Zhaoxin Preparing Linux Kernel Support For 7-Series Centaur CPUs
Chinese company Zhaoxin that continues working on x86_64 CPUs based on VIA Centaur Technology is working on supporting their "7" family processors with the Linux kernel...
New Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches Aim For Better vGPU Performance
Proposed last year were a set of patches aiming to improve the Intel virtual GPU "vGPU" performance in para-virtualized cases by having optimizations around the shared memory region between the guest and Intel GVTg code. With optimizing the workload PV submission and PPGTT PV updates, the glxgears performance could improve by 30~50% while for large media/3D workloads was more around a 4% average improvement...
The Many Mutter + Shell Improvements Coming With GNOME 3.38
With GNOME 3.38 due to be released next week, the GNOME Shell and Mutter development blog has put out their overview of all the improvements and new features to expect...
Android 11 Released, Now Available Via Open-Source Project
Google engineers today celebrating pushing the Android 11 sources to the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) as part of the official Android 11 release...
Fedora 34 KDE Spin Planning Switch To Wayland
For four years now since Fedora 25 the default GNOME Shell desktop environment has been using Wayland by default. Next spring with Fedora 34, the KDE Spin is finally planning a similar migration to use Wayland by default with the KDE Plasma desktop...
Intel AMT Hit By Another "Critical" Security Vulnerability
Intel's September 2020 security advisories were posted today and include four security advisories around nine vulnerabilities...
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Driver - Performance Is Turning Out Better Than Expected
When looking at the performance of Zink's OpenGL over Vulkan implementation just about one year ago the performance had a lot to be desired. But since then they have patches bringing it all the way to OpenGL 4.6 compared to the OpenGL 2.1 days and there has also been a lot of work on the performance. The performance at least for select operations is now turning out better than even the developers were expecting...
Intel Lands Adaptive-Sync/VRR Into Modesetting X.Org Driver
With Intel Gen11 graphics and newer supporting Adaptive-Sync / Variable Refresh Rate for minimizing tearing and stuttering, their open-source developers have now added the necessary bits to the generic xf86-video-modesetting X.Org driver for supporting the VRR functionality...
Hikari 2.2 Wayland Compositor Adds Support For WayVNC, Other Features
Hikari, the FreeBSD-focused Wayland compositor that also works on Linux systems, is out with a new feature release...
GStreamer 1.18 Released With Better Windows Support, Intel SVT-HEVC
GStreamer 1.18 is now available for this widely-used, cross-platform multimedia framework...
GNOME Power-Profiles-Daemon Taking Shape For Better System/Laptop Power Controls
The GNOME Power Profiles Daemon (power-profiles-daemon) has begun taking shape over the past few weeks for ultimately allowing better controls over system power preferences with different profiles...
Inkscape 1.0.1 Released With Many Fixes, Experimental Scribus PDF Export
Following the major Inkscape 1.0 release happening back in May for this very popular, cross-platform vector graphics program there is the first point release now available...
KDevelop 5.6 IDE Brings Better Stability, Performance
Version 5.6 of KDevelop as the KDE-focused integrated development environment is now available...
Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer
The "Ubiquity" installer used by the Ubuntu desktop is set to feature Active Directory (AD) integration with the upcoming Ubuntu 20.10 release...
V3DV Driver For Raspberry Pi Closing In On Vulkan 1.0
The V3DV open-source Vulkan driver being developed by consulting firm Igalia for the Raspberry Pi Foundation is nearing official support for Vulkan 1.0...
Dynamic Triple Buffering For GNOME Still Being Worked On To Ramp Up The GPU When Needed
Proposed earlier this summer for GNOME's Mutter was the idea of triple buffering the desktop when the GPU is running behind in order to ideally cause that extra load to ramp up the GPU clock frequencies in order to in turn get back on track with rendering the desktop on-time. A third version of that work is now brewing albeit too late to see with the imminent GNOME 3.38.0 release...
AV2 Is In R&D As The Eventual Successor To The AV1 Video Codec
While AV1 adoption is still taking off and finally seeing desktop hardware with AV1 decode, given the time it takes to develop a new high-end video codec it shouldn't come as too much surprise that "AV2" is already being explored...
Intel Releases SVT-AV1 0.8.5 With More AV1 Encoder Improvements
Intel's open-source SVT-AV1 encoder that is now being used as the basis for the AV1 Software Working Group and used by Netflix and other organizations for being one of the most performant CPU-based AV1 encoders is out with a new release...
Vulkan 1.2.153 Released As Development Switches To "Main"
Vulkan 1.2.153 doesn't come with any new extensions or major changes aside from an important fundamental change if you are interacting with their Git repository...
Gentoo's Portage 3.0 Stabilized With Much Faster Dependency Calculations
Gentoo's Portage 3.0 package manager has been stabilized and ready to shine...