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Chrome 119 Beta Released With CSS Relative Color Syntax, WebSQL Disabled
Google engineers on Friday promoted Chrome 119 to its beta stage with some interesting features in tow...
dav1d 1.3 Yields Lower Memory Use, More Arm NEON Optimizations
Dav1d 1.3 was released on Friday as the newest feature update to this widely-used, open-source AV1 video decoder...
KWin Replaces KScreen For Handling Monitor Arrangement Under KDE Plasma Wayland
October is off to a great start as February inches closer for what's expected to bring the much anticipated Plasma 6.0 desktop release...
OpenJDK Merges Intel's x86-simd-sort For Speeding Up Data Sorting 7~15x
Earlier this year Intel posted x86-simd-sort as a blazing fast sorting library that makes use of AVX-512. When the popular Numpy began using it they found up to 10~17x faster sorts for 16-bit to 64-bit data types. Today Intel software engineers released x86-simd-sort 3.0 and it also comes minutes after OpenJDK merged a modified version of this speeding sorting code into that reference JDK codebase...
Vulkan 1.3.267 Released With Nested Command Buffer Extension
Vulkan 1.3.267 was published this morning with two new extensions...
AMD OpenSIL Will Be Talked About Later This Month At The 2023 OCP Global Summit
Earlier this year at the OCP Regional Summit in Prague AMD first presented openSIL as their new open-source CPU silicon initialization effort that can integrate with Coreboot and open-source boot firmware solutions. AMD openSIL is currently being prototyped on Genoa platforms but in a few years will eventually replace AGESA on both client and server processors. Later this month at the OCP Global Summit, there will be a new presentation on AMD openSIL...
LLVM Merges Initial Support For OpenMP Kernel Language
Merged to LLVM 18 Git yesterday was the initial support for the OpenMP kernel language, an effort around having performance portable GPU codes as an alternative to the likes of the proprietary CUDA...
FEX-Emu 2310 Released With Performance Optimizations, WOW64 Wine Frontend
A new version of FEX-Emu has been released, the open-source project aiming to be "the greatest x86/x86_64 emulator on Linux" that includes the ability to run Steam and Steam Play Windows games on AArch64 Linux systems...
Fwupd 1.9.6 Brings Linux Firmware Updating For AMD Graphics Cards
A new release of Fwupd 1.9.6 is out today and it's notable in that AMD graphics cards can now enjoy firmware upgrades under Linux. This AMD GPU firmware updating works with Navi 3x GPUs and future hardware on recent versions of the Linux kernel...
PipeWire 1.0 RC Available With Jackdbus By Default, Improved IRQ-Based Scheduling
PipeWire 0.3.81 was released today for what's being treated as the PipeWire 1.0 release candidate ahead of its stable release still comimg up this calendar year...
Incomplete Ponte Vecchio Support Being Dropped From Intel's i915 Linux Kernel Driver
Intel Linux graphics driver engineers are doing a bit of house keeping to the i915 DRM driver and removing some pre-production hardware bits as well as the incomplete Ponte Vecchio support...
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-4 As A Big Improvement For Windows Gaming On Linux
Valve has just released Proton 8.0-4 as stable on the Steam client for enhancing the experience for running Windows games on Linux for this Wine-based software that powers Steam Play...
Ferrocene Safety-Critical Rust Compiler Code Published
Ferrous Systems has made available open-source code for Ferrocene, their Rust compiler focused on safety-critical and mission-critical environments. The Ferrocene compiler is being made available under Apache 2.0 or MIT licensing...
Linux Fix Queued For Recent AMD Laptops Failing To Resume From Attached USB Devices
A fix has made its way into the Linux PCI subsystem's power management branch to address various AMD Ryzen Rembrandt and Phoenix generation laptops failing to resume from suspend when external USB devices are attached for initiating the system resume...
Linux Patches Updated For 64-Core RISC-V Milk-V Pioneer mATX Board
The latest Linux kernel patches for enabling the Milk-V Pioneer board have been posted, which is that interesting 64-core RISC-V micro-ATX board with two PCIe x16 slots and more...
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Performance With ECC DDR5 Memory
For those curious about the performance implications of using DDR5 ECC memory with AMD Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" processors, I ran some benchmarks with ECC memory with the Error Correction Code functionality enabled and then disabled for evaluating the impact.
WayVNC 0.7 Released As VNC Server For Wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors
WayVNC 0.7 was released today as the newest feature update to this VNC server for use with wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC will dynamically attach to running Wayland sessions and allow for convenient VNC server support...
Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC Support Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel
The Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC that can power fully-autonomous (Level 5) driving for vehicles and provide other assisted-driving technologies for a variety of automobiles could soon see mainline support in the Linux kernel...
Intel Vulkan Driver Implements A Transfer Queue For DG2/Alchemist GPUs
In addition to Vulkan sparse support that works with the existing i915 kernel driver, another exciting open-source Intel Vulkan driver development this week is landing a transfer queue implementation for DG2/Alchemist GPUs. This in turn can help with hybrid graphics systems and other situations...
New Patches Speed-Up Linux's Accounted Kernel Memory Allocations By ~30%
A set of patches posted last week can improve the Linux kernel's performance of accounted kernel memory allocations by around 30%...