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Microsoft Releases Updated Version Of Its CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution
Microsoft has released an updated version of its CBL-Mariner Linux distribution as their platform within the company that is being used for various cloud and edge computing use-cases among other purposes...
AMD RDNA2 Vulkan: RADV vs. RADV+NGGC vs. AMDVLK vs. PRO Driver Benchmarks
Following last week's Radeon RX 6600 XT launch, here are benchmarks of the Radeon RX 6600 XT / RX 6700 XT / RX 6800 XT graphics cards across all of the Vulkan driver options available to Linux users.
VA-API AV1 Decode Lands In Mesa 21.3 Gallium3D
The change led by AMD engineers for adding AV1 VA-API acceleration support to the Gallium3D "VA" state tracker front-end has landed in Mesa 21.3...
Mesa 21.3 LLVMpipe Enables OpenGL 4.5 Compatibility Profile Support
The LLVMpipe driver providing a generic OpenGL implementation that's CPU-accelerated for Mesa - and more performant than alternatives thanks to LLVM - can now support OpenGL 4.5 compatibility profile contexts...
Fedora 35 Cleared For Golang 1.17, LLVM 13
While getting late in the cycle, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee approved some additional changes for Fedora 35 due out this fall...
Ubuntu 21.10 Systemd To Finally Ship With Cgroup v2 By Default
Ubuntu developers acknowledge "delaying this for a long time" but for Ubuntu 21.10 they are planning to ship its systemd package with the unified cgroup hierarchy (Cgroups v2) by default...
Git 2.33 Released With New "merge-ort" Merging For 500~9000x Speed-Up
Git 2.33 is out this evening as the latest stable update to this immensely successful open-source distributed revision control system...
AMD Posts Linux Patches In Preparing For DisplayPort 2.0 Radeon GPU Support
The latest feature display work to happen for the AMDGPU kernel driver since the debut of FreeSync HDMI in Linux 5.13 is around DisplayPort 2.0 support and specifically the SST UHBR10 handling...
LLVM Clang 14 Begins Landing Intel AVX-512 FP16 Support
Last month Intel began posting the developer documentation around AVX-512 FP16 support coming with Sapphire Rapids and initially accompanied by GCC compiler patches along with LLVM/Clang. While that GNU Compiler Collection support around AVX-512 FP16 has yet to be merged, the LLVM Clang support for this next iteration of AVX-512 has begun landing...
Tesseract 5.0 OCR Engine Bringing Faster Performance With "Fast Floats"
Tesseract as the leading open-source optical character recognition (OCR) engine that employs neural networks for converting images/scans of text into actual recognized text is nearing its 5.0 release...
Intel's New Brand For High Performance Discrete Graphics: Arc
Intel just announced the new brand they will use for their forthcoming high performance discrete graphics solutions...
Fedora 35 To Support Restarting User Services On Package Upgrades
While Fedora currently allows restarting of system services automatically when upgrading the packages for those services, there hasn't been that capability for user services to automatically restart as part of RPM package upgrades. But now approved for Fedora 35 is that change...
Mediatek MT8167 DRM Driver Support Coming For Linux 5.15
The Mediatek Direct Rendering Manager driver updates slated for Linux 5.15 were sent out this weekend...
Slackware 15.0 Coming Soon With RC1 Released
Not only did Debian 11 make it out this weekend, but Slackware 15 is finally up to its release candidate phase as the next major installment of this long-running Linux distribution...
Maui 2 Released For Open-Source UI Framework
The Maui open-source user interface framework and Maui Apps are out with a new release for those interested in this framework and applications that are designed to work well cross-device as well as largely working cross-platform too...
Kdenlive 21.08 Released For KDE's Video Editor
Kdenlive 21.08 is now available as the newest feature upgrade to KDE's non-linear video editor...
Linux 5.14-rc6 Released After Another Good Week
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 5.14-rc6 as the latest weekly test release of Linux 5.14 that should go gold around the end of August...
SilverStone TP04 M.2 SSD Cooling
With proper heatsinks becoming all the more important with speedy PCI Express 4.0 NVMe SSDs to avoid thermal throttling, SilverStone has been among the vendors offering after-market aluminum heatsinks designed for M.2 2280 drives. The SilverStone TP04 is a simple but effective aluminum alloy SSD cooling kit for about $17 USD.
Apple M1 PCIe Driver Under Review For The Linux Kernel
While Linux 5.12 saw initial support merged for the Apple M1, it was quite the basic support with more robust support still to come. Besides the graphics support being a large work-in-progress, one of the areas now coming about is the new PCI Express driver that is necessary for supporting more functionality of this driver...
Grep 3.7 Released To Fix "Extreme Performance Degradation"
If you have noticed grep regressing performance-wise in recent releases, you may want to upgrade to GNU Grep 3.7 released this weekend as it fixes a nasty performance regression...