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Updated 2025-07-09 14:15
KDE Ending Out August With Various Fixes & Other Enhancements
As the end of the summer nears and KDE's Akademy conference approaches, development is busy as ever on this open-source desktop environment...
DragonFlyBSD Pulls In AMD Radeon Graphics Code From The Linux 4.7 Kernel
It was just last month that DragonFlyBSD pulled in Radeon's Linux 4.4 kernel driver code as an upgrade from the Linux 3.19 era code they had been using for their open-source AMD graphics support. This week that's now up to a Linux 4.7 era port...
VMware Is Exploring Reducing Meltdown/PTI Overhead With Deferred Flushes
VMware engineer Nadav Amit who previously pursued "Optpolines" and other possible performance optimizations in light of Spectre / Meltdown vulnerabilities is now proposing patches for deferring PTI flushes to help with addressing the performance overhead caused by Meltdown...
Open-Source GPU Drivers For Embedded Have Been Improving But RE'ing Take A While
Robert Foss of Collabora was back at the Linux Foundation's Open-Source Summit this week to present the latest state of open-source graphics drivers in the embedded space...
Ampere Computing Is Keeping Close Track Of The Linux Performance For Their ARM Servers
Hardware vendor Ampere Computing with their impressive ARM servers is doing a great job on closely following their hardware's Linux performance as part of a rigorous continuous testing regiment or ensuring quality, compatibility, and stability while being fully-automated...
Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver Sees ~30% Performance Boost For APUs
Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan driver just saw a big performance optimization land to benefit APUs like Raven Ridge and Picasso, simply systems with no dedicated video memory...
LG Has Been Working On Reduced Boot Times With Hibernation Optimizations
LG Electronics has been exploring improvements around hibernation/suspend-to-disk to speed-up the Linux boot process for consumer electronics rather than performing cold boots and as part of that is working towards upstream optimizations...
Intel Iris Gallium3D Is Close With SPIR-V Support For OpenGL 4.6
This week saw OpenGL 4.6 support finally merged for Intel's i965 Mesa driver and will be part of the upcoming Mesa 19.2 release. Not landed yet but coming soon is the newer Intel "Iris" Gallium3D driver also seeing OpenGL 4.6 support...
FreeBSD's Executive Director Calls For Linux + BSD Devs To Work Together
While called the Open-Source Summit, the event is primarily about Linux as after all it's hosted by the Linux Foundation. But at this week's Open-Source Summit in San Diego, Deb Goodkin as the executive director of the FreeBSD Foundation presented. Deb's talk was of course on FreeBSD but also why FreeBSD and Linux developers should work together...
Enlightenment 0.23 Released With Massive Wayland Improvements
It has been almost two years since the release of Enlightenment 0.23 while surprising E23 has now surfaced...
Intel Shares Highlights From Their 2019 Open-Source Technology Summit
Taking place back in May at the beautiful Skamania Lodge in Washington was Intel's OSTS 2019 for their annual Open-Source Technology Summit that traditionally was internal-only but has begun opening up including allowing external participants this year. I was at OSTS 2019 and it's by far my highlight of the year with many really great sessions and a lot of useful networking at the event. Intel's open-source team has now shared some video recordings from this open-source/Linux event...
Wayland's Weston 7.0 Compositor Released With PipeWire Streaming Support
Wayland's Weston 7.0 was released on Friday with the newest features for this reference compositor implementation...
Wine 4.0.2 Released With 66 Bug Fixes
Wine 4.0.2 is out today as the second stable point release to this year's Wine 4.0 cycle...
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G Is Working Well On Linux
AMD Raven Ridge APUs were a rough launch particularly on Linux where even with the latest motherboard BIOS updates and Linux kernel I am still hitting occasional stability issues, so when the opportunity arose recently to try out the Ryzen 5 3400G as the successor in the Picasso family, I was interested. Fortunately, AMD Picasso APUs have proven to be in better shape on Linux so here is the initial round of performance tests for those interested in the AMD Linux performance on Ubuntu.
Intel Submits Final Batch Of Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.4 - Growing Tiger Lake
After having been submitting various feature updates to DRM-Next the past few weeks of new graphics driver feature code to introduce in Linux 5.4, a final pull request was sent in today with the remaining feature work slated for this next version of the Linux kernel...
Parallel CPU Microcode Updates Being Restored To Help Large Core Count Servers
Following Spectre/Meltdown, the Linux CPU microcode updating was made serial while now a new patch pending for the Linux kernel would restore the behavior to be parallelized in order to speed-up the process for large core count servers...
Nouveau's Changes Sent Out For Linux 5.4 In Fixing Up The Open-Source NVIDIA Support
While NVIDIA recently began publishing more hardware documentation, don't expect it to make an immediate difference in the quality of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver. Today the pull request was sent to DRM-Next of the Nouveau kernel driver changes for the upcoming Linux 5.4 cycle and there isn't much to get excited about...
Valve's Proton Offers Branch With VKD3D For Direct3D 12 Over Vulkan
While VKD3D continues to be under heavy development, Valve already appears pleased with it enough that it's now being built as part of their Wine-based Proton software for powering Steam Play on Linux...
AMDGPU To Allow Memory Re-Clocking Soon For Multi-Monitor Setups
Currently the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver doesn't automatically adjust the video memory clock speeds when running a multi-monitor setup since it's more complicated to gracefully handle when scanning out to two or more displays. But a set of currently experimental patches will allow memory clock switching support on multi-monitor setups with the AMDGPU DC code...
Ubuntu Planning To Drop Qt4 & Its Dependencies Ahead Of 20.04 LTS
With Qt 6 becoming an increasing development focus and Qt 5 already seven years old, Ubuntu developers are looking at finally removing Qt 4 ahead of their 20.04 Long-Term Support release...
U-Boot Has Been Seeing Better x86 Support, EFI Improvements
Google's Simon Glass who is part of the Chromium / Chrome OS team presented at this week's Embedded Linux Conference in San Diego on U-Boot...
CUDA 10.1 U2 Adds RHEL8 Support, Nsight Compute Tools For POWER
NVIDIA last week quietly released a second update to CUDA 10.1...
Fedora Switching To The BFQ I/O Scheduler For Better Responsiveness & Throughput
Following Chromebooks switching to BFQ and other distributions weighing this I/O scheduler for better responsiveness while maintaining good throughput capabilities, beginning with Fedora 31 there will be BFQ used as well...
Systemd 243 RC2 Released
Released nearly one month ago was the systemd 243 release candidate while the official update has yet to materialize. It looks though like it may be on the horizon with a second release candidate being posted today...
The Qt Company Is Now Working On Qt For Microcontrollers
There have been a lot of announcements pertaining to Qt as of late, most of which have been about forthcoming efforts around Qt 6 development. A new announcement out of The Qt Company catching us off-guard is their plans for the tool-kit on micro-controllers...
Linux Begins Preparing For Intel's New "Lightning Mountain" SoC
Linux kernel development activity has shown light on a new Intel SoC we haven't anything about to date... Lightning Mountain...
Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 Milestone 2 Released, OpenBenchmarking.org Serves 42 Millionth Download
The second development release of the forthcoming Phoronix Test Suite 9.0-Asker is now available for testing...
Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Released With Device Fixes, Support For Draft Messages
The UBports community that maintains the (currently 16.04 LTS derived) Ubuntu Touch have now shipped OTA-10 as their newest over-the-air feature update...
Clear Linux Releases Deep Learning Reference Stack 4.0 For Better AI Performance
Intel's Clear Linux team on Wednesday announced their Deep Learning Reference Stack 4.0 during the Linux Foundation's Open-Source Summit North America event taking place in San Diego...
GNOME 3.34 Beta 2 Brings Last Minute Improvements To GNOME Shell, Mutter & Friends
Coming two weeks after the GNOME 3.34 beta is the second and final beta ahead of next month's official GNOME 3.34 release set for 11 September...
Intel's New OpenGL Driver Is Looking Really Great With The Upcoming Mesa 19.2
Intel's new open-source OpenGL Linux driver "Iris" Gallium3D that has been in development for the past two years or so is getting ready to enter the limelight. Months ago they talked of plans to have it ready to become their default OpenGL driver by the end of the calendar year and with the state of Mesa 19.2 it's looking like that goal can be realized in time. With our new tests of this driver, in most games and other graphics applications the performance of this Gallium3D driver is now beyond that of their "classic" i965 Mesa driver.
The Linux Foundation, Intel & Co Form The Confidential Computing Consortium
In kicking off the Open Source Summit that has returned to San Diego, the Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the Confidential Computing Consortium in collaboration with Intel and other companies...
Librem 5 August Update - More Software Progress, No Word On Q3 Shipping
Purism has published their latest monthly update on the status of their Librem 5 Linux smartphone. They continue bringing up the software stack and tweaking the kernel support, but no word on their finalized hardware design nor if they still plan to ship in Q3'2019 as they continue advertising...
Intel's OpenGL Linux Driver Now Has OpenGL 4.6 Support For Mesa 19.2
Two years after the OpenGL 4.6 specification was announced, Intel's open-source OpenGL Linux driver is now officially advertising the support after today landing the remaining SPIR-V enablement work...
Dell XPS 7390 Developer Edition Announced - Intel Comet Lake With Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Going along with Intel this morning announcing their 10th Gen "Comet Lake" processors, Dell has just announced their new XPS line-up with these new processors and it does include a new Linux-loaded Developer Edition laptop...
Intel Launches 10th Gen "Comet Lake" Laptop CPUs For Laptops & 2-in-1s
Earlier this month Intel announced 11 Icelake CPUs for laptops and 2-in1s under their 10th Gen CPU line-up. Today the company announced the 10th Gen Comet Lake CPUs also for 2-in-1s and laptops...
New Low-Memory-Monitor Project Can Help With Linux's RAM/Responsiveness Problem
Red Hat developer Bastien Nocera has announced Low-Memory-Monitor as a new project he's been tackling to try to help with the Linux desktop use-cases when responsiveness issues due to low RAM / memory pressure problems. Low-Memory-Monitor paired with complementary solutions could help improve the Linux desktop's handling on low-end systems and other desktops/laptops when simply running short on RAM...
Xfce 4.16 Should Be Out Next Year But Without GTK4 Or Wayland
With Xfce 4.14 having finally been released last week following a four year development cycle, prominent Xfce developer Simon Steinbeiß has begun talking about the now-started Xfce 4.16 development cycle...
AMD Publishes New RDNA Whitepaper
AMD has been publishing a lot of documentation recently covering their RDNA architecture used initially by the "Navi" graphics processors. They have published ISA documentation and a slide deck, among other material, while now they have published a higher-level whitepaper covering the architecture...
Debian Guts Support For Old MIPS CPUs
As a change that will affect Debian 11 "Bullseye" but not the current Debian 10 "Buster" or older is the distribution's decision to remove the old MIPS architecture...
Sony Continues Tuning AMD Jaguar Support Within The LLVM Clang Compiler
Thanks to Sony using LLVM Clang as their default compiler toolchain for their PlayStation game console, they continue making improvements to the AMD Btver2/Jaguar code for optimized performance. The Jaguar APU is what's in the current PlayStation 4 while we've already seen contributions from Sony to improve the Zen CPU support ahead of their next-generation console...
Blender 2.81 To Feature Intel Open Image Denoise & Eevee Renderer Improvements
Blender 2.80 made its hugely anticipated debut just under one month ago while already Blender 2.81 is looking interesting and will hopefully be out in November...
Netrunner 19.08 Released For Delivering A Clean KDE Experience Atop Debian 10
Netrunner 19.08 "Indigo" was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this KDE-focused desktop Linux distribution...
Mesa 19.2-RC1 Released But Intel Still Looking To Add OpenGL 4.6 Support
Yesterday we shared that Mesa 19.2's release process would finally be getting underway with the first release candidate expected today following the code branching. Sure enough, that process began but now prominent Intel open-source graphics developer Jason Ekstrand is looking to get the OpenGL 4.6 support into this release...
Raptor Computing Systems Planning To Launch New ATX POWER9 Board With OpenCAPI
In addition to the news out of the OpenPOWER Summit in San Diego that the POWER ISA is going open-source and the OpenPOWER Foundation becoming part of the Linux Foundation, Raptor Computing Systems shared they plan to launch a new standard ATX motherboard next year that will feature OpenCAPI connectivity...
CodeWeavers Reflects On The Wild Year Since Valve Introduced Steam Play / Proton
This week marks one year since Valve rolled out their Proton beta for Steam Play to allow Windows games to gracefully run on Linux via this Wine downstream catered for Steam Linux gaming. It's been crazy since then with all of Valve's continued work on open-source graphics drivers, adding the likes of FAudio and D9VK to Proton, continuing to fund DXVK development for faster Direct3D-over-Vulkan, and many other infrastructure improvements and more to allow more Windows games to run on Linux and to do so well and speedy...
Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU12 Released - Adds GCC 9.1 Compiler & Python 3.7
While we haven't heard anything yet about Oracle's plans for Solaris post-11.4 whether that means Solaris 11.4 or the reportedly killed Solaris 12, Oracle today did release Solaris 11.4 Stable Release Update 12 as their newest installment for their supported Solaris operating system release...
POWER ISA Contributed To Open-Source, OpenPOWER Joining The Linux Foundation
The big POWER announcement appears to be that the POWER instruction set architecture is being contributed to the open-source community and the OpenPOWER Foundation is becoming part of the Linux Foundation...
Linux "Lockdown" Patches Hit Their 40th Revision
The long-running Linux "Lockdown" patches were sent out again overnight for their 40th time but it remains to be seen if these security-oriented patches will be pulled in for the upcoming Linux 5.4 cycle...
GCC 10 Lands Support For -march=tigerlake & -march=cooperlake
The GNU toolchain has already been preparing for Cooperlake CPUs as the successor to Cascadelake as well as supporting the new instruction set extensions, but finally today the support for -march=cooperlake was merged to GCC 10 for conveniently exposing the new CPU target in the GNU Compiler Collection. At the same time, -march=tigerlake was also added...
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