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Linux 5.8 Networking Changes Include Introducing Cable Testing Infrastructure
David Miller on Tuesday sent in all of the networking subsystem updates for the Linux 5.8 kernel and there is a lot in store...
The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U / Ryzen 7 4700U Against Intel With 141 Benchmarks
Following the initial benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U performance a few days ago, here is another more exhaustive look at the performance of this six-core Zen 2 mobile processor as well as that of the eight core Ryzen 7 4700U and several competing Intel CPUs in 140+ benchmarks.
GNU Linux-Libre 5.7 Released - Drops Intel iGPU Security Fix Over Arrays Of Numbers
The GNU Linux-libre 5.7-gnu kernel was released following last weekend's Linux 5.7 kernel release. But the info-gnu mailing list was slow and thus just hitting the wire today for the latest version of this sanitized version of the Linux kernel. One interesting change in GNU Linux-libre 5.7-gnu is dropping the Intel Gen7 "iGPU Leak" security mitigation over not liking the sources...
Intel Atom Camera Driver Resurrected In Linux 5.8 - Benefits A Lot Of Devices
The Linux 5.8 media subsystem changes restore a previously dropped driver for supporting the cameras found on multiple generations of Intel Atom devices...
Red Hat's Stratis Storage 2.1 Released With Encryption Support, Other Improvements
Version 2.1 of Red Hat's Stratis daemon is now available that aims to bring Btrfs/ZFS-like functionality atop the XFS file-system paired with LVM...
Linux 5.8 To Allow Swapping Fn / Ctrl Keys On Apple Keyboards
While there have been out-of-tree Linux patches offering this support already, with the in-development Linux 5.8 kernel comes a mainline solution for allowing the Fn and left Control keys to be swapped on Apple keyboards...
Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-05 Released
Intel has released oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-05 as their latest snapshot for the current state of their LLVM-based Data Parallel C++ Compiler...
Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 1 Readies Another Round Of Benchmarking Features
This week marks 16 years since starting Phoronix.com and 12 years since the Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 release, so what better way to celebrate than a new development release of the Phoronix Test Suite...
More Scheduler Optimizations Land In Linux 5.8
As part of the many areas of the kernel managed by Ingo Molnar, on Tuesday he submitted the pull request with all of the scheduler code updates for Linux 5.8...
AMD Zen/Zen2 RAPL Support Merged In Linux 5.8
Complementing the new AMD Energy Driver in the hwmon subsystem for Linux 5.8 to provide per-socket/core reporting, the Linux perf subsystem in this new kernel version has run-time average power limiting (RAPL) framework integration for AMD Zen/Zen2 CPUs...
Radeon ROCm 3.5 Released With New Features But Still No Navi Support
Radeon Open Compute 3.5 (ROCm 3.5) is now available with a number of improvements but surprisingly still no GFX10/Navi support...
Blender 2.83 Released With OpenVDB Support, Initial OpenXR Integration
Blender 2.83 is out today as the project's first long-term support release (LTS) while still introducing many new features and improvements for existing functionality...
Linux 5.8 Supporting Intel TPAUSE Power-Optimized Delays, TSC Fix When Overclocking
TPAUSE is the new Intel instruction for supporting lightweight power/performance optimized and improved power/performance states for sleeping until the timestamp counter (TSC) has reached a desired value. This new instruction with Intel's Tremont architecture will now be used by Linux 5.8+ on supported CPUs for an optimized power state while waiting on a delay event...
Proton 5.0-8 Release Candidate Brings Game Fixes, Performance Improvements
Valve and CodeWeavers have been preparing a new release of the Proton 5.0 series for powering Steam Play with running modern Windows games on Linux...
Squeezing Extra Performance Out Of The Intel Core i9 10900K With Clear Linux
Besides disabling CPU security mitigations (not recommended if security is of importance), for those wanting to squeeze extra performance out of Intel CPUs like Comet Lake with the Core i9 10900K, loading Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux is one such way. Here is a look at the current performance that can be gained out of using the latest rolling-release Clear Linux on the i9-10900K in comparison to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Improved DAX Support Lands In Linux 5.8 - Initially Benefiting XFS + EXT4
The improved DAX code led by Intel has landed in the Linux 5.8 kernel with EXT4 and XFS being the initial file-systems to make use of this improved direct access mode...
Jitter RNG Improvements, Arm CryptoCell CCTRNG Driver, AMD PSP SEV-ES For Linux 5.8
The usual assortment of cryptography updates have landed within Linux 5.8...
RADV Enables Zero vRAM Option For All Games With VKD3D
Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is now enabling the "zero vRAM" option for all VKD3D games -- Direct3D 12 titles running on Steam Play / Wine with this D3D12 to Vulkan layer -- in order to workaround various rendering bugs...
Linux 5.8 Tightens ARM 64-Bit Security With BTI, Shadow Call Stack Support
The 64-bit ARM (ARM64 / AArch64) architecture changes have already landed into the progressing Linux 5.8 codebase...
Ubuntu's ZFS Daemon Zsys 0.5 Released
As part of their work on ZFS support improvements for the in-development Ubuntu 20.10, Zsys 0.5 has been tagged and landing in the "Groovy Gorilla" repository for this ZFS daemon spearheaded by Canonical developers...
Devuan 3.0 Released For Debian 10 Without Systemd
Two years after the release of Devuan 2.0 and just a few months since the Beowulf beta, Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" is now officially available as this Linux distribution providing a Debian package set not dependent upon systemd...
SELinux Sees Nice Optimizations With Linux 5.8
Security Enhanced Linux is seeing some nice optimizations with the in-development Linux 5.8 kernel...
iXsystems Announces TrueNAS SCALE As A Linux-Based Offering
While iXsystems has been known as one of the leading FreeBSD-focused vendors with their various BSD-powered storage devices and servers as well as contributing significantly to upstream FreeBSD in addition to their former work on TrueOS/PC-BSD, they are now developing a new platform called TrueNAS SCALE that is based on Linux...
Lenovo To Certify Their Full ThinkPad/ThinkStation Line For Linux
Back in April was the announcement that Lenovo would begin shipping some devices with Fedora Linux while now the story gets much juicier today...
Linux 5.8 Sees Many Power Management Updates, Including Another Intel P-State Change
Linux power management / ACPI maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel has sent in the usual big batch of PM/ACPI changes for the next version of the kernel, Linux 5.8...
PHP 8.0 JIT Is Offering Very Compelling Performance Ahead Of Its Alpha
With the PHP 8.0 schedule putting the first alpha release for the middle of June, I've been trying out its latest Git state in recent days for looking at its performance as well as when enabling its brand new JIT (Just In Time) compiler support that is new to PHP8. The results are quite compelling and here are metrics going back to the days of PHP 5.4 for comparison.
Firefox 77 Released With Security Fixes, AV1 Image File Support
Mozilla's more rapid release schedule continues and that means today is Firefox 77.0 day...
A Number Of Intel/AMD x86 Updates Hit Linux 5.8
A number of x86 (x86_64) pull requests have been sent in for the in-development Linux 5.8 kernel...
Linux 5.8 Graphics Updates Sent In With AMDGPU TMZ Support, P2P Buffers
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates have been sent in as the open-source graphics/display driver updates for Linux 5.8 amounting to around 42k lines of new code and some 21k lines of code being removed...
KDE Plasma 5.19 Has Better Wayland Support But Their Goal Is Not Yet Complete
Shipping one week from today is KDE Plasma 5.19 and among many other improvements is also significantly enhancing its Wayland support...
Kernel Advancements, Microsoft Linux News Kept Open-Source Fans Entertained In May
During the month of May on Phoronix were 252 original news articles and 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / benchmark specials written by your's truly. This included some surprising announcements from Microsoft, Linux 5.7 getting wrapped up and Linux 5.8 features being firmed up ahead of the now-open merge window, AMD Renoir mobile being a big success, and other milestones for open-source software...
Btrfs Sees A Number Of Improvements With Linux 5.8
SUSE's David Sterba was quite punctual in getting all of the Btrfs file-system updates submitted quickly for the newly-opened Linux 5.8 kernel merge window...
Steam Linux Percentage For May Points To A New Multi-Year High
Valve's May 2020 numbers show another uptick for Steam Linux gaming usage, pointing towards the Linux marketshare continuing to increase with the overall Steam user-base in this coronavirus period leading to record usage with the extra time spent by gamers at home...
Torvalds Blasts "Beyond Stupid" Flushing L1d On Context Switches - Reverts Code For Now
As part of the initial set of changes merged today for Linux 5.8 was the x86/mm material that included the controversial feature of opt-in flushing of the L1 data cache on context switching. Linus Torvalds ended up deciding to revert this functionality as for now at least he views it as crazy...
Linux 5.8 Adds initrdmem= Option For Cases Such As Replacing Intel ME Space With Initrd
One of the use-cases for this new "initrdmem" option in Linux 5.8 can be for storing an initial ramdisk (initrd) on a motherboard flash chip in the space available after stripping out Intel's Management Engine (ME) code...
AMD Radeon Linux Driver Sees Patches For New "Sienna Cichlid" GPU
Hitting the mailing list just minutes ago were a set of more than 200 patches bringing up support for the previously unheard of Sienna Cichlid GPU...
Git 2.27 Demotes The Recently Promoted Transport Protocol v2, Continues SHA-256 Work
Git 2.27 is out as the newest version of this widely-used distributed revision control system...
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U Benchmarks - Previously Unimaginable Performance For Sub-$600 Laptops
A few weeks back I began delivering Ryzen 7 4700U Linux laptop benchmarks for this 8-core Zen 2 mobile CPU with Vega graphics. The results have been very good and the support is in good shape with the latest Linux kernel, but many have been wondering about the Ryzen 5 4500U. The Ryzen 5 4500U is beginning to appear in several $500~600 USD laptops and offers six cores. Here are benchmarks and initial impressions with the Lenovo Flex 5 that features a 14-inch 1080p display, 16GB dual channel memory, 256GB SSD, and the Ryzen 5 4500U all for just $599!
Want A More Secure Computer At The Cost Of Performance? Linux 5.8 Landing L1d Flushing
For those very concerned about CPU data sampling vulnerabilities, the Linux 5.8 kernel comes with the ability to flush the L1 data cache on each context switch. That's good for security, but will hurt the system performance with all the excess L1 cache flushing...
Linux Mint 20 To Better Fend Off Snaps, Improve NVIDIA Optimus Support
Linux Mint 20 is in the works as the re-base off this popular desktop Linux distribution that in turn is derived from the Ubuntu package set. With Linux Mint 20 they are re-basing to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS packages but with better measures to ensure Snap packages don't end up on user systems...
LibreOffice 7.0 Beta Available For Testing With Its Skia+Vulkan Support
There still is two months to go until the stable release of LibreOffice 7.0 but today marks the availability of the first beta...
AMD SPI Driver Sent In For Linux 5.8
Adding to the multiple new AMD drivers coming with Linux 5.8 is their new SPI controller driver...
Linux 5.8 Flipping On ERASE/Discard/TRIM For All MMC Hosts
The MMC changes for new kernel cycles don't tend to be particularly noteworthy but it's a different story with the new Linux 5.8 kernel cycle...
Linux's Pstore Picking Up A Block Device Backend For Storing Oops & Panic Messages
Linux's pstore "persistent storage" code is seeing a number of improvements for the Linux 5.8 kernel...
AMD Energy Driver Sent In For Linux 5.8 Along With Driver For Industrial/Military SBCs
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were sent in today for the newly-opened Linux 5.8 merge window...
Linux 5.7 Kernel Released With New Apple Driver, Official Intel Gen12 Graphics
As expected, Linus Torvalds just released the stable Linux 5.7 kernel...
The Linux Kernel Deprecates The 80 Character Line Coding Style
The Linux kernel has officially deprecated its coding style that the length of lines of code comply with 80 columns as the "strong preferred limit"...
A New Kernel Patch Is Being Discussed That's Needed For Newer Windows Games On Wine
Newer Windows games/applications are making use of system call instructions from the application code without resorting to the WinAPI and that is breaking Wine emulation support. A Linux kernel patch is now being worked on for addressing this issue in the form of system call isolation based on memory areas while having a smaller performance hit than alternatives...
Chrome Is Reaching The Point Of Good X11 + Wayland Support In Same Build
Google's Chrome/Chromium web browser is finally reaching the stage where having both the X11 support and Ozone abstraction layer for Wayland can be enabled concurrently in the same build...
NetworkManager 1.26 Development Progressing With New Functionality
NetworkManager 1.25.2-dev is the latest development version of this important Linux networking component in the road towards NetworkManager 1.26...
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