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FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues
The FreeBSD project has published their Q3-2020 report on the state of this leading BSD operating system...
Linux 5.10 Hardens Against Possible DMA Attacks By External PCIe Devices
The PCI changes were submitted on Wednesday for the Linux 5.10 kernel...
Phoronix Test Suite 10.0.1 Released
Following last week's big Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 and the new OpenBenchmarking.org, a small update is out this week to address some initial hiccups...
AMD Linux Driver Preparing For A Navi "Blockchain" Graphics Card
While all eyes are on the AMD Radeon RX 6000 "Big Navi" graphics cards set to be announced next week, it also looks like AMD is preparing for a Navi 1x "Blockchain" graphics card offering given the latest work in their open-source Linux driver...
Linux Developers Discussing Possible Kernel Driver For Intel CPU Undervolting
While the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) on Windows allows for undervolting laptop processors, currently on Linux there isn't any Intel-endorsed way for undervolting your CPU should you be interested in better thermal/power efficiency and other factors. But a hypothetical Linux kernel driver could be coming for filling such void...
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 20.10 Performance With Intel Tiger Lake, AMD Renoir
Stemming from our initial Intel Core i7 1165G7 "Tiger Lake" benchmarks on the Dell XPS 13 9310 last week and then also discovering better single-threaded performance on Ubuntu 20.10, one of the pressing questions was whether this is expected performance on Linux or if it's coming up short of Microsoft Windows for this first tier-one notebook to market with Intel Tiger Lake. So following those earlier tests I proceeded to do a Windows 10 Pro with all available updates comparison on Ubuntu 20.10 with the i7-1165G7. For added context, the same software stack and tests were repeated on an AMD Ryzen "Renoir" notebook.
Intel Begins Adding Alder Lake Graphics Support To Their Linux Driver
Intel has begun adding support for Alderlake-S to their open-source Linux kernel graphics driver...
Facebook Is Looking To Upstream Their BOLT Binary Performance Optimizer Into LLVM
Facebook's BOLT is a multi-year project focused on speeding up the performance of binaries. This open-source project initially focused on being able to better optimize Linux x86_64/ARM64 ELF binaries as a post-link optimizer. BOLT has been seeing much success with even Google using it now for better performance and now there is work to upstream it as part of the LLVM project...
TrueNAS 12 Released As The Marriage Of FreeNAS + TrueNAS
OpenBSD 6.8, NetBSD 9.1, and now TrueNAS 12.0 is out... It seems to be BSD release week!..
Nouveau + LLVMpipe Drivers Enable OpenCL Image Support
The interesting work continues pouring in for Mesa 20.3 as the Q4'2020 feature release to this open-source graphics stack... The latest excitement is on the "Clover" front for Gallium3D OpenCL...
Intel OpenGL/Vulkan Linux Drivers Strike Another Optimization For Tiger Lake
It was just on Monday that Intel's talented open-source developers merged a hefty Tiger Lake graphics optimization into the Mesa 20.3 code that for some games/software can be around ~11% faster thanks to greater caching. Just a day later another optimization has arrived for helping these latest-generation Intel graphics...
NVIDIA Ships Vulkan Driver Beta With Fragment Shading Rate Control
This week's Vulkan 1.2.158 spec release brought the fragment shading rate extension to control the rate at which fragments are shaded on a per-draw, per-primitive, or per-region basis. This can be useful similar to OpenGL and Direct3D support for helping to allow different, less important areas of the screen be shaded less than areas requiring greater detail/focus...
Radeon Linux Driver Seeing "MALL" Feature For Big Navi
The AMDGPU open-source Linux kernel graphics driver continues seeing work on next-generation GPU support around the forthcoming "Big Navi" GPUs...
A Quick Look At Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. 20.10 With The Core i9 10900K
With Ubuntu 20.10 due for release this week I have begun testing near-final Ubuntu 20.10 builds on many more systems in the lab. Larger than our normal distribution/OS comparisons, here is the culmination of running hundreds of benchmarks (366 tests to be exact) under both Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with all available updates and then again on the Ubuntu 20.10 development state while testing on Intel Comet Lake.
NIR-To-TGSI Support Added To Mesa 20.3
Mesa 20.3 has merged a long work-in-progress patch series providing support for going from the modern NIR intermediate representation to TGSI as the conventional Gallium3D IR...
NetBSD 9.1 Released With Parallelized Disk Encryption, Better ZFS, X11 Improvements
Not only is there a new OpenBSD release this week but the NetBSD crew also issued a big update in the form of NetBSD 9.1...
The Document Foundation Is Looking To Finish ODF 1.3 Support In LibreOffice
The ODF 1.3 Open Document Format specification was approved by the OASIS Committee at the start of the year and now as we approach the end of the year The Document Foundation is hoping to see ODF 1.3 support completed soon for this leading open-source office suite...
System76 Launches The Thelio Mega With Threadripper + Four GPUs
The System76 Thelio Major with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3900 series is already a beast, but now this Linux PC vendor has managed to outdo themselves once again with the Thelio Mega...
Firefox 82 Released With Performance Improvements, Video Playback Enhancements
Firefox 82.0 is now available as the latest release of Mozilla's web browser that continues on their expedited release cycles...
Linux 5.10 Xen Brings Security Updates - Includes Fixing ARM Guests With KPTI
The Xen virtualization work for the Linux 5.10 kernel revolves around security...
AMDVLK 2020.Q4.1 Released With Various Game Fixes
AMD has issued their first open-source Vulkan driver code drop of the quarter with AMDVLK 2020.Q4.1...
XFS Lands More Code For Linux 5.10 - "Even More Monumental"
Last week saw the XFS file-system with Linux 5.10 support timestamps until the year 2486 rather than year 2038 and other improvements too. This week a second round of XFS work has landed for Linux 5.10...
Qt 6.0 Beta Released For This Big Toolkit Update
It was just two weeks ago that the Qt 6.0 Alpha released, but in aiming to get the release back on schedule, the beta is already shipping today...
FreeType 2.10.4 Rushed Out As Emergency Security Release
The FreeType text rendering library is out with version 2.10.4 today as an important security update...
Initial Support For Booting RISC-V Hardware Via EFI Sent In For Linux 5.10
The RISC-V architecture code with Linux 5.10 adds the ability for booting via (U)EFI...
Intel Lands A Hefty Tiger Lake Graphics Optimization
From my Tiger Lake testing so far with the Core i7 1165G7, the "Gen12" Xe Graphics have been quite compelling with a very nice upgrade over Gen11 and especially obvious win over the very common still Gen9 graphics. With Mesa 20.3, another measurable performance is on the way for the Intel Vulkan driver with Tiger Lake...
OpenZFS 2.0-RC4 Released With More Fixes, Linux 5.9 Support
The fourth release candidate of OpenZFS 2.0 is now available for testing of this open-source ZFS file-system implementation currently for Linux and FreeBSD platforms...
Trisquel 9.0 Released - Powered By The Linux 4.15 Kernel
Trisquel 9.0 has been released as one of the few Linux distributions approved by the Free Software Foundation...
Linux 5.10 FUSE To Allow Faster Performance With VirtIO-FS
The FUSE implementation for supporting file-systems in user-space is seeing important kernel work merged for Linux 5.10...
Git 2.29 Released With Experimental Support For Using More Secure SHA-256
Git 2.29 is now available with experimental support for using SHA-256 to increase security of code repositories over the possibility of intentional SHA-1 collisions with the current indices...
Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver Is Seeing Work To Allow Building It On Windows
An independent party has slowly begun merging patches into mainline Mesa for allowing the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" to build on Microsoft Windows...
Further Exploring The Intel Tiger Lake Core i7-1165G7 Performance On Ubuntu Linux
Last week I published initial benchmarks of the Intel Core i7 1165G7 "Tiger Lake" performance on Linux with the Dell XPS 13 9310 Developer Edition laptop. Of most surprise from those preliminary Linux figures were finding that for some single-threaded workloads the performance was actually worse than the previous generation Ice Lake. Since then I've been running more tests around the clock with some interesting discoveries to note today. It is possible to enhance the single-threaded performance so it's performing better than Ice Lake as would be expected, but comes with lowering the multi-threaded performance compared to the results shared last week.
Vulkan 1.2.158 Released With Fragment Shading Rate Extension
Vulkan 1.2.158 was released this morning with two notable extensions introduced...
Linux 5.9-ck1 Released With Updated MuQSS
Independent Linux kernel developer Con Kolivas (and retired anaesthetist) is back on track with a new update to his "CK" patch-set and the MuQSS scheduler...
GCC's Ada Frontend Seeing More Work On NVIDIA CUDA Support
Should you want to use the Ada programming language for GPU programming, the GCC compiler has been working on CUDA support within its front-end for this safety and security minded language...
Char/Misc With Linux 5.10 Brings Nitro Enclaves, Alder Lake, More Code For Gaudi
The "char/misc" area within the Linux kernel continues to have a bit of everything as the "catch all" pull request of the kernel not fitting into other existing subsystems...
Linux 5.10 Continues Bringing Up Support For Intel's Rocket Lake
Building off Linux 5.9 that featured initial support for Gen12 graphics on next year's Rocket Lake desktop platform along with other early enablement for Rocket Lake like RAPL support and other PCI ID additions, that work has continued for the Linux 5.10 cycle...
AMD Sends Out Patches Adding "Znver3" Support To GNU Binutils With New Instructions
One of AMD's compiler experts this week sent out a patch wiring up Zen 3 support in the important GNU Binutils collection for Linux systems...
OpenBSD Marks 25th Anniversary By Releasing OpenBSD 6.8 With POWER 64-Bit Support
It was in October 1995 that Theo de Raadt began the OpenBSD project as a fork of NetBSD 1.0 following his resignation from the NetBSD core development team. Now twenty-five years later OpenBSD 6.8 has been released for marking the 25th anniversary of this popular BSD distribution...
Linux 5.10 Staging Area Has The Usual Smorgasbord Of Changes
The Linux 5.10 kernel "staging" changes have the usual assortment of changes throughout this area where premature kernel code goes prior to proving itself and meeting kernel coding quality standards...
Linux 5.10 Continues Maturing The USB4 Support
Earlier this year Linux 5.6 brought initial USB4 support by leveraging Intel's existing Thunderbolt kernel support for which the updated USB specification is based. Succeeding kernels have continued maturing this USB4 implementation and that has continued with Linux 5.10...
Linux 5.10 To Play Nicely With The Matias Wireless Aluminum Keyboard
The Matias Wireless Aluminum Keyboard is an Apple-esque keyboard that will be working nicely on Linux 5.10 when it comes to its extra functionality...
Linux 5.9.1 + 6 Other Stable Kernels Out For Addressing "Bleeding Tooth" Vulnerability
One week past the Linux 5.9 official debut, Linux 5.9.1 is now available. Making this initial point release a bit more noteworthy is including the fixes for the "Bleeding Tooth" Bluetooth vulnerability made public this week...
New NTFS Linux Driver Spun A Ninth Time, Still Under Review
Back in August was the surprise that Paragon Software is looking to mainline their NTFS read-write driver in the mainline Linux kernel after years of offering it as a commercial driver for those needing reliable support for this Microsoft file-system on Linux. Two months later they are now up to their ninth revision of this driver in their pursuit of mainline inclusion...
Ingenic X2000/X2000E MIPS IoT Processor Supported By Linux 5.10
The Linux 5.10 kernel is bringing support for new MIPS-based Ingenic SoCs...
OpenBLAS 0.3.11 Brings Many Changes From Zen 3 To POWER10 Support
OpenBLAS 0.3.11 is out as the newest major feature release for this BLAS linear algebra library. While the version number may not make it seem like a big update, it is especially when it comes to new CPU support...
NVIDIA Doesn't Expect To Have Linux 5.9 Driver Support For Another Month
While NVIDIA is usually quite timely in supporting new versions of the Linux kernel and aim to have out a driver by the end of the release candidates for new series, in the case of the recently minted Linux 5.9 kernel it's taking a lot longer...
More KDE Wayland Fixes Heading Into Plasma 5.20.1
This week marked the release of Plasma 5.20 while KDE developers continue working towards not only Plasma 5.21 as the next desktop feature release but also providing fixes for next month's Plasma 5.20.1 release and the growing collection of KDE applications...
Zink In Mesa 20.3 Now Hits OpenGL 3.3, Can Run Blender With This OpenGL-on-Vulkan
For weeks there have been patches getting the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation to OpenGL 4.6 while mainline Mesa has been at OpenGL 3.0 support. Thankfully the out-of-tree patch delta is being reduced and this week in Mesa 20.3-devel the code has been upstreamed getting the support level to OpenGL 3.3...
PowerPC 601 Support Retired In Linux 5.10 While Continuing To Bring Up POWER10
The POWER architecture changes have been submitted for the Linux 5.10 kernel. As expected, the PowerPC 601 support is retired as that original 32-bit PowerPC processor from the early 90's...
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