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OpenMandriva 4.1 Released With Clang'ed LTO+PGO Packages, Linux 5.5 + More
Following the recent beta release with a Clang-built kernel option and experimental Zypper as an alternative to DNF, OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 has been released as part of FOSDEM 2020 celebrations over in Brussels...
Linux 5.6 Adds New CPU Cooling Mechanism With Generic Idle Cooling Driver
The new "cpuidle_cooling" thermal driver in Linux 5.6 is similar to Intel's PowerClamp driver and RAPL framework but is generic for working across CPUs/architectures as an idle cooling driver to cool down CPUs/SoCs by injecting idle cycles at run-time...
Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving
Red Hat's Karol Herbst spoke at the FOSDEM 2020 conference in Brussels on the state of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Linux graphics driver stack...
Linux 5.6 Media Updates Bring Improvements For Rockchip Users
The Linux 5.6 media driver updates have landed in the kernel...
GNU Binutils 2.34 + GNU C Library 2.31 Released
Two important pieces of the GNU toolchain saw new releases to kickoff February...
Intel Gateway SoC Enablement Continues With Linux 5.6 Plus Other PCI/PCIe Changes
There is plenty of PCI work that landed for the Linux 5.6 kernel merge window...
Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January
During the first month of 2020 on Phoronix were 305 original news stories and another 18 Linux hardware reviews / featured-length articles. Here is a look back at what has been exciting Linux and open-source enthusiasts so far in 2020...
Intel MKL-DNN/DNNL 1.2 Released With Performance Improvements For Deep Learning On CPUs
Intel on Friday released Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL) version 1.2, formerly known as MKL-DNN. With this release comes both new features and better performance...
/dev/random Is More Like /dev/urandom With Linux 5.6
The random changes have been sent in for Linux 5.6 that yield /dev/random behavioral changes and a new random flag...
Ingenic X1000 SoC Being Supported By The Linux 5.6 Kernel
Adding to the Linux 5.6 excitement is the hardware enablement of the MIPS-based Ingenic X1000 SoC...
University of Illinois Releases HPVM As Heterogeneous Parallel Systems Compiler
University of Illinois and associated developers have released HPVM 0.5, their LLVM-based compiler infrastructure for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems with CPU execution and OpenCL-based NVIDIA GPU support...
Intel MPX Support Is Dead With Linux 5.6
Following on from last week's story that it was looking like Linux 5.6 would drop Intel MPX support, that has now taken place...
GNU C Library 2.31 Nearing With Experimental C2X Support, Time Changes
GNU C Library 2.31 (Glibc 2.31) should be releasing in the days ahead and is now under a hard freeze for this next feature release to this important libc implementation...
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop
When carrying out our Windows vs. Linux benchmarks we normally are doing so on interesting high-end hardware but for today's benchmarking is a look at how a $199 USD laptop powered by an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U processor compares between Windows 10 as it's shipped on the laptop against the forthcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux distribution.
Intel Should Now Have Gen7 Graphics Mitigated Without The Hefty Performance Hit
Earlier this month when Intel disclosed CVE-2019-14615 as a security vulnerability affecting their graphics architecture, older Gen7 graphics saw a huge hit to their performance with the initial patches for addressing this vulnerability on Ivy Bridge and Haswell processors. Fortunately, a new mitigation patch series was sent out this week where they believe the performance costs are now avoided...
Linux Mint Debian 4 Coming - Rebased Against Debian 10, Adds "Boot With NVIDIA" Option
In addition to Linux Mint 20 coming this year that will be based off Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the Linux Mint crew is preparing LMDE 4 as their re-base of the Debian based variant...
Raspberry Pi Foundation Gets Back To Working On A Vulkan Driver - New Effort By Igalia
With the V3D Gallium3D driver hitting OpenGL ES 3.1 compliance, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and their partners have turned to focusing on getting their Vulkan driver off the ground for Raspberry Pi 4 and future SBCs...
NVIDIA Retiring Their Pre-Fermi "340 Series" Legacy Linux Graphics Driver
NVIDIA has sent out word that they no longer plan to issue anymore driver updates for their 340 series Linux legacy branch...
UBports' Unity 8 Has Working Wayland Support
Lead UBports developer Marius Gripsgard has shared some exciting news: their Unity 8 code is now riding happily on Wayland...
KVM Virtualization Adds Protections For Spectre-V1/L1TF Combination Attack
Following the Xen hypervisor in mitigating against a possible Spectre Variant One and L1 Terminal Fault combination attack, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) has added its own protections with the Linux 5.6 kernel on top of all the other mitigations they've had to endure as a result of CPU vulnerabilities over the past two years...
CERN Replacing Facebook Workplace With A Set Of Open-Source Software Alternatives
We previously covered how CERN has moved away from Microsoft products over licensing fees and instead has begun employing various open-source alternatives. Now this European Organization for Nuclear Research is moving away from Facebook Workplace to instead make use of more open-source software packages...
F2FS Experimental Compression Is Ready For Extending Flash Storage Life
The F2FS file-system compression functionality is the main feature addition for this flash-optimized file-system coming with the Linux 5.6 kernel. This native LZO/LZ4 compression support is geared for optimizing the lifespan of SSDs/flash memory thanks to reducing disk writes...
Char/Misc Updates For Linux 5.6 Bring New Qualcomm Drivers, Intel Code Updates
While not as exciting as the USB4 support and staging code lightening for these areas managed by Linux's second in command Greg Kroah-Hartman, he also sent out the char/misc updates this week with other hardware support improvements...
Free Software Foundation Endorses First Product Of 2020: A $59~79 USD 802.11n WiFi Card
We've seen a lot of odd products pick up the Free Software Foundation's "Respect Your Freedom" endorsement like a USB microphone, various re-branded motherboards, and even last year certified a USB to parallel printer cable. The latest product they are endorsing -- and their first endorsement of 2020 -- is a USD 802.11 a/b/g/n PCIe half-mini card starting out at $59 USD but going up to $79 for this outdated wireless adapter...
Mesa 20.0-rc1 Released With Intel Gallium3D Default, OpenGL 4.6 for RadeonSI, Vulkan 1.2
Mesa 20.0 feature development is over with the code now being branched from Git master and the first of several release candidates issued...
Valve's ACO Helps Put New Life Into Radeon GCN 1.0 GPUs With ~9% Better Linux Gaming Performance
Among many other Valve ACO back-end improvements for Mesa 20.0, one of the notable additions is this AMDGPU LLVM alternative now working for Radeon "Southern Islands" / GCN 1.0 graphics cards. With this, these original AMD GCN graphics cards may have some extra life out of Linux gaming boxes thanks to slightly higher performance some eight years after these graphics cards first launched in the Radeon HD 7000 series.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support
While WireGuard was merged into Linux 5.6, the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release is currently tracking Linux 5.4 and for the April release is likely to be shipping with Linux 5.5 as the 5.6 release will be cutting it too close. But Ubuntu 20.04's kernel has now back-ported WireGuard...
Google's OpenSK Offers An Open-Source Rust-Written Security Key Implementation
Google today announced OpenSK as an open-source Rust-based security key implementation supporting FIDO U2F and FIDO2 standards...
EXT4 Gets Performance Work While XFS Gets 32-Bit Fixes For Linux 5.6
File-system / storage activity is as busy as always during the Linux kernel merge windows...
DXVK 1.5.3 Released - Helps Games Like Skyrim + Mafia II, Direct3D 9 Fixes
Succeeding last week's DXVK 1.5.2 is now a version 1.5.3 release with various fixes...
pidfd_getfd Lands In Linux 5.6 With Use-Cases From LXD To Web Browsers
In addition to the new openat2() system call in Linux 5.6, pidfd_getfd() has landed with growing interest from many different parties for what will be an increasingly used syscall moving forward...
Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories
Systemd-homed has been merged as the latest (optional) fundamental change to Linux distributions in how home directories are handled...
Linux 5.6 Graphics Changes Bring Open-Source NVIDIA Turing, AMD Pollock Enablement
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver updates were sent in today for Linux 5.6 with plenty of fun features in tow...
AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Driver Revved But Not On Tap For Linux 5.6
Earlier this month AMD finally published their Sensor Fusion Hub driver for Linux to improve the Ryzen laptop support. That new "SFH" driver hasn't been queued as part of any Linux 5.6 pull request but a second version of the driver did make it out this week...
Staging Changes Lighten The Linux 5.6 Kernel By More Than Thirty Thousand Lines
With Linux 5.6 the staging area has seen new functionality but thanks to removing old code it ends up removing a fair number of lines of code from the kernel...
FreeNAS 11.3 Released With A Plethora Of Improvements
The folks at iXsystems have released FreeNAS 11.3, their latest big update to this FreeBSD-based operating system designed around the OpenZFS file-system for offering advanced network-attached storage capabilities...
RADV Re-Enables NGG Geometry Shader Support
On top of the last minute Radeon Vulkan "RADV" improvements landing on Wednesday for Mesa 20.0, another big ticket item landed... Well, re-enabled...
USB4 Support Lands In The Linux 5.6 Kernel
Ahead of USB4 devices expected to begin appearing later this year, the Linux 5.6 kernel is wired up with initial USB4 support...
Linux 5.6 Is The First Kernel For 32-Bit Systems Ready To Run Past Year 2038
On top of all the spectacular work coming with Linux 5.6, here is another big improvement that went under my radar until today: Linux 5.6 is slated to be the first mainline kernel ready for 32-bit systems to run past the Year 2038!..
AMD Zen 2 "Znver2" Optimizations With LLVM Clang 10 Bring Some Improvements
With LLVM Clang 10 having added a Zen 2 scheduler model tuned for the latest AMD CPUs over the existing "znver2" tuning that had just copied the Zen 1 scheduler, here are some benchmarks looking at the LLVM Clang 9 vs. 10 compiler performance on AMD EPYC when making use of "-march=znver2" optimizations...
Linux 5.5 Performance Overall Is Comparable To Older Kernels For Most Workloads
Since the stable release of Linux 5.5 this weekend I have been carrying out benchmarks for looking at how the performance of this newly-minted kernel compares to older releases. Here are benchmark results of Linux 5.3 vs. 5.4 vs. 5.5 with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X but the results are similar to other HEDT and lower-end systems we've tested thus far...
Linux 5.6 Kernel Adds New System Call For "openat2" - More Extensible openat()
A new system call added to the very feature rich Linux 5.6 kernel is openat2() for more extensible behavior compared to the existing openat() functionality...
There Is Experimental Patches Providing Support For DXIL Shaders With VKD3D
The Wine project's VKD3D initiative for translating Direct3D 12 support to Vulkan took another step forward today with patches for handling DXIL (Shader Model 6.0+) shaders with VKD3D, but the work in the current form may need to be re-worked...
Mesa 20.0's RADV Driver Deems Navi/GFX10 Stable, Vulkan 1.2 In Good Shape, ACO Fixes
With Mesa 20.0 scheduled for branching today (though that could be delayed a few days potentially depending upon last minute requests), there's been a flurry of Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver activity to squeeze into this first Mesa release series of 2020...
GTK4 Data Transfer APIs Being Modernized Around Wayland
Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has provided an update on one of the latest areas the GTK developers are working on finishing up with the forthcoming GTK 4.0 tool-kit... Improving the data transfer interfaces around handling for copy/paste and drag-and-drop...
We Love Performance... So We Love LibreOffice 6.4 With This Office Suite Now Running Faster
LibreOffice 6.4 is out today as the latest feature update to this cross-platform, open-source office suite...
Godot 3.2 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Better Documentation, New Features
While developers are hard at work on Godot 4.0 with Vulkan support, that release won't be ready until mid-2020 so as a result Godot 3.2 is out today as their latest stable release and serving as a "long-term support" release until transitioning to Godot 4...
The Linux 5.6 x86 Platform Driver Changes Are Busy From Quirky Laptops To New Hardware Support
Intel's Andy Shevchenko sent in the x86 platform driver updates on Monday for the newly opened Linux 5.6 merge window. There is the never-ending work on dealing with quirky Windows-focused laptops to adding new Intel hardware support and other additions...
Clang 10 + Linux 5.6 Will Be Able To Build A Working s390 Kernel
With LLVM Clang 9.0 and Linux 5.3 together it became possible to build the mainline Linux kernel with this non-GCC compiler. The x86_64 Linux kernel Clang-based kernel builds has continued to improve through newer kernel releases. This follows the mainline AArch64 (64-bit ARM) Linux kernel mainline build by Clang too, which has been of much interest by different hardware/software vendors. There hasn't been much Clang'ing kernel efforts for other architectures, but it turns out with Clang 10 and Linux 5.6 will be another working combination, this time for IBM s390...
It's Finally Time: The Time Namespace Support Has Been Added To The Linux 5.6 Kernel
The Time Namespace, which was originally proposed back in 2018 for allowing per-namespace offsets to the system clocks, has finally entered the mainline kernel in early 2020 with the in-development Linux 5.6 kernel...
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