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Updated 2025-07-01 13:15
Mesa 20.1.8 Released While Waiting For Mesa 20.2
Mesa 20.2 (or 20.2-RC5) didn't debut last week as intended, but for the interim the Mesa 20.1.x release cycle brought 20.1.8 on Wednesday and now it's been extended to having at least a ninth point release to allow more time until not only Mesa 20.2.0 to ship but Mesa 20.2.1 alignment...
GNOME 40 Aims To Have A Better Extensions Experience
Following Wednesday's release of GNOME 3.38 was the surprising news of GNOME 40 being the next version as well as a new initiative to improve GNOME extensions...
Ray-Tracing Support For AMDGPU LLVM Back-End Lands For RDNA 2
AMD previously confirmed it would be supporting real-time ray-tracing with their next-generation GPUs while now one month out from the Radeon RX 6000 series debut are the first signs of the open-source driver work around GPU ray-tracing...
Arm Is Now Backing Panfrost Gallium3D As Open-Source Mali Graphics Driver
Most information presented during the annual X.Org Developers' Conference doesn't tend to be very surprising or ushering in breaking news, but during today's XDC2020 it was subtly dropped that Arm Holdings appears to now be backing the open-source Panfrost Gallium3D driver...
Gamescope Continues Advancing As Wayland/Vulkan Compositor Backed By Valve
Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais just provided an update during XDC2020 on the Gamescope compositor work as an evolution of Valve's prior "steamcompmgr" X11 window manager used by SteamOS...
Optional L1d Flushing On Context Switching Looks Like It Will Try Again For Linux 5.10
The feature to provide opt-in flushing of the L1 data cache on each context switch looks like it will be coming with the Linux 5.10 cycle for this functionality providing security benefits but at the cost of further performance degradation...
Succeeding GNOME 3.38 Will Be "GNOME 40" - Yes, GNOME Forty
Following today's GNOME 3.38 release a new versioning scheme was announced whereby the next release in six months time will be GNOME 40.0...
GNOME 3.38 Released With Many New Features, Better Performance
GNOME 3.38 has shipped as the newest half-year update to this desktop environment and will be featured in the upcoming Ubuntu 20.10, Fedora 33, and other autumn Linux distribution updates...
After Reaching Vulkan 1.0 Conformance, V3DV Raspberry Pi Vulkan To Pursue Mainline Mesa
The V3DV driver for providing Vulkan support on the Raspberry Pi 4 is very close to Vulkan 1.0 conformance and once squaring that away along with other lingering bits they will be pursuing the upstreaming of this driver within Mesa...
X.Org Developers Conference 2020 Starts With Many Interesting Talks
XDC2020 as the annual gathering of X.Org developers was due to take place in Poland this year but the COVID-19 pandemic has caused it to be yet another conference happening exclusively online. Day 1 of XDC2020 has just begun...
LZHAM + Crunch Now Placed Under The Public Domain
Compression expert Rich Geldreich who previously worked for the likes of Valve and Unity prior to co-founding his own consulting firm has now made the Crunch and LZHAM technologies available under the public domain...
Rav1e 0.4 Alpha Released With Much Faster Performance For Rust AV1 Encoding
After over a half year working on this new version, Rav1e 0.4 is on the way but first is the alpha milestone out today...
Gentoo Offers Up New Easy Kernel Options
Gentoo Linux is looking to improve the kernel maintenance experience by offering up Ebuilds that make it easier to maintain the kernel through the package manager -- including prebuilt binary kernels...
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Linux Driver/Support Expectations
We still don't have our hands on the GeForce RTX 3080 yet and remains to be seen when we will get our hands on RTX 30 series hardware for Linux testing, but at least there's a pretty good rhythm for how the NVIDIA Linux support will play out...
AMD Radeon Navi 2 / VCN 3.0 Supports AV1 Video Decoding
It turns out the Radeon RX 6000 series will have AV1 hardware video decode capabilities...
Red Hat Has Been Working On New NVFS File-System
Yet another new file-system being worked on for the Linux/open-source world is NVFS and has been spearheaded by a Red Hat engineer...
Unvanquished Game, Assets Are Now Fully Open-Source Compliant
Unvanquished was one of the most promising open-source game projects nearly a decade ago with its "Daemon" engine but since abandoning their monthly alpha release regiment and their beta/stable releases never materializing either, it's been relatively quiet the past few years. But their developers have been persisting and today they are announcing that following a three-year cleanup the game is fully free/open-source including all assets under applicable licenses...
OpenJDK 15 Reaches GA With Garbage Collector Promotions, Tossing Out Solaris + SPARC
OpenJDK 15 is out today as the latest general availability release for this open-source Java implementation...
IBM Contributing A2O Processor Core To OpenPOWER Community
IBM announced today at the OpenPOWER Summit 2020 that they are contributing the A2O POWER processor core and Open Cognitive Environment to the OpenPOWER community...
Vulkan Present Timing Extension With Aim To Avoid Stuttering
The Vulkan System Integration working group has decided to publish their work-in-progress extension on VK_EXT_present_timing as their effort to expose the presentation engine's display details and better allow scheduling a present to happen at a specific time...
Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.4944 Brings Many Minor Optimizations
The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by their Linux OpenCL/Level-Zero compute stack as well as now being used by their Windows graphics driver and potentially their Linux OpenGL/Vulkan drivers in the future is out with a new release...
Lightworks Software Now Independent Of EditShare
For just over a decade the Lightworks high-end, cross-platform video editing software has been owned by EditShare after it was acquired from Gee Broadcast. Now though LWKS Software Ltd has been established and acquired this video editing software from EditShare...
Intel Graphics Driver Patches Revived For Per-Client Engine Activity
One of the interesting Intel Linux graphics driver patches to be sent out last year were for per-client engine reporting to allow on a per-application/process basis to see how the GPU's render/blitter/video engines were being utilized...
Fedora 34 Change To Further Compress Install Media Rejected Due To Install Time Concerns
The plans to shrink the Fedora install media by ramping up the compression settings were rejected at last week's Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee meeting...
Linux 5.9 Dropping Soft Scrollback Support From FB + VGA Console Code
Linus Torvalds has decided to do away with the "soft scrollback" functionality found in the FBCON and VGACON kernel code as a sign of the times...
AMD Shows First Glimpse Of Radeon RX 6000 Series Graphics Card
Ahead of the RDNA 2 / Navi 2 reveal on October 28, AMD has shown off the first official render of a Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card...
GNOME DMA-BUF Screencasting Now Limited To Intel Drivers Due To Bugs Elsewhere
Prior to tagging Mutter 3.38 for this week's GNOME 3.38 desktop release there was a last-minute change around the DMA-BUF screencasting feature...
"Microsoft Wants To Create A Complete Virtualization Stack With Linux"
Microsoft engineers are sending out new kernel patches in looking to expand the Linux support around the Microsoft Hypervisor (Hyper-V)...
Radeon GPU Profiler 1.8 Released With Redesigned Developer Panel
AMD today released a new version of their Radeon GPU Profiler utility for Linux and Windows systems for profiling games/applications on Radeon graphics hardware under both Linux and Windows...
Mesa 20.3 + Linux 5.9 Is In Great Shape Against AMDVLK, AMDGPU-PRO
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" with its ACO back-end by default is now winning nearly across the board against not only AMD's AMDVLK Vulkan driver with LLVM back-end but also AMDGPU-PRO with the proprietary shader compiler back-end.
Linux 5.10 To Bring Some Improvements For Newer Lenovo Laptops
With Lenovo working to expand their Linux line-up and already Fedora being offered on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8, more Linux support improvements are on the way...
AMDVLK 2020.Q3.5 Vulkan Driver Released With Several Game Fixes
AMD has kicked off the new week with the release of AMDVLK 2020.Q3.5 as their official open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems derived in part from the same sources as their Windows Vulkan driver...
FuryBSD 2020-Q3 Released For This Xfce/KDE FreeBSD Desktop Distribution
FuryBSD 2020-Q3 is out as the newest quarterly feature release to this BSD distribution built atop FreeBSD and focused on providing a pleasant desktop experience and one that can function as a LiveDVD for trying out the desktop BSD without installation...
Qbs 1.17 Released With This Build System Still Alive
Back in late 2018 there was the decision by The Qt Company to deprecate Qbs in favor of CMake. The Qbs build system hasn't been actively worked on by The Qt Company in one year but some community members have been still hacking on it leading to today's Qbs 1.17 release...
Linux 5.9-rc5 Looks Fairly Normal Aside From Wildfires + Performance Regression
Linus Torvalds announced Linux 5.9-rc5 this evening as the newest weekly test release of the forthcoming Linux 5.9 kernel gearing up for a stable release in October...
NVIDIA Announces $40 Billion Deal To Acquire Arm
The recent rumors panned out and NVIDIA just announced they have reached a definitive deal with SoftBank to acquire Arm...
The Latest On The Linux 5.9 Kernel Regression Stemming From Page Lock Fairness
Last week we reported on a Linux 5.9 kernel regression following benchmarks from Linux 5.0 to 5.9 and there being a sharp drop with the latest development kernel. That kernel regression was bisected to code introduced by Linus Torvalds at the start of the Linux 5.9 kernel cycle. Unfortunately it's not a trivial problem and one still being analyzed in coming up with a proper solution. So the short story is it's a work-in-progress while this article has some additional insight and benchmarks done over the course of the past few days.
Mark Shuttleworth Now Plans To Restore Ubuntu's Community Council
Back on Friday there was Mark Shuttleworth's comments following some friction within the Ubuntu community and uncertainty over roles. After thinking about it over the weekend, he has decided to go ahead and work to reinstate the Ubuntu Community Council...
Habana Labs' Gaudi NIC Support Being Worked On For Linux Kernel
Intel-owned AI startup Habana Labs is working on expanding their "Gaudi" support to now include the NIC network interface found on this AI training accelerator hardware...
Erlang Is Seeing Work On "BeamAsm" - A JIT Compiler Yielding Much Performance Uplift
Lukas Larsson of Erlang Solutions is proposing "BeamAsm" as a JIT compiler for the Erlang virtual machine...
Xfce 4.16pre1 Released As The First Step Towards This Next Desktop Update
Following the very delayed Xfce 4.14, the Xfce 4.16 release is progressing with plans for releasing this year. Xfce 4.16pre1 was released at the end of August while it was the release announcement that was delayed for this lightweight desktop environment update...
Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 Milestone 2 Now Available For Testing
The second development release of the forthcoming Phoronix Test Suite 10.0-Finnsnes is now available for testing...
GNOME 3.38 RC2 Released With Last Minute Changes
GNOME 3.38 is due for release next week while the second and final release candidate is now available as one last chance for testing...
NVIDIA Reportedly Near Deal To Buy Arm For $40+ Billion Dollars
Breaking this weekend is word that NVIDIA and Arm are reportedly close to a deal in which the graphics giant would be acquiring the UK-based chip designer from SoftBank in a deal worth $40 billion USD or more...
FreeBSD 12.2 Beta Available For Testing
While FreeBSD 13 is aiming for release around March of 2021, FreeBSD 12.2 is on the way for releasing next month as the next stable installment...
AOMP 11.9 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs
AOMP 11.9 was released on Friday as AMD's LLVM-based compiler with Clang for C/C++ and Flang for Fortran in offloading capable OpenMP code to Radeon GPUs...
Wasmer 1.0 Is Approaching For Running WebAssembly Anywhere
The Wasmer 1.0 alpha release is now available for running WebAssembly programs anywhere. Wasmer is about providing a universal runtime for WebAssembly (WASM) that can run across platforms / operating systems and also embed into other programming languages. Wasmer leverages WebAssembly principles to provide safety around untrusted code on top of its other design features...
KDE Frameworks 5.74 Released With Faster KTextEditor, Many Improvements
KDE Frameworks 5.74 is out as the latest monthly update to this collection of KDE libraries complementing the Qt5 tool-kit...
Wine-Staging 5.17 Adds More Patches For Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
Rebased atop yesterday's Wine 5.17 upstream release, the experimental/testing blend of Wine is out with a new update that comes in at just under 650 patches compared to the official Wine code-base...
KDE Launches Developer Platform Website, Other Progress During Akademy
Akademy 2020 took place virtually this week as the annual gathering of KDE developers...
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