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New Linux Patches Confirm Next-Gen EPYC "Milan" CPUs To Support MPK
Recently we noted the latest revision to AMD's Programmer Reference Manual points to PCID and MPK/PKEY support coming on future CPUs. New Linux patches now confirm that the MPK support is on the way with next-gen EPYC processors...
Android 11 Aiming For Release In Q3
Android 11 Developer Previews have been available since February in bringing new 5G APIs, updated Neural Network APIs, privacy and security improvements, HDMI low-latency mode support, and many other additions. Google is now preparing the transition to Android 11 betas and ultimately to have this next mobile operating system release ready to roar by Q3...
Google's Dart Language Reaches 2.8 Milestone With New Features
It's been a while since hearing much out of the Google-backed Dart programming language for designing UI-focused cross-platform applications and its ability to compile to JavaScript or native code. But out today is Dart 2.8 as the latest step forward for this language...
8-Way Spring 2020 Linux Distribution Performance Comparison With 240+ Benchmarks
Given the recent releases of Fedora 32, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Manjaro 20.0, and others, here is a fresh eight-way Linux distribution benchmark comparison.
Qt 5.15 Hits Release Candidate In Hopes Of Shipping Later This Month
Qt 5.15 is aiming to ship in approximately two weeks time while the first release candidate was issued today as one of the last opportunities for testing this forthcoming release...
Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds 4x MSAA Support
David Airlie's "multi-sample support extravaganza" for the LLVMpipe software driver has been merged into Mesa 20.2-devel...
MediaGoblin 0.10 Released With Video Subtitles Support, Other Small Improvements
Last month the GNU MediaGoblin project announced they were still alive and have now managed to deliver a new release in the form of version 0.10...
Canonical Developers Preparing For More ZFS Improvements In Ubuntu 20.10
While Ubuntu 20.04 LTS was released less than two weeks ago, attention by Canonical and the Ubuntu development community has already turned to Ubuntu 20.10 as the Groovy Gorilla. With it being the first release past an LTS debut, they tend to be a more liberal in the changes in allowing plenty of time to stabilize before the next Long Term Support cycle. On the ZFS front it looks like we could be in for some more exciting changes...
Linux Writecache To See Much Greater Performance On Intel Optane Systems Soon
The Linux DM-Writecache target that allows for writeback caching to cache newly written data to an SSD or persistent memory will with Linux 5.8 see better performance out of Intel Optane like storage on newer platforms...
Firefox 76 Released With WebRender Improvements, Better Security
Firefox 76.0 is out today as the newest feature release to Mozilla's web browser...
Linux's Local Cache For Network Filesystems Seeing Huge Speed-Up, Lower Memory Use
David Howells of Red Hat has been working to "massively overhaul" the code surrounding the kernel's local caching for network filesystems...
NVIDIA Carmel Support Finally Mainlined In LLVM/Clang
NVIDIA Carmel CPU cores that succeeded Denver 2 and found for a while already within Tegra Xavier hardware now has mainline LLVM/Clang compiler support...
Intel Preparing Platform Monitoring Technology - Hardware Telemetry With Tiger Lake
Intel developers are working on a new Linux feature and technology called "Intel Platform Monitoring Technology" as amounting to a hardware telemetry framework that can also be used by other hardware vendors. This appears to be a new feature Intel will be supporting on the hardware side starting with Tiger Lake...
The Wayland Book Is Now Freely Available
For those wanting to learn more about the inner-workings of Wayland and its architecture, The Wayland Book is now freely available for all to learn from for moving past the X11 world on the Linux desktop...
OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.04 Released To Phase Out Python 2, GCC7 As Base Compiler
OpenIndiana, the open-source operating system built off Illumos and the former open-source Solaris code, is out with version 2020.04 as its newest feature release...
Unigine Engine Turns 15 Years Old For Delivering First-Rate Linux Graphics
Yesterday marked fifteen years since the very first release of the Unigine Engine, the longtime Linux-friendly game engine that over the past decade has seemingly increased focus towards industrial simulations and AR but remaining well known among PC enthusiasts for the company's very demanding tech demos...
CompuLab Launching The Tensor-PC As A New IIOT Solution
The Linux-friendly folks at CompuLab are preparing to ship the Tensor-PC as their newest creation following their big successes with the likes of the Airtop 3 fan-less PC and incredibly small yet featureful Fitlet...
AMD Working With GNU Developers To Provide More Robust Runtime Detection For Better Performance
Back in March we reported how AMD developers were looking at GNU C Library platform optimizations for Zen and in part could be leveraging some of the capabilities currently employed by Intel for Haswell and newer. It's looking like some solid progress is being made in that direction...
Intel's High-Performance VP9 Encoder Sees Its Second Release
When it comes to Intel's high performance Scalable Video Technology (SVT) video encoders, SVT-AV1 is the most well known for its great speed and usage by Netflix and others. But Intel SVT also consists of VP9 and HEVC/H.265 encoders too and today brought the debut of SVT-VP9 0.2...
GNOME 3.36.2 Released With Restoring TLS 1.0/1.1, Crash Fixes, Other Stable Updates
GNOME 3.36.2 is now available as the latest stable GNOME desktop environment update...