Freedreno Lands On-Disk Shader Cache Support In Mesa 20.2
Freedreno Gallium3D is the latest Mesa driver implementing an on-disk shader cache...
KDE Ending Out June With Many Bug Fixes, Finally Supporting Btrfs Copy-On-Write
KDE developers remain as busy as ever, especially when it comes to fixing bugs...
AMD Queues Its First Batch Of AMDGPU Changes For Linux 5.9: Sienna Cichlid + More
On Friday the initial batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes were submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.9 merge window happening in August...
RHEL Deprecating The Virt-Manager UI In Favor Of The Cockpit Web Console
The upstream virt-manager project including the virt-manager user-interface is still being maintained, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 has decided to deprecate the virt-manager UI moving forward...
There's A Proposal To Switch Fedora 33 On The Desktop To Using Btrfs
More than a decade ago Fedora was routinely trying to pursue the Btrfs file-system by default but those hopes were abandoned long ago. Heck, Red Hat Enterprise Linux no longer even supports Btrfs. While all Red Hat / Fedora interests in Btrfs seemed abandoned years ago especially with Red Hat developing their Stratis storage technology, there is a new (and serious) proposal about moving to Btrfs for Fedora 33 desktop variants...
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U Performance On Windows 10 vs. Six Linux Distributions
As part of our Ryzen 5 4500U and Ryzen 7 4700U Linux benchmarking there have been multiple requests for showing how various Linux distributions run and perform with these exciting Ryzen 4000 series mobile CPUs. Here are some benchmarks not only looking at six Linux distributions but also the performance of Microsoft Windows 10 as was preloaded on the Lenovo Flex 5 15-inch 2-in-1.
Another Intel 4K + GNOME Optimization Yields 5% Faster Render Times, 10% Lower Power Use
Daniel van Vugt of Canonical who has been responsible for many GNOME performance optimizations in recent years has another tantalizing improvement under review...
Linux 5.9 To Expose Adaptive-Sync / VRR Range Via DebugFS
For aiding in testing and other purposes, the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) range for FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync setups will now be exposed via DebugFS with Linux 5.9...
EGMDE Is Still Being Hacked On As A Lightweight Mir Desktop
It's not yet ready to take on the likes of Xfce and LXQt, but EGMDE is surprisingly still being worked on by Mir developers of Ubuntu/Canonical as a lightweight desktop...
Mageia 8 Alpha 1 Released With Better ARM Support, Linux 5.7 Kernel
Mageia 8 Alpha 1 is out this morning as the newest version of this Linux distribution that originates from the once legendary Mandrake Linux...