Feed phoronix Phoronix

Favorite IconPhoronix

Link https://www.phoronix.com/
Feed http://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
Updated 2025-09-15 07:30
Linux 5.7-rc4 Released As A Pleasantly Calm Kernel
Linus Torvalds just announced the Linux 5.7-rc4 kernel release is up for testing...
Linux Device Mapper Adding An "Emulated Block Size" Target
A new target for Linux's Device Mapper is EBS, the Emulated Block Size...
Linux 5.8 Will Finally Be Able To Control ThinkPad Laptops With Dual Fans
Long overdue but for Lenovo ThinkPad laptops sporting two fans, the Linux 5.8 kernel will see the ability to control both fans...
Valve Updates Steam Survey Data For April With A Slight Linux Increase
Valve has published their Steam Survey results for April, which is the first full month where the US and still much of the world has been in lockdown over the coronavirus, and thus interesting to see how it has impacted the gamer metrics...
Enlightenment 0.24 Alpha Released For This X11 Window Manager / Wayland Compositor
The first alpha release of the Enlightenment 0.24 window manager / Wayland compositor with new features and other improvements...
ReactOS Upgrades Its Build Environment - Shifting To A Much Newer GCC Compiler
The "open-source Windows" ReactOS project has upgraded its build environment leading to much newer versions of key compiler toolchain components...
Intel's OpenCL Intercept Layer Sees First Release In Two Years
Intel's OpenCL Intercept Layer remains focused on debugging and analyzing OpenCL application performance across platforms. It hadn't seen a new release, however, in two years but that changed last month...
KDE Starts May With Dolphin Improvements, Various Bug Fixes
KDE developers remain as busy as ever during the global lockdown around the coronavirus...
Linux 5.8 Seeing Support For New Marvell/Aquantia Atlantic "A2" NICs
Linux 5.8 will see support for next-generation Marvell/Aquantia network chipsets...
Open-Source OpenXR Runtime Monado Seeing Better Performance, New Functionality
Monado, the open-source OpenXR run-time implementation for Linux, has been advancing quite well since we last reported on it back in February with its inaugural v0.1 release...
The Godot Game Engine's Vulkan Support Is Getting In Increasingly Great Shape
The open-source Godot Game Engine lead developer Juan Linietsky has published a new Vulkan progress report, the first in three months, and as such there are a lot of changes...
Intel Sends Out Rocket Lake Linux Graphics Driver Patches - Confirms Gen12 Platform
A day after announcing the 10th Gen Core "Comet Lake" S-Series CPUs, the Intel open-source engineers have volleyed their first patches for bringing up the graphics on next-gen Rocket Lake...
Proton 5.0-7 Released With New Game Support, Updated VKD3D/DXVK
Following the Proton 5.0-7 release candidate from a few days ago, this critical part of Valve's Steam Play is now available for weekend gamers...
Thanks Oracle! New Patches Pending Can Reduce Linux Boot Times Up To ~49%
While many don't look upon Oracle's open-source software contributions too eagerly, some new patches out by their team can dramatically benefit Linux kernel boot times and they are working on getting it upstream. The numbers are already very promising and further work is also underway to make the improvement even more tantalizing...
NVIDIA Gets Into Open-Source Hardware With A Ventilator Design
While waiting to see what NVIDIA will be doing on the open-source driver front that has been pushed back, NVIDIA made a surprise open-source announcement today...
AMDGPU TMZ Support Wired Up For Linux 5.8
In addition to Intel sending in new feature code to DRM-Next, AMD developers on Thursday also sent in their AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature updates for Linux 5.8...
Intel's Cloud Hypervisor 0.7 Adds More Hotplug Capabilities, Musl Libc, SECCOMP Sandbox
Intel's server software team continues working on Cloud-Hypervisor as a Rust-written hypervisor for modern Linux VMs. Cloud-Hypervisor has been picking up a lot of features and out today is another pre-1.0 feature release...
Intel Graphics Code Seeing More Tiger Lake Action, Power Efficiency Work For Linux 5.8
Intel's graphics driver team continues amassing more changes for Linux 5.8...
GhostBSD 20.04 Released With Fixes, Updated Kernel
GhostBSD 20.04 is out as the newest monthly update to this desktop-focused operating system built off the FreeBSD base...
Linux Gaming, Qt Drama, New Hardware Kept Open-Source Enthusiasts Entertained This Month
During the course of April while much of the world was in lockdown, there were plenty of interesting happenings in the Linux/open-source and hardware space to keep enthusiasts interested while social distancing from the release of Linux 5.6 to the releases of Fedora 32 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, among other milestones...
System76 Releases Pop!_OS 20.04
System76 released today Pop!_OS 20.04 as their in-house Linux distribution built off Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but with many customizations on top...
GNOME 3.37.1 Released As The First Step Towards GNOME 3.38
With about a month and a half since GNOME 3.36 debuted, GNOME 3.37.1 is out today as the first development release towards GNOME 3.38 due out this September...
GCC 10 Has Been Branched, GCC 10.1 Stable Looking To Release In Early May
The GNU Compiler Collection 10 stable release (GCC 10.1) is on track for releasing in early May...
Redis 6.0 Released As A Big Update For This In-Memory Key-Value Database
Redis 6.0 is out to end out April as this widely-used, open-source in-memory key-value database solution...
Intel Announces 10th Gen Core S-Series CPUs, Led By The Core i9 10900K
Intel today is announcing their 10th Gen Core "Comet Lake" S-Series processors led by the Core i9 10900 series that the company claim is now the world's fastest gaming processor and offers clock speeds up to 5.3GHz.
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.2 Flips On The Pipeline Binary Cache, Tunes SoTR Performance
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.2 has been issued today as the company's latest open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver based off their official driver source tree...
Raspberry Pi Announces The $50 High Quality Camera
Raspberry Pi today announced their newest product, the High Quality Camera, which starts at $50 and supports interchangeable lenses...
Linux 5.5 vs. 5.6 vs. 5.7 Kernel Benchmarks With The Intel Core i9 10980XE
Besides those systems now seeing Schedutil by default as the CPU frequency scaling governor and some Radeon gaming performance gains to note, the performance of Linux 5.7 in our testing thus far has largely been on track with Linux 5.6 stable...
AMD AOMP 11.5 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs
Released on Wednesday was AOMP 11.5 as the latest version of the AMD/ROCm compiler based off LLVM Clang and focused on OpenMP offloading to Radeon GPUs...
X.Org Board Elections Wrap Up For 2020
The X.Org Board of Directors elections wrapped up this week with four new members now serving this organization that oversees the X.Org Server, Mesa, Wayland, and other critical Linux desktop infrastructure...
Mesa 20.1 Feature Development Ends With RC1 Released
Mesa 20.1 feature development is now over with it being branched from Git master and subsequently Mesa 20.1-RC1 being released this evening...
Virginia Tech's "Popcorn Linux" For Distributed Thread Execution Seeking Feedback, Possible Upstreaming
Popcorn Linux has been a multi-year effort out of Virginia Tech's Software and Systems Research Group for distributed thread execution across systems and even potentially different ISAs/accelerators given today's heterogeneous hardware...
AMD Programmer Manual Update Points To PCID Support, Memory Protection Keys
It looks like AMD Zen 3 CPUs will finally be supporting PCID! And memory protection keys are coming too, at least according to AMD's latest programmer reference manual...
For Radeon Gamers On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, It's Generally Worthwhile Flipping On RADV's ACO
A premium supporter was asking this week whether for those newly-upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS if the graphics stack is in good enough shape or if I would recommend running Mesa 20.1-devel for better AMD Linux gaming performance... The short answer, sans any particular changes you are after in Mesa 20.1-devel, the bigger gain for running on this new Ubuntu release is to instead enable RADV+ACO as a much more pressing boost...
DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 Brings Interoperability With USB4
VESA announced today version 2.0 of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode specification...
Radeon Displayable DCC Gets Enabled For Navi 12 + Navi 14 GPUs
Adding to the last minute AMD Radeon additions for making the Mesa 20.1 feature cut-off is enabling displayable DCC support for Navi 12 and Navi 14 graphics processors...
Generic USB Display Driver Published For Linux - Allowing Nifty Possibilities With Raspberry Pi, Etc
Longtime Linux DRM developer Noralf Trønnes has written a new driver for Linux to serve generic USB display purposes. This driver was written following his idea of turning a Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB to HDMI display adapter...
17 Years Later: Intel 865 Chipset Seeing FBC Enabled On Linux
If you are still running any pre-Sandybridge Intel hardware, you should really consider upgrading to modern hardware for the performance and efficiency gains... But should you still be tied to an old i865-based system, there is an improvement coming in 2020 for Linux users...
Microsoft Releases Shader Conductor 0.3 For Its Shader Cross-Compiler
Back in 2018 Microsoft announced Shader Conductor as one of their newest open-source projects at the time for cross-compiling HLSL to other shading languages like GLSL. Out this morning is Shader Conductor v0.3...
Sailfish OS 3.3 "Rokua" Released With Many Improvements For This Mobile Linux OS
Jolla announced today Sailfish OS 3.3 "Rokua" as the newest version of their Linux-based smartphone platform...
Trinity Desktop Turns 10 Years Old As A Fork Of KDE 3.5 - Celebrates With New Release
The Trinity Desktop Environment is marking its tenth anniversary with a new release of this desktop forked from the KDE 3.5 code-base...
BLAKE3 Cryptographic Hashing Function Sees Experimental Vulkan Implementation
BLAKE3, the cryptographic hash function that advertises itself as being "much faster" than the likes of SHA1 and MD5 and its predecessor BLAKE2 while being more secure and highly parallelizable has seen an experimental implementation for GPU-based acceleration using the Vulkan API...
Intel Gen11+ Graphics See An Easy Bump On Mesa 20.1-devel
There's been a lot of interesting work hitting Mesa Git this week ahead of the Mesa 20.1 code branching and feature freeze. Merged this afternoon was a rather simple optimization benefiting Gen11 (Icelake) and newer for their open-source Vulkan driver, it's such a simple change it is almost surprising it took so long to benefit...
QEMU 5.0 Released For This Important Open-Source Emulator For Linux Virtualization
QEMU 5.0 is out today for this processor emulator that is a key piece to the Linux virtualization stack...
Proton 5.0-7 Being Prepared With Newer DXVK, Updated VKD3D Layer
Valve along with their comrades at CodeWeavers are preparing Proton 5.0-7 as the newest version of their Wine-based software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...
Ubuntu 20.04 Gaming Performance Across Desktops, X.Org vs. Wayland
Last month we provided some early benchmarks looking at the Ubuntu 20.04 X.Org vs. Wayland gaming performance under GNOME 3.36, but now that Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has been officially released, here is a look at the AMD Radeon Linux gaming performance across a wide variety of desktops on both X.Org and Wayland where supported.
Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36
Fedora 32 has officially been released as the latest installment of this Red Hat supported community Linux distribution known for its bleeding-edge features and packages...
New Intel "Adaptive" P-State Frequency Governor Volleyed For Better GPU-Bound Efficiency
The Intel P-State driver has been going through a number of improvements recently including transitioning to the "Schedutil" governor by default on some systems so far in this governor making use of scheduler utilization data. But Intel's graphics team meanwhile has been working on P-State changes to improve the GPU-bound energy efficiency and that is now spun as a new "adaptive" governor...
R600 Gallium3D Driver Lands Tesselation Support In Time For Mesa 20.1
One of the many new features coming in Mesa 20.1 is experimental NIR support for the vintage Radeon "R600g" driver. That NIR back-end isn't yet to feature parity but is now one step closer with tesselation support now being available along this code path...
Kolivas Takes Break From Designing COVID-19 Equipment To Release Linux 5.6-ck1 + MuQSS
Con Kolivas is out with his Linux 5.6-ck1 optimization patch-set and version 0.199 of the MuQSS scheduler. This re-base against the Linux 5.6 stable kernel is coming late due to Kolivas leading a team making 3D printed COVID-19 equipment in Australia...
...333334335336337338339340341342...