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Vulkan Video Decoding Coming In H1'2020, Ray-Tracing Progressing
The Khronos Group has posted their material from the SIGGRAPH 2019 graphics conference and includes some interesting updates on Vulkan and their ongoing efforts...
NVIDIA Continues To Be Involved With Making Vulkan More Appropriate For Machine Learning
NVIDIA engineers continue to be among those in the Vulkan technical sub-group working to advance machine learning for this API...
Fedora Developers Discuss Ways To Improve Linux Interactivity In Low-Memory Situations
Similar to the recent upstream Linux kernel discussions over the poor Linux desktop experience when in memory pressure situations particularly with systems having limited amounts of RAM, Fedora developers are discussing ways to improve this experience as well...
Oracle's Kernel Test Framework Might Be Added To The Linux Kernel Tree
Knut Omang of Oracle is working on integrating the Kernel Test Framework into the Linux kernel source tree/repository...
Mir 1.4 Released With Fix For GTK3, Support For Exclusive Zones
The Canonical team led by Alan Griffiths for maintaining the Mir display server with Wayland support today rolled out Mir version 1.4...
Qt PDF Being Discussed For Qt 5.14
Being evaluated for Qt 5.14 is shipping Qt PDF that allows PDF documents to be rendered/viewed inside QWidget-based applications...
Linux Finally Has A Fix For Crackling Audio Input On Recent AMD Systems
Queued now for Linux 5.3 and also marked for back-porting to existing kernel stable series is a fix to address distorted and crackling analog audio input that has affected AMD systems for at least the past two years with certain Realtek audio codecs...
ROCK Pi 4 Is Becoming A Good Arm SBC With Panfrost Graphics & Wayland Support
At $39 to $66 USD depending upon model, the ROCK Pi 4 is evolving to offer nice open-source support down to the Arm Mali graphics thanks to the Panfrost Mesa driver and also works nicely with Wayland...
Intel's Linux Graphics Driver Developers Discover 3~20% Boost For Current-Gen Hardware
Last week was the Intel Gallium driver one line patch to boost performance by 1%. Today's code churn within Mesa for Intel's open-source Linux graphics drivers were larger but also with a more profound performance impact with some workloads now being faster by around 20%. Making this more exciting is that today's round of driver optimizations apply to the very common and mature "Gen 9" graphics hardware...
DragonFlyBSD 5.6.2 Released With Disruptive Change To Help Chromium, Ported Apps
DragonFlyBSD 5.6.2 is out today as the newest version of this popular BSD operating system...
TGSI To NIR Improvements Hit Mesa 19.2 For RadeonSI
AMD Mesa lead developer Marek Olšák has landed a set of improvements to the TGSI-to-NIR pass today for Mesa 19.2 to enhance the RadeonSI driver's support for using this intermediate representation...
AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Playing Nicely With Latest Linux Distros Following BIOS Updates
One month ago we were told that AMD released a BIOS fix to their motherboard partners for addressing the systemd boot issue with Ryzen 3000 series processors that stems from an RdRand instruction issue. Finally over the past week we've seen motherboard vendors pushing out BIOS updates for the prominent motherboards and indeed this takes care of the issue...
Gentoo's 64-bit ARM Support Is Now In Good Shape With Profiles Deemed Stable
Gentoo's AArch64/ARM64 support for 64-bit ARM should now be in good shape...
AMD EPYC Rome Still Conquering Cascadelake Even Without Mitigations
With last week's dramatic EPYC "Rome" launch where AMD has blown past Intel Xeon "Cascadelake" performance in a majority of server benchmarks, helping the successful launch of these Zen 2 server processors has been Intel's repeated delays of 10nm/Icelake CPUs and also the Spectre / Meltdown / Zombieload / Foreshadow mitigations. Out of curiosity, I've run some unmitigated benchmarks for the various relevant CPU speculative execution vulnerabilities on both the Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Cascadelake and AMD EPYC 7742 Rome processors for seeing how the performance differs.
Intel Tiger Lake Support Added To The LLVM Clang 10 Compiler
We have seen Intel's compiler gurus contributing new enablement patches for Tiger Lake support with GCC 10 due out next year while now they have also landed their initial Tiger Lake support into the LLVM Clang 10 code compiler also due out in H1'2020...
Vulkan 1.1.119 Already Released With Another New Extension
It was just yesterday that Vulkan 1.1.118 was released with two new extensions while now this Monday morning Vulkan 1.1.119 was released as a third extension was accidentally left out of yesterday's weekly revision...
Stepping Towards Better VR Headset Support On Wayland
Sway and WLROOTS creator Drew DeVault on top of his several open-source projects has also been working on improving the VR infrastructure support on Wayland as part of contract work for Status.im. The secure communication company is looking to build a Wayland-driven VR workspace but for that the VR headset support on Wayland needs to be improved...
GCC 9.2 Released With Bug Fixes & AMD Zen 2 Improvements
The GNU toolchain crew released today GCC 9.2 as the newest stable release to their compiler stack...
Xfce 4.14 Desktop Officially Released
After more than four years in development there is finally the release of Xfce 4.14...
Linux 5.3-rc4 Released With A Week Of Fixes Plus SWAPGS "Grand Schemozzle" Code
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.3 release candidate 4 as the latest weekly test release for this new kernel version...
Vulkan 1.1.118 Released With New AMD Extensions
Another week, another new Vulkan update...
Linux 4.4 & 4.9 Kernels Get Back-Ported SWAPGS Protection
Greg Kroah-Hartman issued the Linux 4.4.189 and Linux 4.9.189 LTS kernels on Sunday morning that address the new Spectre V1 "SWAPGS" variant mitigations...
Linux Deprecating Wireless USB & Ultra Wideband Subsystems
The Linux 5.4 kernel will deprecate and mark as obsolete the Wireless USB (WUSB) and Ultra-wideband (UWB) subsystems within the kernel...
Improved Fscrypt File Encryption Handling Aims For Linux 5.4
Fscrypt is the common Linux kernel framework leveraged by the likes of the EXT4, F2FS, and UBIFS file-systems for providing native encryption support. While that Fscrypt-based file encryption has been part of the kernel for several releases now, there's been some shortcomings in how the encryption keys are handled but that should be cleared up for the upcoming Linux 5.4 cycle...
KDE Frameworks 5.61 Fixes The Directory/Desktop File Security Vulnerability
Out this Sunday is the KDE Frameworks 5.61 update that most notable addresses the recently exposed vulnerability to KDE where specially crafted .desktop and .directory files could automatically execute arbitrary code on users' systems...
System76 Preparing To Roll Out Their First Coreboot-Enabled Laptop
System76 has been making good strides on their Coreboot support for their hardware and they are now readying a System76 Darter Pro OSFC Edition as their apparent first laptop to ship with Coreboot in place of the proprietary BIOS...
Wave Hello To WEV - Similar To X.Org's Xev For Event Viewing On Wayland
WEV is a new Wayland utility developed by Drew DeVault of Wayland notoriety for his work on the Sway i3-inspired compositor and the WLROOTS library...
KDE Picks Up Much Better GTK3 App Integration, Better Wayland Performance
It's been an exciting week in the KDE space...
X.Org Server Gains Support For Auto-Binding Secondary GPUs To The Screen
Adding to the changes to find with the eventual X.Org Server 1.21 release is a change from Red Hat that has been carried by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora for years...
A Third-Party Installer Allows Clear Linux To Run On Microsoft Windows WSL
For more than one year we've been hearing of Clear Linux working on Windows WSL support to allow for this performance-optimized Linux distribution to run within Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux. There isn't an official release yet, but at least now is a third-party installer/script for making it possible to setup such a configuration...
Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Is Now Available For Testing
For those with extra time on their hands over the weekend and having a spare Ubuntu Touch supported mobile device, Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 is now available in testing form...
GNU Radio Sees Its First Release In More Than Six Years
After being in development for more than six years, GNU Radio 3.8 is now available and is in fact considered a minor release update...
Google Chrome 77 Enters Beta
Following the Chrome 76 release from just over one week ago, Google has now issued the beta for the Chrome/Chromium 77 series...
GNOME Shell & Mutter Reach The 3.34 Beta Milestone With Last-Minute Changes
Earlier this week was the GNOME 3.34 beta release that also marked the UI/feature/API/ABI freezes for this six month update to the GNOME desktop The GNOME Shell and Mutter are late to the party but on Friday evening saw their 3.33.90 (3.34 beta) releases...
Intel SVT-HEVC 1.4 Brings GStreamer Plug-In, HDR Feature
Intel's open-source SVT video encoder team today released a new feature update to their HEVC/H.265 open-source video encoder...
AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Driver Support For "Renoir" APUs
AMD is striking well over the past month with their Linux hardware bring-up. In the past month we've seen the Navi 10/12/14 support get in order for Linux as well as support for the future Vega-based Arcturus GPU and now we see the initial enablement patches for their next-generation APUs, Renoir...
GCC vs. LLVM Clang vs. AOCC Compiler Benchmarks On The AMD EPYC 7742
While AMD's hardware folks were launching the EPYC 7002 series, their software crew was pushing out the AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler 2.0 with support/optimizations for the Zen 2 micro-architecture. Using the top-end AMD EPYC 7742 in a 2P Linux server configuration, here are C/C++ compiler benchmarks looking at the performance when built by the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), LLVM Clang, and AOCC 2.0.
F2FS Case-Insensitive Support Is Pending Ahead Of The Linux 5.4 Kernel
EXT4 set off the new trend for opt-in, per-directory case-insensitive file/folder support on Linux systems. EXT4 picked up that optional case-insensitive support for Linux 5.2 while the for Linux 5.4 kernel cycle the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is set to receive similar support...
A Modern Supermicro Kabylake Xeon Motherboard Now Supports Coreboot
While the tide may be eventually turning, as it stands today for those wanting to run Coreboot on x86 desktop/server hardware you are largely limited to generations-old platforms. But now there is a new option and that is a Coreboot port having been completed to a modern Supermicro motherboard for use with Intel Xeon "Kabylake" processors...
Sway 1.2-RC1 Released For The i3-Inspired Wayland Compositor
Drew DeVault is working on buttoning up the Sway 1.2 Wayland compositor release as the newest feature update to this i3 window manager inspired compositor...
Ubuntu's Yaru Desktop Theme Seeing Updates - Big Update Against GTK's Latest Adwaita
Canonical's designers have been working to update their Yaru desktop theme ahead of the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" release...
Proton 4.11-2 Pulls In Newest DXVK While Fixing High Refresh Rates For Older Games
Following the big Proton 4.11 update for Valve's Steam Play that just arrived over one week ago, a second update to this Wine-derived software is now available for enhancing the Windows games on Linux experience...
Summing Up The AMD EPYC 7742 2P Performance In One Graphic
If you didn't have a chance since last night to check out our benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 7742 and EPYC 7502 Linux performance, I certainly encourage you to do so. Even if you aren't a server enthusiast, it's incredible to see the engineering achievement of AMD with Zen 2 and how the race is certainly back on in the CPU space. If you are short on time, here's the quick summary of our initial AMD EPYC 7002 benchmark results...
Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Released - Switches To Using 19.04's Linux 5.0 HWE
Canonical has announced the immediate availability of Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS as the newest update to this long-term support series...
How Can AMD EPYC "Rome" 7002 Series Be Even Better? Open-Source BIOS / Coreboot
By now you've likely seen the fantastic performance out of AMD's new "Rome" 7002 series processors. The performance is phenomenal and generally blowing well past Intel's Xeon Cascade Lake processors. So that's all good and it can get even better outside of performance: I asked AMD about the prospects of Coreboot / open-source BIOS support and got a surprising response...
LibreOffice 6.3 Released With Better Performance, UI Enhancements
After a slight delay, The Document Foundation this morning announced the release of the LibreOffice 6.3 cross-platform open-source office suite...
Red Hat Joins The RISC-V Foundation
Red Hat has joined the RISC-V Foundation to help foster this open-source processor ISA...
GTK-VNC 1.0 Released With GTK3 Requirement & Other Improvements
Yesterday marked the release of GTK-VNC 1.0 as GNOME's VNC viewer widget for the GTK tool-kit...
AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler 2.0 Released With Zen 2 Support
Coinciding with yesterday's glorious AMD EPYC "Rome" 7002 series CPU launch, AMD's software folks released AOCC 2.0 as their LLVM/Clang-based compiler optimized for Zen processors. AOCC 2.0 brings optimized compiler support now for Zen 2 processors not just only the EPYC 7002 line-up but also the Ryzen 3000 series consumer processors...
Libinput 1.14 Released With Dell Canvas Totem Support, Touchpad Improvements
Version 1.14 of the libinput library for unified input handling on Linux X.Org and Wayland systems is now available...
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