GNU Project Developers Debate A Restructuring As A "Bottom Up" Organization GNU developers unhappy with Richard Stallman sticking around as head of the GNU Project and not planning to make any "radical" changes are now expressing their desire for the GNU to be restructured as a "bottom-up" organization whereby those active developers and volunteers involved could potentially have more say... |
Intel Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake Linux Performance Benchmarks Recently I picked up a Dell XPS 7390 Core i7 Ice Lake laptop for finally testing this Intel 10nm+ processor under Linux. I have delivered some results so far like the Windows vs. Linux OpenGL/Vulkan performance and the Spectre impact with Ice Lake while this article is the first of several really drilling down on the CPU performance. In this article are benchmarks showing how the Core i7-1065G7 compares in raw performance and performance-per-Watt to the earlier Core i7-8565U (Whiskey Lake) and Core i7-8550U (Kabylake-R) processors. |
Updated AMD Zen CPU Microcode Lands In Linux-Firmware Tree Updated AMD Family 17h (Zen / Zen 2) CPU microcode has quietly landed within the linux-firmware Git tree... |
Firefox 70 Released With JavaScript Baseline Interpreter, Other Updates Firefox 70.0 officially hit the web this morning as the newest version of Mozilla's web browser... |
AMDVLK 2019.Q4.1 Vulkan Driver Brings Performance Tuning, Reworked Pipeline Cache AMD has been off their weekly release regiment for their open-source AMDVLK Vulkan driver but this morning they issued their first new release in just about one month... |
Intel's Graphics Compiler For Their NEO Compute Stack Now Supports Jasper Lake The team maintaining the LLVM-based Intel Graphics Compiler as part of their "NEO" OpenCL/Compute Stack have rolled out v1.0.2714 that includes initial support for Jasper Lake among other improvements... |
Linux 5.5 To Restore Power-Savings For Hybrid Laptops When Not Using The dGPU On recent kernels when using a laptop with hybrid graphics but not running with the discrete GPU graphics enabled, a regression meant the dGPU never got powered off... Fortunately, for Linux 5.5 -- and potentially to be back-ported after that -- is a change to restore that power-savings... |
Intel Lands More Graphics Code For Linux 5.5 - Jasper, More Intel Xe Multi-GPU Prepping Intel's open-source developers kicked off a new week by sending in their latest vetted changes to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 5.5 kernel cycle... |
Mesa 19.1.8 Released To End Out The Series More than one month has passed since Mesa 19.1.7 compared to the usual bi-weekly release cadence, but on Monday following the closure of remaining blocker bugs, Mesa 19.1.8 was released that also ends out this release series... |
Clear Linux Working On A New Software Store, User Bundles Arriving Before End Of Year Intel developers are still working on some interesting improvements to Clear Linux itself this quarter on top of keeping up to date with the latest upstream software it packages... |
RLSL Allows Running A Subset Of Rust On Vulkan/SPIR-V Enabled GPUs There was a recent Khronos meet-up in Munich where Maik Klein of Embark Studios talked about their work on bringing a sub-set of the Rust programming language to Vulkan (SPIR-V) enabled GPUs... |
Ubuntu 19.10 Doesn't Ship With AMD Navi / Radeon RX 5700 Support Working, But Easy To Enable While last week's release of Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" is new enough for Radeon RX 5700 series support with the Linux 5.3 kernel and Mesa 19.2, it doesn't actually work out-of-the-box for these Navi graphics cards... |
OmniOS r151030y Brings Microcode Updates For Intel, Zen Topology Updates For AMD OmniOS Community Edition remains one of the few successful Illumos/Solaris operating systems outside Oracle. OmniOS CE r151030y was released today along with other older build updates to address the recent sudo vulnerability... |
Arch Linux's Pacman 5.2 Released - Drops Support For Delta Packages, Adds Zstd Support The Pacman 5.2 package manager for Arch Linux systems is now available with a variety of changes over earlier releases... |
GCC 10 Switches Arm's Scheduling-Pressure Algorithm For Better Performance A minor optimization was merged into GCC 10 last week for benefiting those on Arm compiling their code with the GNU Compiler Collection... |