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Linaro Revives "Thermal Pressure" Code For Better Performance When CPUs Running Hot
Back in October 2018 was a patch series out of Linaro for "thermal pressure" support in the Linux kernel for providing better task placement when CPUs are running hot/overheating to the extent their CPU frequencies are being downclocked/limited. Out this weekend is a revised version of that Linux thermal pressure support...
AMD Finally Publishes Sensor Fusion Hub Driver For Linux
One of the missing features for those with AMD Ryzen laptops has been the lack of a Sensor Fusion Hub driver that is needed for supporting the accelerometer and gyroscopic sensors for the display and related laptop sensor functionality. This week AMD finally posted patches for a Sensor Fusion Hub Linux driver...
GNU's GDB Adds Multi-Target Debugging Support
A big change merged to the GNU Debugger (GDB) code-base on Friday is support for multi-target debugging support...
Python Can Run Up To ~27% Faster On Fedora 32 With Optimization
Python scripts may be running noticeably faster come the release of Fedora 32 in April...
The Pine64 PineTab Could Soon Be Running Nicely Off The Mainline Kernel
One of the many devices being pursued by the PINE64 crew is the PineTab open-source ARM 64-bit tablet. Thanks to being another Allwinner A64 product and not using any too bleeding edge tech, the PineTab has patches available to get it running off a mainline Linux kernel...
Wine 5.0-RC5 Released With Fixes For Different Games
We are likely to see the stable Wine 5.0 release within the next week or two but for now Wine 5.0-RC5 is available for the latest testing...
AMD Has DP MST DSC Support Ready For The Linux 5.6 Kernel
In addition to their AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature updates sent out on Thursday, AMD also sent in a special pull request to DRM-Next on its own of a new feature: DP MST DSC...
GRUB Boot Loader Adds Support For LUKS2 Encrypted Disks
The GRUB boot-loader has finally merged support for dealing with LUKS2 encrypted disks...
OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Beta Adds Clang-Built Kernel Option, Experimental Zypper
In time for some weekend testing is the beta release of OpenMandriva Lx 4.1...
Amazon Engineers Introduce "DAMON" For Linux Kernel To Monitor Data Accesses
Amazon engineers announced their work today on "DAMON", a Linux kernel module for monitoring of data accesses for specific user-space processes...
Multipath TCP Support Is Working Its Upstream - First Bits Landing With Linux 5.6
We've already been looking forward to Linux 5.6 with already there being a lot of good stuff coming and now it's even more exciting: at least the prerequisites have been merged overnight for Multipath TCP (MPTCP) support!..
AMD Has More Radeon Graphics Driver Code Ready For Linux 5.6
Time is quickly running out to get new code into DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.6 merge window. AMD on Thursday did send out another feature pull request with some interesting additions worth mentioning...
GNOME 3.35.3 Released As Another Step To GNOME 3.36
GNOME 3.35.3 is out today as the latest development release on the road to GNOME 3.36...
OpenWrt 19.07 Released With WPA3 Support, Ath79 Target
The long awaited release of OpenWrt 19.07 took place this week for this Linux distribution popular for embedded, primarily networking devices...
The XanMod Kernel Is Working Well To Boost Ubuntu Desktop / Workstation Performance
It's been four years since last testing out the XanMod kernel as a spin of the Linux kernel with various patches and extra tuning designed to offer better desktop/workstation performance, similar to the Liquorix kernel. But given the recent Liquorix kernel testing and discussions over kernel schedulers and more, here are some fresh benchmarks of the latest XanMod kernel. Long story short, I am quite impressed by these latest XanMod results.
AMDGPU Linux Driver Adding Support For The AMD Pollock
AMD "Pollock" is a new chip similar to Dali and looking like it may be used for some Ryzen embedded purposes. AMD Pollock was plumbed into the Linux driver yesterday and was the first time we've heard this codename...
Linus Torvalds Doesn't Recommend Using ZFS On Linux
Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds doesn't recommend using ZFS On Linux at least until Oracle were to re-license the code to make it friendly for mainline inclusion. But even then he doesn't seem turned on by the ZFS features or general performance...
DXVK 1.5.1 Released With D3D9 Performance Improvements, Many Game Fixes
DXVK 1.5.1 is out today as the latest feature update for this project implementing Direct3D 9/10/11 over Vulkan for faster Wine/Proton Linux gaming performance. This is the first update since the big DXVK 1.5 release that integrated D9VK for D3D9 support...
Mesa 19.3.2 Released With All The Intel + AMD Driver Fixes From Over The Holidays
There hasn't been a new Mesa stable release in a number of weeks due to the Christmas and New Year's holidays but that changed today with Mesa 19.3.2 as the first significant point release of Mesa 19.3...
GNOME 3.34.3 Released To Offer Up More Fixes Ahead Of GNOME 3.36
GNOME has continued its recent trend of offering more point releases to existing stable series for filling the void between the six-month feature releases. Out today is GNOME 3.34.3 with all of the latest fixes, many of which were back-ported from the currently under development GNOME 3.36...