KDE developer Tomaz Canabrava is working on a set of improvements around their Konsole terminal emulator when running on Wayland…
Source: Phoronix – KDE’s Konsole Seeing Improvements For Wayland
Ubuntu and their downstream flavors all stopped shipping x86 32-bit images and now for the 19.10 cycle they have decided to stop their i386 support entirely. Beginning with Ubuntu 19.10, the archive/packages will not be built for x86 32-bit…
Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu 19.10 To Drop 32-bit x86 Packages
VKHR is an open-source, real-time hybrid hair renderer written in Vulkan and developed under the support of AMD/RTG…
Source: Phoronix – VKHR – An AMD-Backed Open-Source Hair Renderer In Vulkan
While the AMDGPU kernel driver has shipped with the long-awaited FreeSync support since the Linux 5.0 release earlier this year and was quickly wired up for the RadeonSI Gallium3D OpenGL driver in Mesa 19.0 while the recent Mesa 19.1 update brought FreeSync for the RADV Vulkan driver, AMDVLK as AMD’s official open-source Vulkan driver isn’t yet supporting this variable rate refresh technology…
Source: Phoronix – AMDVLK Still Hasn’t Yet Adopted FreeSync Support
As Netflix’s first security bulletin for 2019, they warned of TCP-based remote denial of service vulnerabilities affecting both Linux and FreeBSD. These vulnerabilities are rated “critical” but already being corrected within the latest Git code…
Source: Phoronix – Netflix Uncovers TCP Bugs Within The Linux & FreeBSD Kernels
In addition to Clang-Scan-Deps being merged a few days ago, another new feature for LLVM’s Clang is called the Clang Interface Stubs and brings a concept from Windows/macOS over to Linux/ELF systems…
Source: Phoronix – Clang “Interface Stubs” Merged For Offering Interface Libraries To ELF Shared Objects
Quietly released last week was Radeon Software for Linux 19.20, the latest quarterly update to AMD’s packaged Linux driver that consists of their AMDGPU-PRO binary driver option as well as the AMDGPU-Open packaged components using a snapshot of Mesa…
Source: Phoronix – Radeon Software for Linux 19.20 Brings RHEL 8.0 Support
DragonFlyBSD 5.6 is now available as the latest major update to this popular BSD operating system…
Source: Phoronix – DragonFlyBSD 5.6 Released With VM System, HAMMER2 In Good Shape
As we’ve been expecting, AMD’s open-source developers today posted their set of patches enabling Navi (10) support within their AMDGPU DRM kernel driver. Bringing up the Navi support in kernel-space are 459 patches amounting to more than four-hundred thousand lines of code, not counting the work done to LLVM as part of their shader compiler back-end or the yet-to-be-published OpenGL/Vulkan driver patches…
Source: Phoronix – AMD Posts 459 Linux Kernel Patches Providing Navi Support – 412k+ Lines Of Code
For those eager to see CentOS 8.0 as the community open-source rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0, progress is being made but it looks like the release is still some weeks out…
Source: Phoronix – CentOS 8.0 Is Looking Like It’s Still Some Weeks Out
Debian’s Apt packaging system was tagged today as 1.9.0 experimental and is already in the process of being added to Ubuntu 19.10. Apt 1.9 is working towards the eventual Apt 2.0 release…
Source: Phoronix – Debian’s Apt 1.9 Moves To Experimental, Coming To Ubuntu 19.10
NVIDIA announced this morning for ISC 2019 that they are bringing CUDA to Arm beyond their work already for supporting GPU computing with lower-power Tegra SoCs…
Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA Delivering CUDA To Linux On Arm For HPC/Servers
With Debian 10 “Buster” due to be releasing in early July, I’ve begun testing the near-final Buster images on various systems. Here is a look at a common Intel Core i7 system comparing the current performance of Debian 10.0 to the current stable 9.9 release…
Source: Phoronix – A Quick Look At The Debian 10.0 Buster vs. Debian 9.9 Performance
The FSGSBASE instruction set has been present on Intel processors going back to Ivy Bridge processors and while there have been Linux kernel patches for this feature going on for years, it looks like with the Linux 5.3 kernel cycle is this support for merging. Making us eager for this support is the prospect of better performance, especially for context switching workloads that already have been suffering as a result of recent CPU mitigations…
Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.3 Could Finally See FSGSBASE – Performance Improvements Back To Ivybridge
Debian’s RISC-V support has been coming together but how’s the state of affairs for the imminent Debian 10.0 “Buster” release?..
Source: Phoronix – The State Of RISC-V For Debian 10 “Buster”
Currently NVIDIA’s packaged drivers on Ubuntu can get a bit stale on Ubuntu stable releases since they aren’t updated in-step with the latest driver releases. But a new stable release update (SRU) policy/exception similar to the Firefox approach is being made for Ubuntu so that new releases will end up working their way into currently supported Ubuntu series…
Source: Phoronix – Developers Devising Plan To Ship Newer NVIDIA Drivers On Ubuntu Stable Releases
Arm’s Wilco Dijkstra landed some more optimizations this past week in the Glibc development code for the upcoming GNU C Library 2.30 release…
Source: Phoronix – Arm Developer Provides More Glibc Optimizations – Memem & Strstr
NetworkManager 1.19.4 is the newest snapshot of this widely used Linux networking library on its road to version 1.20…
Source: Phoronix – NetworkManager Now Supports Making OVS DPDK Interfaces, Other Work For 1.20
With Linux 5.2-rc5 providing no upsets and the release candidate smaller than the one last week, things are looking good for seeing the stable Linux 5.2 kernel release happen in early July…
Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.2-rc5 Released As The End Of The Cycle Is A Few Weeks Away
Details are light up to this point but in fifteen days EndeavourOS will be announced as a new Arch-based Linux distribution aiming to continue where Antergos Linux left off…
Source: Phoronix – EndeavourOS Is Hoping To Be The Successor To Antergos – Convenient To Use Arch Linux