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Pidgin 2.13 Linux Desktop Instant Messaging Client Released
Desktop-based instant messaging clients are becoming increasingly rare in the age of mobile apps and browser-based alternatives, but Pidgin formerly known as GAIM continues moving along albeit slowly. Recently the Pidgin 2.13.0 release happened without much attention...
Thunderbolt Updates Head Into Linux 4.17, Adds USB/SL4 Security Level
Greg Kroah-Hartman's char/misc pull this week included a fair amount of Thunderbolt support improvements for the forthcoming Linux 4.17 kernel...
"The Forge" Rendering Framework Adds Linux/Vulkan Support
The Forge, a cross-platform rendering framework developed by Confetti, a graphics research think-tank and consulting company, has rolled out Linux and Vulkan support...
BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Continues Chugging Along With Driver Improvements, UI Changes
The open-source Haiku operating system that is still striving for compatibility with BeOS had another busy month...
Early Features Begin Receiving Approval For Fedora 29
Today was another weekly Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo). We had been looking forward to this meeting for a decision on the GNOME auto-suspend by default behavior but there wasn't a quorum and that topic was then diverted until next week. But there were also early Fedora 29 features approved this week...
KDE Applications 18.04 Release Candidate Arrives
With plans to officially ship KDE Applications 18.04 later this month, the release candidate is out today for this collection of K* applications...
Vulkan 1.1.72 Released With Three New Extensions
Vulkan 1.1.72 is now available, which for simple terms is really "Vulkan 1.1.2" except for the patch number having not been reset when Vulkan 1.1 was launched last month...
Coreboot Lands Updated ME_Cleaner, Purism TPM & Other Updates
A number of improvements to Coreboot were merged to Git master overnight...
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Final Beta Released
The final beta release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" is now ready for testing ahead of the official launch expected at the end of April...
Work Is Underway To Upstream LLVM Clang's CUDA Toolchain For AMDGPU/HIP
A long available tool has been AMD's ROCm HIP that allows converting CUDA code to portable C++ code that in turn can be executed on Radeon GPUs. There is now work on getting the upstream LLVM Clang compiler's CUDA toolchain support to also support HIP...
NVIDIA Xavier Support Being Brought Up With Linux 4.17, Other New ARM Boards Too
There's a lot of ARM work that has built up for the Linux 4.17 development cycle...
DXVK 0.41 Released, Slightly More CPU Efficient & Offers A Heads-Up Display
DXVK 0.41 is now available as the library for Wine users to have Direct3D 11 implemented over Vulkan for generally allowing higher performance than Wine's own D3D11-over-OpenGL layer...
Linux 4.17 Gets PhoenixRC Flight Controller Support & PS/2 Mouse Improvements
From several of the pull requests covered on Phoronix this week for the in-progress Linux 4.17 kernel, there are many areas seeing improved hardware/device support with this next kernel upgrade, including the input drivers...
Fedora To Decide What To Do About GNOME 3.28's Auto-Suspend Default
While Ubuntu developers have decided to no longer enable auto-suspend by default as set with the new GNOME 3.28 desktop when running on AC power, Fedora developers are still debating the issue...
Google Cloud Poaches Ubuntu's VP of Product
After being at Canonical for a decade (aside from a brief stint at Gazzang), Dustin Kirkland who most recently served as the company's VP of Product, is joining Google...
Gigabyte MZ31-AR0: EPYC Motherboard With Dual 10Gb/s LAN, 16 SATA Ports, Seven PCI-E Slots
When it comes to our AMD EPYC Linux testing the past number of months, one of the most common test requests was to test the Gigabyte MZ31-AR0 motherboard, which is more workstation oriented than traditional server with plenty of PCI Express slots for suiting multiple graphics cards, etc. Over the past month I have been testing out this single-socket AMD EPYC motherboard and overall it has worked out fairly well.
Razer's Blade Stealth Multi-Touch To Be Supported By Linux 4.17
The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 4.17 merge window and that set of driver updates includes a variety of new product support...
NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 8.1 Released, Now Supports Real-Time HEVC 4K @ 60 FPS
NVIDIA has released a new version of their Video Codec SDK that serves as CUDA-based, cross-platform video encode and decode functionality that ultimately succeeds their VDPAU Linux video decode stack for GPU video coding needs...
NixOS 18.03 Switches To Linux 4.14, GCC 7 & Other Package Updates
For fans of the NixOS Linux distribution that makes use of the Nix package manager, version 18.03 "Impala" is now available...
F2FS File-System Gets A Lost & Found, Performance Enhancements
The explicitly flash-focused F2FS file-system is the latest noteworthy pull request on its way to the mainline Linux 4.17 kernel...
New Sound Drivers & UAC3 Ready To Play On Linux 4.17
Longtime Linux sound system maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE has sent in his album of updates for the Linux 4.17 kernel...
Panfrost Project Getting "Half-Way Driver" To Gallium3D
Alyssa Rosenzweig who has been leading the charge recently on the open-source Mali T700 GPU driver that was called "Chai" but has been renamed to "Panfrost" is now pursuing a "half-way driver" approach to testing their knowledge of the hardware's command stream...
Matthew Garrett Elaborates More On Lockdown + Secure Boot Pairing
A few days back we covered the heated exchange on the kernel mailing list over the path being pursued by the Linux kernel "lockdown" patches. Those back and forth messages between Google's Matthew Garrett and Linus Torvalds have now spilled over into a blog post by Garrett...
Clear Linux Shedding More Light On Their "Magic" Performance Work
If you have been a Phoronix reader for any decent amount of time, you have likely seen how well Intel's Clear Linux distribution continues to run in our performance comparisons against other distributions. The developers behind this Linux distribution have begun a new blog series on "behind the magic" for some of the areas they are making use of for maximizing the out-of-the-box Linux performance...
Linux 4.17's Staging Area Loses Some Weight
While the Linux 4.17 kernel is getting much larger in some areas like the sizable additions to DRM this cycle, when it comes to the kernel's staging area where new/experimental code gets vetted before being officially mainline, it's lost tens of thousands of lines of code this cycle...
RISC-V Support Continues Maturing Within The Mainline Linux Kernel
The initial RISC-V architecture support landed in Linux 4.15 and now this open-source, royalty-free processor ISA is seeing further improvements with the Linux 4.17 cycle...
New Intel ISA Document Notes New "Tremont" CPU
Intel published new ISA documentation today where the "Tremont" architecture is a major addition to this documentation update...
EXT4 Gets Extra Protection Against Maliciously Crafted Container Images
Given the booming popularity of Linux containers, it's little surprise but unfortunate that Linux file-systems are having to protect against specially-crafted file-system images by malicious actors looking to exploit vulnerabilities in the code...
POWER9 Benchmarks vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance On Debian Linux
For several days we've had remote access to one of the brand new Raptor Talos II Workstations that is powered by POWER9 processors and open-source down through the firmware. For those curious how these latest POWER processors compare to AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon processors, here are some benchmarks comparing against of the few other systems in house while all testing was done from Debian GNU/Linux.
RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Out-of-Order Rasterization Support, Small Performance Boost
The Mesa-based RADV Vulkan driver has landed initial support for out-of-rasterization support, but it's currently disabled by default...
USB Type-C Improvements On The Way To The Linux 4.17 Kernel
The Linux 4.17 kernel is bringing further improvements to USB Type-C support...
AMDGPU DC Begins Reworking FreeSync Module
The latest batch of AMDGPU DC display code patches were posted last night on the mailing list. These 32 patches touching around three thousand lines of code have more fixes and also work on the FreeSync module...
The Big DRM Pull Request Made It Into Linux 4.17
Last week David Airlie sent in the big DRM feature update for Linux 4.17 prior to going on holiday. For those wondering whether there was going to be any drama with the DRM updates increasing the size of the Linux kernel by another one hundred thousand lines of code, in large part due to Vega 12 header additions, Linus pulled it in without any fuss...
Intel Has Been Working To Improve Linux Suspend/Resume, Calls For More Testing
With Linux suspend/resume support still sometimes being problematic, it's great to hear Intel's Open-Source Technology Center has a team working on continuing to improve the Linux support for this power-saving functionality...
SPARC ADI, SELinux SCTP & New BMC Server-Side Driver For Linux 4.17
The Linux 4.17 kernel cycle is in full swing with many large pull requests pending...
Valve Reaffirms Commitment To Linux, SteamOS
While there was a lot of hoopla recently about Valve removing the "Steam Machines" link from their main navigation on their website, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais has written a public post to reaffirm the company's commitment to Linux and SteamOS...
Torvalds Expresses Concerns Over Current "Kernel Lockdown" Approach
The kernel lockdown feature further restricts access to the kernel by user-space with what can be accessed or modified, including different /dev points, ACPI restrictions, not allowing unsigned modules, and various other restrictions in the name of greater security. Pairing that with UEFI SecureBoot unconditionally is meeting some resistance by Linus Torvalds...
Ubuntu 18.04 Will No Longer Do Automatic Suspend By Default Unless On Battery
Last month I wrote how Ubuntu 18.04 began enabling "automatic suspend" by default on new installations where after 20 minutes systems were suspending without notice and in some cases still causing issues trying to resume with modern x86 hardware in 2018... Fortunately, Ubuntu developers are reverting that behavior when on AC power...
Mesa 17.3.8 Released With A Handful Of Fixes
For those waiting until v18.0.1 before upgrading to the Mesa 18.0 series, Mesa 17.3.8 is now available as the latest release off this stable series from the end of 2017...
Btrfs Updates Sent In For The Linux 4.17 Kernel
David Sterba sent in the Btrfs file-system updates today for the Linux 4.17 kernel merge window...
Firefox Reality: Linux-Supported Browser For AR/VR Mixed Reality
Mozilla has today announced Firefox Reality as "a new kind of web browser that has been designed from the ground up to work on stand-alone virtual and augmented reality (or mixed reality) headsets."..
Fedora 28 Beta Released
The beta of the much anticipated Fedora 28 beta release is now available for testing...
GCC 7.3 vs. GCC 8.0 vs. LLVM Clang 6.0 On The POWER9 Raptor Talos II
As part of the remote testing of the Raptor Talos II Workstation that is comprised of fully free software down to the firmware and powered by high-end POWER9 processors, over Easter weekend I carried out some GCC vs. Clang benchmarks...
IBM s390 Continues Working On Spectre Defense With Linux 4.17, VirtIO GPU Emulation
With the Linux 4.17 kernel the s390 architecture updates include more mitigation work around the Spectre Variant One and Two vulnerabilities...
Linux 4.17 Kicks Off Another Busy Cycle
It's been just about twenty-four hours that Linus Torvalds has been accepting new material for the Linux 4.17 mainline kernel and it's looking indeed like it will be another very busy kernel update...
AMDVLK Updated With Fresh Batch Of Fixes
It's roughly once a week that AMD updates their external and public facing AMDVLK/PAL source tree for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver while following last week's significant update with Wayland support and more, they have quickly issued another update to this RADV driver alternative...
GnuCash 3.0 Released, Ported To GTK3 Toolkit
GnuCash 3.0 is now available for those looking for a free and open-source accounting program with a focus on personal and small business accounting...
XFS Gets Lazy Time Support In Linux 4.17, Other Improvements
Darrick Wong has submitted the XFS file-system updates targeting the Linux 4.17 kernel. It's a bit lighter than 4.15 and 4.16 that brought "great scads of new stuff", but there still is a fair amount of feature work taking place...
RadeonSI Now Supports KHR_blend_equation_advanced, Needed For OpenGL ES 3.2
RadeonSI Gallium3D has caught up to the fellow Intel i965 and Nouveau NVC0 drivers in supporting the OpenGL KHR_blend_equation_advanced extension...
Wayland 1.15 & Weston 4.0 Release Candidates Published
Not only is there a new X.Org Server 1.20 release candidate today but the folks managing Wayland/Weston development have today announced the first release candidates of Wayland 1.15 and the Weston 4.0 reference compositor...
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