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Linux 4.13 DM Picks Up Support For SMR/Zoned Devices
The Device Mapper (DM) updates have been pulled into mainline Git for the Linux 4.13 merge window...
RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Option For Sisched
The RADV Vulkan driver now has an option for being able to enable the LLVM SI machine scheduler...
Fedora 26 To Be Released Next Week
Fedora 26 will be officially released next week!..
RADV Vulkan Driver Getting Fixes For An Upcoming Feral Linux Game
NIR expert Connor Abbott who is working for Valve this summer and in particular RADV Vulkan features has published a new patch series today that also confirms another upcoming Feral Linux game using Vulkan...
Fedora 27 Workstation Planning For Being Better VirtualBox Guest
If the latest change proposal is approved by FESCo, Fedora Workstation 27 will play nicer out-of-the-box with Oracle VM VirtualBox...
VC5 Gallium3D: A New Broadcom Open-Source Driver
Eric Anholt has announced a new driver stack he's begun working on for Broadcom: VC5...
GStreamer Could Be The First Multimedia Framework Supporting RTSP 2.0
Patches are pending for GStreamer that provide the first public client and server implementation of the RTSP 2.0 protocol, Real Time Streaming Protocol 2.0...
Fedora 27 Looks To Add 32-bit UEFI Support
While Fedora was among the first Linux distributions shipping with UEFI support, it's only been supported with 64-bit UEFI as is the vast majority of the systems out there capable of. But there remains a minority of systems with 64-bit CPUs that only support 32-bit UEFI and Fedora 27 is looking to finally support that combination...
AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Linux Benchmarks: 27-Way CPU Comparison On Ubuntu
If you are looking to get an AMD Zen CPU on a budget, the cheapest Ryzen 5 CPU in the current line-up is the 1400 model, which for $160 USD will get you a quad-core processor plus Hyper Threading and clocks up to 3.4GHz. Here are some benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 5 1400 on Ubuntu 17.04 compared to various other Intel and AMD CPUs over the years.
PHP 7.2 Alpha 3 Released
PHP 7.2.0 Alpha 3 is now available as the latest test release ahead of the official PHP 7.2 debut later in the year. This release offers various fixes and improvements over the earlier alphas...
Hotspot 1.0: Linux Perf Gets A GUI
Consulting firm KDAB has announced their newest research and development project, Hotspot. The Hotspot program is a Qt-powered GUI to the Linux perf subsystem...
OpenGL Hardware Acceleration Support For Weston's RDP Backend
Patches are pending to provide OpenGL hardware acceleration support for Wayland's Weston compositor RDP back-end...
Xen Linux Guests Could Be Faster With Linux 4.13
The Xen feature updates have been submitted for the Linux 4.13 kernel merge window...
DMA Mapping Subsystem Coming To Linux 4.13
Christoph Hellwig has called on Linus Torvalds to pull a new "dma-mapping" subsystem into the Linux 4.13 kernel...
Windows Management Instrumentation Now A Formal Bus With Linux 4.13
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) support has been worked on within Linux drivers in the past while now with Linux 4.13 WMI has been reworked into its own proper bus...
More Vega & Raven Ridge AMDGPU Fixes Set For Linux 4.13
Alex Deucher of AMD has submitted some AMDGPU driver fixes to queue up in DRM-Next for the Linux 4.13 merge window...
XDG-Output Protocol Proposed For Wayland
Olivier Fourdan of Red Hat is proposing a new protocol extension for Wayland, XDG-Output...
Windows 10 WSL vs. VirtualBox Ubuntu Performance On An Intel Core i9 7900X
Going beyond last week's Intel Core i9 7900X Skylake-X Linux distribution comparison, here are some complementary tests when trying out the latest Windows 10 Insider Build with its Bash/Windows Subsystem for Linux featuring Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Additionally, some comparison results when running Windows 10 with VirtualBox and then an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS guest, all from this i9-7900X high-end desktop.
LLVM 4.0.1 Released
Tom Stellard of Red Hat (formerly AMD) has released LLVM 4.0.1 as the first bug-fix / point release to the LLVM4 compiler stack...
Oracle Posts SPARC M8 Patches For GCC
It looks like the SPARC M8 processor will end up getting released as an Oracle engineer today posted patches implementing support for the M8 with GCC...
NIR Experimental Backend For RadeonSI Updated
Nicolai Hähnle has published his updated massive patch-set for implementing an external NIR back-end in RadeonSI...
Many Networking Updates For Linux 4.13
David Miller submitted the Linux 4.13 networking subsystem updates, which he describes as a reasonably busy cycle but it might not be as massive as all the changes queued for Linux 4.12...
KDE Discover Moving Ahead With Better Snap Support
KDE's Aleix Pol was among the developers participating in last week's Canonical/Ubuntu Snap Sprint in London. Aleix Pol is working on improvements to Discover, the KDE application center / installer, around supporting Snaps...
Plenty Of ARM Changes Queued For Linux 4.13
Arnd Bergmann has sent in his seven pull requests of the many ARM SoC and platform changes targeting the Linux 4.13 kernel...
New Audio Hardware Supported By The Linux 4.13 Kernel
Takashi Iwai's sound updates is the latest pull request worth mentioning on Phoronix as part of the two-week merge window for Linux 4.13...
AMD's Background On The ROCm OpenCL Stack
A ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) developer at AMD has shared some of their background work on their OpenCL compiler stack, including the LLVM focus, as well as some of their current performance focuses for this open-source compute offering...
Samba 4.7 RC1 Released
The first release candidate for Samba 4.7 is now available for testing...
KVM Updates Mailed In For Linux 4.13
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) has seen a wide assortment of updates for the Linux 4.13 kernel merge window...
Btrfs In Linux 4.13 Brings Statx Support, Other Improvements
The Btrfs file-system updates for the Linux 4.13 kernel have been submitted...
Fwupd 0.9.5 Released With Logitech Support, Intel ME Version Querying
Richard Hughes of Red Hat has announced the release of the fwupd 0.9.5 firmware update utility for the Linux desktop...
RISC-V Developers Hope Their Port Will Land In Linux 4.13
RISC-V developers have posted their fourth revision to the kernel patches porting the Linux kernel to this royalty-free CPU instruction set architecture. The developers are hoping this code will be pulled into Linux 4.13, but it's not yet clear if that will happen...
Nouveau Thermal Monitoring Support For GeForce GTX 900 Series
Karol Herbst has added support for GPU temperature readouts for GeForce GTX 900 "Maxwell2" GPUs to the open-source, reverse-engineered Nouveau DRM driver...
Rapid Photo Downloader For Linux Switches From GTK To Qt
Rapid Photo Downloader, the open-source software for Linux which its developer claims is "the Linux desktop's best photo and video downloader/importer", is out with a new release after two and a half years in development...
Last Call To Participate In The 2017 Linux Laptop Survey
This is your last chance to participate in the 2017 Linux Laptop Survey. There's nearly twenty-thousand submissions so far, but the survey is expiring at the end of day Thursday...
GCC 6.4 Compiler Released
Version 6.4 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is now available as the latest bug-fix release for those relying on GCC6 that haven't yet migrated to GCC7...
Canonical Mainlines A Bunch Of Their AppArmor Changes For Linux 4.13
The Linux 4.13 kernel that's in development will pick up a big code contribution from Canonical as they have prepped a lot of their AppArmor security changes for mainlining, some of which code has been sitting in Ubuntu's kernel build for years...
Power Management Updates Touch Intel P-State & More For Linux 4.13
Rafael Wysocki has submitted the ACPI and power management updates for the Linux 4.13 merge window...
Wayland 1.14 & Weston 3.0 Planned For Release Next Month
Bryce Harrington at Samsung OSG has laid out plans for releasing Wayland 1.14 and Weston 3.0 next month...
GNU Linux-libre 4.12 Kernel Released, More Driver Deblobbing
The GNU Linux-Libre 4.12 kernel is now available and is the sanitized version of the Linux 4.12 kernel to ensure no binary-only firmware blobs are loaded or used by this trimmed down Linux kernel...
RADV Vulkan Driver Now Exposes INT64 Support
The RADV Radeon Vulkan driver now has support for 64-bit integers with shaderInt64 capability now being set...
Linux 4.13 Adding Write Hints To Allow For Better NVMe Performance
The block changes for the Linux 4.13 kernel include some interesting changes...
Heavy Staging Updates Submitted For Linux 4.13: 500+ Patches
Greg KH has sent in the staging code updates for the Linux 4.13 merge window...
Ryzen, NVIDIA & Unity 8 Abandonment Topped H1'2017
With the first half of the year in the books, here's a look back at our most popular articles on Phoronix for H1'2017. Written in the first six months of the year were 1,710 news items and 187 featured articles/reviews...
Mux Subsystem, Thunderbolt Updates Coming For Linux 4.13
Greg KH has submitted pull requests of Linux 4.13 feature updates for the various subsystems he oversees, including the char/misc driver patches...
Hwmon Updates Submitted For Linux 4.13, Still No Ryzen/Epyc Temp Support
The hwmon (hardware monitoring) subsystem updates have been submitted for Linux 4.13 and what's sad about the pull request is what isn't present...
Scheduler Improvements Set For Linux 4.13
Scheduler improvements are en route for the Linux 4.13 kernel...
The Challenges In Ubuntu Switching To The GNOME Desktop
Ubuntu's desktop team and designers are still working through their planned desktop experience with the switch from Unity 7 to GNOME...
New UUID Subsystem For The Linux 4.13 Kernel
The Linux 4.13 kernel will bring at least one new subsystem...
Libinput 1.8 Released
Peter Hutterer has released libinput version 1.8 for X.Org and Wayland systems as the generic input handling library...
Linux 4.12 Kernel Released
The Linux 4.12 kernel has now been officially released...
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