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Linux 5.5 Bringing Thunderbolt Lane Bonding, DP Tunneling Updates

Sat, 11/02/2019 - 23:53

Intel's Mika Westerberg who continues overseeing the Linux kernel's Thunderbolt code has prepped more changes ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.5 cycle...

BMW Continues Making Great Progress With Linux

Sat, 11/02/2019 - 21:07

In recent years we have seen prominent automobile manufacturer BMW engaging more with open-source and Linux. At this week's Open-Source Summit Europe / Embedded Linux Conference Europe they talked more about their increasing usage of Linux from their assembly line to within automobiles...

GCC 11 Aims To Default To C++17 Standard

Sat, 11/02/2019 - 20:05

With the C++17 support in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) already being quite mature for about two releases/years, when the GCC 11 development cycle opens they are looking at enabling their GNU dialect of C++17 to be the default standard when compiling C++ code...

AMD Sends In More "Arcturus" GPU Code For Linux 5.5

Sat, 11/02/2019 - 19:50

Along with Intel sending in their last feature pull to DRM-Next for Linux 5.5, AMD has done the same in sending their lingering AMDGPU feature work for queuing ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.5 merge window...

Rav1e Begins Adding SSE4.1 Support, More x86 Assembly

Sat, 11/02/2019 - 19:39

The Rust-written "rav1e" AV1 video encoder continues working on better performance potential with recent Intel/AMD CPUs...

Wine-Staging 4.19 Brings Fix For X Rebirth Game, Updates NTDLL User Shared Data

Sat, 11/02/2019 - 19:25

Fresh off last night's Wine 4.19 uncorking, Wine-Staging 4.19 is out as the experimental blend of Wine with more than 800 patches for experimental/testing patches atop the upstream code-base for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

Valve's Steam Survey Numbers For October Just Point To More Inaccuracies

Sat, 11/02/2019 - 10:01

With the start of a new month we are always eager to see what Valve reports via their "Steam Survey" for Linux usage (among other stats) for the month prior. The October 2019 numbers are now published but they don't indicate any Linux change in marketshare but with some odd indications...

Wine 4.19 Implements More VBScript Functionality, ARM64 Support Fixes

Sat, 11/02/2019 - 05:25

Wine 4.19 is out today as the project's first development release for November and as we get quite close to the feature freeze / RC period for Wine 5.0 that will be out in early 2020...

KDE Frameworks 6 Ideas To Be Floated At A Developer Sprint This Month

Sat, 11/02/2019 - 03:59

With Qt 6.0 planned for release in late 2020, KDE developers are thinking about the eventual KDE Frameworks 6.0 for when they plan to transition to the evolutionary Qt 6 tool-kit. The first of likely several developer sprints around KDE Frameworks 6 will be happening already in late November...

GNOME's Mutter Adds XWayland Full-Screen Games Workaround

Fri, 11/01/2019 - 23:32

Thanks to Red Hat's Hans de Goede there is another optimization to GNOME's Mutter around XWayland full-screen gaming...

vkBasalt CAS Vulkan Layer Adds FXAA Support

Fri, 11/01/2019 - 21:07

The open-source vkBasalt project is the independent effort implementing AMD Radeon Image Sharpening / Contrast Adaptive Sharpening technique as a Vulkan post-processing layer that can be used regardless of the (Vulkan-powered) game. With vkBasalt 0.1 also now comes the ability to apply FXAA...

Ice Lake, Ryzen 9, Kernel Happenings & Other Highlights For An Exciting October

Fri, 11/01/2019 - 19:47

During October on Phoronix there were 287 original news articles and 27 featured-length Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles, all written by your's truly. Here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware happenings and other open-source/Linux news for the past month...

Intel Submits Last Bits For Linux 5.5 DRM Driver - Includes More TGL/Gen12, Discrete Bit

Fri, 11/01/2019 - 19:21

Intel's open-source crew has submitted the last of their feature updates to their "i915" Direct Rendering Manager graphics driver for staging in DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel cycle...

NVIDIA Engineer Continues Working On Proactive Memory Compaction For Linux

Fri, 11/01/2019 - 18:53

NVIDIA's Nitin Gupta continues working on proactive compaction for the Linux kernel's memory management code...

MidnightBSD 1.2 Brings Package Updates, Security/Bug Fixes

Fri, 11/01/2019 - 18:35

MidnightBSD is one of the easy-to-use, desktop-focused BSDs that makes it easy to run GNOME and other desktops like Lumina atop its FreeBSD base. MidnightBSD 1.2 was released on Halloween as an update providing updates to its base system and various fixes...