x86/urgent Updates Sent In To Linux 5.8 With The Speculation Mitigation Fixes
The first round of "x86/urgent" fixes have been sent in to Linux 5.8 just ahead of this weekend's 5.8-rc1 milestone while many of these fixes are marked for back-porting to the stable series...
Mesa 20.0.8 Released To End Out The Series
With Mesa 20.1.1 having shipped, Mesa 20.0.8 was released today as the final point release of last quarter's Mesa 20.0 series...
AMD Publishes Video To Explain The Radeon Open Compute Stack (ROCm)
AMD has shared with us that they have published a video to explain in basic terms for the audience at large "What is ROCm?", a.k.a. the Radeon Open Compute stack...
Intel Announces Jim Keller's Departure, Other Leadership Changes
Legendary processor engineer Jim Keller has resigned from Intel just over two years since he joined the company to much fanfare...
GNU's "adns" DNS Resolver Library Hit By An Array Of Security Issues
For those making use of GNU's "adns" asynchronous DNS client library, important security updates are out today...
Steam Play's Proton 5.0-9 Brings Fix For Games Requiring EA Origin Client
Following last week's big Proton 5.0-8 release, Valve and CodeWeavers have just released Proton 5.0-9 as a quick bug fix release...
System76 Begins Offering Serval WS Laptop With AMD Ryzen
Linux enthusiasts have long been after System76 to offer an AMD Ryzen powered laptop and today they announced such in the form of the new Serval WS...
Windows 10 May 2020 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 Is A Surprisingly Heated Race On The Intel Core i9 10900K
Last week I provided some fresh benchmarks of Windows 10 May 2020 vs. Linux on AMD. As has been common across multiple systems particularly with Threadripper, using Linux leads to a ~20% uptick in performance at large over Windows. While at times we have seen similar advantages for Intel CPUs on Linux, with the new Intel Core i9 10900K Comet Lake processor it is a very competitive race between Windows 10 May 2020 Update and Ubuntu Linux.
GIMP 2.10.20 Released With Better Adobe PSD Support
While not the long-awaited GIMP 3.0, GIMP 2.10.20 is out today as the newest stable release for this open-source image editor alternative to the likes of the proprietary Photoshop software...
If Mitigations Weren't Already Bad Enough: Slow Build Times Now Lead To An Unoptimized Intel LVI Pass
Disclosed back in March was the LVI attack (Load Value Injection) affecting Intel CPUs. Mitigating LVI requires compiler toolchain changes and LLVM 11 merged its LVI mitigation last month that adds a load fence after each instruction that may be vulnerable to this attack, similar to the GNU Assembler changes. Now though LLVM is adding an unoptimized version of their LVI pass...