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The Big Changes So Far For The Linux 4.15 Kernel - Half Million New Lines Of Code So Far
We are now through week one of two for the merge window of the Linux 4.15 kernel...
FOSDEM 2018 Will Be Hosting A Wayland / Mesa / Mir / X.Org Developer Room
This year at the FOSDEM open-source/Linux event in Brussels there wasn't the usual "X.Org dev room" as it's long been referred to, but for 2018, Luc Verhaegen is stepping back up to the plate and organizing this mini graphics/X.Org developer event within FOSDEM...
The Linux Kernel Is Still Rectifying The Year 2038 Problem
The Linux kernel is still working to rectify the Year 2038 problem whereby the time values stored as signed 32-bit integers will wrap around...
Libre Computer Board Launches Another Allwinner/Mali ARM SBC
The Tritium is a new ARM single board computer from the Libre Computer Board project...
Intel Icelake Support Added To LLVM Clang
Initial support for Intel's Icelake microarchitecture that's a follow-on to Cannonlake has been added to the LLVM/Clang compiler stack...
Linux 4.15 Is A Huge Update For Both AMD CPU & Radeon GPU Owners
Linux 4.15 is shaping up to be a massive kernel release and we are just half-way through its merge window period. But for AMD Linux users especially, the 4.15 kernel release is going to be rocking...
Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020
Intel is planning to end "legacy BIOS" support in their new platforms by 2020 in requiring UEFI Class 3 or higher...
Turbo Boost Max 3.0 Support For Skylake Fixed With Linux 4.15
The platform-drivers-x86 updates have been sent in for Linux 4.15 and include a range of improvements for Intel hardware support. One of the bigger items is support for Skylake CPUs with Turbo Boost Max 3.0...
GNU Nano Text Editor Can Now Record & Replay Keystrokes
GNU Nano 2.9 is now available as the latest feature release of this popular CLI text editor and it's bringing several new capabilities...
Linux 4.14 File-System Benchmarks: Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, XFS
Our latest Linux file-system benchmarking is looking at the performance of the mainline Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS file-systems on the Linux 4.14 kernel compared to 4.13 and 4.12.
Darling Is Still Active With A Goal To Run macOS Apps On Linux
It's been one year and a few days when last researching a status update on "Project Darling" for running macOS/OSX applications on Linux. While the project hasn't been generating too much buzz this year, it still is being developed...
Funtin SFF-8639: U.2 NVMe SSD To PCI-E Card Adapter
With our review this week of the Intel Optane SSD 900P 280GB U.2 SSD there was a discussion in the forums about using U.2 SSDs in desktop systems, etc. If your system doesn't have a U.2 slot, an adapter like the Funtin SFF-8639 makes it easy to pop the SSD into a PCI-E x4 slot...
KVM & Xen Don't Change Much With Linux 4.15
There are a ton of exciting improvements building up in Linux 4.15, but not too much on the virtualization front...
Facebook Releases HHVM 3.23 With OpenSSL 1.1 Support, Experimental Bytecode Emitter
HHVM 3.23 has been released as their high performance virtual machine for powering their Hack programming language and current PHP support...
Freedreno Gallium3D Supports A Fair Amount Of OpenGL 4.x
The Freedreno Gallium3D driver that provides reverse-engineered OpenGL support for Qualcomm Adreno graphics processors is able to handle quite a bit of OpenGL 4...
Linux 4.16 Will Be Another Big Cycle For Intel's DRM Driver
We are just through week one of two for the Linux 4.15 merge window followed by eight or so weeks after that before this next kernel is officially released. But Intel's open-source driver developers have already begun building up a growing stack of changes for Linux 4.16 when it comes to their DRM graphics driver...
AMDGPU DC Code Lands For Linux 4.15 Kernel
Linus Torvalds has accepted the AMDGPU DC display code pull request for the Linux 4.15 kernel. AMD Linux users can now rejoice!..
Radeon VCN Encode Support Lands In Mesa 17.4 Git
It's an exciting day for open-source Radeon Linux users today as besides the AMDGPU DC pull request (albeit still unmerged as of writing), Radeon VCN encoding support has landed in Mesa Git...
The - Hopefully - Final Stab At Intel Fastboot Support
Intel's Maarten Lankhorst has sent out what could be the final patches for enabling "fastboot" support by default within their DRM graphics driver...
Linux 4.15 Gets Fixed To Report Current CPU Frequency Via /proc/cpuinfo
A change recently in the Linux kernel led the CPU MHz reported value via /proc/cpuinfo to either be the nominal CPU frequency or the most recently requested frequency. This behavior changed compared to pre-4.13 kernels while now it's been fixed up to report the current CPU frequency...
Linux File-System Benchmarks On The Intel Optane 900P SSD
Earlier this week I presented out initial Linux benchmarks of the Intel Optane 900P SSD with this 3D XPoint memory U.2 solid-state drive delivering incredible performance figures. Those tests were done with EXT4 while in this article are more tests with other mainline Linux file-systems and also testing some of the different mount options.
Pale Moon Project Rolls Out The Basilisk Browser Project
The developers behind the Pale Moon web-browser that's been a long standing fork of Firefox have rolled out their first public beta release of their new "Basilisk" browser technology...
KDE Applications 17.12 Sees Some New KF5 Ports, Other Apps Dropped
The beta of KDE Applications 17.12 is now available ahead of next month's official debut for this quarterly update to the collection of official KDE programs...
Microsoft Is Trying To Make Windows Subsystem For Linux Faster (WSL)
In our benchmarks of Windows Subsystem for Linux that allows a Linux environment to run atop Windows 10 via this new WSL kernel subsystem, the performance overall has overall been very good and often performing better than virtualized options. But the main area of poor performance is I/O, except now it's being worked on by Microsoft for greater improvements...
AMDGPU DC Pull Request Submitted For Linux 4.15 Kernel - 132,395 Lines Of Code
One day after submitting the main DRM feature pull request for Linux 4.15, David Airlie of Red Hat has submitted the secondary pull request that would feature the long-awaited introduction of AMDGPU DC into the mainline kernel...
Intel Coffee Lake & Cannonlake Thermal Support In Linux 4.15
While Intel Coffee Lake hardware is shipping already, a few bits of tardy kernel code for these "8th Gen Core" CPUs is only hitting the Linux 4.15 kernel. The Intel DRM driver is most notably enabling Coffee Lake graphics by default in 4.15, but there's also some thermal code now landing among other changes now happening...
GeForce GTX 900 Series Re-Clocking Patches Updated By Karol Herbst
Frequent Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver contributor Karol Herbst has posted his latest patch series in working towards GeForce GTX 900 "Maxwell 2" graphics processor re-clocking...
R600 Gallium3D Shader Image Support Lands, Other R600g Patches Pending
As a follow-up to OpenGL 4.2 Support Could Soon Land For AMD Cayman GPUs On R600g, the patches have landed in Mesa 17.4-dev Git! Plus other R600g patches are on the mailing list for review...
Broadcom Hurricane 2 & Allwinner R40 Supported By Linux 4.15
More ARM platform upstreaming has taken place for the Linux 4.15 kernel development cycle among other ARM hardware improvements...
Fedora 28 Hopes To Improve Linux Laptop Battery Life
Red Hat's Hans de Goede is spearheading an effort to improve the Fedora battery life of laptops -- and should conserve power too for desktops running Fedora Workstation -- for the current Fedora 28 cycle...
GNOME's Calendar & TODO Applications Are Looking Better For v3.28
Adding to the growing list of changes for GNOME 3.28 are improvements to the Calendar and To Do applications by Georges Stavracas...
25 More AMDGPU DC Patches, Mostly Focused On Raven DCN
While waiting on David Airlie to send in the AMDGPU DC pull request for Linux 4.15, additional AMDGPU DC material continues building up for what should in turn target Linux 4.16...
Cilk Plus Is Being Dropped From GCC
Intel deprecated Cilk Plus multi-threading support with GCC 7 and now for GCC 8 they are looking to abandon this support entirely...
GhostBSD 11.1 Released: FreeBSD With MATE & Xfce Desktop Experience
GhostBSD 11.1 is now available as the BSD operating system derived from FreeBSD 11.1 while catering to Xfce and MATE desktop experiences...
Intel's Mesa GLSL Shader Cache Is Speeding Up Game Load Times
At the start of the month the Intel i965 Mesa driver finally landed its on-disk shader cache, months after the GLSL on-disk shader cache originally landed in core Mesa and wired up for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. While you can't play too many shader-heavy games with current Intel integrated graphics, this GLSL shader cache within Mesa 17.4-dev Git is working well for speeding up load times and does provide some frame-rate benefits in games dynamically loading shaders.
Bosch Has Been Developing A 3D Window Manager Using Wayland
In what appears to be research for potential use within in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems, Bosch in conjunction with other organizations has been developing a 3D window manager that's built atop Wayland/Weston...
Tegra CEC Support & Other Media Updates For Linux 4.15
The media subsystem updates have been submitted for Linux 4.15 and continues the recent theme of HDMI CEC "Consumer Electronics Control" upbringing within the mainline kernel...
A Useful Intel Power Management Feature Has Landed For Linux 4.15
The libata subsystem changes these days tend to not be too interesting, but for Linux 4.15 there is a noteworthy power management change...
Mozilla Still Isn't Ready To Enable OpenGL By Default In Firefox For Linux
There's been a seven year old bug report about enabling OpenGL accelerated layers by default on Firefox for Linux on at least some supported hardware, but Mozilla still doesn't have any plans to do so...
ASPM Fixes, SR-IOV Improvements & Other PCI Improvements For Linux 4.15
There are a lot of PCI changes that have built up for the Linux 4.15 kernel cycle...
MESA_program_binary_formats Added To The OpenGL Registry
Intel developers have seen their MESA_program_binary_formats extension added to the official OpenGL registry...
F2FS For Linux 4.15 Brings Some Enhancements, Changes For Android
The F2FS file-system changes have been submitted for the Linux 4.15 kernel merge window...
DRM Updates Land For Linux 4.15; Torvalds: "There's Something Odd About DRM People"
Overnight the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) display/graphics driver updates were sent out and ultimately pulled into the mainline kernel for Linux 4.15. This doesn't yet include though the separate AMDGPU DC pull request...
Valve + LunarG Open Up Their Mesa Testing Results
As covered back during XDC2017, Valve and LunarG have been working on more extensive testing of Mesa to catch regressions and meticulously spot any performance changes as they occur. That framework is now publicly available to see the results and for developers allows tracking their own Mesa development branches...
Thunderbolt Networking Driver Lands In Linux 4.15
The networking feature updates have landed for the Linux 4.15 merge window...
AMDGPU DC Gets More Fixes Ahead Of The 4.15 Pull Request
Alex Deucher of AMD has submitted a set of last minute fixes for the AMDGPU DC code that's expected to be sent this week as a pull request for the Linux 4.15 kernel...
Intel Optane SSD 900P Offers Stunning Linux Performance
At the end of October Intel released the Optane 900P solid-state drive as their new ultra high-end performance SSD. Windows reviews have been positive, but what about using the Optane 900P on Linux? It's working well and delivers stunning NVMe SSD performance.
Igalia Posts Initial OpenGL SPIR-V Patches For Mesa, Intel i965
Spanish development outfit Igalia has posted their initial work on wiring up the OpenGL 4.6 ARB_gl_spirv and ARB_spirv_extensions into core Mesa and the i965 OpenGL driver...
Crunch Texture Compression Showing Off Promising Results For Unity
The Crunch texture compression library developed by former Valve Linux/OpenGL engineer Rich Geldreich who cofounded the Binomial consulting firm is making much progress with showing off impressive compression capabilities for game engines...
GNOME 3.27.2 Released: More Meson Porting, Nautilus Starring Files
GNOME 3.27.2 is now available as the second development release in the road to next March's GNOME 3.28 desktop stable update...
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