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Proton 6.3-5 Released With A Number Of Improvements For Windows Games On Linux

Sat, 06/26/2021 - 02:40
Valve and their partners have issued a new version of Proton for powering Steam Play to enjoy Windows games on Linux...

LLVM Clang 12 Benchmarks At Varying Optimization Levels, LTO

Sat, 06/26/2021 - 00:00
Earlier this month were benchmarks looking at GCC 11 performance with varying optimization levels and features like link-time optimizations. Stemming from reader requests, here are now similar reference benchmarks off LLVM Clang 12.0 on the same system with going from -O0 to -Ofast and toggling -march=native and LTO usage.

systemd 249-rc2 Released With New "ConditionOSRelease" Directive

Fri, 06/25/2021 - 23:00
Earlier this month systemd 249-rc1 arrived with a variety of new features and improvements. Now for closing out the month is a second release candidate...

The 13 Most Interesting Changes Of Linux 5.13 From Apple M1 To Security Enhancements

Fri, 06/25/2021 - 22:07
If all is looking well on Sunday, Linus Torvalds will be releasing Linux 5.13 as stable rather than going with a 5.13-rc8 test release and pushing the final version back by an additional release. In either case, Linux 5.13 is coming out soon and with many new features in tow...

MyGNUHealth 1.0 - GNU Looks To Get More Involved With Personal Health Records

Fri, 06/25/2021 - 20:44
Among the many projects under the GNU umbrella, the GNU Health official project has been about working on the libre digital health ecosystem and their most recent effort is on MyGNUHealth as an effort around libre personal health records...

AMDVLK 2021.Q2.6 Vulkan Driver Released - Removes Pre-Polaris / Pre-Raven Support

Fri, 06/25/2021 - 18:08
Following the announcement this week that AMD is dropping pre-Polaris GPU support (or pre-Raven Ridge support for APUs) from their mainline Radeon Software driver on Windows, the AMDVLK open-source Vulkan driver has also now similarly discontinued that older GPU support...

Sway 1.6.1 Wayland Compositor Released With WLROOTS 0.14

Fri, 06/25/2021 - 12:00
Simon Ser has released Sway 1.6.1 as the newest version of this popular i3-inspired Wayland compositor...

AMD SFH Linux Driver Updated For "Next Gen" Ryzen Laptops

Fri, 06/25/2021 - 06:50
There's the next chapter to the unfortunately rather sad state of the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub (SFH) driver support under Linux...

Another Test Drive With Crocus Gallium3D On Old Intel Hardware

Fri, 06/25/2021 - 04:00
Since Crocus was merged into mainline Mesa last week we have been looking at benchmarks of this new open-source Intel Gallium3D driver designed exclusively for older Intel graphics hardware (i965 Gen4 through Haswell Gen7, plus Cherrvyiew and experimental Gen8 Broadwell) compared to the existing open-source i965 classic driver. Prior articles have looked at the quite good performance with Haswell while Sandy Bridge is in somewhat rough shape. Today's testing is going in the middle and looking at the Crocus vs. i965 OpenGL driver performance for Ivy Bridge with the once great Core i7 3770K.

Dell BIOS/UEFI Under Attack From New Vulnerabilities - Use FWUPD For The Latest Updates

Fri, 06/25/2021 - 00:07
For those wondering about the recent skyrocketing in LVFS/FWUPD usage for Linux firmware updates, it appears to be attributed to Dell pushing out a massive number of updates with more than one hundred models impacted by newly-disclosed BIOS/UEFI vulnerabilities...

Microsoft Announces Windows 11 - Benchmarks Against Linux To Begin Soon

Fri, 06/25/2021 - 00:00
As expected this morning Microsoft officially lifted the curtain on Windows 11 as the latest evolutionary step to their operating system past Windows 10...

Amazon Launches AWS BugBust With A Goal To Fix One Million Software Bugs

Thu, 06/24/2021 - 23:30
Amazon today launched AWS BugBust as a global coding challenge where they are hoping to see one million software bugs addressed and to reduce technical debt by over $100 million USD...

Google Proposes An Open-Source Vulnerability Interchange Schema

Thu, 06/24/2021 - 21:15
As part of Google's latest work on trying to enhance open-source software security, months after starting their own open-source vulnerability database they are now looking to push an open-source vulnerability interchange schema to make it easier to exchange information on vulnerabilities and making it easier for automated analysis...

Linux Kernel's BPF Fixed Up Against Spectre Vulnerability Bypass

Thu, 06/24/2021 - 21:00
With the latest mainline Git kernel as well as the newest stable point releases as of Wednesday, a Spectre issue with the kernel's BPF subsystem has been addressed...

~5x Faster SM4 Cipher Performance With AVX/AES-NI Tuned Linux Kernel Code

Thu, 06/24/2021 - 19:00
Alibaba engineers are looking to mainline an x86_64 tuned version of the SM4 cipher that with making use of AVX and AES-NI can allow for a dramatic performance speed-up...

OpenDocument Format 1.3 Approved As OASIS Standard

Thu, 06/24/2021 - 18:14
The OASIS standards organization has now officially approved of the ODF 1.3 revision of the OpenDocument Format as their newest ratified standard...

Valve's Dota 2 Adds AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution

Thu, 06/24/2021 - 18:01
Valve's Dota 2 game is the latest adding support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution and the first time having a Linux-native game support FSR for enhanced image upscaling...

Linux 5.14 To Support XMM Fast Hypercalls For Hyper-V On KVM

Thu, 06/24/2021 - 12:00
With the KVM code set to be merged in the coming weeks for the Linux 5.14 kernel, support for fast XMM hypercalls is coming for its Hyper-V guest support in allowing for some performance benefits...

AMD PSF Control Support Still Awaiting The Mainline Linux Kernel

Thu, 06/24/2021 - 01:45
It's been three months since AMD published a security whitepaper outlining the possibility of a side channel attack with PSF. The Predictive Store Forwarding functionality is new to AMD Zen 3 (Ryzen 5000 / EPYC 7003 series) processors and as part of their security analysis they are allowing users the ability to opt-out of using this feature in the name of greater security but the feature still hasn't been picked up for the mainline Linux kernel...

Work-In-Progress RadeonSI+Nine Showing Big Performance Win For Source Engine Games

Wed, 06/23/2021 - 23:27
While Valve has been working on Vulkan-based rendering for Source Engine games by making use of DXVK for translating the game engine's native Direct3D calls to the Vulkan API, with some yet-to-be-merged Mesa patches around Gallium Nine there is much better performance to see with Gallium Nine at least for the RadeonSI driver...

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