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Surface Suspension Protocol Proposed For Wayland

Sun, 06/20/2021 - 12:00
Joshua Ashton who is known for his work on DXVK (formerly D9VK) and related Steam Play / Proton graphics related efforts has submitted a proposal for a Wayland Surface-Suspension protocol...

Debian 10.10 Released With Many Security/Bug Fixes, Updated FWUPD

Sun, 06/20/2021 - 01:26
While Debian 11 is coming up soon and its full freeze is under one month away, Debian 10.10 is out this weekend as the latest routine point release...

GFX1013 Target Added To LLVM 13.0 For RDNA2 APUs

Sat, 06/19/2021 - 21:27
Merged last week to mainline LLVM 13.0 was the new "GFX1013" target for the AMDGPU shader compiler. Well, it landed twice as at first had to be reverted after breaking the build bots / sanitizer testing...

Libzip 1.8 Released With Support For Zstd Compressed ZIP Files

Sat, 06/19/2021 - 19:19
Libzip as the widely-used C library for accessing. creating, and modifying Zip archives is out with a new feature release...

KDE Gets Expandable Tooltips, Larger Clipboard, More Wayland Fixes

Sat, 06/19/2021 - 18:00
Even with the warm summer weather and many municipalities loosening pandemic lockdown restrictions, KDE developers remain quite busy this summer with a variety of improvements to this open-source desktop...

Nearly A Decade Later, UPower Still Working Towards 1.0 Release

Sat, 06/19/2021 - 15:00
For nearly one decade there has been talk of UPower 1.0 while in 2021 that still has yet to materialize for this former "DeviceKit-Power" project but at least now there is UPower v0.99.12 as the first release in two years...

Oracle Sends Out Latest Linux Patches So Trenchboot Can Securely Launch The Kernel

Sat, 06/19/2021 - 12:00
Trenchboot continues to be worked on for providing boot integrity technologies that allow for multiple roots of trust around boot security and integrity. Oracle engineers on Friday sent out their latest Linux kernel patches so it can enjoy a "Secure Launch" by the project's x86 dynamic launch measurements code...

RADV Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Begins Landing Ray-Tracing Changes

Sat, 06/19/2021 - 07:05
In recent months RADV lead developer Bas Nieuwenhuizen began working on Vulkan ray-tracing support for this Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver that isn't officially supported by AMD but as an alternative to the company's open-source AMDVLK driver or their cross-platform proprietary Vulkan driver. Hitting the Mesa 21.2-devel code a few minutes ago is the initial Vulkan ray-tracing bits for RADV!..

Wine 6.11 Released With Theming Support For All Built-In Programs

Sat, 06/19/2021 - 04:10
Wine 6.11 is out as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot for running an increasing number of Windows applications and games on Linux...

Proton 6.3-5 RC Allows More Windows Games To Run On Linux

Sat, 06/19/2021 - 03:00
Just in time for the weekend Linux gamers is a new release candidate of the upcoming Proton 6.3-5 that powers Valve's Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Pending Patches Allow Direct3D 9 "Gallium Nine" To Run Over Mesa's Zink Vulkan

Sat, 06/19/2021 - 01:54
Mesa's Zink is well known for working to provide a generic OpenGL implementation over the Vulkan API that can be used across hardware/drivers. While still focused on OpenGL-over-Vulkan, with some pending patches it turns out Zink can support Gallium3D Nine for ultimately allowing Direct3D 9 atop this layer...

GravityMark OpenGL/Vulkan Performance For NVIDIA RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series

Fri, 06/18/2021 - 21:30
A few days ago I wrote about GravityMark as a new cross-API GPU benchmark from a former Unigine developer. Being curious about the Linux GPU driver performance for this benchmark that is focused on delivering maximum GPU acceleration support, I ran some benchmarks on the latest NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards with this benchmark for OpenGL and Vulkan.

LibreOffice 7.2 Beta Arrives With Initial Command Pop-Up HUD, Better Performance

Fri, 06/18/2021 - 19:17
Following last month's LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha, the first beta for this open-source office suite update is now available for testing...

New Linux Patch To Allow Booting From Arbitrary Non-Block Device File-Systems

Fri, 06/18/2021 - 19:00
The Linux kernel currently has code to allow booting an initial root file-system via NFS or CIFS for non-blockdevice file-systems while a new patch aims to allow for mounting of arbitrary non-block device file-systems as root...

Adreno 660 GPU Support Landing For Linux 5.14

Fri, 06/18/2021 - 17:51
The MSM DRM driver changes have been submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.14 cycle for improving this open-source Qualcomm Adreno kernel graphics/display driver...

Intel i915g Mesa Driver Now Goes Goes Through NIR, Fixes Some Past Test Failures

Fri, 06/18/2021 - 17:19
While this week's landing of the Crocus Gallium3D driver for Intel Gen4 through Gen7 graphics (i965 through Haswell) in Mesa is exciting for Linux users that are still running aging Intel systems, going back even further has been the i915g Gallium3D driver and there this week there happens to be a big improvement too...

Modula-2 Programming Language Front-End Still Looking Towards Mainline GCC In 2021

Fri, 06/18/2021 - 14:00
The Modula-2 programming language developed from the late 70's to 80's might finally see mainline GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) support in 2021...

OpenSSL 3.0 Release Candidate Arrives With Big Changes

Fri, 06/18/2021 - 06:42
The OpenSSL project today shipped their OpenSSL 3.0 Beta, which is their equivalent to a release candidate ahead of the planned official 3.0.0 release next quarter...

NVIDIA Resizable BAR Performance - A Big Boost For Some Linux Games

Fri, 06/18/2021 - 03:00
Back in March NVIDIA announced they would be supporting the GeForce RTX 30 series with Resizable BAR support via a video BIOS update for supported systems. Recently I've been looking at the performance of a GeForce RTX 3080 once flashing the graphics card under Linux with Resizable BAR support and the performance is quite compelling for Vulkan-based games where this functionality is working.

Fedora Stakeholders Back To Discussing Raising x86_64 Requirements Or Using Glibc HWCAPS

Fri, 06/18/2021 - 02:07
While Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is dropping support for older x86_64 CPUs by raising the baseline requirement to "x86_64-v2" that roughly correlates to Intel Nehalem era processors and newer, so far Fedora has not changed its default. There was a proposal shot down last year for raising the x86_64 microarchitecture feature level while now that discussion has been restarted or alternatively making use of Glibc's HWCAPS facility for allowing run-time detection and loading of optimized libraries...

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