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Reiser4 Updated For Linux 5.6 Kernel Support
While the Linux 5.7 kernel is likely being released as stable today, the Reiser4 port to the Linux 5.6 kernel is out this weekend...
The Ongoing CPU Security Mitigation Impact On The Core i9 10900K Comet Lake
At least for the workloads tested this round, when booting the new Intel Core i9 10900K "Comet Lake" processor with the software-controlled CPU security mitigations disabled, the overall performance was elevated by about 6% depending upon the workload. Here is a look at the out-of-the-box security mitigations for this new Intel desktop CPU against foregoing the default CPU security mitigations and running an unprotected configuration to see what the pre-Spectre performance looks like.
Phoronix Turns 16 Years Old Next Week, So Here's A Special To Celebrate
Next week on 5 June already marks sixteen years since I started Phoronix.com as well as twelve years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0!..
The Generic USB Display Driver Taking Shape For Linux 5.9~5.10
One of the interesting new happenings in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver space is a Generic USB Display stack including a USB gadget driver that together allow for some interesting generic USB display setups. This work was motivated by being able to turn a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB to HDMI display adapter...
KDE Ending Out May With UI Tweaks, Bug Fixes
KDE Plasma 5.19 is due for release very soon (9 June) but that hasn't kept KDE developers from already working on Plasma 5.20 and other components for this open-source desktop...
Steam Ironing Out Shader Pre-Caching For Helping Game Load Times, Stuttering
Valve developers have been working on Vulkan shader pre-caching with their latest Steam client betas to help in allowing Vulkan/SPIR-V shaders to compile ahead of time, letting them be pre-cached on disk to allow for quicker game load times and any stuttering for games that otherwise would be compiling the shaders on-demand during gameplay, especially under Steam Play...
Intel's Clear Linux Working On AVX-512 Optimized Golang Container
One of the latest performance optimizations being pursued by Intel on the open-source Linux side is providing an AVX-512-optimized container for Golang usage...
Monado 0.2 OpenXR Runtime Brings Multi-Layer Support, New Controller Support
Monado as the leading open-source OpenXR implementation for AR/VR headsets is out with a new release...
Alpine Linux 3.12 Released With D Language Support, MIPS64 Port
Version 3.12 of the Alpine Linux lightweight distribution built around musl libc and Busybox is now available for this platform popular with containers and other embedded use-cases...
AMD EPYC 7F72 vs. Intel Xeon Gold 6258R - Latest EPYC Rome vs. Xeon Cascade Lake Benchmarks
Following the Xeon Gold 6250 vs. EPYC 7F32 benchmarks from earlier this month, here is a look at the latest x86_64 server CPUs we have our hands on with the EPYC 7F72 and Xeon Gold 6258R being benchmarked against a lineup of other competing AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon processors under the new Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Improved EXT4 + XFS DAX Implementation Appears Ready To Go For Linux 5.8
Adding to the expected changes for Linux 5.8 is improved EXT4 and XFS file-system direct access "DAX" support...
Performance-Helping FSGSBASE Patches Spun For Linux A 13th Time
The FSGSBASE Linux kernel patches that have the potential of helping performance going back to Intel Ivy Bridge era CPUs in select workloads have now hit their 13th revision to the series in the long-running effort to getting this support mainlined...
openSUSE Leap 15.2 Hits RC Phase With GNOME 3.34 + KDE Plasma 5.18, Sway
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 has progressed to its release candidate phase ahead of the official release planned for the first week of July...
Mozilla Sponsored The Godot Game Engine To Port Their Editor As An HTML5 Web App
While we have been eager for Godot 4.0 as the open-source game engine update bringing big renderer improvements and initial Vulkan support, it also turns out there will be a new offering on the editor front.....
The Top Linux 5.7 Features From Apple Fast Charge To Official Tiger Lake Graphics
Assuming no last minute concerns, the Linux 5.7 kernel is set to debut as stable this weekend. Given all the weeks since the merge window and our many articles covering all the feature activity at that point (and not to be confused with our activity of new work being queued for the upcoming Linux 5.8 cycle), here is a look back at some of the top features of the Linux 5.7 kernel...
Linux's Hardware Monitoring "HWMON" Picking Up Notification Support
In addition to the AMD Zen "amd_energy" driver coming for Linux 5.8, another late change now queued into hwmon staging is introducing notification support for the hardware monitoring subsystem...
Mainline Linux Kernel Starts Seeing A NVIDIA Tegra X1 Video Input Driver
While the Tegra X1 SoC (Tegra210) has been available for several years, finally with the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel is a mainline driver contributed by NVIDIA for the video input support...
Chrome 84 Beta Brings Better Web Animations API, Experimental WebAssembly SIMD
Following the recent Chrome 83 release, Chrome 84 has now been promoted to beta...
FSF Now Offering Video Conferencing Service To Its Members
In aiming to promote freedom-respecting video conferencing at a time when other platforms like Facebook and Zoom are exploding in popularity as a result of the coronavirus crisis, the Free Software Foundation is offering a video conferencing system for its associate members...
Android Studio 4.0 Released With Overhauled CPU Profiler, Clangd For C++ Code
Android Studio 4.0 is out today with this IDE bringing a number of improvements for developing Google Android apps...
Ryzen 9 3900X/3950X vs. Core i9 10900K In 380+ Benchmarks
Following our initial Core i5 10600K and Core i9 10900K Linux benchmarks last week, here is a much larger comparison I have been working on since then in looking specifically at the Ryzen 9 3900X and 3950X against the Core i9 10900K. It's the largest to date with nearly 400 benchmarks being tested, most of them real-world test cases.
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 Released With TMZ Enabled, Improved Memory Allocation
As the first open-source code drop in two weeks, AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 is out today as the latest update to this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver stack for Linux...
Khronos Releases OpenVG 1.1 Lite For High Quality Vector Graphics On Mobile
It's been a while since hearing of OpenVG as The Khronos Group's hardware-accelerated 2D vector graphics API. But today they announced a "Lite" version of OpenVG 1.1...
Genode OS 20.05 Adds Capability-Based Security Using SECCOMP, Drops Python 2 + Rust
Version 20.05 of the Genode open-source operating system framework is now available with many improvements...
Apache Updates Subversion - SVN 1.14 LTS Released
For those making use of the Subversion centralized version control system as an alternative to Git, SVN 1.14 LTS is now available...
8GB Raspberry Pi 4 Launched For $75 USD
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM...
BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Support Still Being Worked On For Open-Source Display Driver
With the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel merge window one of the features you still won't find in the mainline kernel is the VC4 DRM kernel driver supporting the Broadcom BCM2711 SoC and in turn the Raspberry Pi 4 open-source display support...
Red Hat Tosses Its Weight Behind Quarkus
Following recent announcements, Red Hat is now ready in fully supporting Quarkus to enhance its Kubernetes support...
Google Engineers Are Becoming Concerned Over Some Arm Platforms Lacking Spectre V2 Mitigations
As a result of at least "a few AArch64 platforms" lacking firmware support for mitigating Spectre Variant Two, Google engineers are evaluating the possibility of Retpolines for the 64-bit Arm architecture...
AMD Lines Up Another Batch Of Radeon Graphics Fixes For Linux 5.8
Linux 5.8 features for the Radeon "AMDGPU" kernel driver include the likes of Navi soft recovery and better handling of critical thermal faults on Radeon GPUs as well as enabling TMZ support. With feature work being capped off already on the DRM graphics front for Linux 5.8, AMD developers have been tidying up the code and readying more fixes for all of the new code set to premiere with this imminent merge window...
Mesa 20.1 Released With Numerous Linux Graphics Driver Improvements
Mesa 20.1 has managed to release on time today as this quarter's feature update to this collection of open-source user-space graphics driver components...
The New AMD Energy Driver Is Working Out Well On Linux For Per-Socket/Core Reporting
Of the many features coming for Linux 5.8 one of the new drivers we are very much looking forward to is the AMD energy driver for finally exposing per-core and per-socket/package energy reporting of Zen/Zen2 CPUs under Linux. It's working out well so far in my evaluation...
Statsfs: A Proposed Linux File-System For Kernel Statistics
Statsfs is a new RAM-based file-system proposal by a Red Hat engineer that is designed for exposing kernel statistics to user-space...
GraalVM 20.1, OpenJ9 0.20, OpenJDK Java Benchmarks
Given the release last week of GraalVM 20.1 as well as last month's release of Eclipse OpenJ9 0.20, here are some fresh JVM benchmarks up against multiple OpenJDK releases.
Mesa 20.1 Features Include Big Improvements For Open-Source Intel, Radeon Graphics Drivers
The release of Mesa 20.1 is imminent as the latest quarterly feature update to this collection of open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers predominantly in use by Linux systems. Here is a look at the many exciting improvements with Mesa 20.1...
Linux Getting Fixed Up For Handling Pointing Sticks On Some Touchpads
For input devices on some laptops that are a combination of a pointing stick and touchpad, the Linux kernel's multi-touch driver will finally begin handling them correctly...
LLVM 11 Merges AMD Radeon GCN Offloading For OpenMP
While AMD has been working on AOMP for Radeon OpenMP offloading as their downstream of the LLVM/Clang compiler suited for GPU compute offloading to their hardware, at least some of that work is beginning to appear back in upstream LLVM...
Qt Updates Its Online Installer To Clarify Open-Source Obligations
Following yesterday's release of Qt 5.15 LTS as the last series before Qt 6.0, The Qt Company has now released a new Qt Online Installer...
Micron's HSE Open-Source Storage Engine Ticks Up To v1.7.1
Announced at the end of April was Micron's HSE as a new open-source storage engine designed for offering speedy performance and lower latency on modern solid-based storage, especially for systems employing 3D XPoint technology. Version 1.7.1 of HSE was released today as their first open-source release since going public with this technology...
NVIDIA 440.66.15 Vulkan Linux Driver Offers Up More Fixes
NVIDIA has been quite aggressive recently with their new Vulkan beta drivers for Windows and Linux with today marking another such release...
Linux 5.8 Feature Queue Has Multiple Performance Optimizations, Intel Rocket Lake, Other Hardware
If all goes well Linux 5.7 should reach stable this weekend and that in turn will mark the start of the Linux 5.8 merge window. With our monitoring of the various "-next" branches for weeks already, here is a look at some of what is on the table for this next version of the Linux kernel...
Arm Announces Cortex-A78, Cortex-X Custom
Arm today announced the Cortex-A78 as their SoC for next-generation smartphones with up to 20% sustained performance improvements. Arm also announced today the Cortex-X Custom program...
A Quick Look At GCC 10.1 PGO Optimization Benchmarks
Following the GCC 10.1 compiler optimization benchmarks posted this weekend, a number of readers were wondering about the impact of Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) on the new GCC 10 compiler. Here are some preliminary data points on that front...
Qt 5.15 Released With Graphics Improvements, Preparations Ahead Of Qt 6
It's coming a few days late but The Qt Company's Lars Knoll just announced the official release of Qt 5.15.0...
Reiser5 File-System Working On New Features Like Data Tiering, Burst Buffers
Reiser5 was announced back on New Year's Eve with support for local volumes and supporting parallel scaling out and other improvements over the long-in-development but never mainlined Reiser4. While Reiser5 was not met with enthusiasm, Edward Shishkin has continued working on this next-generation file-system and today announced the latest round of improvements...
Qualcomm Adreno 650 + 640 GPUs To Be Supported By Mainline Linux 5.8 Kernel
The crew working on the MSM DRM driver from Freedreno / Google / Code Aurora (Qualcomm) have an interesting batch of changes for this open-source GPU driver for Qualcomm Adreno hardware come Linux 5.8...
Linux 5.8 Picking Up A Quirk For Being Able To Reboot The 2009 MacBook Without Hangs
With the upcoming Linux 5.8 cycle a quirk is being added to be able to reboot the 2009 era Apple MacBook without needing to boot with any special flags...
Adaptive-Sync/VRR Seeing Port To xf86-video-modesetting Driver
Currently if wanting to use Adaptive-Sync/FreeSync variable refresh rate support of the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver you need to be using the xf86-video-amdgpu X.Org driver for proper handling as well, but a port of the DDX bits to the generic xf86-video-modesetting driver is in the works...
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 Released For Cross-Platform, Open-Source Benchmarking
One month after the big Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 release, Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 is out as the first and only planned point release to this quarter's feature series...
Two More Projects Join KWinFT Fork Of KDE KWin, Beta Milestone Reached
Announced over one month ago was KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin with an emphasis on improving the Wayland support and better embracing modern technologies. A beta of KWinFT is now available...
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