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AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Better Handle Power Savings During Compute Workloads

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 15:14
Over the past week have been two patch series in working to enable BACO (Bus Active, Chip Off) support and in turn power management capabilities when using AMDKFD (Kernel Fusion Driver) for compute workloads...

Haiku R1 Beta 2 Is Hopefully Not Too Far Away

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 13:09
The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system that has been in development since 2001 saw its long-awaited beta release in late 2018 while it looks like a second beta release could be on approach for this open-source operating system...

NetBSD 9.0 Coming Soon With 64-bit ARM, Updated ZFS, Hardware-Accelerated Virtualization

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 08:48
The second release candidate of NetBSD 9.0 is now available for testing of what should be the last test candidate before the stable NetBSD 9 unveiling in the very near future...

KDevelop 5.5 Released With Better C++, PHP, Python Language Support

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 07:44
Version 5.5 of KDevelop, the KDE-focused integrated development environment, is now available with various language integration improvements...

Wine 5.1 Kicks Off The New Development Series Towards Wine 6.0

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 04:42
Following the release of Wine 5.0 about two weeks ago as the annual stable feature release of Wine, Wine 5.1 is out today in kicking off the next bi-weekly development series in the path towards Wine 6.0 due out next January...

Qt-Powered Lumina Desktop 1.6 Released For BSD/Linux Systems

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 02:43
Out this weekend is Lumina 1.6 as the latest release of this Qt-powered desktop environment originally developed by iXsystems as part of PC-BSD / TrueOS...

FS-VERITY Seeing Performance Enhancements With Linux 5.6

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 01:27
FS-VERITY came in Linux 5.4 as a means of transparent integrity and authenticity support for read-only files. This Google creation is seeing better performance with Linux 5.6...

New Vulkan Extension Could Enhance Frame Timing Controls For Games

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 00:26
Longtime X11 developer Keith Packard who has been working on various infrastructure improvements to the Linux desktop in recent years under contract for Valve has been eyeing the creation of a new Vulkan extension for dealing with frame timing behavior for Vulkan apps/games...

Intel Quietly Released A Redistributable, Lightweight ME "Ignition Firmware" Binary

Sun, 02/02/2020 - 21:03
Towards the end of last year Intel quietly released an "ignition firmware" for the Management Engine (ME) on their Cascade Lake platform that is also their first ME firmware release to be under a license permitting redistribution...

vkBasalt 0.3 Vulkan Layer Adds Support For Using Reshade Fx Shaders

Sun, 02/02/2020 - 20:50
The vkBasalt open-source project began as just providing Contrast Adaptive Sharpening support for Linux/Vulkan games similar to Radeon Image Sharpening. This Vulkan post-processing layer then added an option for applying FXAA anti-aliasing and then SMAA and other effects. Now vkBasalt 0.3 is out today with even more post-processing features...

KDE Begins February With More Improvements In Tow

Sun, 02/02/2020 - 20:32
While KDE Plasma 5.18 is dropping soon, feature work is already underway on Plasma 5.19 and other areas of the KDE desktop stack...

Lightworks 2020.1 Beta Video Editor Brings Linux Improvements

Sun, 02/02/2020 - 17:00
Lightworks 2020.1 is on the way as this professional-grade video editing system's first release of the year and a change in their versioning scheme. Out this week is the first public beta of the still-proprietary video editing system for Windows, macOS, and Linux...

LLVM 10.0 RC1 Is Available For Testing

Sun, 02/02/2020 - 14:54
LLVM 10.0 was branched in mid-January but it took until Thursday to get the first release candidate out the door. That first step towards the release of LLVM 10.0 and sub-projects like Clang 10.0 is now moving along and you can enjoy testing the compiler stack this weekend...

Logitech Input Device Improvements Continue Coming With Linux 5.6

Sun, 02/02/2020 - 13:05
In recent Linux kernel releases we have seen a new gaming keyboard driver, better wireless device support, and a number of new device additions to the Logitech HID driver. With Linux 5.6, there is more Logitech work in tow but not quite as much as the recent kernels...

Steam Kicks Off 2020 With Linux Gaming At The Highest Point In A While

Sun, 02/02/2020 - 10:46
Valve has just reported their January 2020 numbers from the controversial Steam Survey...

OpenMandriva 4.1 Released With Clang'ed LTO+PGO Packages, Linux 5.5 + More

Sun, 02/02/2020 - 08:47
Following the recent beta release with a Clang-built kernel option and experimental Zypper as an alternative to DNF, OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 has been released as part of FOSDEM 2020 celebrations over in Brussels...

Linux 5.6 Adds New CPU Cooling Mechanism With Generic Idle Cooling Driver

Sun, 02/02/2020 - 06:39
The new "cpuidle_cooling" thermal driver in Linux 5.6 is similar to Intel's PowerClamp driver and RAPL framework but is generic for working across CPUs/architectures as an idle cooling driver to cool down CPUs/SoCs by injecting idle cycles at run-time...

Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving

Sun, 02/02/2020 - 04:00
Red Hat's Karol Herbst spoke at the FOSDEM 2020 conference in Brussels on the state of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Linux graphics driver stack...

Linux 5.6 Media Updates Bring Improvements For Rockchip Users

Sun, 02/02/2020 - 01:04
The Linux 5.6 media driver updates have landed in the kernel...

GNU Binutils 2.34 + GNU C Library 2.31 Released

Sat, 02/01/2020 - 22:26
Two important pieces of the GNU toolchain saw new releases to kickoff February...

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