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Valve's Half-Life: Alyx Released - Linux Build Still Coming
Valve today released their Half-Life: Alyx virtual reality first-person shooter game and built atop their Source 2 engine...
NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2020.2 Adds Vulkan GPU Trace Support
NVIDIA has released a new feature update to their Nsight Graphics standalone developer tool for debugging and profiling applications/games built atop a variety of 3D APIs...
MythTV 31 Released With Video Decode Improvements, Finally Supporting Python 3
For those stuck in home isolation amid the coronavirus pandemic, MythTV 31 has been released for any open-source DVR and HTPC needs...
Qt 5.15 Beta 2 Released For This Last Big Update Before Qt 6
The second beta of the forthcoming Qt 5.15 tool-kit is now available for testing...
Jcat 0.1 Released As Alternative To Microsoft Catalog Files
Richard Hughes of Fwupd/LVFS, PackageKit, and Colord notoriety last month announced Jcat as a new open-source project he initiated to serve as an alternative to Microsoft's Catalog files proprietary format...
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. Clear Linux On The Intel Core i9 9900KS, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
While we have been seeing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS offer better performance with newer hardware platforms, how does the performance compare to Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux? Here are some benchmarks on both AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and Intel Core i9 9900KS systems.
Linux 5.7 To Improve Spreading Of Utilization, Other Scheduler Work
More improvements were queued in recent days to sched/core of CPU scheduler improvements on the table for the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel cycle...
Linux 5.6-rc7 Released - Looking Like A Calm Release
Linus Torvalds commented that while Linux 5.6-rc7 may be going through strange times, the Linux 5.6 kernel development is looking normal...
Git 2.26 Released With Transport Protocol V2 Default, Continued Work Towards SHA256 Hashes
Git 2.26 is out as the newest feature release for this distributed revision control system...
VMware Plumbing OpenGL 4.x Support For The VMWGFX Graphics Stack
VMware's VMWGFX open-source Linux graphics driver stack for interfacing with their virtualization software to offer guest VM 3D acceleration that is in turn handled by the host's drivers will soon be offering OpenGL 4.x support...
Ubuntu 18.04/19.10/20.04 vs. Debian 10/Testing Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen
While Ubuntu is based on Debian, for those wondering how the performance of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is looking not only compared to the previous 19.10 and 18.04.4 LTS releases but also Debian 10.3 stable and Debian Testing, here are some benchmark results on an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X system.
XMMS-Inspired Audacious 4.0 Released With Move From GTK To Qt5 Toolkit
For longtime Linux users who were fans of the XMMS audio player in the early 2000's, Audacious 4.0 has been released as the newest version of this XMMS-inspired audio player...
Linux 5.7 Adding Infrastructure To See Better Out-Of-The-Box Touchscreen Support
Linux 5.7 is seeing some infrastructure work to provide better out-of-the-box support for some touchscreens on Linux...
Mesa 20.1 So Far Contains Two PCI IDs So Far For Intel Xe Graphics Plus 9 Other Tiger Lake IDs
In recent days we have seen Intel refining their list of PCI IDs for the next-gen and highly anticipated "Gen12" graphics within the open-source Linux Mesa 20.1 driver stack...
KDE Developers Still Managing Interesting Improvements Amid The World Happenings
KDE development is moving full-speed ahead amid the various lock-downs and other happenings around the world stemming from the novel coronavirus. This week saw a lot of interesting improvements for the open-source desktop...
Google Engineers Have Been Working On An AMD SB-TSI Temperature Driver
Google open-source engineers have been working on a temperature driver for AMD's SoC SB-TSI emulated temperature sensor for the Linux kernel...
Former Linux Developer Hans Reiser To Remain Locked Up
Hard to believe that former Linux developer Hans Reiser was already eligible for parole, but it was denied this month. The former developer responsible for creating the once-promising ReiserFS and Reiser4 file-systems will remain locked up for at least three more years...
GNU Automake 1.16.2 Released With Zstd Support
GNU Automake 1.16.2 is out this weekend as the first update to this important piece of the GNU build system in two years. While such length of time has passed, Automake 1.16.2 is only made up of just over three dozen commits...
Linux fsinfo() System Call Continues Maturing For Exposing More File-System + Mount Info
There has been a lot of interesting work happening in the Linux storage space in recent time like IO_uring, the countless file-system innovations, and other features -- including one addition that's now up to its nineteenth revision and is for providing more VFS/file-system and mount topology information...
Facebook Planning To Ramp Up Investment In LLVM, Hire More Compiler Engineers
Facebook is looking to hire more compiler engineers as they ramp up their investment in LLVM and its sub-projects like the Clang C/C++ compiler and LLD linker...
Blender 2.82 Performance With The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Laptop Performance
For those looking to work on Blender 3D modeling from a laptop, having a NVIDIA RTX graphics processor can do wonders with the OptiX back-end for dramatically speeding up render times. Here is a look at how the different back-ends compare when running the HP ZBook 17 G6 mobile workstation with Quadro RTX 5000 graphics...
System76 May Offer AMD Ryzen Laptops When They Begin Their Own Manufacturing
System76 is preparing to begin shipping their new Lemur Pro laptop in early April. This will be their most open laptop yet albeit still based on Intel. But it looks like when they move on with their ambitious plans to begin manufacturing their own devices, we may finally see a System76 AMD-powered laptop...
Updated Basis Universal Yields High Quality Compression, 3~4x Smaller Than JPEG/PNG
For those wondering what the buzz was about earlier this month when there was word of a high quality GPU compression codec going open-source, details on that have now been revealed...
OpenGL Threading "GLTHREAD" Seeing Improvements For Mesa 20.1
Well known open-source AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák has been focusing recently on improvements to glthread for OpenGL threading that is generally able to offer better performance...
Debian Testing Is Enabling WireGuard Within Their Linux Kernel Build
Debian is the latest Linux distribution flipping on WireGuard within their kernel builds...
Even Apple Is Interested In Migrating Their C Code To Rust
Even Apple is on the bandwagon of transitioning select C code-bases of theirs over to Rust as well as expanding the code they are writing in Rust...
Google Engineer Shows "SESES" For Mitigating LVI + Side-Channel Attacks - Code Runs ~7% Original Speed
Disclosed last week was the Load Value Injection attack affecting Intel CPUs and requiring new mitigations. While the GNU Assembler mitigation options were quickly added, on the LLVM toolchain side the developers there continue evaluating the proposed LVI mitigation along with another option that looks to mitigate more than just LVI. The "SESES" proposal looks more broadly at mitigating CPU side-channel vulnerabilities but with shattering performance hits...
Proton 5.0-5 Brings Support For Newer Vulkan Extensions, Fixes Game Crashes
As another update to their Wine-based Proton 5.0 series for powering Steam Play, Valve has been readying their next update for enhancing the experience of running Windows games on Linux under Steam...
TrueNAS 12.0 CORE Supporting ZFS Async Copy-On-Write
TrueNAS 12.0 CORE, which up until the new TrueNAS / FreeNAS branding unification would have been called FreeNAS, will in its next release support ZFS async copy-on-write functionality...
Intel Cloud Hypervisor 0.6 Released With VFIO Device Hotplug, I/O Improvements
Intel's open-source team responsible for their Rust-based cloud hypervisor today issued a big feature update...
DXVK 1.6 Released With D3D9 Performance Work, Various Game Fixes
DXVK 1.6 is out in time for weekend gamers wishing to enjoy recent Windows games on Linux...
OpenJDK 14 Has Some Performance Improvements But OpenJDK 8 Still Strong
Given this week's general availability release of OpenJDK 14, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at all the major releases from OpenJDK 8 through 14 while looking at the JVM performance across multiple workloads.
Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 Released - Finally Supports SecureBoot, Home Encryption
The Linux Mint crew has released LMDE 4 "Debbie" as their hedge against anything dramatic happening to Ubuntu that would limit their ability to offer Linux Mint and for those preferring the upstream Debian base...
IWD Linux Wireless Daemon Adds Full MAC Randomization, Override Support
Intel's IWD wireless daemon for Linux systems has added full MAC randomization support as well as manual MAC override capabilities, similar to the MAC spoofing capabilities generally offered by other Linux networking components...
Intel Tiger Lake VRR Support Being Worked On For Linux, More PCI IDs Introduced
With the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel Intel Tiger Lake "Gen12" Xe graphics are considered stable as in enabled by default but that doesn't mean they are done working on features for the highly-anticipated next-gen Intel graphics...
AMD Begins Focusing On Bug Fixes For Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Code
Passing the point that new feature code is generally permitted into DRM-Next for in turn hitting the next mainline kernel merge window, AMD's open-source graphics driver developers have been turning their attention to bug fixes for all the new feature code set for Linux 5.7...
Mesa 20.1 Aiming For Release At The End Of May
This should come as little surprise to regular Phoronix readers and those that follow the Mesa release cadence, but Mesa 20.1 as the next quarterly feature release now has a release calendar putting its debut towards the end of May...
os108 9.0 Released As One Of The Few Desktop Operating Systems Based On NetBSD
The os108 project is one of the few (or only?) distributions based on NetBSD currently providing a MATE-based desktop experience atop this BSD. The os108 9.0 release is now available that re-bases against the recent NetBSD 9.0 release while continuing to provide its out-of-the-box desktop goodness...
Debian Looks To Go More Social From Microblogging To A Federated Image+Video Platform
Debian has the debian.social domain where they are looking to deploy a set of services to share content and collaborate among Debian contributors as their own federated social platform...
AMD Plumbing Linux Support For Reading The CPU's Protected Processor Identification Number (PPIN)
Going back to Ivy Bridge processors, Intel has supported "PPIN" as the Protected Processor Identification Number as a globally unique identification number set in the factory. It turns out recent AMD CPUs are also supporting PPIN and that reading their value is about to be supported on Linux...
HP ZBook 17 G6 Has The Most Impressive Mobile Workstation Performance We've Seen Yet
For those that may be working from home more frequently now and looking for a very capable laptop to serve as a mobile workstation, HP's ZBook 17 G6 is the most powerful contender we have tested to date that offers great performance potential paired with very reliable build quality and also offering easy upgrade potential.
Microsoft Announces "DirectX 12 Ultimate"
While not Linux specific news, for those interested in graphics APIs or cross-platform aspects of gaming, Microsoft today announced DirectX 12 Ultimate...
LLVM 10.0 Release Pushed Back By Another Week Over Last Minute Bugs
LLVM 10.0 along with the likes of Clang 10.0 were supposed to be out nearly one month ago but instead a fifth release candidate arrived today...
MHI: Linux 5.7 Getting A New Bus From Qualcomm
Linux 5.7 will support the MHI protocol developed by Qualcomm as part of the new kernel bus being introduced...
Linux Developers Discuss Flushing L1 Cache On Context Switches In Light Of Vulnerabilities
In light of data sampling vulnerabilities like MDS, engineers from Amazon, Google, and other organizations are discussing a proof-of-concept implementation that would optionally flush the L1 data cache on context switches...
AMD SEV-ES Guest Support Updated With More Improvements, Rebased
Back in February came patches for AMD SEV-ES "Encrypted State" support as building off the Linux kernel's existing support for Secure Encrypted Virtualization in conjunction with AMD EPYC processors. The SEV-ES enablement work has now been revised...
Mesa 20.1 Sees Big Optimizations To Its Soft FP64 Implementation
For the past year Mesa has offered a "soft" implementation of FP64 capabilities for GPUs lacking FP64 hardware capabilities in order to support ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 as required by OpenGL 4.0. Optimizations were merged today to significantly enhance the "soft FP64" capabilities of Mesa...
LLVM Lands Build System Changes To Make It Easier For Out-Of-Tree Projects To Use MLIR
Since being released by Google engineers last year and subsequently integrated into the LLVM ecosystem, the MLIR intermediate representation has quickly been gaining interest both among LLVM projects and other external users...
Firefox 76 Enabling VA-API Wayland Acceleration For All Video Codecs
With the upcoming Firefox 75 there is VA-API GPU-based video acceleration working on Wayland. While this built off FFmpeg, the initial code was limited to supporting H.264 while for Firefox 76 that is being extended...
Mesa 20.0.2 Released With The Latest Fixes, Principally Helping Intel + Radeon Graphics
Mesa 20.0.2 is out this evening as the latest stable bug-fix update for the Mesa Q1'2020 driver series...
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