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Valve's Steam Link Is Back On Sale For $15 USD
In case you missed the deal back during a summer sale, Valve's Steam Link streaming device can be found again for $15 USD rather than its normal $40~50 price...
Ubuntu 14.04 To Ubuntu 17.10 RadeonSI OpenGL Performance
As part of the multi-year comparisons for marking AMD's open-source strategy being 10 years old, here's a look back with fresh OpenGL Linux gaming benchmarks from Ubuntu 14.04 through Ubuntu 17.10 using a Radeon HD 7950 graphics card with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. There's also a similar comparison with a Radeon R9 Fury.
NVIDIA 387.22 Linux Driver Released With GTX 1070 Ti Support
NVIDIA has shipped the 387.22 Linux driver today as their first stable release in the 387.xx series...
Mesa 17.2.4 Released While Mesa 17.3 Continues To Bake
Mesa 17.2.4 is now available as the newest stable release of Mesa 3D while Mesa 17.3 is up to its second release candidate...
F1 2017 Will Be The First Vulkan-Only Linux Game
After announcing the F1 2017 racing game for Linux last week, Feral Interactive confirmed it will support the Vulkan graphics API while today they confirmed it's going to be a Vulkan-exclusive title on Linux...
AMD's Open-Source Strategy Is Now Ten Years Old
What an incredible ride it's been over the past ten years of AMD pursuing an open-source Linux graphics driver strategy.
Intrinsic Continues Advancing As An Open-Source, Graphically-Rich Vulkan Game Engine
Intrinsic is one of the best looking open-source Vulkan game engines we have seen to date...
Linux 4.14-rc7 No Longer Clashes With AppArmor To Break Networking
Earlier this month I warned about using Linux 4.14 with AppArmor can cause headaches, namely with the stock rules on distributions like Ubuntu and Debian you can find your networking support broken. That work has now been reverted after Linus Torvalds realized this issue as well...
Etnaviv Gallium3D Reaches OpenGL 2.1
It was just days ago that the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver made it to OpenGL 2.0 while now it's reached the OpenGL 2.1 threshold...
OpenRISC SMP Support Is Getting Into Shape
While the OpenRISC architecture has been supported by the mainline Linux kernel, it hasn't supported symmetric multi-processing (SMP) for multi-core designs, but that is in the process of being changed...
ReactOS 0.4.7-RC1 Is The Latest As "Open-Source Windows"
Less than two months after the ReactOS 0.4.6 release, ReactOS 0.4.7-RC1 is available for testing...
Linux 4.14-rc7 Released: Final Likely In Two Weeks
Linux 4.14-rc7 is now available as the latest weekly test release of the Linux 4.14 LTS kernel...
AMDGPU vs. Radeon DRM With Linux 4.14 On GCN 1.0/SI GPUs
It's been a while since last testing the older GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" graphics cards with the AMDGPU DRM driver rather than the default Radeon DRM driver. Here are some fresh comparison tests using some original GCN graphics cards with the two DRM drivers while pairing it with Mesa 17.4-dev, including Vulkan tests that are made possible by switching over to the AMDGPU Direct Rendering Manager driver.
Freedreno MSM DRM Driver Updates Submitted For Linux 4.15
Freedreno founder Rob Clark today sent in the MSM DRM driver updates for DRM-Next to queue ahead of the upcoming Linux 4.15 merge window...
Embedded Linux Conference Europe & Open-Source Summit Wrap Up In Prague
The 2017 Embedded Linux Conference Europe and Open-Source Summit Europe events hosted by the Linux Foundation this year in Prague wrapped up earlier this week...
Slang Continues To Advance For Easing Shader Writing, Cross-Compiling Shaders
NVIDIA and Carnegie Mellon University continue working on the Slang project for providing improved functionality around existing Direct3D HLSL and OpenGL GLSL shaders as well as developing its own shading language...
uClibc Is Still Around As A Lightweight C Standard Library
The uClibc project is still advancing as a lightweight, performant C standard library even while glibc has been making performance advancements and other improvements as well...
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...
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