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Debian Developers Decide On Init System Diversity: "Proposal B" Wins

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 08:50
The Debian developer voting over init system diversity options has wrapped up and a decision has been made...

Wine 5.0-rc3 Released With Another 46 Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 06:23
Even with the Christmas holiday slowing down the rate of changes for some of the developers, this week's Wine 5.0 release candidate managed to arrive with 46 bug fixes...

2019 Linux Performance: Ubuntu Up ~1%, Fedora Up ~2%, Clear Linux Up ~7%

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 05:41
Last week I posted benchmarks looking at the performance of Intel's Clear Linux over the course of 2019 with roughly 7% better performance across dozens of benchmarks on the same system. But how does that compare to other Linux distributions with the same hardware? Here is a look in showing the performance for both Fedora and Ubuntu at the end of 2018 to the end of 2019.

Intel Continues Prepping ACPI Error Disconnect Recover Support For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 03:16
Since this summer Intel open-source engineers have been working on adding ACPI Error Disconnect Recover (EDR) support to the Linux kernel and this week marks the eleventh revision to the kernel support for this new ACPI feature...

Linux 5.5-rc3 Benchmarks Are Still Pointing To Slips In Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 00:41
Early on in the Linux 5.5 cycle during the merge window we saw some wild swings in performance including some positive gains but also performance regressions. Given last weekend's Linux 5.5-rc3 release having merged some scheduler fixes and other fallout from early on in Linux 5.5, I was curious to see if those regressions have been addressed... Sadly, they are not...

Mesa 20.0's LLVMpipe Now Supports Running OpenCL On The CPU

Phoronix - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 20:35
Mesa's LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver has long been about running OpenGL on GPUs as a software fallback / debug path but as of this morning in Mesa 20.0-devel there is now the experimental ability of having OpenCL support making use of OpenCL "Clover" with NIR for CPU-based execution...

GNU Maintainers Seeking Greater Transparency, Clear Procedures From The FSF

Phoronix - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 20:27
Following Richard Stallman being ousted from the Free Software Foundation, the FSF was said to be re-evaluating its relationship with the GNU while R.M.S. said no radical changes are expected. Now a group of GNU maintainers have laid out some of their desires for improving the interactions between the GNU and FSF...

DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel Graphics Driver From Linux 4.8.17

Phoronix - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 20:18
The Linux 4.8 series is over three years old while now the DragonFlyBSD crew has pulled in the Linux 4.8.17 sources of the Intel "i915" DRM driver into their kernel for providing updated graphics driver coverage...

Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 20 Released To Ring In The New Year, Free Of 32-Bit Support

Phoronix - Fri, 12/27/2019 - 20:06
One of the few still maintained Linux distributions derived from Gentoo is Calculate Linux, which saw a new release today in preparing for the new year...

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