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Crocus Gallium3D Nears Mainline Mesa For Gallium3D i965 Through Haswell Graphics
A few months ago you may recall word of Crocus as a new Mesa Gallium3D driver for supporting Intel Gen7 Haswell graphics and older back through the i965 class hardware. That Gallium3D driver for the aging class of Intel graphics is nearing mainline Mesa with the work-in-progress merge request now pending as of this week...
GNU Poke 1.3 Released For Poking At Binaries, Understanding Binary Data
GNU Poke debuted earlier this year as a new GNU project providing an interactive editor and integrated, interactive programming language for dealing with binary data. Poke makes it easier to analyze binary data and their data structures as well as manipulating said binary data...
NVMeTCP Offload Bits Coming For Linux 5.14 To Lower CPU Utilization, Better Latency
Adding to other networking changes queuing up for the upcoming Linux 5.14 cycle, NVMeTCP Offload has begun landing into "net-next" ahead of this next kernel merge window...
-O3 Compiler Optimization Level Still Deemed Too Unsafe For The Linux Kernel
Due to not too old versions of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) possibly generating bad code with the "-O3" compiler optimization level and sometimes there not being performance benefits, Linus Torvalds remains against using this optimization flag when compiling the Linux kernel...
Wine-Staging 6.10 Ships With Just Under 600 Patches Atop Upstream Wine
It's been a few releases since there has been much in the way of new additions to Wine-Staging worth talking about. This staging/experimental version of Wine has at some points carried 700+ patches over upstream Wine but with not many new patches introduced recently while the flow of patches from staging to upstream Wine continuing, at this point its down to "only" 571 patches. With today's Wine-Staging 6.10 there are also some new improvements incorporated into this build...
KDE Gears Up For The Plasma 5.22 Release Next Week
Next week will mark the release of the Plasma 5.22 desktop with its Wayland support now much more mature alongside various performance improvements and a variety of other enhancements. Plasma 5.22 is a big step forward while already some feature work is going into Plasma 5.23 and the next round of KDE application updates...
Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old, Covering The Linux Hardware Scene Daily
Today marks seventeen years since I started Phoronix.com for what would become the leading Linux hardware reviews and benchmarking site. The 5th of June also marks 13 years now since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 for leading open-source benchmarking...
Wine 6.10 Released With Newer Mono, Updated AppData Paths
As another cork to pop on the Phoronix 17th birthday weekend, Wine 6.10 has been released for running Windows applications and games on Linux...
NVIDIA 470.76 WSL Driver Released
While waiting for NVIDIA to publicly launch a beta of their much anticipated 470 Linux driver series, today they issued a new 470.76 release of their WSL "Windows Subsystem for Linux" driver...
LLVM Clang 12 Leading Over GCC 11 Compiler Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake
Recently we have been running a number of compiler benchmarks looking at the recently released LLVM Clang 12 and GCC 11 open-source code compilers. There is as healthy and competitive competition as ever between GCC and Clang with the mainline Linux kernel these days working well under Clang, more software projects shifting to Clang by default, and the performance being as tight as ever between GCC and Clang for compiled C/C++ code on x86_64 and AArch64. In today's article are benchmarks of Clang 12 vs. GCC 11 on the dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 Ice Lake server.
Linux's USB Audio Driver Aims For Latency Reduction
With the upcoming Linux 5.14 cycle, the USB sound driver will ideally exhibit lower latency when starting playback...
Haiku OS Continues Making Progress On RISC-V, Adds Stack Protection
The Haiku open-source operating system inspired by BeOS continues advancing with work ranging from their hardware support and low-level kernel features up through user-interface work...
Wasmer 2.0 WebAssembly Runtime Is Near With Much Faster Performance
WASM3 v0.5 released this week for that WebAssembly interpreter that claims to be the fastest. The Wasmer WebAssembly runtime for WASI/EmScripten meanwhile released its initial 2.0 release candidates this week where it's been upping the performance...
Atari VCS Controller Support Added To SDL2
Ahead of the long-awaited Atari VCS game console launching this month, the SDL2 library has added the mapping for the Linux game console's controllers...
Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 3.0 With Even Better Performance
Arm has released version 3.0 of its encoder for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC), the lossy compression algorithm popular with OpenGL (ES) and Vulkan that is royalty-free and available through official extensions...
Chrome 92 Beta Released With File Handling API, Other Developer Additions
Following last week's stable release of Chrome 91, Google has now promoted Chrome 92 to beta...
FUTEX2 Linux Patches Updated To Support Variable-Sized Futexes
One of the elusive kernel patch series we have been eager to see for the mainline Linux kernel has just been spun up a fourth time...
CentOS Linux 8 2105 Released As RHEL 8.4 Equivalent
While CentOS Linux 8 is being discontinued at the end of the year in favor of Red Hat focusing those resources on CentOS Stream, CentOS Linux 8 2105 was released today as the newest version that is now based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 sources...
AMD Teasing 8 June Launch Event For New Radeon Card
Following this week's big AMD keynote at the virtual Computex 2021, AMD just sent out emails teasing another launch event coming next week...
NVMe 2.0 Released As A Library Of Specifications With ZNS, Simple Copy + More
NVM Express Inc today published NVMe 2.0 as a family/library of specifications rather than being a monolithic specification in order to allow them to advance faster and independently of each other...