Phoronix

Intel Graphics Code Seeing More Tiger Lake Action, Power Efficiency Work For Linux 5.8

Fri, 05/01/2020 - 18:46

Intel's graphics driver team continues amassing more changes for Linux 5.8...

GhostBSD 20.04 Released With Fixes, Updated Kernel

Fri, 05/01/2020 - 18:35

GhostBSD 20.04 is out as the newest monthly update to this desktop-focused operating system built off the FreeBSD base...

Linux Gaming, Qt Drama, New Hardware Kept Open-Source Enthusiasts Entertained This Month

Fri, 05/01/2020 - 08:00

During the course of April while much of the world was in lockdown, there were plenty of interesting happenings in the Linux/open-source and hardware space to keep enthusiasts interested while social distancing from the release of Linux 5.6 to the releases of Fedora 32 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, among other milestones...

System76 Releases Pop!_OS 20.04

Fri, 05/01/2020 - 06:35

System76 released today Pop!_OS 20.04 as their in-house Linux distribution built off Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but with many customizations on top...

GNOME 3.37.1 Released As The First Step Towards GNOME 3.38

Fri, 05/01/2020 - 05:05

With about a month and a half since GNOME 3.36 debuted, GNOME 3.37.1 is out today as the first development release towards GNOME 3.38 due out this September...

GCC 10 Has Been Branched, GCC 10.1 Stable Looking To Release In Early May

Fri, 05/01/2020 - 02:46

The GNU Compiler Collection 10 stable release (GCC 10.1) is on track for releasing in early May...

Redis 6.0 Released As A Big Update For This In-Memory Key-Value Database

Thu, 04/30/2020 - 22:56

Redis 6.0 is out to end out April as this widely-used, open-source in-memory key-value database solution...

Intel Announces 10th Gen Core S-Series CPUs, Led By The Core i9 10900K

Thu, 04/30/2020 - 21:00

Intel today is announcing their 10th Gen Core "Comet Lake" S-Series processors led by the Core i9 10900 series that the company claim is now the world's fastest gaming processor and offers clock speeds up to 5.3GHz.

AMDVLK 2020.Q2.2 Flips On The Pipeline Binary Cache, Tunes SoTR Performance

Thu, 04/30/2020 - 18:48

AMDVLK 2020.Q2.2 has been issued today as the company's latest open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver based off their official driver source tree...

Raspberry Pi Announces The $50 High Quality Camera

Thu, 04/30/2020 - 18:36

Raspberry Pi today announced their newest product, the High Quality Camera, which starts at $50 and supports interchangeable lenses...

Linux 5.5 vs. 5.6 vs. 5.7 Kernel Benchmarks With The Intel Core i9 10980XE

Thu, 04/30/2020 - 15:27

Besides those systems now seeing Schedutil by default as the CPU frequency scaling governor and some Radeon gaming performance gains to note, the performance of Linux 5.7 in our testing thus far has largely been on track with Linux 5.6 stable...

AMD AOMP 11.5 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs

Thu, 04/30/2020 - 13:56

Released on Wednesday was AOMP 11.5 as the latest version of the AMD/ROCm compiler based off LLVM Clang and focused on OpenMP offloading to Radeon GPUs...

X.Org Board Elections Wrap Up For 2020

Thu, 04/30/2020 - 12:02

The X.Org Board of Directors elections wrapped up this week with four new members now serving this organization that oversees the X.Org Server, Mesa, Wayland, and other critical Linux desktop infrastructure...

Mesa 20.1 Feature Development Ends With RC1 Released

Thu, 04/30/2020 - 08:45

Mesa 20.1 feature development is now over with it being branched from Git master and subsequently Mesa 20.1-RC1 being released this evening...

Virginia Tech's "Popcorn Linux" For Distributed Thread Execution Seeking Feedback, Possible Upstreaming

Thu, 04/30/2020 - 06:51

Popcorn Linux has been a multi-year effort out of Virginia Tech's Software and Systems Research Group for distributed thread execution across systems and even potentially different ISAs/accelerators given today's heterogeneous hardware...

AMD Programmer Manual Update Points To PCID Support, Memory Protection Keys

Thu, 04/30/2020 - 03:50

It looks like AMD Zen 3 CPUs will finally be supporting PCID! And memory protection keys are coming too, at least according to AMD's latest programmer reference manual...

For Radeon Gamers On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, It's Generally Worthwhile Flipping On RADV's ACO

Thu, 04/30/2020 - 02:55

A premium supporter was asking this week whether for those newly-upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS if the graphics stack is in good enough shape or if I would recommend running Mesa 20.1-devel for better AMD Linux gaming performance... The short answer, sans any particular changes you are after in Mesa 20.1-devel, the bigger gain for running on this new Ubuntu release is to instead enable RADV+ACO as a much more pressing boost...