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Intel Announces New Developer Zone To Showcase Their Wide Array Of Software

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 00:00
Along with announcing Alder Lake and other hardware advancements, Intel is using their new Innovation event kicking off today to also talk more about their vast collection of software... This follows Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's comments from earlier in the week around a bias towards open-source and a pledge to openness. As part of this, Intel is today announcing a new and unified Developer Zone...

Qt 6.2.1 Released With 200+ Bug Fixes

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 17:38
It's been just shy of one month since Qt 6.2 debuted as the first Qt6 Long-Term Support (LTS) release and ported many of the remaining modules over from Qt5. Shipping today is now Qt 6.2.1 as the first point release with more than two-hundred fixes...

Nintendo Switch Controller Driver Finally Set For Linux 5.16

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 17:06
After stalling last year when it was queued up in HID's "for-5.10/nintendo" branch only to not make it into HID-next at the time, that threshold has now been crossed with the latest Nintendo Switch controller driver now ready for introduction in Linux 5.16. This open-source driver enables the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con and Pro controllers to work under Linux with a mainline kernel driver...

Apple Silicon GPIO Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.16

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 16:34
Along with the Apple Silicon PCIe driver, another new driver for supporting Apple Silicon (primarily with a focus on the Apple M1 for now) with the upcoming Linux 5.16 cycle is a new pinctrl/GPIO driver...

Qualcomm MSM DRM Driver Improvements Submitted Ahead Of Linux 5.16

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 14:00
The MSM DRM driver for supporting the open-source display/graphics support with Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs has submitted their main feature pull request to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.16 merge window...

Alternative Python Implementation "Pyston" Plans For Greater Performance, 64-bit ARM

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 06:56
Pyston as the alternative Python implementation open-sourced originally by Dropbox is forming ambitious plans for a bright future...

Intel AMX Support Appears Ready For Linux 5.16

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 02:00
It's been over one year since Intel disclosed Advanced Matrix Extensions and began posting patches for bringing up AMX support under Linux in anticipation of Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors. While the compiler-side work to GCC and LLVM/Clang has been landing, finally with the forthcoming Linux 5.16 cycle that AMX support appears ready for landing...

NVIDIA 495.44 Linux Driver Released With GBM Support

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 23:07
Following the NVIDIA 495 beta Linux driver from earlier this month, NVIDIA 495.44 is out today for Linux users as the stable release...

Intel Core i9 11900K: Five Linux Distros Show Sizable Lead Over Windows 11

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 21:09
Now that Windows 11 has been out as stable and the initial round of updates coming out, I've been running fresh Windows 11 vs. Linux benchmarks for seeing how Microsoft's latest operating system release compares to the fresh batch of Linux distributions. First up is the fresh look at the Windows 11 vs. Linux performance on an Intel Core i9 11900K Rocket Lake system.

Canonical Looking For Community Feedback As Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Development Begins

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 20:25
With Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" beginning development, Canonical is soliciting community feedback as they plot out more of the planned changes for this next major release and areas to focus on enhancing over the next six months...

Raspberry Pi 4 Granted Official Vulkan 1.1 Conformance

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 18:05
Last week I mentioned how Mesa landed Vulkan 1.1 support for the V3DV driver most notably used by the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer. With those changes in Mesa Git, The Khronos Group has now officially granted this driver Vulkan 1.1 conformance for the Raspberry Pi 4...

AMDGPU DP 2.0 MST Support Sent In For DRM-Next

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 17:58
AMDGPU changes already queued up in DRM-Next for Linux 5.16 brought initial code for DisplayPort 2.0 ahead of next-gen GPUs with this connectivity support. Sent out today as a separate pull request is wiring up the DisplayPort 2.0 Multi-Stream Transport (MST) capability for the AMDGPU kernel driver...

BLK-MQ Support For OpenZFS Pending As Latest Performance Optimization

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 17:34
A new pull request is pending for implementing multi-queue block (blk-mq) support within OpenZFS' Zvol code, which can lead to sizable performance benefits...

Linux Continues To Improve Power Management For Older NVIDIA Tegra SoCs To Avoid Overheating

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 12:00
While the Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 SoCs are a decade old, the mainline Linux kernel continues working to improve the power management / thermal behavior for them in order to deal with heating issues for devices relying on these SoCs...

Linux 5.15-rc7 Released A Day Late Due To Travels

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 03:00
Linus Torvalds normally releases new kernel versions on Sundays like clockwork, but yesterday was one of the rare occasions where that trend was interrupted...

Pat Gelsinger's Open-Source Bias, Intel's Pledge To Openness

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 02:38
Ahead of Intel's inaugural Intel Innovation event taking place virtually later this week, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger published an open letter to an open ecosystem...

Newest Linux Optimizations Can Achieve 10M IOPS Per-Core With IO_uring

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 02:27
Just one week ago Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe was optimizing the kernel to get 8 million IOPS on a single CPU core. He progressed the week hitting around ~8.9M IOPS per-core and began to think he was hitting the hardware limits and running out of possible optimizations. However, this week he is kicking things off by managing to hit 10 million IOPS!..

Linux 5.16 Will Be A Great Christmas Gift For Open-Source Fans With Many New Features

Mon, 10/25/2021 - 20:42
While Linux 5.15 isn't even making its debut for another week or two, there is already a lot to look forward to when it comes to Linux 5.16. Here is a look at some of the new features expected for the 5.16 cycle...

Dynatron A39 - A Good Heatsink For Threadripper/EPYC 4U Systems

Mon, 10/25/2021 - 18:11
Quietly released earlier this year was the Dynatron A39 heatsink that is capable of up to 280 Watts heat dissipation for satisfying even the very latest, high-end AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors. This Dynatron A39 TR4/sTRX4/SP3 heatsink has been working out very well for those needing to cool a Threadripper/EPYC system in a 3U or larger enclosure.

GCC 12 Merges Initial Support For RISC-V's Bitmanip Extensions

Mon, 10/25/2021 - 17:30
Following the recent RISC-V Bitmanip work in Binutils, the GCC 12 compiler has now landed preliminary support for the RISC-V ISA's bit manipulation extension...

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