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Linux 5.18 Has Many Apple Keyboard Improvements, New Razer Driver & Tablet Improvements
The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 5.18 merge window...
NVIDIA Working On Support For Valve's Gamescope Wayland Compositor
Valve's Gamescope Wayland compositor is what was born out of their former Steamcompmgr effort but rewritten to target Wayland, interfacing directly with DRM/KMS APIs for enhanced efficiency, and making use of Vulkan. To date Gamescope has worked with the Intel and Radeon open-source Linux graphics driver stacks while the NVIDIA proprietary driver is seeing work in the direction of supporting it...
Windows vs. Linux Benchmarks For AMD Ryzen Server Performance
As a follow-up to last week's article looking at how AMD is making an interesting case for budget-friendly Ryzen dedicated servers and not only in Europe but throughout the world more hosting providers are offering cost-conscious AMD Ryzen powered dedicated server options, here is a look at how various Linux distributions run on an ASRock Rack based AMD Ryzen server up against Microsoft Windows.
Linux 5.18's NFSD Adds Support For NFSv4 Birth Time File Attribute
Chuck Lever III has submitted the NFSD file-system server changes for the in-development Linux 5.18 kernel with a few interesting changes in tow...
Mozilla Formally Introduces MDN Plus As Its Developer Subscription Service
After launching an improved MDN earlier this month and teasing their "MDN Plus" subscription service, today that Mozilla Developer Network premium service is now available...
Tesla FSD Chip Added To Upstream Linux 5.18 Along With The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
The upcoming Linux 5.18 kernel has mainline support available for Tesla's full self-driving SoC along with other interesting Arm hardware...
GStreamer Lands New NVIDIA Video Encoder Implementation
For those relying on software that leverages the GStreamer multimedia framework and you use the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack on Windows or Linux, with the next release you will be able to enjoy a better NVIDIA GPU-based video encoding experience...
Linux 5.18 Brings Many Networking Changes, New WiFi / Wired Hardware Support
The networking subsystem updates are busy as always with each Linux kernel merge window...
Intel IGC 1.0.10713 Adds Ray-Tracing Support
The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is open-source and used by the driver stacks on both Windows and Linux is up to version 1.0.10713 and with this milestone is functional ray-tracing support in preparation for upcoming Intel Arc graphics processors with hardware ray-tracing support...
Linux 5.18 Graphics Driver Changes From FreeSync Video Mode To New Intel Hardware
David Airlie has submitted the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver updates for the Linux 5.18 kernel that includes the many graphics/display driver changes this cycle...
Linux 5.18 Crypto Has Arm Optimizations, AVX For SM3, Xilinx SHA3 Driver
The crypto subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 5.18 kernel...
Andes NDS32 CPU Architecture To Be Dropped In Linux 5.18
It was just back in 2018 that Andes' NDS32 CPU architecture support was added with the Linux 4.17 kernel. But now with Linux 5.18 the AndesCore NDS32 architecture is being removed over lack of active maintenance...
Linux 5.18 EDAC Continues Making Preparations For AMD Zen 4
AMD continues improving their Error Detection And Dorrection (EDAC) driver code within the Linux kernel ahead of next-generation processors debuting later this year...
Imagination PowerVR Rogue GPU Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mesa 22.1
In addition to the Imagination PowerVR Series 1 code drop of their late 90's era driver code, Imagination Tech has managed to successfully land its new PowerVR Rogue "PVR" Vulkan driver in time for Mesa 22.1's release next quarter...
GNOME 42 Released With Many Improvements From Wayland To GTK4 Porting
GNOME 42 is out today as the latest half-year update for this widely-used, open-source desktop environment...
Apple M1 Performance On Linux: Benchmarks Better Than Expected For Its Alpha State
Last Friday the crew at Asahi Linux led by Hector Martin released the first alpha release for running Linux on Apple Silicon hardware. I eagerly loaded up Asahi Linux on an M1-powered Apple Mac Mini knowing the various early limitations of the Linux kernel support that is still settling. Overall the Apple M1 Linux performance ended up exceeding my expectations for the performance in its early alpha state. Here are some benchmarks.
Latest Linux Code Smashes 14M IOPS Per-Core With Intel Core i9 12900K + Optane
Back in the day, 2.5 million IOPS per core was an impressive feat... That day was little more than one year ago. With faster hardware and relentless optimizations by Linux kernel developers, 14 million IOPS per core is the new record now achieved...
Imagination Posts Original Driver Code For PowerVR Series 1 GPUs As Open-Source
In addition to Imagination working on a open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver for their newest graphics IP within Mesa, Imagination Technologies has also decided to go back and publish their original PowerVR Series 1 macOS/Windows driver as open-source...
Intel + Microsoft Contribute "SIOV" I/O Virtualization Spec To Open Compute Project
Intel announced yesterday that they in cooperation with Microsoft have contributed the Scalable I/O Virtualization (SIOV) specification to the Open Compute Project for being an open standard moving forward...
Arm Neoverse Demeter & N2 Tuning Merged Into GCC 12, Experimental NVPTX Option
While GCC 12 is in stage four development and focused just on regression fixes, a few notable patches were merged this week into the codebase ahead of its official release expected in roughly a month or so...