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Updated 2025-07-02 17:00
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...
NVMe SSD Systems May Boot Slightly Quicker With Linux 5.7
Systems making use of NVMe solid-state storage may see slightly faster boot times with the Linux 5.7 kernel this summer...
LibreOffice 7.0 Git Adds Skia-Based Text Rendering Support
With the in-development LibreOffice 7.0 one of the headlining changes is making use of Google's Skia library and with that is Vulkan rendering support. That initial implementation was using Skia to draw the UI while now it's also picking up text rendering responsibilities...
Linux 5.7 Getting Driver To Deal With More Buggy & Funky Looking Mice
Linux 5.7 continues the trend of the community taking up new drivers being created to support different peripherals under Linux that amount to dealing with quirky/buggy behavior of the hardware...
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS A Nice Upgrade For AMD Ryzen Owners From 18.04 LTS
Particularly for those on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or derivative distributions based on the current long-term support base, moving to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS due out next month will yield some nice improvements particularly for those on newer platforms like the AMD Ryzen 3000 series. Here are some benchmarks at how the Ryzen 9 3900X performance is looking between Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 19.10, and the current Ubuntu 20.04 LTS development snapshot.
Intel P-State Driver Preparing To Migrate From "Powersave" To Passive Schedutil Default
It looks like in the next one or two kernel releases we could see Intel transitioning their CPU frequency scaling governor default from the long-standing powersave to the modern schedutil governor. It's now believed schedutil should be at least as good as powersave...
Is Clear Linux Just A Toy Distribution By Intel?
A user experimenting with Clear Linux had an opinion to share on their mailing list and referred to it as a "toy" distribution and some of our readers have expressed similar opinions on it. Here is the response by one of the Intel developers central to Clear Linux's development...
Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" Reaches Beta For Debian 10 Without Systemd
Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" has finally reached beta as a spin of Debian 10 "Buster" created without a dependence on systemd...
IO_uring Is Maturing Well On Linux For Faster & More Flexible I/O - Benchmarks On Linux 5.6
Since its introduction in Linux 5.1, IO_uring has been coming together quite nicely and getting better with each new kernel release. IO_uring is the effort for delivering faster and more efficient I/O by avoiding excess copies and other efficiency improvements over the existing Linux AIO code. Here are some comparison benchmarks off Linux 5.6 Git...
Fedora 33 Plans To Ship With Latest MinGW For Best Experience In Compiling Software For Windows
With new feature work beyond the scope now of Fedora 32, we're beginning to get a better idea for some of the feature plans for Fedora 33 due out this autumn...
GrSecurity Linux Kernel To Focus More On Performance This Year
The GrSecurity patches to the Linux kernel have long focused on security enhancements but this year they are said to be taking on a larger focus of performance optimizations...
Java 14 Reaches General Availability With Garbage Collection Improvements
Java 14 has reached general availability today with numerous updates to the JDK...
Unity 2020.1 Beta Released With Numerous Vulkan + Linux Fixes
Unity Tech has released the Unity 2020.1 game engine beta as their first quarterly update of the year...
Vulkan 1.2.135 Released With New + Promoted NVIDIA Extensions In Addition To Ray-Tracing
While the most prominent addition to today's Vulkan 1.2.135 update is the provisional ray-tracing support, there are also other new extensions with this update...
Fedora 32 Beta Released With EarlyOOM By Default, GNOME 3.36 Desktop
The beta of the highly anticipated Fedora 32 Linux distribution update is now available...
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Arrives With New Khronos Extension
While Vulkan has had NVIDIA's ray-tracing extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing) extension, coming out today is Vulkan's first formal ray-tracing extension for cross-vendor/driver adoption.
Intel Continues Working On Significant GPU Power Optimization For The Linux Kernel
A set of kernel patches to Intel's graphics driver helps improve the GPU power consumption to the extent of on Chrome OS seeing about 45 minutes extra battery life and several percent under the likes of Ubuntu Linux...
It's 2020 - Oracle Adds Meson Build System To Solaris
Oracle continues releasing new updates to Solaris 11.4 but there still aren't any public signs of life past v11.4. Out now is Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU19 with one interesting addition...
Fedora 33 Looking To Further Tighten Its Crypto Settings
For the Fedora 33 release later this year, Red Hat is looking at further enhancing and strengthening the cryptography settings/configuration of the OS...
GNU Debugger Lands Microsoft Windows Support Improvement
The GNU Debugger (GDB) is seeing the start of improvements to enhance its Microsoft Windows debugging experience...
Google "Moonball" Will Be Supported By Linux 5.7
Some new HID device called Moonball by Google will be supported with Linux 5.7...
Zstd Compressed Linux Kernel Images Proposed Once More
Going back to at least late 2017 have been proposals for Zstd-compressing the Linux kernel images for the Facebook-developed Zstandard compression algorithm. In 2020 perhaps we will finally see the support mainlined...
PAPPL Is A New Printer Application Framework Made By The Founder Of CUPS
Back in January we reported on the lead developer of the CUPS printing system quitting Apple and following that he began development of LPrint as a new label printer software solution for Linux and macOS. It turns out he has another software projects in the works too...
Mesa 20.1-dev RADV vs. RADV+ACO vs. AMDVLK vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Radeon Linux Gaming Performance
Here is an up-to-date look at how the very latest Mesa 20.1 Git performance is for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver both out-of-the-box and when enabling the Valve-backed ACO compiler back-end alternative to AMDGPU LLVM. Plus there are benchmarks of the latest AMDVLK open-source AMD Vulkan driver and also when using AMDGPU-PRO's Vulkan packages that still rely upon AMD's proprietary shader compiler.
Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 2 Released With Linux 5.4 + New Device Support
While the Debian 11 "Bullseye" code freeze isn't for another year, the second alpha release of the Debian Installer to ultimately provide the installation process is now available...
Fedora Looking To Transition The RPM Database From Berkeley DB To SQLite
As a move ultimately for Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well, Red Hat developers working on Fedora are planning to transition the RPM database (RPMDB) away from the long-standing Berkeley DB to using SQLite...
Linux 5.7 Positioned To Retire ARM 32-bit KVM Virtualization Support
The upcoming Linux 5.7 kernel is preparing to bid farewell to KVM virtualization support on 32-bit ARM architectures...
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H Mobile Processor Announced For Top-End Laptop Performance
AMD today announced the Ryzen 9 4900H as their new top-end Zen 2 mobile processor for notebooks...
Linux Kernel's Floppy Disk Code Is Seeing Improvements In 2020
While many would argue it's past due for the Linux kernel's floppy disk code to be gutted from the mainline code-base, instead it's seeing improvements in 2020 ahead of the Linux 5.7 kernel... The same kernel where Intel stabilized Tiger Lake graphics, AMD preparing Zen 3 support, a new exFAT driver, and a multitude of other modern improvements is also now seeing floppy work...
Intel Volleys First Patches As Part Of Linux Bring-Up For Keem Bay
Intel has begun piping the Linux support for Keem Bay...
ASpeed AST2500/AST2600 XDMA Engine Support Pending For Linux
Kernel patches pending that might see mainlining for the upcoming Linux 5.7 window provide ASpeed XDMA engine support for the plethora of AST2500 BMCs found on server platforms and the forthcoming AST2600-based platforms...
Linux 5.7 Netfilter To See AVX2 Optimizations For Big Performance Boost - Can Be Up To ~420%
Linux 5.7's Netfilter framework is set to see better performance on modern Intel and AMD systems thanks to AVX2 optimizations...
Linux 5.6-rc6 Released With The Kernel Coming In At Just The Right Size
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.6-rc6 and the code metrics are looking good for this stage of the kernel cycle...
AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Driver Isn't Yet Queued For Linux 5.7
While a lot of feature work has been building up for Linux 5.7 in various subsystem development repositories ahead of the merge window in a few weeks, one of the big driver additions many users have been clamoring for isn't yet queued. The AMD Sensor Fusion Hub open-source driver for Linux appears stalled pending more reviews from upstream developers...
KDE Frameworks 5.68 Release Brought Many Fixes
Flying under our radar until now was that KDE Frameworks 5.68 was released last week as the monthly update to this collection of KDE-minded libraries complementing the Qt tool-kit...
Chrome 80 Against Firefox 74/75 Performance On Linux
Complementing the Firefox 73 vs. 74 vs. 75 Beta benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux from AMD Ryzen this week, here are those numbers side-by-side with the Google Chrome 80 web-browser for putting the performance into more perspective...
BlueZ 5.54 Linux Bluetooth Stack Released With Just-Works Repairing Policy, EATT Support
Marcel Holtmann of Intel's open-source Linux team released BlueZ 5.54 this morning as the latest version of this widely-used user-space Linux Bluetooth stack...
GNOME's Mutter Finally Wires Up Middle Button Click Emulation
Coming just past the GNOME 3.36.0 release is the merging of a year-old patch-set to tie in middle mouse button click emulation with libinput for Mutter...
KDE Seeing System Tray Improvements, Much Faster Shadowed Rectangles
The Coronavirus doesn't appear to be impacting KDE development speed at all as it's been another week seeing a ton of feature activity for this open-source desktop...
Shortwave Sees First Stable Release As GNOME Internet Radio Player
After being in development for two years, GNOME Shortwave has seen its first stable release shortly after this week's GNOME 3.36 desktop debut...
Linux 5.7 To Bring Mitigation For Intel Gen7 Ivybridge/Haswell "iGPU Leak"
Back in January "iGPU Leak" was disclosed as CVE-2019-14615 as an information leakage vulnerability affecting Intel's graphics architecture leading to both register and local memory leaks. While Intel "Gen9" graphics were patched right away on the disclosure date and Gen8 Broadwell graphics were already mitigated, Gen7/Gen7.5 graphics took longer... In fact, not until the Linux 5.7 release this spring is there the mitigation for iGPU Leak...
Rust-Based Redox OS Working On Pkgar For Package Management
It's been a while since having news on Redox OS as the Rustlang-written open-source operating system. But it turns out that's been due to Jeremy Soller being busy working on Pkgar as a new package management format for the operating system...
Intel Tiger Lake Gen12/Xe Graphics Driver Support Considered Stable With Linux 5.7
Over the past year we have seen a steady flow of Intel Tiger Lake "Gen12" graphics enablement for the Linux kernel, their first generation also adopting the Xe Graphics branding as part of their discrete GPU initiative. With the Linux 5.7 kernel this spring will be the first release where the Gen12 graphics support is there by default as a sign of stability...
Wine-Staging 5.4 Released With Additions Around Tasklist, XACT Audio
Hot off yesterday's release of Wine 5.4 with Unicode 13 and text drawing for D3DX9, Wine-Staging 5.4 is now available with more than 850 patches on top of it...
Netflix Talks Up SVT-AV1 Video Encode/Decode Effort
Any regular Phoronix reader should already be quite familiar with SVT-AV1 and the other open-source Scalable Video Technology encoders considering how much we have been benchmarking them -- months before even before they were officially announced. Netflix, which has been working on SVT-AV1 in conjunction with Intel, has an interesting write-up for some weekend reading on the state of this open-source AV1 encoder/decoder...
WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004
Microsoft announced in their forthcoming Windows 10 Version 2004 update that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) will be entering general availability status...
Fedora 32 Beta To Be Released Next Week
Fedora 32 Beta was deemed unready for release on Thursday during the initial Go/No-Go meeting but after reconvening twenty-four hours later the remaining blocker bugs were addressed...
Fwupd+LVFS Begins Rolling Out Firmware Update Support For NVMe SSDs
Moving forward it will hopefully become easier updating NVMe solid-state drive device firmware under Linux...
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