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On Thursday Croteam released Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE as the newest SteamVR title for Windows and Linux...
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AMD this year has been developing a NIR back-end for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver in part for supporting the ARB_gl_spirv extension in being able to re-use/share some code with the RADV Vulkan driver that obviously already deals with SPIR-V and relies on NIR for its intermediate representation. Now support for geometry shaders is coming to RadeonSI NIR...
on (#37JQG)
NetworkManager 1.9.90 was quietly released last week as the release candidate in preparation for the upcoming NetworkManager 1.10 stable release...
on (#37JQH)
SoundWire is being proposed again for being introduced to the Linux kernel as a new soundsystem...
on (#37JP5)
Lizard was previously developed as LZ5 and is a lossless compression algorithm that yields a compression ratio similar to zip/zlib/Zstd/Brotli but at very fast decompression speeds...
on (#37JP6)
Support for atomic counters have landed within the R600 Gallium3D driver that continues to be used by pre-GCN graphics cards from the Radeon HD 2000 series through the Radeon HD 6000 series...
on (#37H6F)
Following a few days, Fedora 27 is cleared to ship next week...
on (#37H3X)
Valve at least is continuing to maintain the Debian-based SteamOS for the short-lived Steam Machines, but their updates are hardly exciting...
on (#37GYC)
Another patch bomb from AMD landed today with 73 more AMDGPU DC display code changes...
on (#37G7Y)
Earlier this week I delivered the first NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Linux benchmarks where we even found this new GPU generally outperforming the Radeon RX Vega 64 with the current NVIDIA/AMD Linux graphics drivers. That testing was done with the Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Mini (ZT-P10710G-10P) while in this article are some more benchmarks and findings from graphics card that is one of the most powerful for its size.
on (#37FTP)
PostgreSQL 10.1 is now available as the first update over the recently released PostgreSQL 10...
on (#37FQV)
The latest in the development of the "Bionic Beaver" is that new system sounds might come to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...
on (#37FQW)
Sway, the i3-compatible Wayland compositor from SirCmpwn, is out with the last pre-1.0 release...
on (#37FQX)
The Intel i965 Mesa OpenGL driver has restored support for the SuperTuxKart open-source Tux-themed racing game...
on (#37FBX)
Following last week's F1 2017 launch for Linux which is making use of the Vulkan graphics API on Linux and Metal API on macOS, originally I set out to compare the macOS vs. Linux performance, but that didn't go quite as planned due to MacBook Pro woes. But here are some other OpenGL game tests between macOS and Ubuntu 17.10 Linux.
on (#37F8J)
Via ARB_get_program_binary Intel is working on allowing programs to retrieve or load their own NIR representation...
on (#37F8K)
One of the missing features if you are using a GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" graphics card and want to use the AMDGPU DRM driver rather than Radeon DRM is that UVD video decoding is currently unsupported. But there's new patches to fix that...
on (#37E08)
On Monday Intel announced their upcoming CPU with integrated AMD Vega-class graphics backed by HBM2 memory, on Tuesday Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) head Raja Koduri announced he would be resigning from the company, and now today it's announced he is joining Intel...
on (#37DCD)
Qualcomm began sampling their 10nm 48-core ARM server CPU last year while today it officially launched...
on (#37D33)
Ubuntu is back to spinning daily ISOs of their latest development packages in preparation for the next release, which this time around is the 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" Long Term Support release...
on (#37CEP)
Given the continuously evolving state of open-source code compilers, especially for the newer AMD Zen "znver1" architecture, here is the latest installment of our compiler benchmarks. Tested for this article from and AMD EPYC 7601 processor were GCC 7.2, GCC 8.0.0, LLVM Clang 5.0, and LLVM Clang 6.0 SVN.
on (#37C98)
Following the announcement earlier this year of Arch Linux deprecating i686 support, that 32-bit x86 support ends today...
on (#37C1B)
We are just one week into November and already there are a number of patches volleyed onto the mailing list for continuing to optimize the RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver...
on (#37BW7)
Broadcom's Eric Anholt has remained busy in bringing up the VC5 Gallium3D driver...
on (#37BW8)
An Intel developer is looking to merge the -march=cannonlake support for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...
on (#37BTE)
One decade after Apple bought out CUPS as the de facto printing system for Unix-like operating systems, they are changing the code license...
on (#37BTF)
For those wanting more usage statistics about Linux, the X-Plane flight simulator reports 1.4% of their users are currently running Linux...
on (#37AVW)
Five years and one day after Steam for Linux going public, there's a notable Steam client beta update coming down the wire...
on (#37AKV)
Earlier this year patches were posted and merged for VCN video decode support with RadeonSI/Gallium3D while now patches are coming from AMD for wiring up VCN video encoding support...
on (#37AH6)
If you have been trying to use the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver that's packaged for Ubuntu but find it not working, chances are it's caused by Canonical's patches for Mir support...
on (#37A90)
CodeWeavers has now announced the availability of their Wine-powered CrossOver software for Chrome OS...
on (#379Q9)
Made public on Monday were details on 14 known security vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel's USB subsystem while there is also known to be more similar bugs that are yet to be resolved...
on (#379CA)
Last week NVIDIA began shipping the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card as an offering at the $449 USD price point to undercut the Radeon RX Vega 56. Here are some benchmarks of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti under Linux with the latest OpenGL/Vulkan drivers compared to Radeon RX Vega, the rest of the Pascal GPUs, and other graphics cards under a variety of different Linux gaming benchmarks with 12 cards in total being tested this round.
on (#3791J)
Mesa 17.3 RC3 is now available as the third weekly release candidate for this quarterly installment to Mesa 3D that will likely be released as stable within the next week or two...
on (#378SR)
Feral Interactive has been off to a busy November with last week releasing F1 2017 for Linux and today delivering same-day support for HITMAN Game of the Year Edition on both macOS and Linux...
on (#378HF)
Collabora's Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne has sent out the latest patches for the X.Org Server and related components for wiring up Direct Rendering Infrastructure 3 (DRI3) v1.1 as well as the newer v1.2 work too...
on (#378FV)
GhostBSD 11.1-RC1 was released on Monday as the final test release before shipping this official update of the Xfce/MATE-desktop oriented FreeBSD 11.1 derivative...
on (#378FW)
The latest extension onboarding for Mesa is wiring in ARB_context_flush_control support...
on (#378FX)
Krita 4.0 remains under development as the next big feature update for this Qt-powered digital painting program and it's brewing a lot of new functionality...
on (#377M5)
Forthcoming POWER9 processors could be a game changer for cryptocurrency mining based upon some preliminary performance data we have received...
on (#3775W)
Dan Carpenter of Oracle who is responsible for security audits of the Linux kernel is not happy with the current state of the AMDGPU DRM code-base...
on (#376TH)
AMD Linux developers today sent out the latest revision to their big set of patches adding in support for Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) to the Linux kernel...
on (#376ND)
The latest talent to have departed Oracle is a longtime GNOME contributor who has at Oracle/Sun Microsystems for nearly the past two decades...
on (#3764J)
Following various F1 2017 Linux gaming benchmarks over the past few days since this game's Linux release this past Thursday with a port to Vulkan, here is a 23-way graphics card comparison for this formula one racing game while having coverage of the NVIDIA, AMDGPU-PRO, and RADV Vulkan drivers atop Ubuntu Linux.
on (#375QR)
Following the rumors for months about an Intel CPU with integrated AMD graphics, it has been announced today and is actually happening!..
on (#375MT)
Fedora 27 was originally scheduled to ship at the end of October, but now it's not going to be released for at least one more week...
on (#375CM)
A new VCL plug-in that is in development will allow LibreOffice to blend nicely with the KDE Plasma / Qt5 desktop...
on (#3758K)
Following reports the past few days of Broadcom and Qualcomm potentially hooking up, Broadcom just filed their offer today to try to buy up Qualcomm for $103 billion USD...
on (#3758M)
Mesa 17.3 is due out in the days ahead as the Q4'2017 installment of Mesa 3D for delivering the updated open-source OpenGL and Vulkan driver stacks for Linux and other platforms. As usual, this quarterly update to Mesa introduces a ton of new features, performance improvements, and other enhancements.
on (#3754W)
Enlightenment E22 was quietly released on the project's website as the latest annual feature update to this Wayland compositor / window manager...