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KDE Closing Out November With More Plasma Wayland Fixes

Phoronix | Nov. 28, 2020, 6:30 a.m. | Original

KDE developers remain as busy as ever even with pandemic and Christmas season upon us.

It's been another busy week of bug fixing in the KDE world. A new feature was added for allowing color previews within the Konsole when moving the mouse cursor over HTML color codes. But most of the prominent activity this week seems to revolve around bug fixes:

- The Dolphin 20.12 file manager restores support for being able to launch AppImages and other executable files.

- Plasma Wayland with the "resize" item

Genode OS Framework 20.11 Brings Dynamic CPU Load Balancing, 64-bit ARM Sculpt OS

Phoronix | Nov. 28, 2020, 3:09 a.m. | Original

Genode as an original operating system framework that has been in development for more than a decade is out with a new release. The Genode OS based Sculpt OS as their "general purpose OS" push is also updated.

This year the Genode Labs crew has been working a lot on the ARM architecture support and that is still a theme for this cycle. Genode OS Framework 20.11 brings Sculpt OS to 64-bit ARM and adds support for multi-core virtualization on ARM. The Sculpt OS 6

RenderDoc 1.11 Released As The Leading Open-Source, Cross-Platform Graphics Debugger

Phoronix | Nov. 28, 2020, 12:03 a.m. | Original

RenderDoc 1.11 is out as the newest feature release for this leading open-source graphics debugger supporting platforms from Linux to Windows to the Nintendo Switch to even Google's Stadia and supporting all major graphics APIs.

RenderDoc 1.11 has several prominent bug fixes, including crash fixes. There are also UI/UX enhancements, API changes, and support for newer Vulkan extensions like EXT_image_robustness / KHR_copy_commands2 / EXT_shader_atomic_float, and more.

Intel

The Peculiar State Of CPU Security Mitigation Performance On Intel Tiger Lake

Phoronix | Nov. 27, 2020, 1:49 p.m. | Original

One area not talked about much for Intel's latest Tiger Lake processors are hardened CPU security mitigations against the various speculative execution vulnerabilities to date. What's peculiar about Tiger Lake though is now if disabling the configurable mitigations it can actually result in worse performance than the default mitigated state. At least that's what we are seeing so far with the Core i7 1165G7 on Ubuntu 20.10 Linux is the opposite of what we have been seeing on prior generations of hardware

Intel Sends In More DG1 Enablement Code, Big Joiner For Linux 5.11

Phoronix | Nov. 27, 2020, 10:53 a.m. | Original

Intel's Linux graphics driver developers have submitted their final batch of feature changes targeting the Linux 5.11 kernel.

With Linux 5.10-rc6 upon us this weekend, it's basically hitting the cut-off of new feature code to be sent into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.11 merge window opening around mid-December. The Intel pull request of their graphics driver work is acknowledged as their last batch of feature work for the 5.11 cycle.

Qt 6.1, Qt 6.2 Expected To Come Sooner With Tightened Release Cycles

Phoronix | Nov. 27, 2020, 8:02 a.m. | Original

Qt 6.0 is releasing in December and The Qt Company is already drafting plans for the release cycles of Qt 6.1 and Qt 6.2 LTS next year.

Normally Qt is on a six-month release cadence but next year's Qt 6.1/6.2 releases will likely be tightened up both to address a long-standing gripe of the current timing that often puts new releases around summer holidays and the Thanksgiving~Christmas holiday season. To try to move off those May and November

Arm Neoverse N2 Support Added To The LLVM Clang 12 Compiler

Phoronix | Nov. 27, 2020, 6:35 a.m. | Original

In September Arm began adding Neoverse N2 support to the open-source compilers initially with GCC and now the support has been merged into LLVM Clang 12 as well.

The Neoverse N2 "Perseus" core was outlined in September as a follow-on design to the successful Neoverse N1. The N2 aims to provide 40% more performance over the N1 for single-threaded performance. The N2 is intended for use from the cloud to enterprise networking devices to edge computing.

Now in addition

Following FUSE & CUSE, Now There Is "MUSE" For MTD In Userspace

Phoronix | Nov. 27, 2020, 4:24 a.m. | Original

FUSE is well known to longtime Linux users for allowing file-systems to be implemented in user-space for where a Linux kernel port isn't feasible for portability or licensing restrictions, among other factors. There is also CUSE for character devices in user-space. Now being based on FUSE, there is "MUSE" being worked on for MTD in user-space.

The Memory Technology Device (MTD) subsystem for Linux is working on the FUSE-based MUSE for being able to support emulators in user-

Phoronix 2020 Black Friday Reminders

Phoronix | Nov. 27, 2020, 3:30 a.m. | Original

Just some quick, friendly holiday reminders.

Thanks for your support over the past year (and the 16+ years) of Phoronix. Being into the holiday season, just some reminders this US holiday weekend:

- As always, regardless of any holidays you can expect new and original content each and every day. A lot of interesting content is coming up including more Apple M1 benchmarks, various PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid-state drive benchmarks, further looking at the POWER9 L1 data cache flushing mitigation

Lenovo ThinkPad Palm Sensor Support Coming To Linux 5.11

Phoronix | Nov. 27, 2020, 12:07 a.m. | Original

As part of Lenovo offering Linux pre-loaded on more laptops and desktops , they have been working on upstream improvements themselves along with their partners at Red Hat and others. One of the latest Lenovo-contributed improvements to the kernel is palm sensor support for newer ThinkPad notebooks.

Palm sensor support is being contributed by Lenovo to the Linux 5.11 kernel for their ThinkPad hardware. This is similar to the existing lap sensor support for the ThinkPad ACPI code and allows detecting if a user's palms/hands are

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