New Arm SoCs Supported By Linux 5.8, Restructuring To Fit Android Kernel Improvements
Following last week's 64-bit ARM architecture updates for Linux 5.8, the Arm SoC/platform changes have now been submitted...
Gallium3D's Arm Bifrost Now Handling Most Of OpenGL ES 2.0, Runs GNOME Wayland
It was just back in late April that the Panfrost Gallium3D driver began rendering with Arm Mali "Bifrost" graphics processors while now it has most of OpenGL ES 2.0 working, some of the desktop OpenGL 2.1 functionality, and is capable of running software like GNOME on Wayland...
PCI Changes For Linux 5.8 Bring Power Savings, AMD Workarounds/Whitelisting
Linux 5.8 has merged all of the PCI/PCIe subsystem updates and there are a number of notable changes...
Fedora 33 Looking To Use Swap On zRAM By Default With systemd's zram-generator
Some Fedora spins have already made use of swap on zRAM for serving as a compressed RAM drive while with Fedora Workstation 33 they are looking to make use of zRAM by default...
SMB3 Updates For Linux 5.8 Offer Better Performance For Large I/O
The SMB3/CIFS updates for the Linux 5.8 kernel from the Samba camp can offer better performance...
KDE On Wayland Finally Supports Middle-Click Paste With Plasma 5.20
It's another busy week in the KDE land from their Wayland session finally supporting middle-click paste to Konsole now able to display image thumbnail previews when hovering over filenames with this KDE terminal emulator...
Proton 5.0-8 Shipping With The Latest DXVK/VKD3D, Windows Game Fixes
Following the recent release candidate, the Valve and CodeWeavers developers have officially promoted this latest Wine-based downstream for empowering Steam Play to their latest stable release...
Wine Staging 5.10 Adds Another Patch For Denuvo + A Fix For Numerous D3D11 Games
Wine Staging 5.10 is out today as the latest version of this experimental blend of Wine that is re-based off yesterday's Wine 5.10 codebase...
Vulkan SDK 1.2.141 Released With GFXReconstruct, DirectX Shader Compiler Bundled
LunarG in cooperation with The Khronos Group has released Vulkan SDK 1.2.141...
Linux 5.8 Has The Bits Needed To Begin Booting POWER10 Processors
POWER10 is the forthcoming IBM + OpenPOWER processor expected to be shipping in 2021 and manufactured on a 7nm process and offer big improvements over the existing POWER9 microarchitecture...