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Clear Linux Switches From ACPI CPUFreq To P-State
Intel's Clear Linux distribution has switched from using the ACPI CPUFreq scaling driver for recent generations of Intel hardware to now using the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...
Bcachefs Is Still Getting Fixed Up To Be A Next-Gen Linux File-System
Kent Overstreet continues developing Bcachefs as what he hopes will be a next-generation Linux file-system code that's originally derived -- but now distantly removed -- from the Bcache code-base...
DRM Changes To Look Forward To With Linux 4.12: Vega, Atomic Intel, Accelerated Pascal
With the end of feature material for DRM-Next having passed for Linux 4.12, here is a look at some of the changes you will be able to find with the Direct Rendering Manager code when the cycle begins for the Linux 4.12 kernel...
Nginx 1.12 Released
A new release is available of the nginx web server that's continuing to take on Apache with reportedly now having around a 33% web server market-share while Apache has dipped below 50%...
Mark Shuttleworth Is Indeed Taking Back Over As Canonical CEO
Last week we were the first to exclusively report that Jane Silber would be out as Canonical's CEO with Mark Shuttleworth returning to the role as CEO. Today, Jane Silber has publicly announced she's indeed stepping down...
AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 vs. Mesa 17.1 RADV/RadeonSI Performance
Released at the end of last week was a long-awaited update to the Radeon hybrid Linux driver, AMDGPU-PRO. The AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 update brings support for newer kernel releases so this driver finally deploys nicely on Ubuntu 16.04.2 / 16.10 and also has a number of fixes. Here are some benchmark results of this latest AMDGPU-PRO release compared to the latest open-source Radeon Linux driver stack in the form of the Linux 4.11 kernel and Mesa 17.1-dev with OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks.
GNOME 3.24.1 Released
Matthias Clasen has announced the first point release to last month's big GNOME 3.24 desktop release...
Anbox Is A New Way To Run Android Apps On A Linux Desktop
While there was the KDE-aligned Shashlik effort for trying to get Android apps running on the Linux desktop, Anbox is a new initiative made public this week by a Canonical developer for running Android programs on the Linux desktop...
Superposition Shows How Far RadeonSI Gallium3D Has Evolved vs. AMDGPU-PRO
Comparing the hybrid AMDGPU-PRO proprietary Linux driver to the RadeonSI Gallium3D open-source driver stack with the newly-released OpenGL 4.5-using Unigine Superposition has shown how far the open-source driver stack has come...
OpenCL.org Working To Improve OpenCL's Community Documentation
The folks behind StreamComputing BV are looking to strengthen the OpenCL compute ecosystem by improving the documentation and code samples as well as better overviews for those wishing to learn this Khronos compute standard...
Intel Developers Looking To Get Nios II Backend In LLVM
Intel's compiler team is working on getting an Altera Nios II back-end mainlined within LLVM...
Mir Developer Pleads The Case "Why Mir"
Canonical developer Alan Griffiths has been blogging a lot in recent days about the Mir display server. He's been trying to get the community to support Mir and even potentially add native Wayland client support. His latest post is entitled "Why Mir" with many still wondering why they should care about Mir when Wayland has proven to be the tested and widely-adopted path forward...
Blender 2.79 Is Bringing Performance Improvements, Better OpenCL
Blender 2.79 is under development and it sounds like this release should be quite exciting for those into performance improvements or better OpenCL support...
Unigine Superposition Is A Beautiful Way To Stress Your GPU In 2017, 17-Way Graphics Card Comparison
It's already been seven years since Unigine Corp rolled out the Unigine Heaven tech demo and four years since Unigine Valley while in that time while we have seen thousands of Linux game ports emerge, but few can match the visual intensity of these tech demos. In looking to set a new standard for jaw-dropping graphics and preparing to torture current Pascal and Polaris graphics cards as well as future Volta and Vega hardware, Unigine Corp today is releasing Unigine Superposition 1.0. Unigine Superposition is one godly GPU benchmark and is a beauty to watch.
Pitoiset Prepping Bindless Textures For Mesa
Samuel Pitoiset, one of the developers on Valve's open-source Linux driver team focused on better Radeon support, has posted a set of 26 patches for changes needed to support ARB_bindless_texture and is in the process of getting this feature working for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
AMD Developers Discuss Better Switching Of Radeon/AMDGPU CIK Support
Open-source AMD developers have been discussing in recent days how to better deal with the experimental support of GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands" (and GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands") support in AMDGPU and making it easier to enable while ensuring the Radeon DRM driver with its mature GCN 1.0/1.1 support doesn't interfere...
Snap Support Available On Fedora 24 And Newer
While Unity 8 and Mir may be on their way out, Canonical continues backing Snappy and the involved developers have got Snap support integrated into Fedora 24 and newer...
Mir Developer: Anyone Interested In Native Wayland Clients In Mir?
While Canonical is expected to maintain Mir for IoT use-cases, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is expected to use the GNOME desktop on Wayland. The community forks so far of Unity 8 also appear to want to switch to Wayland eventually rather than Mir. In trying to maintain relevance for Mir, longtime Mir developer Alan Griffiths is asking whether the community would be interested in native Wayland client support in Mir...
OpenBSD 6.1 Released: ARM64 Platform Support & More
Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 6.1...
It's Becoming Easier To Write Linux DRM Drivers
While writing DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) drivers were once a rather daunting task and not really considered much by ARM/embedded developers, over the past few years DRM has evolved a lot as it's picked up new drivers -- especially for today's many ARM SoCs -- and its core infrastructure has improved with picking up many new helpers and other improvements that lower the barrier of entry for DRM development...
AMD Ryzen 5 Begins Shipping
Today marks AMD formally launching the Ryzen 5 line-up with immediate availability...
NVIDIA Fermi On Nouveau Makes Baby Steps Towards Memory Re-Clocking
While NVIDIA's GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" graphics cards have since been succeeded by Kepler, Maxwell, and now Pascal, the Fermi hardware is still receiving some love from open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) developers in taking baby steps towards working re-clocking support...
Ubuntu 17.04 Drops DRM Support For Old VIA, SiS, R128 GPUs
The stock kernel of Ubuntu 17.04 is doing away with Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) support for a number of ancient graphics processors...
VC4 Raspberry Pi Driver Working On DMA-BUF Fencing
Eric Anholt's work on the VC4 Raspberry Pi driver stack continues with his most recent activities being the start of DMA-BUF fencing support and continuing efforts around using the Meson build system in the X.Org world...
Godot 3.0 Alpha Coming Soon, WebAssembly + WebGL 2.0 Export Working
Work on Godot 3.0 as the next major update to this open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D game engine is advancing with an alpha now in sight...
Should Ubuntu Have Gone With KDE Instead Of GNOME?
With last week's surprise decision by Mark Shuttleworth to abandon Unity 8 efforts and switch back to the GNOME desktop by Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, while some applauded the decision, others begged the question why not switch to KDE or "Ubuntu should default to [your favorite DE]."..
Mediatek MT2701 Display Support Coming For Linux 4.12
Mediatek developers have been working to mainline their MT2701 SoC support in the Linux kernel the past number of months and with Linux 4.12 will come support to their DRM/KMS driver...
XRTL: A Google Developer Working On New Real-Time Rendering Library
A new, unofficial project at Google is XRTL, creating a cross-platform real-time rendering library, with support for Vulkan and other graphics APIs...
RoundCube Next Hasn't Seen Any Commits So Far In 2017
Last September we wrote about RoundCube-Next being woefully behind schedule even after they raised more than one hundred thousand dollars for this massive overhaul to the RoundCube webmail software. Sadly, not much has changed since and the project has yet to see any Git commits in 2017...
Benchmarks Of Solus vs. Other Linux Distributions & BSDs
Last week when posting an eight-way BSD/Linux OS comparison there were a few premium members who requested seeing Solus results side-by-side. For those interested, here are some fresh benchmarks of this promising Linux distribution.
POCL 0.14 OpenCL Implementation Released
The Portable Computing Language (POCL) has issued a new release of their open-source CPU-based OpenCL implementation...
Kotlin Language Gets Experimental Native Compilation Support
The Kotlin programming language continues to be developed by JetBrains and while it originated as a new language built atop the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), there is now experimental support for native compilation...
Haiku OS Picks Up Mesa 17, LLVM 4.0
For fans of BeOS-inspired Haiku OS, the operating system now has Mesa 17.0 and LLVM 4.0 for the latest graphics driver and compiler support...
OpenELEC Mediacenter OS 8.0 Released
OpenELEC 8.0 was released this weekend as the newest version of this mediacenter / multimedia focused Linux distribution...
Debian Installer Stretch RC3 Arrives
The third release candidate to Debian Installer for 9.0 "Stretch" is now available for testing...
KDE Frameworks 5.33 Released
KDE Frameworks 5.33 was released this weekend as the latest monthly installment to this large set of KDE libraries to complement Qt...
Linux 4.11-rc6 Released
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 4.11-rc6 as the latest weekly test version of what will officially become Linux 4.11 around the end of April...
Freedreno's MSM DRM Driver On Linux 4.12 Gets 4K Support For Newer Hardware
With this weekend being the deadline for submitting new feature material to DRM-Next for in turn landing to Linux 4.12, Rob Clark has sent in the MSM DRM updates...
Changes To Find With The Upcoming Release Of GCC 7
GCC 7 is expected to see its first stable release this month, GCC 7.1, so here's a look at some of the features to find with this annual feature update to the GNU Compiler Collection...
UBports' Fork Of Unity 8 Plans To Eventually Get On Wayland
UBports is one of the leading teams right now planning a fork of the Unity 8 desktop now that it's being abandoned by Canonical. While a lead Mir developer hopes Mir will stick around and see compatibility with Wayland and Mark continues to believe in Mir, the UBports team is looking at getting Unity 8 on Wayland...
Intel Has A Last Feature Pile Of Work For Linux 4.12 DRM
On Friday, Intel's Daniel Vetter submitted a final pile of feature material for DRM-Next that will target the Linux 4.12 kernel, with the deadline for 4.12 DRM-Next being this weekend...
GNOME's Mutter Begins Landing Monitor/Display Rework
Jonas Ã…dahl's latest GNOME work to benefit the GNOME Wayland support and other areas is a rework of Mutter so it now handles all low-level monitor configuration...
It's Now Easier Testing Out Xfce Git Code With Docker
Xfce-test is a Xubuntu 17.04 based container image designed for Docker that makes it very easy to deploy some of the latest Xfce Git components...
PostgreSQL 10 Is Going To Be Very Feature Rich
PostgreSQL developer Robert Haas has shared a look at the features coming up to PostgreSQL 10 and it's quite impressive for those using this database system...
Nouveau Gets Patches For OpenGL AZDO ARB_shader_ballot
Following the work laid by AMD developers on wiring ARB_shader_ballot into RadeonSI, a student developer working on Nouveau has posted support for this OpenGL extension...
Meson Build System Prepares For Growth
Jussi Pakkanen of the Meson Build System has issued a project status report following more projects like X.Org and Mesa exploring Meson...
Mark Shuttleworth Makes More Comments On Ubuntu GNOME, Mir, Convergence
By now you have probably read Mark Shutttleworth's Google+ comments from Friday concerning Ubuntu GNOME, including the continuing of Snaps, UBports looking to take over Unity 8, and the desire to move quickly in supporting Ubuntu GNOME. He has now provided more follow-up comments...
Vulkan 1.0.47 Released
Another week, another update to the Khronos Vulkan specification. This Saturday morning brought the Vulkan 1.0.47 release...
All FreeDesktop.org Projects Now Appear To Have A Contributor Covenant
X.Org, GStreamer, Wayland, LibreOffice, Mesa, VA-API, Harfbuzz, and SPICE are among the many projects hosted by FreeDesktop.org that now appear to be on a contributor covenant / code of conduct...
GP10B & GP107 NVIDIA Support Land For Nouveau Linux 4.12
Ben Skeggs has queued up some of the last patches from NVIDIA's open-source enabler who last week left the company and queued up the code in DRM-Next for introduction in Linux 4.12...
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