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NVIDIA Announces MONAI Open-Source AI Project
NVIDIA has announced MONAI as their newest open-source initiative...
An Intel Keem Bay Driver Is Posted To Avoid The SoC Suffering Inadvertent Reboots
As I wrote about just over a month ago, Intel open-source developers have begun their bring-up of the Keem Bay SoC. Out today is a new Keem Bay driver to avoid a situation where inadvertent reboots could happen without this driver...
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 Released With Many Benchmark Result Viewer Improvements
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.0 is now available as the newest quarterly feature release to our cross-platform, open-source benchmarking software...
GNU Shepherd 0.8 Released As An Alternative To Systemd
GNU Shepherd, the official init system and service manager of the GNU operating system, is out with its newest update...
AMD Announces The Ryzen 3 3100 + Ryzen 3 3300X Processors
AMD has expanded its highly successful Zen 2 family with some new low-end parts...
Debian Dropping A Number Of Old Linux Drivers Is Angering Vintage Hardware Users
More than a few Phoronix readers have written in over the past few days expressing outrage that Debian GNU/Linux is dropping a number of old hardware drivers...
TLB State Access Being Tightened Up On Linux For Better Security
The latest Linux kernel security work being pursued by Thomas Gleixner is tightening up access around the kernel's per-CPU TLB state access for the translation lookaside buffer...
NixOS 20.03 Released Atop Linux 5.4, Various Desktop/Display Improvements
NixOS 20.03 has been released as the newest version of this Linux distribution built atop the Nix package manager...
VirtIO-FS Support Is In QEMU 5.0 For Better File/Folder Sharing Between Hosts And VMs
Added back in Linux 5.4 was the VirtIO-FS file-system driver as a a FUSE-framework-based file-system implementation designed for guest to/from host file-system sharing for VirtIO para-virtualized devices. Now with QEMU 5.0 VirtIO-FS is supported on its side...
Intel Working On Slim Bootloader Integration Improvements For The Linux Kernel
Slim Bootloader is the open-source initiative Intel announced in Q3'2018 for providing a very bare bones BSD-licensed open-source firmware implementation. We're now seeing new Linux patches for improving the integration with the Slim Bootloader...
Intel Landing More Driver Work Needed For Discrete GPU Linux Support
Landing today in Mesa 20.1-devel were some of the OpenGL/Vulkan-side driver changes needed as part of Intel's road to bringing up discrete Xe GPU support under Linux...
Git Sees Another Round Of New Releases Due To Security Issue
Last week saw a slew of new Git releases due to a security issue over the newline character creating a possible credential leak. This week is another round of emergency Git releases due to a similar security bug...
OpenZFS Sees 3x Throughput Boost For ZVOL Sync Write Performance
Last week brought FreeBSD support merged into OpenZFS and it turns out there is another recently-merged exciting advancement for this cross-platform open-source ZFS file-system code in terms of a big speed boost...
There Is Now A WireGuard Benchmark For Testing Linux Networking Performance
With WireGuard added to the Linux 5.6 kernel and it being back-ported to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and its tools getting packaged up by more Linux distributions, it's finally the year of WireGuard. With its usage set to skyrocket as supported kernels and the WireGuard utilities become available out-of-the-box on more distributions, there is now a WireGuard benchmark for stressing the kernel and its support...
TUXEDO Computers Launches A Power/Thermal Control Center For Their Linux Systems
German Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers has launched the "TUXEDO Control Center" to provide a GUI-driven control panel for managing thermal and power settings on their systems...
Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME
Earlier this month I looked at the X.Org vs. Wayland browser performance with Firefox and Chrome. Mozilla Firefox in particular was showing better performance on Wayland, so here are fresh tests of Firefox with using Fedora 32 and testing various X.Org/Wayland desktops.
LibreOffice 7.0 Will Prefer Building Its Rendering Code With LLVM's Clang Compiler
With the release of LibreOffice 7.0 in a few months, the open-source office suite will now prefer building at least portions of its code-base with the LLVM Clang compiler over GCC or Microsoft MSVC even if the default compiler is not Clang...
Intel SVT-AV1 0.8.2 Released With Many Significant AV1 Encoder/Decoder Improvements
Intel's open-source SVT-AV1 encoder/decoder for AV1 content continues becoming quite featureful while being extremely performant. Out today is SVT-AV1 0.8.2 with more significant work not only on the encoder side but also decoder...
DXVK 1.6.1 Brings Many Game Fixes For The Likes Of Crysis, Half-Life: Alyx, Battlefield 2
For those with more time on their hands due to social distancing, DXVK 1.6.1 is out to kick off a new week of Linux gaming. The DXVK 1.6.1 while a point release does come with a fair number of improvements to this Direct3D-over-Vulkan translation layer...
Pixman 0.40 Released As First Update In A Year For This Key Library For The Linux Desktop
There is finally a new update to Pixman, the pixel manipulation library relied upon by Cairo and the X.Org Server most notably but also other Linux desktop software. Pixman 0.40 brings with it many changes given the year in development since the project's last point release...