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A Quick Look At EXT4 vs. ZFS Performance On Ubuntu 19.10 With An NVMe SSD
For those thinking of playing with Ubuntu 19.10's new experimental ZFS desktop install option in opting for using ZFS On Linux in place of EXT4 as the root file-system, here are some quick benchmarks looking at the out-of-the-box performance of ZFS/ZoL vs. EXT4 on Ubuntu 19.10 using a common NVMe solid-state drive.
Arch Linux Nears Roll-Out Of Zstd Compressed Packages For Faster Pacman Installs
The upcoming release of Arch's Pacman 5.2 is bringing support for compressing packages with Zstd which ultimately will provide faster package installs on Arch Linux...
GNOME Shell + Mutter Begin Landing Graphene Integration
In the newest development code of GNOME Shell and Mutter for GNOME 3.36, Graphene integration has begun to replace some elements of Clutter...
A Vast Majority Of Linux's Input Improvements Are Developed By One Individual
While there is an ever increasing number of open-source developers focusing on the Linux graphics stack with the GPU drivers and related infrastructure, it's quite a different story when it comes to the Linux input side. It's basically one developer that has been working on the Linux input improvements for the past number of years...
Google Ejects Open-Source WireGuard From Android Play Store Over Donation Link In App
Apparently Google doesn't appreciate donation links/buttons within programs found on the Google Play Store even when it's one of the main sources of revenue for open-source programs. WireGuard has been reportedly dropped over this according to WireGuard lead developer Jason Donenfeld...
LLVM Clang RISC-V Now Supports LTO
With the recent release of LLVM 9.0 the RISC-V back-end was promoted from an experimental CPU back-end to being made "official" for this royalty-free CPU ISA. Work though isn't over on the LLVM RISC-V support with new features continuing to land, like link-time optimizations (LTO) most recently being enabled within the Clang 10 code...
Khronos Opens Door For Allowing More Open-Source Drivers To Reach Conformance Status
Khronos president Neil Trevett was at this month's XDC2019 conference in Montreal and he clarified their position on accepting conformance submissions by the open-source drivers...
TURNIP Vulkan Driver Gets MSAA Working
Mesa's TURNIP Vulkan driver that provides open-source Vulkan API support for Qualcomm Adreno hardware in recent weeks has been back to seeing new activity and this week more useful contributions are being made...
New "FUSE2" Kernel Driver Being Experimented With For File-Systems In User-Space
Longtime FUSE developer Miklos Szeredi of Red Hat has been working on a new "FUSE2" FUSE kernel driver for implementing file-systems in user-space...
Highly Threaded Linux Software Running Under CFS Quotas See Big Performance Fix
Thanks to a Linux kernel fix that is likely to be back-ported to the various stable series, highly threaded software running under CFS quotas for enforcing CPU limits are about to be much faster. At least in a synthetic test case, the kernel fix yields a 30x improvement in performance...
xf86-video-ati 19.1 Released With Crash & Hang Fixes
A few days after the xf86-video-amdgpu 19.1 release, xf86-video-ati 19.1 is out as the newest X.Org driver release for older ATI/AMD graphics processors...
Windows 10 vs. Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Driver Performance With Intel Icelake Iris Plus Graphics
With picking up the Dell XPS 7390 with Intel Core i7-1065G7 for being able to deliver timely benchmarks from Intel's long-awaited 10nm+ Icelake generation, one of the first areas we have been testing is the Iris Plus "Gen 11" graphics performance. In this article are our initial Windows 10 vs. Linux graphics performance numbers for Ice Lake.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider Coming To Linux On 5 November
Feral Interactive revealed today that Shadow of the Tomb Raider will be released for Linux on 5 November...
KDE Plasma 5.17 Released With Wayland Improvements, Better HiDPI
Plasma 5.17.0 is out as the newest desktop feature release from the KDE project...
Ubuntu's ZFS Trajectory Is Going From Exciting To Even More Exciting
While it is already exciting to have the Ubuntu 19.10 desktop easily support installations to a root ZFS file-system, moving ahead with their original Zsys effort it should be even more exciting for Ubuntu storage possibilities on both the desktop and server...
Red Hat Developers Eyeing CPU Thermal Management Improvements For Fedora 32
Several Red Hat developers are looking at improving the CPU thermal management capabilities for Fedora Workstation 32 and in turn possibly helping Intel CPUs reach better performance...
Linux Graphics Drivers Could Have User-Space API Changes More Strictly Evaluated
User-space API additions and changes (granted, no ABI breakage permitted for the mainline Linux kernel) to Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers is done fairly easily by their developers and possibly without enough thought. Linux DRM subsystem co-maintainer David Airlie has issued a proposal that would make user-space API alterations more strictly reviewed...
LLVM Plans To Switch From Its SVN To Git Workflow Next Week
LLVM developers had been planning to transition to the Git revision control system in place of SVN by the time of their developer meeting in October. It looks like that goal will be realized on the same-day as kicking off that annual developer meeting...
Project Trident Switching From TrueOS/FreeBSD Distribution To Basing On Void Linux
Project Trident has been one of the lesser known BSD distributions derived from TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD) and making use of the FreeBSD package set. But moving forward the distribution is looking to reinvent itself as a derivative of Void Linux...
Python 3.8 Released With Assignment Expressions, Runtime Audit Hooks
Python 3.8.0 is out today as the latest major release for this popular programming language...
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Adds Bits For Jasper Lake PCH
Details are still light on Jasper Lake, but volleyed onto the public mailing list today was the initial support for the Jasper Lake PCH within the open-source Linux graphics driver side...
PyPy 7.2 Released With Full 64-bit AArch64 Support, PyPy 3.6 Beyond Beta
PyPy 7.2 is out today as a big update for this alternative Python implementation that currently provides interpreters for compatibility with Python 2.7 and Python 3.6...
Debian 11 To Further Deprecate IPTables In Favor Of Nftables Plus Promoting Firewalld
Debian 10 "Buster" already is making use of IPTables' Netfilter back-end by default in their path to deprecate IPTables while for Debian 11 the deprecation will continue further...
Sony Pushes More AMD Jaguar Optimizations To Upstream LLVM 10 Compiler
Sony engineers working on the PlayStation compiler toolchain continue upstreaming various improvements to the LLVM source tree for helping the AMD APUs powering their latest game console...
Google USB-C Titan Security Keys Begin Shipping Tomorrow
Google announced their new USB-C Titan Security Key will begin shipping tomorrow for offering two-factor authentication support with not only Android devices but all the major operating systems as well...
ASRock Rack EPYCD8 Series Make For Great Value AMD EPYC Motherboards With Rome Support
For those that have been interested in AMD's EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors for your own server build, more 7002 series supported motherboards have been hitting Internet stores in recent weeks. If you are looking for one of the lower-cost motherboards, ASRock Rack's EPYCD8 motherboards have been refined with 7001/7002 series processor support.
LLVM "Stack Clash" Compiler Protection Is Under Review
Two years after the "Stack Clash" vulnerability came to light, the LLVM compiler is working on adding protection against it similar to the GCC compiler mitigation...
SHADERed 1.2.3 Released With Support For 3D Textures & Audio Shaders
SHADERed is the open-source, cross-platform project for creating and testing HLSL/GLSL shaders. While a version number of 1.2.3 may not seem like a big update, some notable additions can be found within this new SHADERed release...
POCL 1.4 Released For Advancing OpenCL On CPUs - Now Supports LLVM 9.0
Version 1.4 has been released of POCL, the "Portable Computing Language" implementation that allows for a portable OpenCL implementation to be executed on CPUs as well as optionally targeting other accelerators via HSA or even CUDA devices...
Vulkan 1.1.125 Released With SPIR-V 1.4 Support
Succeeding Vulkan 1.1.124 one week later is now Vulkan 1.1.125 with a lone new extension...
Intel Firmware Binaries Land For AX200/AX201 Bluetooth Linux Support
With devices beginning to hit store shelves using the new Intel WiFi 6 AX200 series chipsets, the firmware binaries have landed in linux-firmware.git for rounding out support for these latest WiFi/Bluetooth adapters...
Linux 5.4-rc3 Released Ahead Of Official Kernel Debut In November
Linus Torvalds has just issued the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 5.4 kernel that should debut as stable before the end of November...
Ubuntu 19.10 Provides Good Out-Of-The-Box Support For The Dell XPS 7390 Icelake Laptop
For those not following on Twitter, recently I picked up one of the new Dell XPS 7390 laptops for finally being able to deliver Linux benchmarks from Intel Ice Lake! Yes, it's real and running under Linux! For those eyeing the Dell XPS 7390 with this being the first prominent laptop with Ice Lake, here is a brief look at the initial experience with using Ubuntu 19.10.
WireGuard 0.0.20191012 Released With Latest Fixes
WireGuard is still working on transitioning to the Linux kernel's existing crypto API as a faster approach to finally make it into the mainline kernel, but for those using the out-of-tree WireGuard secure VPN tunnel support, a new development release is available...
OpenSUSE's OBS Can Now Spin Windows Subsystem for Linux Images
The openSUSE's Open Build Service (OBS) has been picking up the ability to build Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) images for those wishing to craft their own WSL distribution or just rebuild openSUSE from source as a reproducible/verifiable build...
Vulkan To Better Handle Variable Rate Displays / Adaptive-Sync In The Future
While longtime X11 developer Keith Packard is now working for SiFive on RISC-V processors by day, he's still involved in the Linux graphics world through his contract work for Valve. At the XDC2019 conference earlier this month he presented on display timing, the current Linux plumbing for it, and also bringing up Vulkan will better support variable rate displays in the future...
GNOME's Mutter 3.35.1 Fixes The Night Light Mode On Wayland
With many of the prominent fixes that we've talked about for GNOME Shell and Mutter since last month's 3.34 release having been back-ported to 3.34.1, this weekend's release of GNOME Shell 3.35.1 and Mutter 3.35.1 as the first steps towards GNOME 3.36 aren't all that big. But at least in the case of this new Mutter development release are some worthwhile fixes...
Godot's Vulkan Renderer Is Getting Into Increasingly Good Shape
Lead developer of the open-source Godot 2D/3D game engine Juan Linietsky has continued working daily on the engine's Vulkan renderer ahead of Godot 4.0...
KDE Plasma 5.17 Seeing Last Minute Bug Fixing
With KDE Plasma 5.17 releasing soon, it's been seeing a lot of last minute fixes while feature activity is also brewing around Plasma 5.18...
GNU Binutils 2.33.1 Released With Support For Newer Arm Cortex CPUs, SVE2/TME/MVE
GNU Binutils 2.33 was tagged in Git two weeks ago but seemingly without any release announcement while now Binutils 2.33.1 has been released...
Red Hat's New Graphics Engineer Is A Longtime AMD/ATI Linux Developer
Red Hat had been looking to hire another experienced open-source graphics driver developer and for that their newest member on their growing open-source graphics team is a longtime AMD/ATI developer...
FreeBSD 12.1 Is Near With Libomp Finally In Base, LLD Linker By Default For i386
FreeBSD 12.1 is near with the first release candidate shipping this weekend. While a point release over the nearly one year old FreeBSD 12.0, it does come with some notable changes in tow...
Dav1d 0.5 Released With AVX2, SSSE3 & ARM64 Performance Improvements - Benchmarks
Friday marked the release of dav1d 0.5 as the newest version of this speedy open-source AV1 video decoder. With dav1d 0.5 are optimizations to help out SSSE3 most prominently but also AVX2 and ARM64 processors. Here are some initial benchmarks so far of this new dav1d video decoder on Linux...
XWayland Lands RandR/Vidmode Emulation For Better Game Handling
There is yet another significant improvement found for XWayland in the latest X.Org Server code that will hopefully see a long overdue release soon...
KDE Frameworks 6 Discussions Light Up With Qt 6.0 Coming Next Year
With The Qt Company working hard now on development around Qt 6, the KDE developers are beginning their early discussions over their path forward to adopting this next evolutionary tool-kit update...
xf86-video-amdgpu 19.1 Delivers A Batch Of Fixes
AMD has released a new version of their X.Org display driver...
X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator Bringing Vulkan Support
For years we have been looking forward to the realistic X-Plane flight simulator rendered by Vulkan as an alternative to their long-standing OpenGL render and with X-Plane 11.50 that is finally being made a reality...
Rspamd 2.0 Released For Advancing Free Software Spam Filtering
Rspamd 2.0 has been released as the newest version of this leading open-source spam filtering software and it's coming with plenty of changes...
Tons Of The Intel Tiger Lake "Gen 12" Graphics Compiler Code Just Landed In Mesa 19.3
A lot of the Tiger Lake "Gen 12" graphics compiler infrastructure changes to Mesa for Intel's open-source OpenGL and Vulkan Linux drivers were just merged into the Mesa 19.3 code-base...
KDE Plasma Mobile Is Beginning To Look Surprisingly Good
The KDE Plasma Mobile team has begun publishing weekly reports on their development efforts for making KDE software more suitable for mobile devices as well as convergence and other efforts in common with KDE on the desktop...
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