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Canonical Is Hiring Graphics Stack Developers To Work On Mir
While it was only months ago that Canonical let go of several Mir developers at the same time as other staff reductions for the Unity team and different areas as the company changed their focus, they are now looking for new Mir hires...
New Touchpad & Touchscreen Support, Better Dell Canvas Support In Linux 4.15
The HID and input pull requests have been submitted for the Linux 4.15 kernel merge window...
Epiphany 3.27.2 Improves GNOME Web Apps, Firefox Sync
Epiphany 3.27.2 is now available as the latest web browser release in the road to next year's GNOME 3.28 desktop...
QEMU 2.11-RC1 Released: Drops IA64, Adds OpenRISC SMP & More
QEMU 2.11-RC1 is available for this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...
VC4 & VC5 Drivers Get More Fixes Ahead Of The Holidays
Eric Anholt at Broadcom has continued his spree of bringing up the next-gen VC5 Linux graphics driver stack while also continuing to maintain and improve upon the VC4 driver most commonly associated as being the open-source GPU driver option for the Raspberry Pi...
BCache Gets New Maintainer, NVMe Improvements & More For Linux 4.15
The changes to the MD RAID and block areas of the Linux kernel have been submitted for the 4.15 cycle...
OpenGL 4.2 Support Could Soon Land For AMD Cayman GPUs On R600g
David Airlie is looking to land OpenGL image support in the R600 Gallium3D driver that would be enabled for Radeon HD 5000 "Evergreen" GPUs and newer. For the HD 6900 "Cayman" GPUs, this would be the last step taking it to exposing OpenGL 4.2 compliance...
AMD Stoney Ridge Audio Supported By Linux 4.15
The sound driver changes have been submitted for the Linux 4.15 kernel and includes finally supporting AMD Stoney Ridge hardware...
RADV Will Now Enable "Sisched" For The Talos Principle, Boosting Frame Rates
The RADV Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver will now enable the sisched optimization automatically when running The Talos Principle in order to boost performance...
Stereoscopy/3D Protocol Being Worked On For Wayland
Collabora consultant Emmanuel Gil Peyrot has sent out a series of patches proposing a new (unstable) protocol for Wayland in dealing with stereoscopic layouts for 3D TV support but could be used in the future for VR HMDs, etc...
VESA Pushes Out DisplayID 2.0 As The Successor To EDID For Monitors & Electronics
DisplayID 2.0 is now official as the VESA standard to succeed the long-used Extended Display Identification Data "EDID" by TVs, monitors, and other consumer electronics...
Dell Rolling Out More Developer-Focused Systems Preloaded With Ubuntu
Canonical has announced that Dell is rolling out five new systems pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux. These systems are catering towards developers and come from all-in-one computers to new laptop models...
KDevelop 5.2 Released With New Analyzers, Better C++ / PHP / Python Support
KDevelop 5.2 is now available as the newest feature release for this KDE-focused, multi-language integrated development environment...
Ubuntu 17.10 Radeon Performance: Stock vs. X-Swat Updates vs. Oibaf PPA vs. Pkppa vs. Padoka PPA
There are several Launchpad PPA options for Ubuntu users wanting to update their Mesa-based drivers. For those curious about the state of these different third-party repositories, here are a few words on them and benchmarks.
Mesa 17.3-RC4 Released, Handful Of Blocker Bugs Still Left
Emil Velikov of Collabora has just announced the fourth weekly release candidate of the upcoming Mesa 17.3...
Fedora 27 Debuts With GNOME 3.26 Powered Workstation Spin, Modular Server Coming
It's arriving only two weeks late but today marks the official debut of Fedora 27 as the latest major update for this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution...
KTechLab Microcontroller/Electronics IDE Ported To KDE4/Qt4
The KTechLab integrated development environment for electronics and microcontrollers no longer depends upon the vintage KDE3 and Qt3 libraries but has been ported to KDE4/Qt4...
Linux 4.15 Is Off To A Busy Start
As expected, the Linux 4.15 merge window is proving to be very action-packed with a lot of new code being queued for this next kernel release and we are less than 48 hours into this two week cycle...
ACPI & Power Management Updates For Linux 4.15
Rafael Wysocki of Intel has mailed in the power management updates for the current Linux 4.15 kernel merge window...
FFmpeg Expands Its NVDEC CUDA-Accelerated Video Decoding
A few days back I wrote about FFmpeg picking up NVDEC-accelerated H.264 video decoding and since then more FFmpeg improvements have landed...
Intel Batch Buffer Logger Updated For Mesa
Intel's Kevin Rogovin has been working on a "BatchBuffer Logger" for the Intel graphics driver that offers some useful possibilities for assisting in debugging/analyzing problems or performance penalties facing game/application developers...
RISC-V Hopes To Get In Linux 4.15, OpenRISC Adds SMP Support
There's potentially a lot happening within the open-source RISC space for the Linux 4.15 kernel merge window...
XFS For Linux 4.15 Brings "Great Scads of New Stuff"
File-system pull requests today for Linux 4.15 not only included Btrfs compression-related improvements, an overhaul to the AFS driver, and EXT4 corruption fixes but there is also a very significant set of updates to the XFS file-system...
Marek Has Been Taking To AMDGPU LLVM Optimizations
Well known AMD open-source driver developer Marek Olšák has ruthlessly been optimizing the Radeon Mesa driver stack for years. With RadeonSI getting fine-tuned and already largely outperforming the AMDGPU-PRO OpenGL driver and most of the big ticket improvements complete, it appears his latest focus is on further optimizing the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end...
Intel SGX Driver Updated But Likely Too Late For Linux 4.15
Not to be confused with PowerVR SGX, the Intel SGX driver was revised with new patches published today but it doesn't look like it will land for Linux 4.15...
Btrfs Zstd Compression Benchmarks On Linux 4.14
Of the many new features in Linux 4.14, one of the prominent additions is initial support for Zstd compression that is initially wired in for transparent file-system compression with SquashFS and Btrfs. Here are some benchmarks of Zstd Btrfs compression compared to the existing LZO and Zlib compression mount options.
GNOME Shell 4 Proposal Published To Be More Wayland-Focused
Jonas Adahl of Red Hat has volleyed his initial proposals for how a "future" GNOME Shell could be architected on a page entitled GNOME Shell 4. This GNOME Shell 4 would potentially break compatibility with GNOME Shell 3 extensions while being more designed around Wayland rather than X11...
Intel Vulkan Driver Preparing For Faster MSAA Performance
Jason Ekstrand of Intel who contributes significantly to the development of their open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver has prepped a new patch series...
USB Type-C Port Manager Promoted Out Of Staging For Linux 4.15
The USB Type-C port manager that originally premiered in Linux 4.12 will be promoted out of staging with the Linux 4.15 kernel...
AFS File-System Driver Overhauled For Linux 4.15
Red Hat developers have been working on an overhaul of the AFS file-system's kernel driver for the just-opened Linux 4.15 kernel merge window...
Btrfs For Linux 4.15 Picks Up Compression Improvements, Continued Optimizations
David Sterba of SUSE has submitted the Btrfs file-system feature changes queued for the Linux 4.15 kernel...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM Hits General Availability
Red Hat now considers their ARM support on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL7) to be supported under general availability "GA" terms...
AMD Rolls Out ROCm 1.7 Platform For Supercomputing 17
AMD has unveiled the Radeon Open Compute platform (ROCm) 1.7 release as part of their wares at this week's Supercomputing 17 (SC17) conference in Denver...
Mono Developing A New .NET Interpreter
Miguel de Icaza has announced the latest big project with Mono: a new .NET interpreter...
Quantum-ized Firefox 57 Ready For Download
Firefox 57.0 is being officially released this week and its stable download is now available...
AMD EPYC SEV, Intel UMIP & More AVX-512 Support Heading To Linux 4.15
In the x86 realm for linux 4.15 are many exciting feature improvements for newer/future Intel and AMD CPUs...
We Are Likely To See More Vulkan Driver Fixes From Feral
Feral developer Alex Smith is requesting commit rights to the Mesa code-base...
PHP 7.2 Benchmarks, Performance Of PHP 5.3 To PHP 7.2 On AMD EPYC
With PHP 7.2 due for release before month's end and the final release candidate (RC6) already available that in essence is very close to the final build, here are some fresh benchmarks from PHP 5.3 through PHP 7.2 RC6 while using an AMD EPYC Tyan server...
GNU Linux-libre 4.14-gnu Released, Still A Battle Deblobbing Driver Firmware
The Free Software Foundation Latin America team are once again punctual in delivering their updated GNU Linux-libre kernel...
EXT4 In Linux 4.15 Gets Online Resizing When Using Bigalloc, Corruption Fixes
Ted Ts'o was quick to send in the EXT4 file-system and fscrypt file-system encryption framework changes for the just-opened Linux 4.15 merge window...
AMD Zen Temperature Monitoring Queued For Linux 4.15
We've been expecting it to happen for weeks while indeed the hwmon pull request was indeed sent in today exposing AMD Ryzen / Threadripper / EPYC temperature reporting on Linux...
Linux 4.14 Kernel Officially Released
The Linux 4.14 kernel is now official!..
KDE Frameworks 5.40 Brings Kirigami Improvements, Wayland Foreign Protocol
The KDE camp this weekend has released KDE Frameworks 5.40 as their latest feature update to this collection of add-on libraries complementing Qt5...
The Latest In Our Massive Linux Benchmarking Setup - November 2017
Two and a half years ago was the start of the continually evolving effort around turning a basement into a big Linux server room and last year having shared a one year redux in the effort but having been late in a second year redux into this effort and how the systems are configured for our Linux/BSD/open-source benchmarking at scale, here is an update.
Intel Icelake CPU Target Patch Published For GCC
While it was just days ago Intel got around to posting the patch for introducing -march=cannonlake support for GCC, this weekend they already posted the patch for its successor with the new Icelake target...
Solus Borrows From The Clear Linux Playbook For AVX2-Optimized Gaming
One of the approaches Intel's Clear Linux distribution uses for achieving greater performance is by shipping AVX2 (and even now AVX-512) optimized libraries with their OS that are then automatically used if the detected host CPU is AVX equipped. Solus is making use of this approach now for striving for better Linux gaming performance...
PHP 7.2 Is One Step Away From Release
This week marked the sixth and final planned release candidate for PHP 7.2...
FFmpeg Lands NVDEC-Accelerated H.264 Decoding
NVIDIA has been shifting their focus from VDPAU for GPU-accelerated video decoding to instead the NVIDIA Video Codec SDK that offers NVENC for encoding and NVDEC for video decoding. FFmpeg has landed initial NVDEC support...
12-Way Graphics Card OpenCL Comparison With AMDGPU-PRO 17.40 ROCm, NVIDIA 384.98
With the recent testing of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti being our new graphics card up for Linux benchmarking as well as having a new NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release, hare are OpenCL benchmarks of 12 graphics cards using the latest AMDGPU-PRO 17.40 and NVIDIA 384.98 Linux drivers on Ubuntu x86_64.
Intel Posts Patches For SPIR-V Generation From Mesa's GLSL Compiler
Longtime Intel open-source graphics driver developer Ian Romanick has posted his initial set of patches for what he calls "the first of the real SPIR-V work."..
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