Open-source News

Intel Haswell To Ice Lake Laptop Performance Benchmarks On Ubuntu 19.10

Phoronix - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 05:13
With the many Intel Ice Lake Linux benchmarks we began publishing over the past month since picking up a Dell XPS with Core i7-1065G7, there have been many benchmarks compared to the likes of the Core i7 Whiskey Lake and Kaby Lake processors. For those curious how the performance stacks up going further back, here are some Ubuntu 19.10 laptop benchmarks putting it up against the likes of Core i7 Haswell and Broadwell processors.

Debian Adds Another Option For Its Init System Diversity General Resolution

Phoronix - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 04:55
A few days ago Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman laid out the proposals for the upcoming Debian General Resolution vote concerning "init system diversity" and just how much Debian developers still care in 2019 about supporting non-systemd init systems within the Linux distribution...

vkBasalt 0.2 Released With SMAA, Other Vulkan Post Processing Layer Enhancements

Phoronix - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 03:33
The open-source vkBasalt project was started as a layer implementing Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (akin to Radeon Image Sharpening) for any Vulkan-using GPU/driver/software. The vkBasalt project then picked up FXAA support for this Vulkan post-processing layer while now a new release is out with more functionality added...

Coreboot 4.11 Brings Many Intel Improvements, New Support For Supermicro / Lenovo Boards

Phoronix - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 01:00
Coreboot 4.11 was released today as the tagged autumn build of Coreboot that is used as an alternative to proprietary BIOS/firmware on motherboards...

Container reality checks and more industry trends

opensource.com - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 00:30

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.


read more

Linux's Crypto API Is Adopting Some Aspects Of Zinc, Opening Door To Mainline WireGuard

Phoronix - Wed, 11/20/2019 - 00:09
Mainlining of the WireGuard secure VPN tunnel was being held up by its use of the new "Zinc" crypto API developed in conjunction with this network tech. But with obstacles in getting Zinc merged, WireGuard was going to be resorting to targeting the existing kernel crypto interfaces. Instead, however, it turns out the upstream Linux crypto developers were interested and willing to incorporate some elements of Zinc into the existing kernel crypto implementation...

Flax Engine Ported To Linux + Vulkan Rendering Support

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2019 - 23:57
Flax Engine is the latest game engine seeing native Linux support and in the process the renderer also picked up Vulkan support...

Intel's Graphics Driver DoS Fix Last Week Has Hurt Power Consumption

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2019 - 23:38
While the patches overnight about "substantial" improvement in power usage for Intel graphics on Linux were exciting on first look, it's less so now as it turns out last week's graphics driver security fixes is what regressed the Intel graphics power-savings...

Pages