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An Early Look At The AMD EPYC Performance With The In-Development Linux 5.4 Kernel
While the Linux 5.4 cycle just officially began last week and its feature merge window not even over until this weekend, given there are AMD EPYC load balancing improvements and many other kernel improvements in general, I was eager to fire up the in-development kernel on the EPYC 7002 "Rome" series to see how the performance is looking...
ARMv8.6-A Brings BFloat16, GEMM & Other Enhancements
Arm has outlined their architecture enhancements being introduced in ARMv8.6-A as their 2019 ARMv8 architecture update...
Fedora 31 Lands Good GStreamer AAC & H.264 Support
On top of many other changes for Fedora Workstation 31, this next release of Fedora Linux continues to improve the experience for proprietary multimedia codecs where the patents have lapsed...
WireGuard Will Port To Existing Linux Crypto API In Order To Make It In The Kernel
The WireGuard open-source secure network tunnel won't be mainlined for Linux 5.4 but there finally is an action plan for getting this promising network security tech into the kernel...
Qt 5.14 Hits Alpha With Major Renderer Work, Better HiDPI Support
The Qt Company has announced the availability of the Qt 5.14 Alpha release ahead of this half-year tool-kit update due out before year's end. Qt 5.14 is also the second to the last in the Qt5 series with an increasing amount of work shifting to Qt6 that is expected to debut towards the end of 2020...
The Raspberry Pi Should See Much Better SPI Performance On Linux 5.4+
The SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) pull requests to the Linux kernel normally don't get us excited, but they do when it comes with word of big performance enhancements. There are several SPI performance improvements this round but exciting us the most is the work done on the Broadcom SPI driver for Raspberry Pi hardware...
Intel SYCL Compiler + Runtimes 2019-09 Released
Moving towards their oneAPI beta release next quarter, the Intel developers are as busy as ever advancing their LLVM-based SYCL compiler and run-times for Windows and Linux...
Epic Games Contributes New SDL Video Driver For Offscreen Rendering
Epic Games' Brandon Schaefer (and in fact former Canonical developer working on Ubuntu's Mir display server) has contributed a new SDL2 video driver back-end for offscreen rendering...
Purism Starts Shipping The First Librem 5 Smartphones
In squeezing to shipping in Q3, Purism announced today their first batch of Librem 5 Linux smartphones are beginning to ship. In the process, we see the first actual photos of the Librem 5...
Nim Programming Language Hits Stable Milestone With v1.0 Release
The Nim programming language now has a stability guarantee with this statically-typed, general purpose programming language hitting its 1.0 release...
D9VK 0.21 Implements More Direct3D 9 Over Vulkan Functionality, Many Bug Fixes
D9VK 0.21 is out today as the newest feature release for this project implementing the Direct3D 9 API over Vulkan...
RSEQ Support Might Finally Premiere In Glibc 2.31 For Using This Modern Linux Feature
It's looking like RSEQ support might be added to the GNU C Library with the Glibc 2.31 release in a few months time. The "restartable sequences" support was added last year to the Linux kernel and the numbers have been quite promising for the performance benefits...
CentOS 8.0 Released As Community Version Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
CentOS 8.0 is now available as the long awaited community rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0...
CentOS Stream Announced As Developer-Forward Distribution, Rolling Release Of RHEL
CentOS Stream is a new forward-looking distribution running in parallel with CentOS 8 and in cooperation with Red Hat and the CentOS Project...
AMDVLK 2019.Q3.6 Vulkan Driver Brings New Extensions & Performance Tuning
AMD's AMDVLK open-source Vulkan Linux driver recently fell off its weekly release wagon with the last release being nearly one month ago. But today they finally tagged their next milestone and given the time that's lapsed there are a number of new features and improvements...
Apache Promotes Rya To Being A Top-Level Project
The Apache Software Foundation today announced that Rya has been promoted as the organization's newest top-level project...
The Surge 2 Sees Same-Day Linux Support Via Steam Play, RADV Workaround Needed
Released yesterday was The Surge 2 third-person action RPG game by Deck13 and sequel to the earlier The Surge game. While only released for Windows and consoles, thanks to Valve's Steam Play there is same-day support on Linux...
Linux 5.4 To Support NVMe-of P2P Support With Compatible Systems
Sent in and already landed on Monday were the PCI changes for Linux 5.4 and includes an interesting feature addition...
Picolibc 1.0 Released - A New C Library For Embedded Systems
Longtime X11 developer Keith Packard -- who these days is focused full-time on RISC-V while working for SiFive -- has released Picolibc 1.0 as a new libc implementation for embedded systems...
Ubuntu's ZFS Installation Work Will Continue Into The 20.04 LTS Cycle
With Ubuntu 19.10 one of the changes we have been looking forward to the most is the planned Ubuntu desktop installation support atop ZFS as a root file-system and Canonical's related work around the new ZSYS daemon. It's looking like the basic ZFS root installation support will make it in time for next month's Ubuntu 19.10 release but more advanced installation features won't be ready in time...