Next week on 5 June already marks sixteen years since I started Phoronix.com as well as twelve years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0!..

Source: Phoronix – Phoronix Turns 16 Years Old Next Week, So Here’s A Special To Celebrate

One of the interesting new happenings in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver space is a Generic USB Display stack including a USB gadget driver that together allow for some interesting generic USB display setups. This work was motivated by being able to turn a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB to HDMI display adapter…

Source: Phoronix – The Generic USB Display Driver Taking Shape For Linux 5.9~5.10

KDE Plasma 5.19 is due for release very soon (9 June) but that hasn’t kept KDE developers from already working on Plasma 5.20 and other components for this open-source desktop…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Ending Out May With UI Tweaks, Bug Fixes

Valve developers have been working on Vulkan shader pre-caching with their latest Steam client betas to help in allowing Vulkan/SPIR-V shaders to compile ahead of time, letting them be pre-cached on disk to allow for quicker game load times and any stuttering for games that otherwise would be compiling the shaders on-demand during gameplay, especially under Steam Play…

Source: Phoronix – Steam Ironing Out Shader Pre-Caching For Helping Game Load Times, Stuttering

One of the latest performance optimizations being pursued by Intel on the open-source Linux side is providing an AVX-512-optimized container for Golang usage…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s Clear Linux Working On AVX-512 Optimized Golang Container

Monado as the leading open-source OpenXR implementation for AR/VR headsets is out with a new release…

Source: Phoronix – Monado 0.2 OpenXR Runtime Brings Multi-Layer Support, New Controller Support

Version 3.12 of the Alpine Linux lightweight distribution built around musl libc and Busybox is now available for this platform popular with containers and other embedded use-cases…

Source: Phoronix – Alpine Linux 3.12 Released With D Language Support, MIPS64 Port

Following the Xeon Gold 6250 vs. EPYC 7F32 benchmarks from earlier this month, here is a look at the latest x86_64 server CPUs we have our hands on with the EPYC 7F72 and Xeon Gold 6258R being benchmarked against a lineup of other competing AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon processors under the new Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Source: Phoronix – AMD EPYC 7F72 vs. Intel Xeon Gold 6258R – Latest EPYC Rome vs. Xeon Cascade Lake Benchmarks

Adding to the expected changes for Linux 5.8 is improved EXT4 and XFS file-system direct access “DAX” support…

Source: Phoronix – Improved EXT4 + XFS DAX Implementation Appears Ready To Go For Linux 5.8

The FSGSBASE Linux kernel patches that have the potential of helping performance going back to Intel Ivy Bridge era CPUs in select workloads have now hit their 13th revision to the series in the long-running effort to getting this support mainlined…

Source: Phoronix – Performance-Helping FSGSBASE Patches Spun For Linux A 13th Time

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 has progressed to its release candidate phase ahead of the official release planned for the first week of July…

Source: Phoronix – openSUSE Leap 15.2 Hits RC Phase With GNOME 3.34 + KDE Plasma 5.18, Sway

While we have been eager for Godot 4.0 as the open-source game engine update bringing big renderer improvements and initial Vulkan support, it also turns out there will be a new offering on the editor front…..

Source: Phoronix – Mozilla Sponsored The Godot Game Engine To Port Their Editor As An HTML5 Web App

Assuming no last minute concerns, the Linux 5.7 kernel is set to debut as stable this weekend. Given all the weeks since the merge window and our many articles covering all the feature activity at that point (and not to be confused with our activity of new work being queued for the upcoming Linux 5.8 cycle), here is a look back at some of the top features of the Linux 5.7 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – The Top Linux 5.7 Features From Apple Fast Charge To Official Tiger Lake Graphics

In addition to the AMD Zen “amd_energy” driver coming for Linux 5.8, another late change now queued into hwmon staging is introducing notification support for the hardware monitoring subsystem…

Source: Phoronix – Linux’s Hardware Monitoring “HWMON” Picking Up Notification Support

While the Tegra X1 SoC (Tegra210) has been available for several years, finally with the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel is a mainline driver contributed by NVIDIA for the video input support…

Source: Phoronix – Mainline Linux Kernel Starts Seeing A NVIDIA Tegra X1 Video Input Driver

Following the recent Chrome 83 release, Chrome 84 has now been promoted to beta…

Source: Phoronix – Chrome 84 Beta Brings Better Web Animations API, Experimental WebAssembly SIMD

In aiming to promote freedom-respecting video conferencing at a time when other platforms like Facebook and Zoom are exploding in popularity as a result of the coronavirus crisis, the Free Software Foundation is offering a video conferencing system for its associate members…

Source: Phoronix – FSF Now Offering Video Conferencing Service To Its Members

Android Studio 4.0 is out today with this IDE bringing a number of improvements for developing Google Android apps…

Source: Phoronix – Android Studio 4.0 Released With Overhauled CPU Profiler, Clangd For C++ Code

As the first open-source code drop in two weeks, AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 is out today as the latest update to this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver stack for Linux…

Source: Phoronix – AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 Released With TMZ Enabled, Improved Memory Allocation

Following our initial Core i5 10600K and Core i9 10900K Linux benchmarks last week, here is a much larger comparison I have been working on since then in looking specifically at the Ryzen 9 3900X and 3950X against the Core i9 10900K. It’s the largest to date with nearly 400 benchmarks being tested, most of them real-world test cases.

Source: Phoronix – Ryzen 9 3900X/3950X vs. Core i9 10900K In 380+ Benchmarks