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Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD On Linux
Last year Sabrent launched the Rocket 4 Plus PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid-state drive and left me puzzled for months finding that the Linux performance was coming in short of expectations under Linux. However, Sabrent recently released a firmware update (v1.2) for the Rocket 4 Plus and now the drive seems to be much better positioned under Linux.
Apache Pinot Makes It To The Organization's Top Shelf For Real-Time Big Data Analytics
After being started by LinkedIn and open-source now for more than a half-decade while incubating at the Apache Software Foundation the past three years, Apache Pinot is the latest project graduating to become a top-level Apache project...
LLVM 13 Feature Development Is Over, LLVM 14 Enters Development
LLVM 13.0 feature development has ended with the code now branched and the first release candidate tagged...
X-Plane Flight Simulator Continues Advancing Its Renderer With Vulkan
X-Plane is not only the most realistic flight simulator that has long offered native Linux support but it's the only instance of a Vulkan-powered flight simulator I am aware of. While long tied to OpenGL, the company behind X-Plane is making it clear that the graphics rendering future is with Vulkan (and Metal when talking about Apple platforms)...
Git 2.33 Is On The Way With An Assortment Of Fixes, Updated Documentation
Monday marked the release of Git 2.33-rc0 as the first test release of the next version of this distributed revision control system...
AMD SB-RMI Driver Coming For Linux 5.15
AMD continues pushing new code out for Linux in better exposing their platform's capabilities in the open-source world. The latest AMD driver work now queued via "-next" branches for introduction this autumn in Linux 5.15 is SB-RMI sensor support...
WireGuard Sees Native, High-Performance Port To The Windows Kernel
The excellent WireGuard open-source secure VPN tunnel has been seeing growing adoption on Linux now that it's been in the mainline kernel for a while and also seeing continued progress on the BSDs. While there has been beta WireGuard for Windows in user-space, "WireGuardNT" was announced today as a native high-performance port to the Windows kernel...
FWUPD 1.6.2 Released With Exciting Improvements For Hardware Firmware Updates On Linux
While FWUPD 1.5.12 released last week with expanded support for Poly web cameras, FWUPD 1.6.2 is out today as the newest feature release in their latest series. FWUPD 1.6.2 brings several significant improvements for advancing open-source firmware update capabilities on Linux...
AMD + Valve Working On New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design
Along with other optimizations to benefit the Steam Deck, AMD and Valve have been jointly working on CPU frequency/power scaling improvements to enhance the Steam Play gaming experience on modern AMD platforms running Linux...
Debian Improves Docs To Inform Users Their Systems Might Not Work Without Non-Free Firmware
Debian 11 "Bullseye" is set to be released mid-August while out this morning is the third release candidate of the Debian Bullseye installer. With this installer update is more documentation for users letting them know the risks of modern graphics cards and the like that are often inoperable unless loading firmware that isn't considered free software...
Work Is Back Underway On A Task Isolation Interface For The Linux Kernel
Red Hat's Marcelo Tosatti has submitted his latest patches implementing a basic task isolation interface for the Linux kernel that would be particularly useful for real-time workloads and high-bandwidth networking applications making use of user-space drivers...
GNU C Library 2.34 Released With More Functionality Squeezed Into libc
Version 2.34 of the GNU C Library (glibc) is now available with a wide variety of changes that accumulated over the past six months...
X.Org's XEyes 1.2 Released, Other Updated X11 Components Too
Several X.Org/X11 components saw new releases on Sunday for kicking off August, including the xeyes program seeing its first non-point release in eleven years...
dav1d 0.9.1 Released With More Optimizations - Particularly For Older CPUs
Dav1d 0.9.1 was released on Sunday as the newest feature update to this leading open-source CPU-based AV1 video decoder...
Linux 5.14-rc4 Released With Change Following Some Broken Android Apps, Other Fixes
Linux 5.14-rc4 is available today as a rather smooth update with nothing too worrisome but just a decent amount of fixes and nothing that is causing Linux creator Linus Torvalds to be frustrated...
Steam Survey Shows Linux Marketshare Hitting 1.0%
Not only did Valve announce Steam Deck in July but the overall Linux gaming marketshare according to the Steam Survey also hit a multi-year high...
Linux 5.15 Adding Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP)
Linux 5.15 is positioned now to see a Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) implementation with the code now queued in net-next with this being a protocol for communication between management controllers and managed devices...
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Making Progress On x86_64, Multi-Monitor
ReactOS as the long-running open-source project striving for Windows ABI compatibility has been making some significant progress this summer on various endeavors...
LibreOffice 7.2 RC2 Up For Testing With Its Initial GTK4 Work, Command Pop-Up / HUD
LibreOffice 7.2 is preparing to ship this month while out today is LibreOffice 7.2 RC2 for facilitating last minute testing of this leading open-source office suite...
LE9, Canonical's Profits, Steam Deck, & Loongson 3A5000 Made For An Exciting July
July was a pretty damn exciting summer month amid the pandemic thanks to many interesting Linux software and hardware announcements...