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Early Intel DG1 Graphics Card Enablement Sent In To DRM-Next For Linux 5.9
As we have been anticipating for weeks, initial (but still early) enablement of the Intel DG1 graphics card on their open-source driver stack will indeed be sent in for the upcoming Linux 5.9 cycle and is currently being queued in the DRM-Next repository...
Sway 1.5 Wayland Compositor Released With Adaptive-Sync/VRR, New Protocols
Sway 1.5 is out as a big feature update to this Wayland compositor inspired by the i3 window manager. A big user-facing feature with Sway 1.5 is support for Adaptive Synchronization / Variable Refresh Rate, such as AMD FreeSync...
Valve/CodeWeavers Rolls Out Proton 5.0-10 RC For Death Stranding, One Day After Windows Release
Valve and CodeWeavers have rolled out a release candidate of Proton 5.0-10 as the newest update to their Wine-based software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...
Approved: Fedora 33 Desktop Variants Defaulting To Btrfs File-System
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee formally signed off today on allowing Fedora 33 desktop variants to default to using the Btrfs file-system rather than the existing EXT4 default or other alternatives...
FreeBSD Getting Close To Finally Migrating Development From Subversion To Git
The FreeBSD project has published their Q2'2020 status report that outlines their neat-complete work on migrating from Subversion to Git plus many hardware support improvements for this BSD operating system and more...
Linux Seeing Kernel GPU Driver Support Two Decades Later For Matrox G200 Graphics Cards
The Matrox G200 series desktop graphics cards released in the late 90's are now seeing open-source DRM kernel driver support emerge in 2020...
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Scheduling Improvements In The Works
Longtime open-source Intel Linux kernel graphics driver developer Chris Wilson has out a big new set of patches...
GCC 10.2 Gearing Up For Release Next Week - RC Available For Testing
The GCC crew is preparing to issue their first stable point release to the GCC 10 series next week...
LLVM 11 Feature Development Is Over With Many Changes
LLVM 11 feature development has ended with the code having been branched in Git this morning and the first release candidate expected shortly...
GNU Toolchain Continues Phasing Out Native Client Support (NaCl)
WebAssembly has seen much greater industry interest and adoption than Google's former Native Client (NaCl) effort for sandboxed applications that can be run within web browsers. Native Client hasn't seen any real activity in years and continues fading away...
Intel Adds More "Elkhart Lake" IDs To Their Linux Graphics Driver Code
Intel's Elkhart Lake as the Denverton successor for ultra-low power use-cases has a few more device IDs now in place for the Gen11 graphics...
Libinput 1.16 Will Warn You If Your System Is Too Slow
It's been over a half-year already for the current libinput 1.15 series for this input handling library used on both X.Org and Wayland environments. But libinput 1.16 is finally en route with the first release candidate out today...
Ice Lake Xeons Will Ramp Up Frequencies Slower, So Linux Is Preparing A Workaround
While being very eager to learn more about Intel next-gen Ice Lake Xeon processors as their move in the server space finally from 14nm to 10nm+, we continue to learn new tid-bits from the open-source Linux kernel activity...
Linux 5.9 To Allow Defaulting To FQ-PIE Queuing Discipline For Fighting Bufferbloat
Flow Queue Proportional Integral controller Enhanced (FQ-PIE) that has been mainline for a while in the Linux kernel's networking code will now be supported as an option for the default queuing discipline (qdisc) with the Linux 5.9 kernel...
JEDEC Publishes DDR5 Standard - Launching At 4.8 Gbps, Better Power Efficiency
JEDEC today published their long-awaited JESD79-5 DDR5 SDRAM standard...
AMD Launches The Ryzen Threadripper PRO For Workstations
Building off last year's successful Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series and the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X that launched back in February, today AMD is announcing the Zen 2 based Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors targeted for workstation usage.
Mesa 20.2's Nouveau Enables HMM, OpenCL SVM Now Supported
The open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver stack reached a new milestone today with the user-space code in Mesa 20.2 finally flipping on the Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) support...
ReactOS Hires Developer To Work On Their Open-Source Windows Storage Stack
The storage capabilities for ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" project has long been in poor shape relative to the other subsystems, but ReactOS Deutschland has hired a developer to work full-time on making improvements in storage and related areas...
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT Memory Scaling Performance Under 100 Different Tests
For those thinking of picking up one of the new AMD Ryzen 3000XT series processors and weighing whether it's worthwhile on your budget picking up DDR4-3600 memory or other higher frequency DDR4 modules, here are some fresh benchmark results with the Ryzen 9 3900XT looking at 100 different tests on Linux and showing how the performance changes from DDR4-2133 through DDR4-3800...
Linux 5.9 To Allow For Toggling Energy Efficiency Mode On Kaby Lake CPUs
The patches talked about last month for a new "energy efficiency" tunable for the Intel P-State driver for Kabylake / Coffeelake CPUs is set to go into Linux 5.9 for those wanting to increase the energy efficiency of these CPUs on Linux albeit with reduced performance...