linux kernel sees its stable releases after about seven weeks worth of release candidates, today Linux 5.9-rc8 was issued in allowing an extra week of testing...
The Failed OUYA Game Console Seeing Work For Mainline Linux Kernel Support
It's been eight years already since the launch of the OUYA game console built atop Android and initially driven up by hype as a new low-cost gaming platform only to turn out to be a commercial failure. Razer bought out OUYA's software assets in 2015 and last year finally shutdown all of the console services. But if you still have the OUYA hardware it soon may start running off the mainline Linux kernel...
The Most Prominent Linux 5.9 Kernel Features From AMD RDNA 2 To Battling Nefarious Shims
The Linux 5.9 kernel could be released as soon as today but more than likely will be pushed back to next Sunday given Torvalds' comments last week and continuing to see plenty of merge requests in recent days. But in any case when Linux 5.9 does ship very soon it comes with an abundance of new features and improvements...
SHADERed 1.4.1 Released With Compute Shader Debugger
SHADERed as the open-source, cross-platform shader integrated development environment now has a compute shader debugger built-in...
Intel MAX10 BMC Hardware Monitoring With Linux 5.10
Linux 5.10 will bring a new driver for the Intel MAX10 BMC...
Linux 5.10 Will Be Able To Hibernate + Resume Much Faster
If you frequently put your system(s) through hibernation cycles, the performance should be much better beginning with the soon-to-start Linux 5.10 cycle...
EXT4 Has A Big Optimization For Linux 5.10 For File Overwrites
The EXT4 file-system with the upcoming Linux 5.10 kernel has an optimization yielding big benefits for file overwrites in some circumstances...
Intel Begins Linux Hardware Enablement Work For Meteor Lake
The first patchwork is building up for Intel's "Meteor Lake" on Linux...
Intel Discloses New CPU Instructions, Enhanced Hardware Feedback Interface (EHFI)
Intel updated their programming reference manual this week with some interesting new additions, primarily around user interrupts and the enhanced hardware feedback interface...
KDE Begins Landing "Breeze Evolution" Refresh For Default Theme
KDE developers for more than one year have been working to evolve the default Breeze theme and the work by the KDE Visual Design Group is finally paying off with the initial "Breeze Evolution" changes landing...
Apache's TVM Deep Learning Compiler Picks Up WebAssembly, Better Rust Support
The first release candidate of TVM 0.7, the Apache incubator project providing a deep learning compiler stack, is now available...
XCP-ng 8.2 LTS To Bring Rewritten UEFI, Core Scheduling To Fend Off Side Channel Attacks
XCP-ng as the open-source hypervisor built atop XenServer is preparing for its 8.2 LTS release while this week marked the availability of the first beta...
Linux Kernel Sees Initial Patches For Supporting Intel Hybrid CPUs
Intel engineers today sent out their initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the company's forthcoming hybrid architecture processors...
AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Graphics Driver Support For The "Green Sardine"
AMD has been sending out a lot of new Linux graphics driver enablement code recently for the Linux with the newest being the "Green Sardine" platform...
Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance On The Linux 5.8 Kernel
Given that Ubuntu 20.10 will be shipping with Linux 5.8 out-of-the-box along with other autumn 2020 Linux distributions where Linux 5.9 is landing too late, here is a fresh comparison of several different AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" and Intel Xeon "Cascade Lake" processors on this current stable kernel release for seeing how the performance is standing up as we approach this next round of Linux distribution releases.
Intel Prepares Linux Kernel Support For Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX)
Following the announcement this summer of Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) as an exciting feature coming to Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs next year, Intel's open-source engineers quickly began with patches to LLVM and GNU toolchain support for AMX. Now Intel engineers have sent out their patches in preparing the Linux kernel for AMX...
Mesa Developers Discuss The Possibility Of Rust Graphics Driver Code
A proposal is being discussed over the possibility of beginning to make use of the Rust programming language within Mesa 3D for this open-source OpenGL/Vulkan driver stack along with the likes of Gallium3D video acceleration...
RADV's ACO Back-End Can Be A Massive Win For Vulkan Compute - Not Just Gaming
While the Mesa "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver's "ACO" back-end was developed and funded by Valve with gaming in mind to optimize game load times and help with delivering optimal performance, it turns out ACO works damn well for some Vulkan compute workloads too...
Linux 5.10 Receiving New Driver For Chromebook "Vivaldi" Keyboards
For a while now there have been references to "Vivaldi" as a new Chromebook keyboard firmware for future devices. References in Chromium OS repositories have pointed to expanded keyboard layouts and other new features with Vivaldi. Coming with the Linux 5.10 kernel is now a new HID driver for supporting some of the differences with Vivaldi...
Steam On Linux Ticks Closer To 1.0%, AMD CPUs Now Power A Third Of Linux Gaming Systems
Valve has updated their monthly Steam Hardware/Software Survey statistics for September and they indicate the closest we've seen in a while for Steam on Linux closing back in on the 1.0% threshold...
Ubuntu 20.10 Beta Released For Testing
The Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" beta is now available for testing of Ubuntu Desktop / Cloud / Server products as well as derivatives like Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu...
OpenZFS 2.0-RC3 Released With Bug Fixes, Intel QAT Support For Newer Kernels
The third release candidate of OpenZFS 2.0 is now available for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation currently for Linux and FreeBSD platforms...
PHP 8.0 RC1 Released
The first release candidate of the big PHP 8.0 is now available for testing...
Ghostbusters - Linux 5.10 To Bring Rewritten Spectre Mitigations For 64-bit ARM
Linux 5.10 is set to bring a major rework to the Spectre mitigation handling for the 64-bit ARM architecture...
Another Kernel Optimization Being Worked On That Can Help IO_uring Performance
It's always great starting off a new month seeing new work on low-level kernel optimizations...
Dell XPS With Intel Tiger Lake + Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Goes On Sale - Benchmarks Coming
When Intel announced 11th Gen "Tiger Lake" last month it wasn't clear how long it would be until seeing systems actually appear with these new processors. Fortunately, the new Dell XPS systems with Tiger Lake and Intel EVO certification are on sale beginning today with shipping dates reported to be later this month...
Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe
Mesa's Vulkan software implementation built atop LLVMpipe was developed as Vallium (Vulkan + Gallium3D) but has been renamed to Lavapipe within Mesa 20.3...
Systemd Startup For KDE Plasma 5.21 Has Helped Uncover Bugs, Other Improvements
While Plasma 5.20 isn't shipping until later this month, already for Plasma 5.21 down the pipe is a big change and that is the optional support for systemd starting up of the Plasma session. This can lead to faster startup/load times and other improvements while even the process of bringing up the systemd support helped uncover other KDE bugs...
Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September
From new hardware releases to figuring out that Linux 5.9 performance regression to interesting open-source software advancements, September was an interesting trek with 259 original articles on the site and another 15 featured articles / multi-page Linux hardware reviews...
Intel Releases OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0
Following yesterday's release of the finalized OpenCL 3.0 specification, open-source Intel developers have released OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0...
AMDGPU Gets A Big Batch Of Fixes For Its New Driver Code Coming In Linux 5.10
In addition to the last minute AMDGPU fixes for Linux 5.9 that include work on the RDNA2 new GPU support and promoting Navi 12 out of the experimental status, an initial batch of fixes for AMDGPU were also sent in to DRM-Next on Wednesday in addressing early fallout from the new feature code slated for Linux 5.10...
Fedora 33 To Stick With systemd-resolved Following Last Minute Concerns
One of the fundamental changes with Fedora 33 is making use of systemd-resolved by default for network name resolution. A number of users testing out Fedora 33 on desktops and servers have run into various issues with systemd-resolved and sought to revert and delay this default behavioral change until a later release...
GTK 3.99.2 Released As A Step Closer To GTK4 With Fancy GLSL Shader Capabilities
GTK4 continues running behind earlier release plans, but GTK 3.99.2 is out today as another development snapshot towards the upcoming GTK 4.0 release...
Linux 5.9 Gets More Fixes For AMD RDNA2 GPUs, Promotes Navi 12
A batch of fixes to the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver were sent in today for Linux 5.9. While AMDGPU fixes this late in the kernel cycle tend to not be too notable, this time around there are some prominent items worth covering...
Benchmarking Firefox 83 Nightly With "Warp" Against Google Chrome On Linux
Following last week's news of Firefox Nightly flipping on their new JIT "Warp" update I was eager to run fresh benchmarks of the current Firefox releases compared to Google Chrome under Ubuntu Linux.
Intel Media Driver 2020.3 Released With Gen12 AV1 Decode, Other Improvements
Just in time for the end of the quarter Intel's open-source multimedia team has released the Media Driver 2020.3 package for the Intel graphics accelerated media encode/decode component on Linux platforms...
OpenCL 3.0 Specification Released With New Khronos Open-Source OpenCL SDK
Back in April was the provisional release of OpenCL 3.0 with making CL 2.x features optional while adding async DMA extensions and more. Today the finalized version of OpenCL 3.0 has been released plus also introducing an official Khronos OpenCL SDK...
Intel Sends Out Latest DG1 Linux Patches But Won't Hit Until At Least The 5.11 Kernel
The sixth spin of Intel DG1 discrete graphics card patches have now been sent out for review, amounting to just about 700 lines of new driver code due to building off the existing DG1 work and more broadly the Gen12/Xe support that's been refined in mainline for months. With these patches it would appear the Intel DG1 is then in good shape under Linux but due to the timing is unlikely to be mainlined until a stable kernel release in early 2021...
Intel Key Locker Support Added To LLVM - Confirms Presence With Tiger Lake
Last week on the GNU toolchain side was initial work on supporting Intel Key Locker while this week Key Locker support has come to LLVM...
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Moves To 455 Series For Linux
NVIDIA's Linux Vulkan beta driver build has moved from the 450 series that it's been on for a while to the current 455 branch...
NVIDIA Sends Out Latest Linux Kernel Patches For 1GB THP To Help Boost Performance
NVIDIA software engineer Zi Yan sent out on Monday his latest "1GB PUD THP" patches in aiming to boost application performance on Linux for software making use of large amounts of RAM...
Mediatek MT76 WiFi Driver Seeing Nice Improvements For Linux 5.10
For those making use of the "MT76" WiFi driver for Mediatek MT76 series wireless support, the Linux 5.10 kernel should be a nice upgrade...
Intel mOS, Torvalds Commentary, Intel Gen12 Graphics, Zen 2 "XT" CPUs Topped Q3
As we approach the end of Q3'2020 there have been 783 original news articles on Phoronix this quarter and another 40 featured reviews / multi-page articles. Here is a look back at what's been keeping readers informed during this turbulent year...
Intel Has Been Working On OpenCL C 3.0 Support For Clang
Intel's compiler experts in Moscow have been working on OpenCL C 3.0 support for the LLVM Clang compiler front-end...
Mali G72 Now Supported By Open-Source Panfrost Gallium3D Driver
The open-source Panfrost graphics driver, which is now backed/supported by Arm after starting as a reverse-engineering effort, has picked up support for the Mali G72 GPU...
Initial Fedora 32 vs. Fedora 33 Beta Benchmarks Point To Slightly Higher Performance
In addition to Fedora Workstation 33 switching to Btrfs, there are a number of key components updated in Fedora 33 as well as finally enabling link-time optimizations (LTO) for package builds that make this next Fedora Linux installment quite interesting from a performance perspective. Here are some initial benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 32 against the Fedora Workstation 33 Beta on an Intel Core i9 10900K system.
Fedora 33 Beta Released With Big Changes From LTO To Btrfs
The beta of Fedora 33 is available this morning ahead of the official release expected at the end of October for this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution...
Intel's oneAPI Is Coming To AMD Radeon GPUs
While yesterday brought the release of Intel's oneAPI 1.0 specification, the interesting news today is that oneAPI support is coming to AMD Radeon graphics cards...
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