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I Had A Tough Time Deciding What GPU To Use On My Main Fedora Linux Workstation
This week I've been working on transitioning my main production workstation to Fedora 26, but I had a really tough time this cycle deciding which graphics card to use, even with having dozens at my disposal...
Fedora 27 Will See 32-bit UEFI, Glibc 2.27, Bay/Cherry Trail Improvements
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) on Friday approved a number of the early change proposals for Fedora 27...
Mageia 6 Officially Released, Now Defaults To GRUB 2 & KDE Plasma 5
The Mageia Linux distribution derived from Mandriva and its lineage back to Mandrake is now out with their long-awaited Version 6 release...
C++20 Feature Talk Heats Up At Latest C++ ISO Meeting
Herb Sutter has once again provided a nice recap of the latest ISO C++ standards meeting that just wrapped up in Toronto...
The New Changes & Features Of The Linux 4.13 Kernel
With Linux 4.13-rc1 having been released, here's my original look at the new features coming for the Linux 4.13 kernel and the other changes merged over the past two weeks of this new cycle.
Linux 4.13-rc1 Kernel Released
Linus Torvalds has announced the end of the Linux 4.13 kernel merge window one day early and with that 4.13-rc1 is now available...
Vulkan 1.0.54 Lands In Mesa For Intel ANV, Some RADV Extensions
It's fabulous to see how promptly the Mesa Vulkan drivers are receiving support for new extensions...
UBIFS Gets Statx Support, Better Encryption In Linux 4.13
The Linux 4.13 kernel changes for the UBIFS file-system have been submitted...
The Regressed State Of KDE Plasma On Wayland, But Things Should Get Better
KWin maintainer Martin Gräßlin has written a blog post explaining the issues they've run into with KDE Plasma on Wayland and how changes to Qt have set them back months in their Wayland session support...
It Looks Like Intel Could Begin Pushing Graphics Tech More Seriously
It looks like with the next few generations of Intel processors, they will be coming with more serious graphics upgrades...
FreeBSD 11.1 RC3 Released As The Final Build Is Near
FreeBSD 11.1 remains on track for releasing later this month...
Linux 4.13 Thermal Management Sees Some Improvements For CPU_Cooling
The thermal management updates have landed in the Linux 4.13 code-base...
Mesa 17.1.5 Brings More Fixes To Open-Source GPU Driver Users
Andres Gomez of Igalia has announced Mesa 17.1.5 as the newest point release to the current Mesa 3D stable series...
Ubuntu 17.10: Continued Work On VA-API, Switching To GDM
Will Cooke of Canonical has posted the latest weekly status update concerning happenings for the desktop on Ubuntu 17.10...
System76 Might Make Their Own OS Installer, Will Ship Automatic Firmware Updates
Linux laptop vendor System76 has provided a status update on their activities around their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
The KDE Components Not Yet Ported To KDE Frameworks 5
With the beta of KDE Applications 17.08 due next week, which is the last cycle where Qt4/kdelibs4-dependent components are still permitted, KDE developer Christoph Feck has generated a list of KDE software not yet ported over to Qt5/KF5...
GCC Tacks On Support For The ARM Cortex-R52
With the work laid earlier this month by GCC picking up ARMv8-R support, the Cortex-R52 is now supported by mainline GCC as the first ARMv8-R processor...
Toshiba XG3 NVMe SSD Linux Performance
If you are looking for a low-cost NVMe M.2 SSD, the Toshiba XG3 is moderately priced and offers decent performance under Linux.
Codeplay & Google Release Tool To Compile OpenCL C To Vulkan
Google and Codeplay have developed a new open-source tool for compiling OpenCL C code to Vulkan compute shaders...
Changes That You Won't Find In Linux 4.13
The Linux 4.13 merge window is nearing the end and while there is a lot of new features/changes, there is some functionality that you won't find in this next version of the upstream Linux kernel...
DRI3 v1.1 Revised For Modifiers And Multi-Plane Support
Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne of Collabora has sent out his second version of patches for DRI3 v1.1, the first significant update to the Direct Rendering Infrastructure 3...
Ioquake3 Gets A Cross-Platform Auto-Updater
It will now be easier for games making use of the open-source ioquake3 game engine to remain up-to-date thanks to a cross-platform, auto-updater written by Ryan "Icculus" Gordon...
Intel's Linux Driver Team Jumps On Vulkan 1.0.54 Changes
While the Intel Linux OpenGL driver had been slow to adapt to new versions of the specification from The Khronos Group, times have changed and with the Vulkan API they are doing a darn fine job in keeping up with the latest revisions to the specification...
Git 2.14 Starts Getting Aligned For Release
Junio Hamano has today announced the first preview release of Git 2.14 version control system in the form of Git 2.14-rc0...
Fedora Planning To Make NVIDIA Driver Easier, Full HDR Support On Linux
With the fantastic Fedora 26 release out the door, Red Hat's Christian Schaller has recapped some of the highlights during the Fedora 26 development and a look ahead...
NVIDIA Releases 381.26.08 Vulkan Beta Driver With New Extensions
NVIDIA has once again managed a same-day driver update for matching a new Vulkan release...
Google Developers Begin Planning For Go 2 Programming Language
The Google team responsible for the Go programming language have begun publicly discussing plans and ideas for the Go 2.0 programming language...
NVIDIA vs. Radeon Vulkan & OpenGL Performance With A Celeron, Pentium & Core i7
Here is an interesting OpenGL vs. Vulkan Linux benchmark comparison where I take two competing NVIDIA and AMD cards, the Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GTX 1060, and test the available benchmark-friendly OpenGL/Vulkan Linux games while doing these tests each on an Intel Celeron, Pentium, and Core i7 processors in looking at the performance scaling.
Intel Plumbs 16-bit Support In Vulkan Driver, Future OpenGL Support
With the big Vulkan 1.0.54 update now being public, Intel open-source developers have made public their patches implementing VK_KHR_16bit_storage and SPV_KHR_16bit_storage support in their open-source graphics driver stack...
Systemd 234 Released: Meson Build System, Networkd Improvements
Succeeding systemd 233 is now systemd 234 with yet more features added as well as a new build system...
Benchmarking The Potato & Firefly: New ARM Linux Boards
When receiving the long-awaited AMD ARM board yesterday I also received Le Potato Libre Computer Board and the Firefly RK3399...
AMD Reveals First ThreadRipper Prices, Early August Launch
AMD has announced the first ThreadRipper SKUs and more...
Vulkan 1.0.54 Released With Many New Extensions, Some KHX Promoted To Stable
The Khronos Group is out with an updated Vulkan specification and it's an exciting update!..
Intel Launches Their Much-Anticipated Xeon Scalable CPUs, Tyan Unveils Their Wares
This week Intel officially launched their Xeon Scalable Processors as what they claim is "the biggest platform advancement in this decade" and will end up going head-to-head with AMD's EPYC processors...
Fedora 27 Is Hoping For A Unified Database For DNF
While the DNF 2.0 package manager is found with this week's Fedora 26 release, DNF developers aren't done with changes to the package manager for Fedora...
EXT_external_objects For Mesa Updated, Fixes SteamVR OpenGL Crash
Valve developer Andres Rodriguez has sent out his third revision to the set of Mesa patches implementing the EXT_external_objects OpenGL extension...
Cannonlake Enablement Continues In Coreboot; Still No Sign Of Ryzen For Coreboot
Intel developers continue working on Cannonlake support for Coreboot while sadly we've seen no activity yet for getting Ryzen/Epyc CPUs working with Coreboot...
Mesa 17.1.5 Is Coming This Week
Andres Gomez of Igalia is organizing the Mesa 17.1.5 point release to happen this week with numerous fixes to the open-source Linux graphics stack...
Wayland 1.14 Alpha & Weston 3.0 Alpha Released
Wayland release manager Bryce Harrington at Samsung OSG has announced the alpha releases of the upcoming Wayland 1.14 and Weston 3.0...
Trying Out Mesa's KHR_no_error With An Intel Pentium + Radeon RX 580
With a lot of work going in recently to Mesa's KHR_no_error implementation for being able to optionally disable some error checking/handling within the OpenGL stack for potentially some CPU savings, I did some fresh tests of this feature (also known as MESA_NO_ERROR) when having the Kabylake Pentium CPU installed for the earlier Mesa GL threading tests...
Etnaviv Hoping For Last Minute Improvements In Mesa 17.2
There is just over one week left until the Mesa 17.2 feature freeze and the Etnaviv developers are hoping some of their outstanding work will land in time...
Fedora Developers Begin Talking About Their 28 & 29 Releases For 2018
While Fedora 26 just shipped yesterday, developers are already talking about their very early release estimates for Fedora 28 and Fedora 29 in 2018...
Mesa GL Thread Testing With Pentium + Core i7 & RX 580 + R9 Fury
With Mesa's GL threading support ready for wider testing and the developers pursuing per-application enabling of this driver-agnostic Mesa OpenGL multi-threading work, here are some benchmarks of mesa_glthread when using a Pentium and Core i7 CPUs as well as a Radeon RX 580 and R9 Fury.
Sudden Strike 4 Seeing Linux Support At Launch
Publisher Kalypso Media has confirmed the Sudden Strike 4 real-time tactics game is still on track for launch-day Linux support...
After Years Of Waiting, Hands On With The AMD ARM Board
With Zen CPUs turning out very well in the marketplace, AMD appears to have divested some of their interest in ARM-based processors at least for the time being. But after waiting for years, I finally have my hands on an AMD Opteron A1100 ARM-based SBC for testing...
Fedora 27 Might Do Away With 32-Bit Kernel Builds
A controversial change being considered for Fedora 27 is doing away with the i686 kernel build thereby effectively dropping support for older x86 32-bit systems...
Xfce's Exo 0.11.4 Completes GTK3 Port
Exo 0.11.4 is the first release candidate ahead of Exo 0.12 and marks the library's complete port to GTK3...
Intel Is Working On HDCP Content Protection For Linux Graphics Stack
While sure to face opposition by some free software fans, Intel developers have begun working on High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) support for the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code...
Wine-Staging 2.12 Released
Wine-Staging 2.12 is now available as the latest experimental/testing version of Wine re-based from this past week's release of Wine 2.12...
There Are Now More Than 1,200 Vulkan Projects On GitHub
It was in April that GitHub crossed the threshold of having 1,000 projects referencing Vulkan while today they have crossed the milestone of 1,200 projects...
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