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GCC Prepares For C17 Language Support
Not to be confused with C++17 that brings many notable additions and improvements, C17 is also coming soon as an update to the C programming language...
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Patches For Cross-Stage Link Optimizations
Jason Ekstrand has sent out a set of 21 patches this weekend for their "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver to support cross-stage optimizations...
Clear Linux Reaches The Amazon EC2 Cloud
Intel's performance-driven Clear Linux operating system is now available via the Amazon AWS marketplace for easily running this distribution in the EC2 cloud...
Kodi-Powered LibreELEC 8.2 Released
There's a new release of LibreELEC, the Linux distribution focused on delivering a premiere HTPC/multimedia experience by being built around the Kodi HTPC software...
SuperTuxKart 0.9.3 Released With New Tracks, Built-In Screen Recorder
A new release of the open-source SuperTuxKart racing game is out just ahead of Halloween...
Ethereum & OpenCL: ROCm vs. AMDGPU-PRO 17.40
Following this week's Ethereum and OpenCL benchmarks with Radeon vs. NVIDIA using the latest Linux drivers, some premium supporters requested a fresh AMDGPU-PRO vs. ROCm comparison. So here are a couple of those OpenCL benchmarks of AMDGPU-PRO vs. ROCm on different Polaris / Fiji and Vega GPUs.
Vulkan Crosses 1,500 Projects On GitHub
Back in April Vulkan crossed 1,000 project mentions on GitHub while overnight it crossed the threshold of 1,500 references...
Wine 3.0 Still Expected Around EOY With D3D11; Wayland & D3D12 On Roadmap
WineConf 2017 is taking place today and tomorrow in Wroclaw, Poland. The event began today with a keynote by Wine founder Alexandre Julliard where he talked about Wine 3.0 plans and what's further out on the roadmap...
The Libdrm & xf86-video-amdgpu Repositories To Follow For FreeSync
Many Linux gamers are excited by the prospects of soon having FreeSync support working on the purely open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver stack...
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Reaches Beta: Using GNOME & Wayland, Linux 4.12
The first public beta of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 is now available for their Enterprise Server, Enterprise Desktop, Enterprise Workstation Extension, and Enterprise High Availability products...
Vulkan 1.0.65 Rolls Out With Documentation Clarifications & Fixes
Vulkan 1.0.65 marks the latest weekly update for the specification around this high performance graphics/compute API, but it's not particularly exciting this time around...
F1 2017 On Linux Will Support Vulkan
To little surprise considering all of Feral's Vulkan driver help recently, their racing game port announced earlier today, F1 2017 for Linux, will use the new graphics API...
CompuLab IPC3, Testing 10 Mini PCs / Small Form Factor Linux PCs
The IPC3 is CompuLab's latest-generation Intense-PC. It may look similar to past IPC models, but is now equipped with the latest generation Intel Core CPUs while remaining fan-less and within an all-metal housing that's extremely durable.
F1 2017 Being Released For Linux Next Week
While F1 2016 didn't make it to Linux, Feral Interactive just announced F1 2017 will be coming to Linux and it's arriving next week...
Chrome 63 Beta Rolls Out With Dynamic Module Imports, Device Memory API
Ahead of the weekend, the beta of Chrome 63 is now available for all supported platforms...
KDE Server Decoration Protocol Proposed For Wayland-Protocols
Yesterday the GTK tool-kit added support for KDE's server-side decorations on Wayland to be used when client-side decorations are not active. Now it's been proposed adding the KDE Server Decoration Protocol to the upstream Wayland-Protocols repository...
Mir To Next Focus On Improving Wayland Testing
With Mir now having basic Wayland support, next on their agenda is to improve the acceptance/conformance tests around Wayland in general that will help in vetting Mir's Wayland support code...
Ethereum + OpenCL Benchmarks With The Latest AMDGPU-PRO Mining & NVIDIA Linux Drivers
Last week AMD released a new AMDGPU-PRO driver aimed for cryptocurrency mining that is their first release in the new v17.40 series. This new driver also allows adjusting the fragment size for increased performance and at least for mining yields a big performance boost. Here are some fresh benchmarks on multiple Radeon graphics cards using 17.40 with the amdgpu vm_fragment_size set for 2MB compared to the latest NVIDIA 387 Linux graphics driver on various GeForce GPUs.
New AMDGPU DC Patches Published, More Work Towards FreeSync
AMD's Linux team working on the AMDGPU DC display code sent out a set of 29 more patches this week...
AMD/Ryzen NPT Fix Discovered For Better Pass-Through Graphics Performance
One area where AMD Ryzen users have encountered Linux issues with virtualization is when trying to setup pass-through support for a graphics card to allow the virtual machine direct access to the GPU. When NPT (Nested Page Tables) are enabled, performance can become severely degraded...
Google Even Fear Intel ME, Reduce Their Attack Vector With NERF
Even Google is concerned about attack vectors with UEFI and Intel's Management Engine that their NERF project seeks to alleviate some of these concerns and is used by their servers...
Intel Sends In Their Final Batch Of DRM Updates For Linux 4.15
Intel's open-source developers working on their i915 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver have had a very busy cycle preparing a lot of new code for the upcoming Linux 4.15...
Fedora 27 Isn't Ready For Release, Fedora Modular Server Pushed Back To December
Open blocker bugs are preventing Fedora 27 from being released next week...
GTK Adds Support For KDE's Server-Side Decorations On Wayland
Running GTK3 applications on a KDE Plasma Wayland session will soon look better with GNOME's toolkit now supporting the KDE server-side decorations...
ARM Proposes Changing GCC's Default Optimization Level To -Og
The GNU Compiler Collection currently uses -O0 as the default optimization level when no other optimization level is passed. An ARM developer is proposing the default optimization level be changed to -Og...
AMD EPYC 7551 Linux Benchmarks
One step below AMD's current top-end EPYC 7601 server processor is the EPYC 7551. The EPYC 7551 costs around $800 USD less than the 7601 while still being a 32 core / 64 thread part but with slightly lower clock frequencies. In this article is a look at the EPYC 7251 / 7351P / 7401P / 7551 / 7601 Ubuntu Linux performance compared to various Intel Xeon CPUs in our lab.
Lightworks 14.1 In Beta For Linux Video Editing
For fans of the Lightworks commercial-grade non-linear video editing software, their first beta update of the 14.1 series is now available...
NVIDIA Announces The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, Shipping In Early November
Today's GeForce GTX 1070 Ti announcement is hardly a surprise given all the recent leaks about this new card, but NVIDIA announced it today and will be shipping in early November...
Intel Has Been Working On A New User-Space File-System For Persistent Memory
Intel developers have been working on a new user-space file-system designed for persistent memory. This user-space file-system is designed to be high-performance and does not make use of FUSE...
Etnaviv Gallium3D May Eventually Tackle OpenCL
Two developers from the Pengutronix embedded Linux company out of Germany presented at this week's Embedded Linux Conference in Europe. There they talked about zero-copy video streaming on embedded systems, and as part of that, the Etnaviv open-source graphics driver...
Looking Ahead To AMD Ryzen Mobile On Linux
Following AMD on Twitter teasing new Ryzen announcements the past few days, today is expected to be the launch day for the new Ryzen Mobile hardware up to now known as "Raven Ridge"...
Intel Beignet 1.3.2 OpenCL Released With Some Improvements
A new release is now available of Beignet, Intel's open-source project providing Linux OpenCL compute support for their Iris/HD/UHD Graphics products...
Steam VR Marketshare Already Larger Than Steam Linux Marketshare
Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais‏ who is heavily involved in their Linux efforts as well as those around virtual reality has commented the VR market-share is already larger than the entire Steam Linux market-share...
RadeonSI/RADV Mesa 17.3 + AMDGPU DC vs. NVIDIA 387.12 Linux Gaming Performance
With Mesa 17.3 now having been branched for its stable release next month and that bringing much improved RADV Radeon Vulkan performance and more mature RX Vega support along with a ton of other improvements, here is a fresh comparison of the newest open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver code compared to the latest NVIDIA Linux driver on a range of graphics cards.
Android Studio 3.0 Released With Kotlin Support, Java 8 Features
Google today has pushed out Android Studio 3.0 as the latest stable release of this integrated development environment for their mobile operating system...
SUSE Has Been Working On An In-Kernel Boot Splash Screen For Linux
While Plymouth has become widely-used as a bootsplash screen on most Linux systems these days and is much better off than the RHGB days, SUSE has sent out initial patches as part of their proposal for having a new in-kernel bootsplash system...
ASUS PRIME Z370-A Running Great On Linux
For those looking at assembling a new system around Intel's 8th Gen Core "Coffee Lake" CPUs, the motherboard I've been conducting most of my Linux tests from has been the ASUS PRIME Z370-A. A few weeks of use with this motherboard, I'm happy with this Intel Z370 motherboard.
Linux Mint Will Discontinue Its KDE Edition
The Linux Mint crew has confirmed today they will be discontinuing future releases of their KDE spin following next month's Linux Mint 18.3 release...
Feral Adding AMD_shader_info To RADV Vulkan Driver
As further sign of Feral Interactive continuing to pursue Vulkan for their Linux games, a Feral developer today posted a patch for implementing the brand new AMD_shader_info extension for the RADV Mesa driver...
Qt 5.10 Reaches Its Second Beta Milestone
Qt 5.10 is up to its second beta milestone ahead of its expected stable debut by the end of November...
Glibc 2.27 Will Premiere With Many Optimizations
When glibc 2.26 was released in August it was a noteworthy release with plenty of optimizations and introduced its own per-thread cache. With the next installment of the GNU C Library there will also be many more optimizations...
Freedreno Works On Context Priority Support, Plumbs Into Gallium3D
There's been a theme recently with the open-source graphics drivers of working on priority scheduling support from AMDGPU priority scheduling for VR use-cases and tied into RADV to Intel also allowing context priority support that in turn is exposed through EGL. The Freedreno driver has also been working on a context priority implementation...
Mesa's OpenGL KHR_no_error Support Is Now "Done"
Mesa's support for the OpenGL KHR_no_error extension is now treated as "done" for all drivers...
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Likely Ship With Linux 4.15
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the recently named "Bionic Beaver", will most likely be shipping with a Linux 4.15-based kernel...
Open ZFS File-System Running On Windows
At the OpenZFS Developer Summit today besides an Oracle engineer talked of hope for upstreaming ZFS in Linux, another interesting session was showcasing Open ZFS running under Windows...
SQLite 3.21 Picks Up F2FS Atomic Write Support
SQLite 3.21 is now out as the newest feature release for this widely-used embedded database library...
Oracle Could Still Make ZFS A First-Class Upstream Linux File-System
For many years Linux storage enthusiasts have dreamed of having the ZFS file-system part of the mainline Linux kernel. But since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems that outlook has looked much more bleak that they would re-license the ZFS kernel code under a license compatible with the upstream GPLv2 Linux kernel. But an Oracle engineer presented today that the ZFS Linux dream might still come true...
Mesa 17.3 With RADV Vulkan Running Great With Polaris, Starts To Outperform AMDGPU-PRO
Yesterday I posted some fresh benchmarks of the RX Vega between the AMDGPU+RadeonSI/RADV open-source vs. AMDGPU-PRO drivers, which showed the pure open-source driver stack performing admirably well for the latest-generation AMD graphics architecture and the community-driven RADV Vulkan driver was even performing nicely. Due to how well RADV has matured during the Mesa 17.3 cycle, here are some benchmarks using a Radeon RX 580 "Polaris" graphics card showing off its more mature support for Vulkan.
Unreal Engine 4.18 Released With Volumetric Lightmaps, New Audio Engine On Linux
Epic Games has today released Unreal Engine 4.18 as the newest version of their cross-platform game engine...
Observer Is Aspyr Media's Latest Linux Game Release, No Radeon GPU Support
Aspyr Media has released Observer for Linux and macOS as their newest game port...
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