Phoronix

Systemd 249 Released With New Option For Simple Whole-File-System A/B Updates

Thu, 07/08/2021 - 02:12

Systemd 249 has been promoted to stable as the newest version of this Linux init system...

Samsung Posts Newest "KSMBD" Linux Patches For In-Kernel SMB3 Server

Wed, 07/07/2021 - 23:30

For quite a while now Samsung engineers have been developing an in-kernel SMB3 file sharing server for the Linux kernel. In recent months that code has been maturing more and now the latest version of this KSMBD kernel code has been published...

Linux 5.14 Now Handles The Microsoft Xbox One Select/Share Button On Its Controllers

Wed, 07/07/2021 - 22:45

The Linux 5.14 input subsystem updates have landed with new hardware support and other changes...

Mesa 21.2 Lands NVIDIA's Code For Handling Alternate GBM Backends

Wed, 07/07/2021 - 21:01

Earlier this year was the proposed NVIDIA code from NVIDIA for allowing Mesa's GBM to support alternative back-ends. This support is notable given that most Wayland compositors are catering to using Mesa's Generic Buffer Manager (GBM) rather than EGLStreams or other options for buffer management. That support code has now been merged into Mesa 21.2...

Intel Sapphire Rapids To Have Experimental "RAR" Feature

Wed, 07/07/2021 - 18:18

Adding to the lengthy list of features for Intel's next-gen Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" processors next year is an admittedly experimental feature called RAR, or Remote Action Requests...

Linux 5.14 Bringing A Major Cleanup To The x86 FPU Code

Wed, 07/07/2021 - 17:50

The Linux 5.14 kernel so far is running smoothly in my early tests across a variety of systems but coming in this morning is a pull request having the potential to cause some fall-out on x86/x86_64 systems but hopefully will not...

Arm Proposes ASF As Their Framework Building Off Linux's CPUFreq + CPUIdle

Wed, 07/07/2021 - 17:35

Arm engineers are working on the Active Stats Framework (ASF) that is a new kernel framework for Linux effectively combining the current roles of CPUFreq and CPUIdle...

Linux 5.14 Staging Drops A Set Of Drivers For The Second Time, Intel QEP Added

Wed, 07/07/2021 - 06:41

The staging changes were submitted on Monday for the ongoing Linux 5.14 for this area of the kernel where immature / yet-to-be-cleaned-up code lives to prove itself before being ready to graduate to the proper mainline kernel area...

Linux Foundation Launches Open 3D Foundation, Amazon Lumberyard Spun As Open 3D Engine

Wed, 07/07/2021 - 00:00

The Linux Foundation and their partners are today announcing their intent to form the Open 3D Foundation to help foster 3D game and simulation technologies. As a key part of this new Open 3D Foundation, Amazon's Lumberyard game engine that started off based on CryEngine is going to see an Apache 2.0 licensed copy made available as the Open 3D Engine (O3DE).

An Early Look At Windows 11 WSL2 Performance Against Ubuntu Linux

Tue, 07/06/2021 - 23:00

For those making use of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) for enjoying Linux application support within Windows, here are some early benchmarks of the inaugural Windows Insider Preview build of Windows 11 with WSL2 against Windows 10 and then Ubuntu Linux bare metal on the same hardware.

Qt 6.2 Beta Released As The First Qt6 LTS Release Moves Closer

Tue, 07/06/2021 - 21:02

The Qt Company today issued the first of several expected betas for the upcoming Qt 6.2 toolkit release that will also be their first Qt 6 long-term support version...

More OpenRISC LiteX Drivers Expected To Be Upstreamed In Linux

Tue, 07/06/2021 - 18:19

While RISC-V secures much of the spotlight these days when it comes to open-source processor instruction set architectures, OpenRISC is still moving along and soon should see more OpenRISC LiteX drivers upstreamed...

CentOS Stream 9 Builds Flowing, Opened Up For Contributors

Tue, 07/06/2021 - 18:00

More build artifacts of CentOS Stream 9 are being published now while more OS images are still on the way. CentOS Stream 9 is open for contributions as RHEL's future upstream...

Linux 5.14 Continues Work On USB4 Support Bring-Up

Tue, 07/06/2021 - 15:00

Greg Kroah-Hartman on mailed in the USB/Thunderbolt changes targeting the Linux 5.14 merge window...

Following NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID"

Tue, 07/06/2021 - 12:00

There is now covid going around the BSDs... DragonFlyBSD has ported it from NetBSD...

X.Org Server 21.1 Development Snapshot Released

Tue, 07/06/2021 - 06:33

There hasn't been a major X.Org Server release since v1.20 three years ago and not much interest in seeing a new release with more Linux distributions switching to Wayland-based desktops and XWayland recently seeing its own standalone releases. But now there is an X.Org Server 21.1 development release as the first step towards a possible new stable release in the future...