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Loongson Improvements Land In Linux 5.7 To Improve The Chinese MIPS CPUs

Sun, 04/05/2020 - 12:00

The MIPS architecture improvements for Linux 5.7 are headlined by Loongson support improvements for those Chinese manufactured MIPS64 platforms...

Open-Source Unvanquished Game Aiming For A New Release Soon

Sun, 04/05/2020 - 07:31

One of the most promising open-source game projects of the 2010s when it comes to gameplay and visual quality is the Unvanquished project but sadly in recent years has been fairly quiet although new code continues to be contributed to their repository. It looks like in the weeks ahead could finally be a new release...

The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Has Landed In Linux 5.7

Sun, 04/05/2020 - 03:37

As we have been expecting the new Samsung-developed file-system driver for Microsoft's exFAT has successfully landed into the Linux 5.7 kernel to replace the existing exFAT driver added in Linux 5.4 last year after Microsoft published the file-system specifications and gave their blessing to have the support mainlined in the Linux kernel...

Linux 5.7 Adds Support For The Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, Mainline PinePhone Support

Sun, 04/05/2020 - 00:18

Some exciting ARM SoCs and devices are supported by the mainline Linux 5.7 kernel...

Dell XPS Ice Lake Taking A Wallop On Ubuntu 20.04

Sat, 04/04/2020 - 20:41

With our early benchmarking of Ubuntu 20.04 in its current nearing the end of development state, we've been seeing Ubuntu 20.04 boosting Intel Xeon Scalable performance, running well with AMD EPYC Rome, and good AMD Ryzen performance, among other tests. Strangely though the one platform where I've found Ubuntu 20.04 hard regressing so far is with the Dell XPS 7390 Ice Lake...

Radeon Open Compute 3.3 Released But Still Without Official Navi Support

Sat, 04/04/2020 - 19:03

This week marked the release of ROCm 3.3 as the newest version of the Radeon Open Compute stack...

High Resolution Wheel Scrolling Back To Being Finished Up For The Linux Desktop

Sat, 04/04/2020 - 18:39

Added over a year ago to the mainline Linux kernel was the high resolution mouse wheel scrolling support. While the support landed on kernel-side for to provide "buttery smooth" wheel scrolling, the work has yet to be wrapped up on the user-space side for making this a reality on the Linux desktop...

AMD ACO Backend Implements 8-bit / 16-bit Storage Capabilities - Needed For DOOM Eternal

Sat, 04/04/2020 - 15:25

It's been another busy week for Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver with the Valve-backed ACO compiler back-end alternative to AMDGPU LLVM...

Steam Survey Points To Tiny Uptick In Linux Percentage For March

Sat, 04/04/2020 - 13:17

With Steam and other online gaming platforms seeing record usage in recent weeks as a result of home isolation around the world as a result of the coronavirus, one of the matters of curiosity has been how this will impact the Linux gaming percentage...

Linux 5.7's Char/Misc Brings MHI Bus, Habana Labs AI Accelerator Code Additions

Sat, 04/04/2020 - 12:10

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Friday sent in his "char/misc" updates for the Linux 5.7 kernel several days later than normal...

Proton 5.0-6 To Allow Out-Of-The-Box DOOM Eternal On Linux

Sat, 04/04/2020 - 06:00

Valve is finishing up work on Proton 5.0-6 as the next version of their Wine downstream that powers Steam Play. With Proton 5.0-6 are some promising improvements...

NIR Vectorization Lands In Mesa 20.1 For Big Intel Graphics Performance Boost

Sat, 04/04/2020 - 05:20

The recently covered NIR vectorization pass ported from AMD's ACO back-end for improving the open-source Intel Linux graphics performance has landed now in Mesa 20.1...

Ada++ Wants To Make The Ada Programming Language More Accessible

Sat, 04/04/2020 - 03:02

Ada is a beautiful programming language when it comes to code safety with it continuing to be used by aircraft and other safety critical systems. There is now Ada++ as an unofficial fork of the language focused on making the language more accessible and friendlier in an era of the likes of Rust and Golang attracting much interest...

PCI Changes For Linux 5.7 Bring Error Disconnect Recover, P2P DMA For Skylake-E

Sat, 04/04/2020 - 02:17

The PCI subsystem changes were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 5.7 kernel merge window...

LLVM Lands Performance-Hitting Mitigation For Intel LVI Vulnerability

Fri, 04/03/2020 - 21:24

Made public in March was the Load Value Injection (LVI) attack affecting Intel CPUs with SGX capabilities. LVI combines Spectre-style code gadgets with Meltdown-type illegal data flows to bypass existing defenses and allow injecting data into a victim's transient execution. While mitigations on the GNU side quickly landed, the LLVM compiler mitigations were just merged today.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Beta Released

Fri, 04/03/2020 - 21:18

For those with extra time on their hands due to being at home and social distancing, Canonical released the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS beta today for testing...

Linus Torvalds Questions The Not So Glorious Driver For That Funky Looking RGB Mouse

Fri, 04/03/2020 - 19:40

Last month I noted a new Linux driver for a buggy and funky looking mouse. A special driver was created by a community developer due to not all the mice button working otherwise due to not abiding by HID specifications. Now that the driver was merged for Linux 5.7, Linus Torvalds had words to share on this open-source driver...