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Google's OpenSK Offers An Open-Source Rust-Written Security Key Implementation

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 02:56
Google today announced OpenSK as an open-source Rust-based security key implementation supporting FIDO U2F and FIDO2 standards...

EXT4 Gets Performance Work While XFS Gets 32-Bit Fixes For Linux 5.6

Fri, 01/31/2020 - 01:26
File-system / storage activity is as busy as always during the Linux kernel merge windows...

DXVK 1.5.3 Released - Helps Games Like Skyrim + Mafia II, Direct3D 9 Fixes

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 23:45
Succeeding last week's DXVK 1.5.2 is now a version 1.5.3 release with various fixes...

pidfd_getfd Lands In Linux 5.6 With Use-Cases From LXD To Web Browsers

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 23:39
In addition to the new openat2() system call in Linux 5.6, pidfd_getfd() has landed with growing interest from many different parties for what will be an increasingly used syscall moving forward...

Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 21:05
Systemd-homed has been merged as the latest (optional) fundamental change to Linux distributions in how home directories are handled...

Linux 5.6 Graphics Changes Bring Open-Source NVIDIA Turing, AMD Pollock Enablement

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 20:47
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver updates were sent in today for Linux 5.6 with plenty of fun features in tow...

AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Driver Revved But Not On Tap For Linux 5.6

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 20:32
Earlier this month AMD finally published their Sensor Fusion Hub driver for Linux to improve the Ryzen laptop support. That new "SFH" driver hasn't been queued as part of any Linux 5.6 pull request but a second version of the driver did make it out this week...

Staging Changes Lighten The Linux 5.6 Kernel By More Than Thirty Thousand Lines

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 16:35
With Linux 5.6 the staging area has seen new functionality but thanks to removing old code it ends up removing a fair number of lines of code from the kernel...

FreeNAS 11.3 Released With A Plethoa Of Improvements

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 14:31
The folks at iXsystems have released FreeNAS 11.3, their latest big update to this FreeBSD-based operating system designed around the OpenZFS file-system for offering advanced network-attached storage capabilities...

RADV Re-Enables NGG Geometry Shader Support

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 13:02
On top of the last minute Radeon Vulkan "RADV" improvements landing on Wednesday for Mesa 20.0, another big ticket item landed... Well, re-enabled...

USB4 Support Lands In The Linux 5.6 Kernel

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 09:50
Ahead of USB4 devices expected to begin appearing later this year, the Linux 5.6 kernel is wired up with initial USB4 support...

Linux 5.6 Is The First Kernel For 32-Bit Systems Ready To Run Past Year 2038

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 07:17
On top of all the spectacular work coming with Linux 5.6, here is another big improvement that went under my radar until today: Linux 5.6 is slated to be the first mainline kernel ready for 32-bit systems to run past the Year 2038!..

AMD Zen 2 "Znver2" Optimizations With LLVM Clang 10 Bring Some Improvements

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 04:22
With LLVM Clang 10 having added a Zen 2 scheduler model tuned for the latest AMD CPUs over the existing "znver2" tuning that had just copied the Zen 1 scheduler, here are some benchmarks looking at the LLVM Clang 9 vs. 10 compiler performance on AMD EPYC when making use of "-march=znver2" optimizations...

Linux 5.5 Performance Overall Is Comparable To Older Kernels For Most Workloads

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 03:00
Since the stable release of Linux 5.5 this weekend I have been carrying out benchmarks for looking at how the performance of this newly-minted kernel compares to older releases. Here are benchmark results of Linux 5.3 vs. 5.4 vs. 5.5 with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X but the results are similar to other HEDT and lower-end systems we've tested thus far...

Linux 5.6 Kernel Adds New System Call For "openat2" - More Extensible openat()

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 00:48
A new system call added to the very feature rich Linux 5.6 kernel is openat2() for more extensible behavior compared to the existing openat() functionality...

There Is Experimental Patches Providing Support For DXIL Shaders With VKD3D

Wed, 01/29/2020 - 23:49
The Wine project's VKD3D initiative for translating Direct3D 12 support to Vulkan took another step forward today with patches for handling DXIL (Shader Model 6.0+) shaders with VKD3D, but the work in the current form may need to be re-worked...

Mesa 20.0's RADV Driver Deems Navi/GFX10 Stable, Vulkan 1.2 In Good Shape, ACO Fixes

Wed, 01/29/2020 - 22:55
With Mesa 20.0 scheduled for branching today (though that could be delayed a few days potentially depending upon last minute requests), there's been a flurry of Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver activity to squeeze into this first Mesa release series of 2020...

GTK4 Data Transfer APIs Being Modernized Around Wayland

Wed, 01/29/2020 - 21:49
Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has provided an update on one of the latest areas the GTK developers are working on finishing up with the forthcoming GTK 4.0 tool-kit... Improving the data transfer interfaces around handling for copy/paste and drag-and-drop...

We Love Performance... So We Love LibreOffice 6.4 With This Office Suite Now Running Faster

Wed, 01/29/2020 - 20:49
LibreOffice 6.4 is out today as the latest feature update to this cross-platform, open-source office suite...

Godot 3.2 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Better Documentation, New Features

Wed, 01/29/2020 - 20:10
While developers are hard at work on Godot 4.0 with Vulkan support, that release won't be ready until mid-2020 so as a result Godot 3.2 is out today as their latest stable release and serving as a "long-term support" release until transitioning to Godot 4...

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