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Google To Require "Designed For Chromebook" Devices Support Fwupd Firmware Updates
Beginning at the start of the year it looks like Google will be requiring hardware vendors to support firmware updating on Linux via Fwupd with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) if they wish to carry the "Designed For Chromebook" label...
CrossOver 19 Enters Beta With Better Microsoft Office Support On Linux
CodeWeavers' Jeremy White has announced that CrossOver 19 is now in beta for existing customers of this Wine-based software for running Windows programs on Linux and macOS...
AMD Announces Radeon Open Compute ROCm 3.0
AMD just sent out their press release for SuperComputing 19 week in Denver. It turns out being released for SC19 is the latest major iteration of Radeon Open Compute, ROCm 3.0...
23-Way Graphics Card Comparison With Shadow of the Tomb Raider On Linux
Earlier this month Feral Interactive released the Linux port of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. For those wondering about the AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce performance for this Vulkan-powered Linux game port, here are benchmark results on 23 different graphics cards.
Vulkan 1.1.128 Released With Performance Query Extension
Vulkan 1.1.128 is out with various corrections and clarifications to this graphics/compute API specification but it also comes with one exciting new extension...
GCC 10 Feature Development Is Over - Now The Focus Turns To Bug Fixing
GCC 10 has moved to its next stage of development that shifts away from feature work to instead general bug fixing with hopes of shipping the GNU Compiler Collection 10 release in the months ahead...
Schedutil Frequency Invariance Revised For Better Intel Performance + Power Efficiency
SUSE developer Giovanni Gherdovich has sent out the latest patches on supporting frequency invariance within the kernel's scheduler code and ultimately making use of it for select Intel CPUs to yield not only better raw performance but also power efficiency...
Initial Patches Wire In C++20 Coroutines For The GCC Compiler
The GNU Compiler Collection continues picking up new features aligned for the upcoming C++20 standard. The latest are patches pending on the mailing list for implementing coroutines in C++...
Zswap Could See Better Performance Thanks To A B-Tree Search Implementation
For those using Zswap as a compressed RAM cache for swapping on Linux systems, the performance could soon see a measurable improvement...
Intel Confirms Ponte Vecchio As 7nm General Purpose GPU
In addition to announcing the much anticipated oneAPI beta, Raja Koduri spent his time at Intel's event today also talking about "Ponte Vecchio" as their forthcoming general purpose GPU...
Linux 5.4-rc8 Released - Things Are Calm For Linux 5.4's Debut Next Week
As expected, Linus Torvalds opted for doing a 5.4-rc8 kernel release today rather than going straight to Linux 5.4 stable. However, he says he could have just as well done the stable kernel release thanks to the cycle settling down...
Intel Releases oneAPI Base Toolkit Beta For Performance-Focused, Cross-Device Software
Since Intel announced "oneAPI" last December we have been eagerly looking forward to its availability and today is finally that day! For SC19, Intel has made available the beta of the oneAPI Base Toolkit for developing speedy code that runs cross-architecture...
The Exciting Linux 5.4 Changes From exFAT Support To Intel Tiger Lake Graphics
It's possible this afternoon Linus Torvalds will release Linux 5.4 stable but considering his communications in recent weeks and many changes still flowing in this week, it's more than likely he will divert and release Linux 5.4-rc8 today and then ship this next stable kernel update on the next Sunday...
Arch Linux Held Their First Internal Conference Last Month In Berlin
Key stakeholders of the Arch Linux distribution quietly met in Berlin last month for their first conference...
Zink Benchmarks - Mesa OpenGL Running Over Vulkan
With the upcoming Mesa 19.3 release one of the big new features is the "Zink" driver that provides a Mesa OpenGL implementation over Vulkan. This in theory allows for a generic OpenGL driver running over Vulkan hardware drivers, but there is a lot of work ahead before it's really a viable option.
DragonFlyBSD Pulls In AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Code From Linux 4.9
DragonFlyBSD developer François Tigeot has continued doing a good job in continually updating their kernel's graphics driver code with a port of the AMD Radeon graphics source code from the Linux kernel along with related components like TTM memory management...
KDE Plasma 5.18 Bringing Better GTK/GNOME App Integration
For KDE users often still running GNOME/GTK applications from the Plasma desktop, the experience is about to get a lot better with Plasma 5.18...
GCC Might Finally Have A Static Analysis Framework Thanks To Red Hat
Clang's static analyzer has become quite popular with developers for C/C++ static analysis of code while now the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) might finally see a mainline option thanks to Red Hat...
The GCC 10 Compiler Lands OpenMP / OpenACC Offloading To AMD Radeon GPUs
A few days ago I wrote about the OpenMP / OpenACC offloading patches for Radeon "GCN" GPUs being posted and seeking inclusion in the GCC 10 compiler that will be released in a few months. Those patches were successfully merged meaning this next annual update to the GNU Compiler Collection will feature initial OpenMP/OpenACC code offloading support to supported AMD GPU targets...
Linux 5.5 Should Bring Another Power Management Improvement For Intel Ice Lake
The upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel cycle should bring an improvement for power management on Intel's latest-generation Ice Lake processors...