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GTK4's Broadway HTML5 Backend Coming Back To Ubuntu, Debian

Mon, 08/22/2022 - 17:20
For the past decade going back to the early GTK3 days there has been the "Broadway" back-end that allows for GTK interfaces to be rendered within HTML5 web browsers. Aside from demos and other toys, there hasn't been too much widespread use reported with this GTK HTML5 back-end and some distributions like Ubuntu and Debian haven't been shipping the Broadway support with the newer GTK4. However, that is changing now for Debian and with this autumn's release of Ubuntu 22.10...

Experimental Patches Allow Much Faster AArch64 & RISC-V Kexec Kernel Reboots

Mon, 08/22/2022 - 16:57
For those making use of Kexec reboots for booting to a new kernel without fully bringing down the system to reduce the server downtime from POST'ing and other hardware initialization tasks, Kexec reboots may soon be much faster on 64-bit Arm and RISC-V systems...

Kdenlive 22.08 Video Editor Brings UI Improvements, Experimental Parallel Processing

Mon, 08/22/2022 - 16:45
Following last week's release of KDE Gear 22.08, Kdenlive 22.08 is out as the newest version of this open-source, KDE/Qt-aligned non-linear video editing software...

Linux 6.0-rc2 Released

Mon, 08/22/2022 - 08:55
Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 6.0-rc2 as the newest weekly test candidate for this next major kernel series...

R600 Gallium3D Driver Receives NIR Backend Fixes For Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Series

Sun, 08/21/2022 - 21:17
In addition to the R300g driver seeing new shader optimizations, also being merged this week to Mesa 22.3 were some fixes for the recently-introduced new NIR back-end for the Rade R600 Gallium3D driver for the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series...

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Sees Uptick In Activity This Week

Sun, 08/21/2022 - 21:05
The open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" being developed for Mesa has seen a busy week of new development activity on this work-in-progress solution...

R300 Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Sees New Optimization For Two Decade Old ATI GPUs

Sun, 08/21/2022 - 19:25
Thanks to being open-source, the Mesa R300 Gallium3D driver that is used for supporting OpenGL on the ATI Radeon 9500/9600/9700/9800 series up through the Radeon X1000 "R500" series has seen a new set of performance optimization work twenty years after the R300 GPUs first shipped...

Cloud Hypervisor 26.0 Released With SMBIOS Improvements, Unified Binary For MSHV/KVM

Sun, 08/21/2022 - 18:12
Cloud Hypervisor 26.0 released this week as the newest version of this Rust-based hypervisor focused on cloud workloads and secure computing. The open-source Cloud Hypervisor started out as an Intel software project and continues to be led by them while now under Linux Foundation stewardship and continuing to see contributions from the likes of Arm and Microsoft...

Meteor Lake Support Lands Within The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC"

Sat, 08/20/2022 - 19:17
Intel's open-source Linux bring-up for Meteor Lake continues. The latest open-source patches on the Meteor Lake front are for the Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) changes for these 14th Gen CPU graphics...

Mesa Zink Improvements For OpenGL-On-Vulkan Reportedly Make It Faster Than Radeon OpenGL

Sat, 08/20/2022 - 18:25
The latest Mesa 22.3-devel code for Zink's OpenGL on Vulkan implementation has hit an important milestone with the latest code refactoring: it looks like this OpenGL implementation atop the Vulkan API with the RADV driver is beginning to outpace AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver providing native OpenGL support for Radeon GPUs...

KDE's Dolphin Gets A Dedicated Selection Mode, Full-Screen Mode For Elisa

Sat, 08/20/2022 - 17:51
KDE developers had another busy summertime week adding more features to their open-source desktop environment...

SDL 2.24 Released With New APIs, D3D12 Renderer Work On Windows, New Linux Hints

Sat, 08/20/2022 - 00:07
SDL 2.24 has been released as the newest update to this widely-used abstraction layer library commonly used by cross-platform games, including heavily by games on Steam...

Apple M2 vs. AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U Performance In Nearly 200 Benchmarks

Fri, 08/19/2022 - 18:26
Last week I published initial Apple M2 vs. AMD Rembrandt vs. Intel Alder Lake Linux benchmarks using Asahi Linux and Arch Linux across the board. For ending out this week, here is a follow-up article looking more closely at the Apple M2 in the MacBook Air against the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U "Rembrandt" within the Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen3. This time around are also results from performance tweaks to each laptop for the CPUFreq governor and platform profile.

Radeon ROCm 5.2.3 Released With Ubuntu 20.04.5 Support, Various Library Fixes

Fri, 08/19/2022 - 17:42
AMD has put out another point release in the ROCm 5.2 series for their "Radeon Open eCosystem" GPU compute stack for Linux...

Mesa 22.2-rc3 Released With Many Fixes To TURNIP Vulkan, D3D9 Frontend

Fri, 08/19/2022 - 17:32
The third weekly release candidate of Mesa 22.2 is now available for testing ahead of the stable debut in the coming weeks...

Tow-Boot Downstream Of U-Boot Updated With Improved SMBIOS Support

Fri, 08/19/2022 - 17:20
Tow-Boot 2021.10-005 is now available for this open-source project that describes itself as "an opinionated distribution of U-Boot."..

GCC 12.2 Compiler Released With 70+ Bug Fixes

Fri, 08/19/2022 - 17:10
Out this morning is version 12.2 of the GNU Compiler Collection...

KDE Gear - KDE Applications - 22.08 Released

Fri, 08/19/2022 - 06:30
For what used to be known as part of the KDE Software Compilation... Then most recently the straight-forward KDE Applications name to refer to the set of official KDE applications... Now KDE Gear is the current name for the official set of KDE applications. KDE Gear 22.08 is out today as the newest collection of KDE apps...

GCC & LLVM Ready With x86 __bf16 Type Support

Fri, 08/19/2022 - 02:45
Following optional "__bf16" support being added to the x86-64 psABI as a special type for representing 16-bit Brain Floating Point Format for deep learning / machine learning applications, the GCC and LLVM compilers have now landed their __bf16 type support...

Linux Update Acknowledges Your Old Intel CPUs Might Be Vulnerable To MMIO Stale Data

Fri, 08/19/2022 - 02:00
Made public back in June by Intel was the MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. The disclosure noted affected Intel products range from Haswell up through Rocket Lake on the client side or Xeon Scalable Ice Lake servers. However, pre-Haswell Intel CPUs might be impacted too while the Linux kernel to this point was incorrectly stating older CPUs are "not affected" by MMIO Stale Data...

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