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Intel To Try Flipping IOMMU On By Default For Linux Graphics
Longtime Intel open-source graphics driver developer Chris Wilson today sent out a set of patches attempting to enable IOMMU coverage for graphics by default...
Navi 14 Will Work Its Way Into A Workstation Graphics Card
When it comes to Navi graphics processors in workstation cards, there's now confirmation of at least one coming with the "Navi 14" GPU...
Outreachy Applications Open For The Winter 2019 Round
Outreachy's summer round recently wrapped up while their winter round for participants in the southern hemisphere is now open...
GCC 10 Lands The eBPF Port For Targeting The Linux In-Kernel VM
Up to now the LLVM compiler stack has been used when wanting to target the Linux's eBPF in-kernel virtual machine while now the port for the GNU Compiler Collection has been deemed in good enough shape and merged...
Mumble 1.3 VoIP/Chat Program Released With ~3,000 Changes
For fans of the Mumble open-source VoIP communication program that is popular with gamers, Mumble 1.3 was released as their first major release in years...
Intel's Open-Source VP9 Video Encoder Just Scored A Massive ~3x Performance Boost
Intel's open-source team continues showing the power of optimizations... Or rather in this case, a three fold performance improvement due to previously limiting an AVX-512 routine that also works on AVX-2 CPUs. SVT-VP9 is now a lot faster on AVX2 CPUs from both Intel and AMD...
Linux 5.3-rc8 Released To Let The Kernel Bake An Extra Week
As expected, Linus Torvalds today released the Linux 5.3-rc8 kernel rather than opting for the stable Linux 5.3...
Arch-based Manjaro Linux Will Pursue Full-Time Maintainers, Ramping Up Efforts
The past eight years Arch-based Manjaro Linux has largely been a hobby effort for this easy to use Linux distribution but moving forward there is a commercial entity being setup and ultimately they will be looking to employ full-time developers/maintainers...
DXVK 1.3.4 Released With More Workarounds, Performance Bits
Just over one week past the release of DXVK 1.3.3, the DXVK 1.3.4 is out with more fixes and workarounds...
PHP 7.4-RC1 Released With The Performance Looking Real Good - PHP 7.4 Benchmarks
PHP 7.4-RC1 was released this week as this next annual update to the PHP programming implementation nears. Here is a look at how the PHP 7.4-RC1 performance looks like compared to the major releases going back to PHP 5.6...
Linux 5.3 Is Near With Radeon RX 5700 Support, Speed Select & MBP Keyboard/Trackpad
The Linux 5.3 kernel is fit enough to be released today after another quiet week following 5.3-RC7. But due to the Linux Kernel Summit happening this week and Linus Torvalds traveling for that, he's expected to delay the stable kernel release until next weekend so as to not open the Linux 5.4 merge window until he returns from the event...
Qt 5.13.1 Has ~500 Bug Fixes While Qt Creator 4.10 Released
This week marked the release of Qt 5.13.1 as the first point release to this tool-kit series along with Qt Creator 4.10 as the newest version of this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment...
The Mission Of Coreboot - Is It About Open-Source Or Appeasing Hardware Vendors?
There was recently a debate on the Coreboot mailing list about the mission statement / description of this open-source BIOS/firmware replacement for systems that traditionally has liberated boards from proprietary BIOS but still on modern platforms is often pulling in a number of binary blobs...
Mesa 19.3 Now Exposes Its Own GL_MESA_EGL_sync OpenGL Extension
Mesa 19.3 now supports the GL_MESA_EGL_sync extension, a feature proposed by Mesa developers themselves months ago for OpenGL...
Lutris 0.5.3 Released With D9VK Option, Support For Finding AMDVLK Driver
Open-source gaming manager/platform Lutris is up to version 0.5.3 this weekend. While the version bump may not be significant, this update brings with it several new features and fixes...
KDE Now Supports Fractional Scaling On Wayland
While KDE's new goals will include focusing on Wayland support, a big TODO item was just crossed off the list this week... KDE Plasma finally supports fractional scaling under Wayland...
8-Way Linux Distribution Benchmarks On The AMD EPYC 7742 2P Server
A few days ago I provided some benchmarks showing how running Intel's open-source Clear Linux on AMD EPYC Rome can provide some significant speed-ups over Ubuntu Linux, but how do other Linux distributions compare on AMD's new Zen 2 server processors? Here is an eight-way benchmark comparison on the AMD EPYC 7742 2P Daytona server with its 128 cores / 256 threads.
KDE Will Prioritize Wayland, Consistency & Apps Over The Next Two Years
This summer KDE was looking for ideas on new goals to pursue along the likes of their successful Usability + Productivity initiative. In marking the start of their annual Akademy developer conference in Milan, the KDE developers announced their new set of goals to focus on for the next two years...
Debian 10.1 Released With First Batch Of Fixes To Buster
Debian 10.1 was released today as the first collection of security and bug fixes to this summer's release of Debian 10 "Buster" GNU/Linux...
POCL 1.4 RC1 Brings Better SPIR/SPIR-V Support On The CPU
POCL, the "Portable Open Computing Language" project known for implementing OpenCL support on top of the CPU, is closing in on its version 1.4 release...