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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...
Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL ES 3.1
Back during the summer Eric Anholt who had been the lead developer of Broadcom's VC4/V3D graphics driver stack most notably used by Raspberry Pi boards left the company to join Google. In his place, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is working with consulting firm Igalia to continue work on the DRM/KMS kernel driver and Gallium3D drivers for this open-source graphics driver support...
Intel Compute Runtime 19.40.14409 Adds "Early Support" Tiger Lake Support
As written about a few days ago, Intel engineers added Gen12/Xe Tiger Lake support to their compute stack "NEO" for Linux users. That support has now made it into their latest weekly release of the Intel Compute Runtime...
Mir 1.5 Released With Bug Fixes & Wayland Improvements
Canonical's developers continuing to advance the Mir display server that continues to be focused on providing an abstraction for Wayland support have issued a new feature release...
AMD Linux Driver Bringing BACO Support To Older Sea Islands / Volcanic Islands GPUs
It's fairly rare these days seeing big patch sets out of AMD focused on improving the open-source Linux driver support for the likes of aging GPUs such as the Sea Islands and Volcanic Islands generations, but this Friday there is some notable development activity...
Intel's IWD Wireless Daemon Now Supports IPv6 Network Configuration Handling
Intel's open-source IWD wireless daemon that continues work on replacing WPA Supplicant is up to version 0.22...
A Deep Dive Into The Performance-Focused AMDGPU "Bulk Moves" Functionality
Recently on Phoronix you have likely heard a lot about the LRU "bulk moves" functionality for the AMDGPU driver after it was talked up by a Valve Linux developer for the performance help to Linux games and then the change landing in Linux 5.4 as a "fix"...
"VIRTME" Revised For Virtualized Linux Kernel Testing
The "VIRTME" project was started years ago as a set of simple tools for running a virtualized Linux kernel that uses the host distribution or basic root file-system rather than a complete Linux distribution image. There hasn't been a new release of VIRTME in years but that changed on Thursday...
Mesa's DRM Library Looking To Change Its Versioning Scheme
Mesa's DRM library could soon be shifting to a date-based versioning scheme similar to what is already employed by Mesa itself (year.release) and the X.Org Server is also looking at similar versioning...
Intel SVT-VP9 Finally Makes Its First Pre-Release For Speedy VP9 Encoding
While Intel's SVT-VP9 video encode has been public since February and receiving frequent Git commits for advancing this very fast open-source VP9 video encoder, finally today it saw its first tagged release, being called the SVT-VP9 0.1 pre-release...
System76 Launches Two Intel Laptops With "Open-Source Firmware" Coreboot
While not exactly a big surprise with System76 having done an "OSFC Edition" Coreboot laptop at small scale at the end of the summer, but System76 is now formally announcing two Linux laptops shipping with Coreboot as an alternative to their proprietary BIOS...
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Clear Linux vs. Debian 10.1 Benchmarks On An Intel Core i9
Earlier this week I provided some fresh Windows vs. Linux web browser benchmarks for both Firefox and Chrome. For those curious how the current Windows 10 vs. Linux performance is for other workloads, here is a fresh look across a variety of software applications and while testing the near-final Ubuntu 19.10, Intel's rolling-release Clear Linux, and Debian 10.1 while running off an Intel Core i9 HEDT platform.
Valve's Radeon "ACO" Vulkan Compiler Back-End Now Supports Navi
The promising ACO compiler back-end for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver now has support for GFX10/Navi graphics!..
AMD Sends Out HDCP Support, New GPU Support In AMDKFD For Linux 5.5
In addition to Intel this week sending out their first big batch of graphics driver changes for the Linux 5.5 kernel cycle kicking off at year's end, today AMD developers sent in their first batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver changes targeting this next version of the Linux kernel...
X.Org Server To See New CI-Driven Automated Release Cycles, Big Version Numbers
There hasn't been a major release of the X.Org Server now in 17 months... Not because there haven't been any changes (in fact, a lot of GLAMOR and XWayland work among other fixing) but because no one has stepped up as release manager to get the next version out the door. But to workaround that, developers are looking at moving the X.Org Server to purely time-based releases and letting their continuous integration testing be the deciding factor on if a release is ready to ship...
OpenSUSE Expanding Encryption Options For Its Installer
While Ubuntu developers are busy adding experimental ZFS support to their installer, the SUSE developers working on their YaST installer are working on offering better security options for their platform by beefing up the encryption capabilities at install-time...
RenderDoc 1.5 Released For This Leading OpenGL / Vulkan / Direct3D Open-Source Debugger
RenderDoc has already been the leading open-source graphics debugging tool for OpenGL / Vulkan / Direct3D across multiple platforms and it continues only getting more useful with each new feature release...
Google Opens Up "SchedViz" To Visualize Linux Kernel Scheduling Behavior
Google's newest open-source contribution for benefiting the Linux kernel is SchedViz...
Proton 4.11-7 Released With Controller Improvements, D9VK/DXVK Updates
Valve has released Proton 4.11-7 as the newest version of their Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...
NixOS 19.09 Released With Xfce 4.14 Packages, GNOME 3 Updates
We are hitting the autumn Linux distribution update season and out today is NixOS 19.09 as the latest installment for this operating system built around the functional Nix package manager...
RMS: No Radical Changes In GNU Project
With Stallman sticking around as head of the GNU and with that the Free Software Foundation re-evaluating their GNU relationship, Richard Stallman is already saying there will be no major changes to the project he founded...
The Mitigation Impact Difference On AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs. Intel Core i9 9900K Performance
Last week I shared benchmark results of the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs. Intel Core i9 9900K in 400+ benchmarks in the largest comparison ever for these two competing ~$500 USD processors. If that wasn't enough, I repeated the hundreds of CPU/system benchmarks again but without any of the recent CPU security mitigations in place to see how the situation would have played out pre-2018.
Qt 5.14 Rolls To Beta Stage With Graphics API Independent Scenegraph Renderer
The Qt Company has shipped Qt 5.14 beta as the newest version of the Qt5 tool-kit and their last real feature update as Qt 5.15 will focus more on bug fixes as development is shifting towards Qt 6.0 due out in one year's time...
KDE + Qt 5.14 To Better Behave With Context Loss Around NVIDIA's Driver
Currently when resuming from systemd suspend or switching back to the KDE desktop from an alternate VT, it's possible with the NVIDIA proprietary driver to see screen corruption or leakage of previous screen contents to areas of the lock screen / desktop. This annoying issue is now being better addressed with Qt 5.14...
Ubuntu 19.10 Makes It So Easy To Have Your Desktop Running Off A ZFS File-System
As we reported this weekend, the Ubuntu desktop installer "Ubiquity" has landed the much anticipated ZFS install support. That's now propagated through to the Ubuntu 19.10 daily ISOs and does indeed make for a quick and easy setup of Ubuntu Eoan running off a root ZFS file-system...
Intel Adds GPU-Accelerated Memory Copy Support To FFmpeg
Intel engineers have contributed GPU-accelerated memory copy support to FFmpeg when making use of their preferred video decode implementation...
Intel ANV & Radeon RADV Vulkan Drivers Tacking On More Extensions With Mesa 19.3
There still is another month until the feature freeze for Mesa 19.3 to end out 2019 and it will be a big one...
GNOME Shell & Mutter 3.34.1 Deliver On Their Prominent Fixes
There weren't out in time for yesterday's formal GNOME 3.34.1 point release, but GNOME Shell and Mutter have out their prominent point releases today that are exciting on the correction front...
RadeonSI NIR Mesa 19.3 Testing Didn't Turn Up Any Bugs, Similar Performance To TGSI
Besides RADV ACO compiler testing and AMDGPU bulk moves restored another common test request recently on the Radeon Linux graphics side has been looking at the NIR support...
Amlogic Video Decode Driver Nearly Ready With H.264 Support
The in-kernel staging Amlogic Meson video decode driver could soon handle H.264 support as soon as Linux 5.5...
RadeonSI Adds Zeroing vRAM Workaround To Help Rocket League Players
For those annoyed by random textures appearing when launching the popular Rocket League game with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, a workaround has landed in Mesa 19.3-devel Git while also marked for back-porting to currently supported stable series...
Linux 5.5 To Advertise RDPRU Support For AMD Zen 2 CPUs Via /proc/cpuinfo
RDPRU is one of the new instruction set extensions of AMD "Zen 2" CPUs that is for reading a processor register that is typically limited to privilege level zero. RDPRU allows for reading select registers at any privilege level. With Linux 5.5, the RDPRU presence will be advertised by the CPU features...
Firefox 69 + Chrome 77 On Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu / Clear Linux Benchmarks
With running some fresh cross-OS benchmarks now that Ubuntu 19.10 is imminent followed by Ubuntu 19.10, a new Windows 10 update coming in the days ahead, and also the release of macOS 10.15, a lot of fun benchmarks are ahead. In today's article is a quick look at the Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Clear Linux web browser performance for both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Navi 14 AMDGPU Firmware Lands In The Linux-Firmware.Git Tree
Just one day after announcing the Radeon RX 5500 series as the first Navi 14 GPUs, AMD has submitted the firmware binaries to the linux-firmware.git tree that are required for usage with the open-source Linux graphics driver...
KDE's KWin To Still Pursue X11 Composite Unredirect, More Wayland Improvements
KDE developer Roman Gilg attended the X.Org Developer's Conference last week in Montreal. At XDC2019 he provided the X11/Wayland developers with an overview of KWin's architecture as both an X11 window manager and Wayland compositor along with talking of some of the future plans...
GNOME 3.34.1 Released With Latest Fixes
GNOME 3.34.1 is out as the first point release to last month's big GNOME 3.34 desktop debut...
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Making Progress On ARM, Various Kernel Improvements
Just last week marked the one year anniversary since shipping the Haiku R1 beta release for this BeOS-inspired open-source operating system. The developers remain though as busy as ever with advancing this interesting open-source project...
Firefox 71 Landing Wayland DMA-BUF Textures Support
Firefox 71 is bringing another important Wayland improvement!..
Fedora 31 Won't Add An Official POWER Desktop Spin
While Fedora recently began spinning workstation/live images for POWER (PPC64LE) at least as a work-in-progress, it won't be made a formal feature of the upcoming Fedora 31...
NVIDIA Begins Funding Blender Development
NVIDIA is the latest high profile company now contributing significant funds for advancing the open-source Blender 3D modeling software...
Imad Sousou Steps Down As Head Of Intel's Open-Source Efforts
After an incredible 25 year journey at Intel and having founded the Open-Source Technology Center, Imad Sousou announced today he is stepping away from Intel...
Intel Readies Another Big Graphics Driver Push With Linux 5.5 - Lots For Tigerlake/Gen12
While just one week past the Linux 5.4 merge window cut-off and now with XDC 2019 out of the day, Intel's open-source graphics driver team sent in their first batch of new material they will be targeting for the Linux 5.5 cycle...
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