Linux 5.8-rc1 Arrives As One Of The Biggest Releases Of All Time
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 5.8-rc1 test build as what he describes as one of the biggest releases of all time...
EXT4 Per-Inode DAX Support Sent In As A Last Minute Linux 5.8 Addition
Hours ahead of the expected Linux 5.8-rc1 release that also marks the merge window closure of new features for this next kernel version, a secondary EXT4 file-system set of changes were just mailed in...
Linux 5.8 Kernel Features Include New Intel/AMD Capabilities, Security Improvements, Optimizations
Linus Torvalds is expected to release Linux 5.8-rc1 following the two week long Linux 5.8 kernel merge window. Here is our overview of all the big changes coming with this next version of the Linux kernel.
GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland Performance + Power Usage On Fedora 32 With AMD Renoir Laptop
As part of our ongoing testing of the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U and Ryzen 7 4700U "Renoir" mobile processors, here is some Wayland vs. X.Org data with the GNOME desktop on Fedora Workstation 32...
Ubuntu 18.04's Heavily Patched Kernel Opens Door To Lockdown Bypass, Breaks Secure Boot
With Ubuntu 18.04 when running on its Linux 4.15 kernel and not one of the newer hardware enablement kernels, in the mess of patches back-ported to the release it ends up being vulnerable to bypassing the kernel lockdown security and compromising UEFI Secure Boot that is persistent across reboots...
Linux Mint 20 Beta Released - Based On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Introduces Warpinator
The beta of Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" is available this weekend as the popular desktop distribution now based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS package set...
LibVNCServer 0.9.13 Released With Better Cross-Platform Coverage
LibVNCServer is the cross-platform library allowing the accelerated development of VNC server / Remote Framebuffer Protocol functionality into applications. LibVNCServer 0.9.13 is out as the first update to this library in more than one year and now comes with better cross-platform support...
New Vulkan Extension Proposed For DirectFB Support
The DirectFB library once popular with embedded systems and other environments needing formerly a full X11 stack (or now, Wayland) remains in an abandoned state with no real upstream development any longer and the project site long dead, but with a newly proposed Vulkan extension could allow this modern graphics API to run on top of it...
Linux 5.8 Lands A General Notification Queue
Merged this weekend ahead of Linux 5.8-rc1 is the long-standing work on introducing a general notification queue for the kernel. The general notification queue was pushed back last year from merging but now the initial code is in shape for Linux 5.8...
Radeon Software for Linux 20.20 Released With Ubuntu 20.04 Support
There is a new packaged AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver release now available...