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MoltenVK 1.0.36 Released With Many Fixes & Improvements For Vulkan On MacOS

Thu, 07/25/2019 - 07:27
The open-source MoltenVK continues advancing for supporting a healthy subset of the Vulkan API on Apple's macOS and iOS platforms. MoltenVK 1.0.36 was released today with support for more Vulkan extensions, many bug fixes, and a variety of other improvements...

FSF-Approved gNewSense Maintainer Parts Way With Project

Thu, 07/25/2019 - 03:54
The gNewSense that is based on Debian GNU/Linux but comprised entirely of free software without any non-free software support is now without a maintainer...

Initial Benchmarks Of Endeavour OS - The New Linux Distro Based On Arch

Wed, 07/24/2019 - 22:40
Following the Antergos Linux distribution being discontinued one of the new projects stemming from that decision is Endeavour OS as a new convenient to use Arch Linux distribution. Here are some early benchmarks of Endeavour OS compared to Ubuntu, Clear Linux, and other distributions on an Intel Core i9 system.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Enters Beta

Wed, 07/24/2019 - 21:51
Ahead of the first point release to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 due out around October, the first beta of RHEL 8.1 is now available for early evaluation...

Deepin 15.11 Desktop Could Be On The Way To Fedora 31

Wed, 07/24/2019 - 21:14
Released last week was Deepin 15.11 with various desktop improvements for this popular third-party desktop option. This desktop option could be on its way to Fedora 31's package repository to replace the existing Deepin 5.9 packaging...

GCC 10 Likely To See "-flto=auto" Option

Wed, 07/24/2019 - 19:51
With OpenSUSE now LTO'ing their Tumbleweed packages by default, SUSE's compiler team is looking at improving the compilation experience and one of those steps is via a proposed "-flto=auto" option...

GNOME 3.33.4 Released As The Last Step Before The GNOME 3.34 Beta

Wed, 07/24/2019 - 18:30
It's arriving one week late, but GNOME 3.33.4 is now available as the latest snapshot in the trek towards GNOME 3.34 this September...

Fedora CoreOS Sees Its First Preview Release

Wed, 07/24/2019 - 18:12
It was a year and a half ago that Red Hat acquired CoreOS while today they are announcing their first preview release of Fedora CoreOS...

RADV's Navi Support Gets Patches For Vulkan Transform Feedback

Wed, 07/24/2019 - 12:02
The excitement over the open-source AMD Radeon Navi graphics driver support for Linux gamers/users continues. On Tuesday the RADV driver saw support land for binning to boost performance but while Bas was doing that, Samuel Pitoiset of Valve posted patches allowing GFX10/Navi to support Vulkan transform feedback...

Fedora 31 Looking At Making It Easy To Use LLVM's LLD Linker

Wed, 07/24/2019 - 09:15
Another late change proposal coming in for Fedora 31 is to allow update-alternatives to optionally point /usr/bin/ld as the default linker to /usr/bin/lld for the LLVM linker...

RADV Lands Binning Support For GFX10/Navi For Faster Vulkan Performance

Wed, 07/24/2019 - 03:55
The latest change for Mesa 19.2 to better the new Radeon RX 5000 "Navi" series support is binning in the RADV driver...

Radeon Cauldron 1.0 Released As AMD's New SDK Framework

Wed, 07/24/2019 - 02:51
Radeon Cauldron 1.0 is AMD's new graphics SDK framework for developing Vulkan and Direct3D 12 demos/prototypes/samples...

Mesa 19.1.3 Led By Fixes For Intel & Radeon Vulkan Drivers

Tue, 07/23/2019 - 23:58
If you are sticking to stable versions of Mesa, the Mesa 19.1.3 point release is out today as the latest and greatest version of this collection of open-source graphics drivers...

GCC vs. Clang Compiler Benchmarks On POWER9 With Raptor's Blackbird

Tue, 07/23/2019 - 21:39
While for Intel x86_64 with the latest compilers it's a very competitive race between LLVM Clang and GCC, how is that battle playing out on the IBM POWER9 front? Using the interesting Raptor Blackbird with IBM POWER9 4-core / 16-thread CPU, here are some recent benchmarks I did between GCC 9, GCC 10, and LLVM Clang 8.

Fedora 31 To Ship With Golang 1.13, Limiting Scriplet Usage Still Being Debated

Tue, 07/23/2019 - 19:29
While debating new CPU requirements for Fedora 32 potentially taking it all the way to AVX2 CPUs as a new base requirement, before that Fedora 31 still needs to get finished up and there is some late feature work happening for this current cycle...

GCC 10 Compiler Picks Up New Scheduler Model & Cost Tables For AMD Zen 2 Processors

Tue, 07/23/2019 - 18:54
While AMD developers published their "Znver2" compiler patches for Zen 2 originally back in November, months ahead of the recent Ryzen 3000 series launch, this compiler support was incomplete as it re-used the existing scheduler model and costs table of Znver1. Now though one of SUSE's compiler experts who often works in cooperation with AMD has published the new Znver2 scheduler model and costs table for Zen 2...

Audio Component Support Being Worked On For The Radeon & Nouveau Drivers

Tue, 07/23/2019 - 18:25
Linux sound maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE has posted a set of patches implementing HD audio component notifier support for the Radeon and Nouveau DRM kernel drivers...

Darling Picks Up New Contributors For Its macOS Compatibility Layer On Linux

Tue, 07/23/2019 - 18:17
Darling is the long-standing (albeit for some years idling) effort to allow macOS binaries to run on Linux that is akin to Wine but focused on an Apple macOS layer rather than Windows. This summer it's been moving along and seeing some new developer contributions...

Fedora Developers Discuss Raising Base Requirement To AVX2 CPU Support

Tue, 07/23/2019 - 12:00
An early change being talked about for Fedora 32, due out in the spring of next year, is raising the x86_64 CPU requirements for running Fedora Linux. When initially hearing of this plan, the goal is even more ambitious than I was initially thinking: AVX2...

Coreboot 4.10 Released With New Support For Many Chromebooks & Random Motherboards

Tue, 07/23/2019 - 08:54
Coreboot 4.10 was released today with some 2,500+ commits over the past eight months for this increasingly popular open-source alternative to proprietary BIOS implementations...

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