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Navi 14 Will Work Its Way Into A Workstation Graphics Card
When it comes to Navi graphics processors in workstation cards, there's now confirmation of at least one coming with the "Navi 14" GPU...
Outreachy Applications Open For The Winter 2019 Round
Outreachy's summer round recently wrapped up while their winter round for participants in the southern hemisphere is now open...
GCC 10 Lands The eBPF Port For Targeting The Linux In-Kernel VM
Up to now the LLVM compiler stack has been used when wanting to target the Linux's eBPF in-kernel virtual machine while now the port for the GNU Compiler Collection has been deemed in good enough shape and merged...
Mumble 1.3 VoIP/Chat Program Released With ~3,000 Changes
For fans of the Mumble open-source VoIP communication program that is popular with gamers, Mumble 1.3 was released as their first major release in years...
Intel's Open-Source VP9 Video Encoder Just Scored A Massive ~3x Performance Boost
Intel's open-source team continues showing the power of optimizations... Or rather in this case, a three fold performance improvement due to previously limiting an AVX-512 routine that also works on AVX-2 CPUs. SVT-VP9 is now a lot faster on AVX2 CPUs from both Intel and AMD...
Linux 5.3-rc8 Released To Let The Kernel Bake An Extra Week
As expected, Linus Torvalds today released the Linux 5.3-rc8 kernel rather than opting for the stable Linux 5.3...
Arch-based Manjaro Linux Will Pursue Full-Time Maintainers, Ramping Up Efforts
The past eight years Arch-based Manjaro Linux has largely been a hobby effort for this easy to use Linux distribution but moving forward there is a commercial entity being setup and ultimately they will be looking to employ full-time developers/maintainers...
DXVK 1.3.4 Released With More Workarounds, Performance Bits
Just over one week past the release of DXVK 1.3.3, the DXVK 1.3.4 is out with more fixes and workarounds...
PHP 7.4-RC1 Released With The Performance Looking Real Good - PHP 7.4 Benchmarks
PHP 7.4-RC1 was released this week as this next annual update to the PHP programming implementation nears. Here is a look at how the PHP 7.4-RC1 performance looks like compared to the major releases going back to PHP 5.6...
Linux 5.3 Is Near With Radeon RX 5700 Support, Speed Select & MBP Keyboard/Trackpad
The Linux 5.3 kernel is fit enough to be released today after another quiet week following 5.3-RC7. But due to the Linux Kernel Summit happening this week and Linus Torvalds traveling for that, he's expected to delay the stable kernel release until next weekend so as to not open the Linux 5.4 merge window until he returns from the event...
Qt 5.13.1 Has ~500 Bug Fixes While Qt Creator 4.10 Released
This week marked the release of Qt 5.13.1 as the first point release to this tool-kit series along with Qt Creator 4.10 as the newest version of this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment...
The Mission Of Coreboot - Is It About Open-Source Or Appeasing Hardware Vendors?
There was recently a debate on the Coreboot mailing list about the mission statement / description of this open-source BIOS/firmware replacement for systems that traditionally has liberated boards from proprietary BIOS but still on modern platforms is often pulling in a number of binary blobs...
Mesa 19.3 Now Exposes Its Own GL_MESA_EGL_sync OpenGL Extension
Mesa 19.3 now supports the GL_MESA_EGL_sync extension, a feature proposed by Mesa developers themselves months ago for OpenGL...
Lutris 0.5.3 Released With D9VK Option, Support For Finding AMDVLK Driver
Open-source gaming manager/platform Lutris is up to version 0.5.3 this weekend. While the version bump may not be significant, this update brings with it several new features and fixes...
KDE Now Supports Fractional Scaling On Wayland
While KDE's new goals will include focusing on Wayland support, a big TODO item was just crossed off the list this week... KDE Plasma finally supports fractional scaling under Wayland...
8-Way Linux Distribution Benchmarks On The AMD EPYC 7742 2P Server
A few days ago I provided some benchmarks showing how running Intel's open-source Clear Linux on AMD EPYC Rome can provide some significant speed-ups over Ubuntu Linux, but how do other Linux distributions compare on AMD's new Zen 2 server processors? Here is an eight-way benchmark comparison on the AMD EPYC 7742 2P Daytona server with its 128 cores / 256 threads.
KDE Will Prioritize Wayland, Consistency & Apps Over The Next Two Years
This summer KDE was looking for ideas on new goals to pursue along the likes of their successful Usability + Productivity initiative. In marking the start of their annual Akademy developer conference in Milan, the KDE developers announced their new set of goals to focus on for the next two years...
Debian 10.1 Released With First Batch Of Fixes To Buster
Debian 10.1 was released today as the first collection of security and bug fixes to this summer's release of Debian 10 "Buster" GNU/Linux...
POCL 1.4 RC1 Brings Better SPIR/SPIR-V Support On The CPU
POCL, the "Portable Open Computing Language" project known for implementing OpenCL support on top of the CPU, is closing in on its version 1.4 release...
GNOME 3.34 RC2 Available For Final Testing Of This Big Desktop Update
GNOME 3.34 RC2 made it out on Friday night as the final step before next week's official GNOME 3.34 release...
Linux 5.4 Bringing New Driver To Help SGI Systems Going Back To The SGI Origin
SGI systems going back to the SGI Origin servers starting some two decades ago will see better mainline kernel support with the upcoming Linux 5.4...
Intel's Vulkan Driver Now Hooks Into DriConf For Driver Settings/Workarounds
Intel's "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver has now hooked into the DriConf infrastructure for handling driver tunables and workarounds...
NVIDIA 435.19.03 Vulkan Linux Driver Brings DXVK Fixes
NVIDIA on Friday released their 435.19.03 Vulkan beta driver as their newest Linux driver update. This Vulkan beta doesn't come with any new extensions this go around but does have some DXVK fixes for helping Linux gamers...
BeOS-Inspired Haiku ARM64 Upstreaming Started, AMD Ryzen Workarounds Added
We are approaching the one year anniversary since the Haiku R1 Beta and the developers working on this open-source BeOS-inspired operating system are as busy as ever with improvements...
Intel Linux Graphics Stack Gets Another Speed Boost - Helping Civilization VI By ~18%
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver crew has been on an exciting spree lately of not only punctually enabling new hardware support but also pushing some big performance improvements for new and existing generations of graphics hardware. Today another performance achievement was unlocked...
WireGuard Releases New Snapshot While Not Expected For Linux 5.4 Mainline
WireGuard 0.0.20190905 was released on Thursday by lead developer Jason Donenfeld...
Firefox 69 / 70 Beta Against Chrome 76 On Ubuntu Linux
With Firefox 69 released and Firefox 70 entering beta, here are some fresh web browser benchmarks between Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome from Ubuntu Linux. On the Firefox size, Firefox 68, 69, and 70 Beta were tested with and without WebRender being enabled and compared to Google's current Chrome 76 stable release.
GNU Wget2 Reaches Beta With Faster Download Speeds, New Features
GNU Wget2 is a from scratch rewrite of the popular wget downloading utility. GNU Wget2 wraps around the libwget library while now being multi-threaded and supporting other features to provide better performance over the current wget releases...
Intel Graphics Compiler Changes For Gen12 - Biggest Changes To The ISA Since i965
Since June Intel's open-source developers have begun volleying the initial open-source graphics driver code for Tigerlake "Gen12" hardware. To date the Gen12 changes haven't been too invasive even with this being the first generation with the "Xe Graphics" engine branding. But that's now changed with a new patch series showing major changes to the graphics instruction set...
Turbostat Utility Sees Late Updates In Linux 5.3
The Turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reporting various power/frequency metrics on x86_64 processors saw some late updates merged last weekend for the upcoming Linux 5.3 kernel...
ARM-Powered Lenovo Yoga C630 Laptop To See Better Support With Linux 5.4
For those excited by the prospects of running Linux on Arm-based laptops, with the upcoming Linux 5.4 kernel will be better mainline support for the Lenovo Yoga C630 laptop...
Mesa Gets One Line Fix To Help With KDE KWin Crashing
Landing Thursday within Mesa 19.3 Git but marked for back-porting to the stable 19.1 and 19.2 series is an Intel driver fix to address an issue with KDE's KWin sometimes crashing...
Facebook Engineer Proposing New Slab Memory Controller For Linux - Saves Lots Of RAM
Roman Gushchin of Facebook's Linux kernel engineering team has proposed a new slab memory controller for the Linux kernel...
Last Minute Shell & Mutter Changes Ready For Testing Ahead Of GNOME 3.34
GNOME Shell and Mutter today saw their v3.33.92 releases as their second and final release candidates ahead of next week's GNOME 3.34 stable release. While usually things are very quiet at this stage, there have been some prominent last minute performance fixes...
Running Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Rome? Still Significant Performance Uplift Over Ubuntu
The current AMD EPYC 7742 2P benchmarking that is happening at Phoronix is an interesting Linux/BSD operating system performance comparison. That's in the works while so far are some Ubuntu and Clear Linux numbers. Yes, Intel's open-source Clear Linux platform does run fine generally on AMD hardware -- including the new AMD "Rome" processors -- and generally does still run damn fast. Here is a look at Clear Linux on this 128 core / 256 thread server with Clear Linux against Ubuntu 19.04 as well as the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10.
Librem 5 Will Begin Shipping In The Weeks Ahead, But Varying Quality Over Months Ahead
As we approach the end of Q3, Purism has been quiet whether they will make their revised target of shipping the Librem 5 Linux smartphone this quarter after passing their original plan to ship at the start of 2019. Well, Purism has just published an update and they will begin shipping the phones in batches beginning at the end of the month but the quality isn't yet up to scratch...
Linux Benchmarks Of NVMe SSD Performance With Varying I/O Polling Queues
A Phoronix reader recently pointed out a little known kernel tunable option to adjust the number of I/O polling queues for NVMe solid-state drives that can potentially help improve the performance/latency. Here are some benchmarks from the NVMe poll_queues option...
Some Intel Firmware Binaries Will Reportedly Be More Liberally Licensed
One interesting nugget of news from this week's Open-Source Firmware Conference is that some Intel firmware binaries pertaining to their Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) will be more liberally licensed under their simpler microcode/firmware license...
PinePhone Remains On Track For Shipping In The Months Ahead
The open-source minded PinePhone is sitll on track for shipping in the months ahead and its software side is coming along nicely with the ability to run UBports Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, postmarketOS, KDE Plasma Mobile, and other options...
XWayland Sees Updated Protocol Support To Help WLROOTS & KDE
X.Org Server 1.21's XWayland implementation has added support for the xdg-output-unstable-v1 version 3 protocol to help the likes of KDE and compositors like Sway based on WLROOTS...
Mesa 19.2-RC2 Released Following Delay - Many Iris, RADV & RadeonSI Fixes
Mesa 19.2 fell off the release train and is now likely to be released more towards the end of September rather than the middle of the month or even the end of August as was their original time-table...
AMD Working On Better Page Fault Handling For Navi / Vega GPUs
Longtime open-source AMD Linux driver developer Christian König on Wednesday sent out a set of patches providing "graceful" page fault handling support for Navi and Vega graphics processors...
Visual Studio Code Has Surprisingly Huge Linux Use & Other Developer Metrics
You may recall that back in July Intel's Clear Linux team was looking for feedback on Linux developer workflows and other developer preferences. This survey wasn't limited to Clear Linux users and the results are now published which provide for some interesting data points...
Steam Linux Usage Reportedly Ticks Up To 0.8% For August
Due to the US Labor Day holiday, Valve was slow in updating their monthly figures for their controversial Steam Survey of hardware/software data by polled users. At least for their initial batch of August numbers they are reporting a small increase in the Linux gaming population...
Intel SGX Linux Support Bits Revved For A Twenty-Second Time
The Software Guard Extensions (SGX) support for the Linux kernel around the memory enclaves continues to be worked on by the open-source Intel team and is now up to their twenty-second revision but it's not clear that this code is ready yet for the upcoming Linux 5.4 cycle...
Intel Core i9 9900KS Releasing In October With All-Core 5GHz Turbo
Intel announced at IFA 2019 in Berlin that their Core i9 9900KS processor will be releasing next month...
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Linux CPU Frequency Scaling Governor Benchmarks
Given the recent talk about the Schedutil CPU frequency scaling governor and its future along with CPU frequency scaling behavior in general on AMD Zen 2 processors, here are some benchmarks of the Ryzen 9 3900X when tested with the different Linux "CPUFreq" governor options.
NVIDIA Lands Another New OpenGL Extension In 2019 Around Multi-GPU/SLI
While most games/engines and software in general are moving from OpenGL to Vulkan, NVIDIA is still investing in their OpenGL driver stack and even adding new multi-GPU/SLI functionality to their driver and as part of that introducing new extensions...
ASpeed AST2600 Support Coming To The Linux 5.4 Kernel
While not officially released yet, support for the ASpeed AST2600 is coming to the Linux 5.4 kernel...
NAS Parallel Benchmarks: EPYC 7601 vs. EPYC 7742 vs. Xeon Platinum 8280
Not included as part of our original EPYC 7742 / EPYC 7002 "Rome" Linux benchmarks was the NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) developed by NASA. While an MPI testing favorite, there were build issues with the older version of NPB packaged by the Phoronix Test Suite. But with recently having updated that test profile against the latest NPB upstream, here are some results for the EPYC 7742 2P, EPYC 7601 2P, and dual Xeon Platinum 8280 benchmark results. Separately, there's also results now for NeatBench 5 with this video editing plug-in test case now part of the Phoronix Test Suite...
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