NetworkManager 1.26 Development Progressing With New Functionality
NetworkManager 1.25.2-dev is the latest development version of this important Linux networking component in the road towards NetworkManager 1.26...
Reiser4 Updated For Linux 5.6 Kernel Support
While the Linux 5.7 kernel is likely being released as stable today, the Reiser4 port to the Linux 5.6 kernel is out this weekend...
The Ongoing CPU Security Mitigation Impact On The Core i9 10900K Comet Lake
At least for the workloads tested this round, when booting the new Intel Core i9 10900K "Comet Lake" processor with the software-controlled CPU security mitigations disabled, the overall performance was elevated by about 6% depending upon the workload. Here is a look at the out-of-the-box security mitigations for this new Intel desktop CPU against foregoing the default CPU security mitigations and running an unprotected configuration to see what the pre-Spectre performance looks like.
Phoronix Turns 16 Years Old Next Week, So Here's A Special To Celebrate
Next week on 5 June already marks sixteen years since I started Phoronix.com as well as twelve years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0!..
The Generic USB Display Driver Taking Shape For Linux 5.9~5.10
One of the interesting new happenings in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver space is a Generic USB Display stack including a USB gadget driver that together allow for some interesting generic USB display setups. This work was motivated by being able to turn a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB to HDMI display adapter...
KDE Ending Out May With UI Tweaks, Bug Fixes
KDE Plasma 5.19 is due for release very soon (9 June) but that hasn't kept KDE developers from already working on Plasma 5.20 and other components for this open-source desktop...
Steam Ironing Out Shader Pre-Caching For Helping Game Load Times, Stuttering
Valve developers have been working on Vulkan shader pre-caching with their latest Steam client betas to help in allowing Vulkan/SPIR-V shaders to compile ahead of time, letting them be pre-cached on disk to allow for quicker game load times and any stuttering for games that otherwise would be compiling the shaders on-demand during gameplay, especially under Steam Play...
Intel's Clear Linux Working On AVX-512 Optimized Golang Container
One of the latest performance optimizations being pursued by Intel on the open-source Linux side is providing an AVX-512-optimized container for Golang usage...
Monado 0.2 OpenXR Runtime Brings Multi-Layer Support, New Controller Support
Monado as the leading open-source OpenXR implementation for AR/VR headsets is out with a new release...
Alpine Linux 3.12 Released With D Language Support, MIPS64 Port
Version 3.12 of the Alpine Linux lightweight distribution built around musl libc and Busybox is now available for this platform popular with containers and other embedded use-cases...