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We Could See WireGuard Upstreamed In The Linux Kernel In 2018
WireGuard is the effort led by Jason Donenfeld to provide a next-gen secure network tunnel for the Linux kernel. Jason has laid out plans and next steps for getting this interesting project merged into the upstream Linux kernel...
Mesa 17.2.5 Released
The fifth point release to Mesa 17.2 is now available with the latest fixes while the Mesa 17.3 official release is imminent...
Outreachy 2017 Participants Selected For Winter 2017 Open-Source Work
The Outreachy participants for the Winter 2017 internship program for "underrepresented people in tech" have been named...
Wine 2.21 Supports Direct3D Indirect Draws, More ARM Work
Alexandre Julliard has released the latest bi-weekly development snapshot of Wine as this project approaches its Wine 3.0 release around the end of the year...
G-Homa WiFi Smart Meter ETH+XMR Mining Power Efficiency
German Phoronix reader Thomas Frech is back with another guest post on the topic of ETH/XMR mining under Linux. This time around he's sharing some power efficiency numbers using a new G-Homa WiFi smart meter. See his past articles in this series here...
NetworkManager 1.10 Released With OpenVSwitch & WPS Connection Support
NetworkManager 1.10 was released today as the newest version of this commonly used Linux network management utility...
Intel Begins Testing Early Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 4.16
Linux 4.14 isn't even out the door yet but with the DRM-Next feature period over in preparation for the Linux 4.15 merge window, Intel open-source developers are already prepping code improvements that will in turn target Linux 4.16...
Apple's Late-2016 MacBook Pro Is Still A Wreck With Linux
At the end of last year we had a brief encounter with the new at the time MacBook Pro with Touchbar to see how well it would run under Linux. It was a mess with SSD difficulties, non-working touchpad/keyboard, WiFi issues, and more. It's a bit better using the newly-released Ubuntu 17.10, but would still advise against Linux for the Apple MacBook Pro Late-2016 model / Mac-A5C67F76ED83108C / MacBookPro 13,3 model.
Football Manager 2018 Now Available With Linux Support
November is off to a good start for Linux gaming with Feral's port of F1 2017, Croteam releasing Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE, and now the debut of Football Manager 2018...
FreeCS: Aiming For An Open-Source Counter-Strike Implementation
The latest open-source game project working on an open-source engine re-implementation of a popular game is FreeCS that is aiming to be a free software re-implementation of Counter-Strike...
GNU Time 1.8 Rolls Out Some Improvements
A new version of time is now available...
Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE Provides More Steam VR Linux Gaming Fun
On Thursday Croteam released Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE as the newest SteamVR title for Windows and Linux...
Geometry Shader Support For RadeonSI's NIR Back-End
AMD this year has been developing a NIR back-end for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver in part for supporting the ARB_gl_spirv extension in being able to re-use/share some code with the RADV Vulkan driver that obviously already deals with SPIR-V and relies on NIR for its intermediate representation. Now support for geometry shaders is coming to RadeonSI NIR...
NetworkManager 1.9.90 Adds OpenVSwitch & WPS Connection Support
NetworkManager 1.9.90 was quietly released last week as the release candidate in preparation for the upcoming NetworkManager 1.10 stable release...
SoundWire Subsystem Revised For The Linux Kernel
SoundWire is being proposed again for being introduced to the Linux kernel as a new soundsystem...
Lizard: Yet Another Compression Algorithm Joins The Party
Lizard was previously developed as LZ5 and is a lossless compression algorithm that yields a compression ratio similar to zip/zlib/Zstd/Brotli but at very fast decompression speeds...
OpenGL Atomic Counters Land For R600 Gallium3D
Support for atomic counters have landed within the R600 Gallium3D driver that continues to be used by pre-GCN graphics cards from the Radeon HD 2000 series through the Radeon HD 6000 series...
Fedora 27 Is Cleared For Release Next Week
Following a few days, Fedora 27 is cleared to ship next week...
Valve Rolls Out A Rare Update To SteamOS Brewmaster
Valve at least is continuing to maintain the Debian-based SteamOS for the short-lived Steam Machines, but their updates are hardly exciting...
73 More Post-4.15 Patches For AMDGPU DC Display Code
Another patch bomb from AMD landed today with 73 more AMDGPU DC display code changes...
Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Mini Is A Powerful Yet Small Graphics Card
Earlier this week I delivered the first NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Linux benchmarks where we even found this new GPU generally outperforming the Radeon RX Vega 64 with the current NVIDIA/AMD Linux graphics drivers. That testing was done with the Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Mini (ZT-P10710G-10P) while in this article are some more benchmarks and findings from graphics card that is one of the most powerful for its size.
PostgreSQL 10.1 Released
PostgreSQL 10.1 is now available as the first update over the recently released PostgreSQL 10...
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Might End Up Redoing The System Sounds
The latest in the development of the "Bionic Beaver" is that new system sounds might come to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...
Sway 0.15 Wayland Compositor Released With Raspberry Pi Support, Improved Clipboard
Sway, the i3-compatible Wayland compositor from SirCmpwn, is out with the last pre-1.0 release...
Intel Mesa Driver Restores Support For SuperTuxKart, Adds EGL_KHR_gl_colorspace
The Intel i965 Mesa OpenGL driver has restored support for the SuperTuxKart open-source Tux-themed racing game...
Some Basic macOS 10.13 vs. Ubuntu 17.10 OpenGL Gaming Tests
Following last week's F1 2017 launch for Linux which is making use of the Vulkan graphics API on Linux and Metal API on macOS, originally I set out to compare the macOS vs. Linux performance, but that didn't go quite as planned due to MacBook Pro woes. But here are some other OpenGL game tests between macOS and Ubuntu 17.10 Linux.
Intel Mesa Driver Shows Support For OpenGL Games To Set/Get Their Own NIR
Via ARB_get_program_binary Intel is working on allowing programs to retrieve or load their own NIR representation...
UVD Video Decode Patches For AMDGPU With GCN 1.0 / Southern Islands
One of the missing features if you are using a GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" graphics card and want to use the AMDGPU DRM driver rather than Radeon DRM is that UVD video decoding is currently unsupported. But there's new patches to fix that...
AMD/RTG's Raja Koduri Joins Intel
On Monday Intel announced their upcoming CPU with integrated AMD Vega-class graphics backed by HBM2 memory, on Tuesday Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) head Raja Koduri announced he would be resigning from the company, and now today it's announced he is joining Intel...
Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Series ARM Server CPUs Officially Launch - Up To 48 Cores
Qualcomm began sampling their 10nm 48-core ARM server CPU last year while today it officially launched...
Daily ISOs Begin For Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver"
Ubuntu is back to spinning daily ISOs of their latest development packages in preparation for the next release, which this time around is the 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" Long Term Support release...
GCC 8 & LLVM Clang 6.0 Compiler Performance On AMD EPYC - November 2017
Given the continuously evolving state of open-source code compilers, especially for the newer AMD Zen "znver1" architecture, here is the latest installment of our compiler benchmarks. Tested for this article from and AMD EPYC 7601 processor were GCC 7.2, GCC 8.0.0, LLVM Clang 5.0, and LLVM Clang 6.0 SVN.
Arch Linux Ends i686 Package Support Today
Following the announcement earlier this year of Arch Linux deprecating i686 support, that 32-bit x86 support ends today...
More RADV Radeon Vulkan Optimizations Are In The Works
We are just one week into November and already there are a number of patches volleyed onto the mailing list for continuing to optimize the RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver...
VC5 Gallium3D OpenGL Driver Is Starting To Get Fit
Broadcom's Eric Anholt has remained busy in bringing up the VC5 Gallium3D driver...
Cannonlake Onboarding Posted For GCC Compiler
An Intel developer is looking to merge the -march=cannonlake support for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...
Apple Will No Longer Be Developing CUPS Under The GPL
One decade after Apple bought out CUPS as the de facto printing system for Unix-like operating systems, they are changing the code license...
X-Plane Reports 1.4% Of Their Customers Are Linux Users
For those wanting more usage statistics about Linux, the X-Plane flight simulator reports 1.4% of their users are currently running Linux...
Steam Client Update Fixes Linux Shortcuts, Adds Vulkan Pre-Compiled Shaders
Five years and one day after Steam for Linux going public, there's a notable Steam client beta update coming down the wire...
Radeon VCN Encode Support For RadeonSI Gallium3D
Earlier this year patches were posted and merged for VCN video decode support with RadeonSI/Gallium3D while now patches are coming from AMD for wiring up VCN video encoding support...
Canonical's Mir Patches Are Breaking RADV With Stock Mesa On Ubuntu
If you have been trying to use the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver that's packaged for Ubuntu but find it not working, chances are it's caused by Canonical's patches for Mir support...
CrossOver Now Lets You Run Windows Apps On Chrome OS
CodeWeavers has now announced the availability of their Wine-powered CrossOver software for Chrome OS...
More Than One Dozen USB Vulnerabilities Published For The Linux Kernel
Made public on Monday were details on 14 known security vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel's USB subsystem while there is also known to be more similar bugs that are yet to be resolved...
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, Takes On The Radeon RX Vega 64 Under Linux
Last week NVIDIA began shipping the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card as an offering at the $449 USD price point to undercut the Radeon RX Vega 56. Here are some benchmarks of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti under Linux with the latest OpenGL/Vulkan drivers compared to Radeon RX Vega, the rest of the Pascal GPUs, and other graphics cards under a variety of different Linux gaming benchmarks with 12 cards in total being tested this round.
Mesa 17.3-RC3 Released As The Quarterly Update Nears
Mesa 17.3 RC3 is now available as the third weekly release candidate for this quarterly installment to Mesa 3D that will likely be released as stable within the next week or two...
HITMAN Game of the Year Edition Released For Linux
Feral Interactive has been off to a busy November with last week releasing F1 2017 for Linux and today delivering same-day support for HITMAN Game of the Year Edition on both macOS and Linux...
DRI3 v1.1 & DRI3 v1.2 Patches Revised
Collabora's Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne has sent out the latest patches for the X.Org Server and related components for wiring up Direct Rendering Infrastructure 3 (DRI3) v1.1 as well as the newer v1.2 work too...
GhostBSD 11.1 Is Almost Ready With MATE & Xfce Tailored FreeBSD Desktop Experience
GhostBSD 11.1-RC1 was released on Monday as the final test release before shipping this official update of the Xfce/MATE-desktop oriented FreeBSD 11.1 derivative...
Flush Control Support Lands In Mesa
The latest extension onboarding for Mesa is wiring in ARB_context_flush_control support...
Krita 4.0 Working On Performance Improvements, Benchmark & New Filters
Krita 4.0 remains under development as the next big feature update for this Qt-powered digital painting program and it's brewing a lot of new functionality...
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