Lenovo To Certify Their Full ThinkPad/ThinkStation Line For Linux
Back in April was the announcement that Lenovo would begin shipping some devices with Fedora Linux while now the story gets much juicier today...
Linux 5.8 Sees Many Power Management Updates, Including Another Intel P-State Change
Linux power management / ACPI maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel has sent in the usual big batch of PM/ACPI changes for the next version of the kernel, Linux 5.8...
PHP 8.0 JIT Is Offering Very Compelling Performance Ahead Of Its Alpha
With the PHP 8.0 schedule putting the first alpha release for the middle of June, I've been trying out its latest Git state in recent days for looking at its performance as well as when enabling its brand new JIT (Just In Time) compiler support that is new to PHP8. The results are quite compelling and here are metrics going back to the days of PHP 5.4 for comparison.
Firefox 77 Released With Security Fixes, AV1 Image File Support
Mozilla's more rapid release schedule continues and that means today is Firefox 77.0 day...
A Number Of Intel/AMD x86 Updates Hit Linux 5.8
A number of x86 (x86_64) pull requests have been sent in for the in-development Linux 5.8 kernel...
Linux 5.8 Graphics Updates Sent In With AMDGPU TMZ Support, P2P Buffers
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates have been sent in as the open-source graphics/display driver updates for Linux 5.8 amounting to around 42k lines of new code and some 21k lines of code being removed...
KDE Plasma 5.19 Has Better Wayland Support But Their Goal Is Not Yet Complete
Shipping one week from today is KDE Plasma 5.19 and among many other improvements is also significantly enhancing its Wayland support...
Kernel Advancements, Microsoft Linux News Kept Open-Source Fans Entertained In May
During the month of May on Phoronix were 252 original news articles and 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / benchmark specials written by your's truly. This included some surprising announcements from Microsoft, Linux 5.7 getting wrapped up and Linux 5.8 features being firmed up ahead of the now-open merge window, AMD Renoir mobile being a big success, and other milestones for open-source software...
Btrfs Sees A Number Of Improvements With Linux 5.8
SUSE's David Sterba was quite punctual in getting all of the Btrfs file-system updates submitted quickly for the newly-opened Linux 5.8 kernel merge window...
Steam Linux Percentage For May Points To A New Multi-Year High
Valve's May 2020 numbers show another uptick for Steam Linux gaming usage, pointing towards the Linux marketshare continuing to increase with the overall Steam user-base in this coronavirus period leading to record usage with the extra time spent by gamers at home...