KDE Saw More Wayland Improvements This Week, Other Enhancements
In addition to this week seeing the slew of KDE Apps updates, developers working on the applications, Plasma, and other areas of the KDE ecosystem have remained as busy as ever during the COVID-19 crisis for continuing to improve this open-source desktop...
Intel Tiger Lake Thunderbolt/USB4 Support Is Coming With Linux 5.8
Adding to the growing list of changes building up for Linux 5.8 this summer is now having Tiger Lake Thunderbolt/USB4 support...
Mozilla Releases DeepSpeech 0.7 As Their Great Speech-To-Text Engine
One of the lesser known Mozilla software efforts is DeepSpeech as a speech-to-text engine built atop TensorFlow with CPU and GPU (CUDA) acceleration. Friday marked a new release of this DeepSpeech software that is yielding great results for converting spoken audio streams to text...
A Fix Is Out For The Intel Ice Lake Performance Drop On Linux With The Dell XPS 7390
Earlier this week I highlighted the Dell XPS 7390 "Ice Lake" ultrabook seeing a big performance drop on recent versions of the Linux kernel. Intel engineers seem to have sorted it out and now have a solution in place, which affects those running Linux 5.4 or newer...
Wine 5.7 Released With More Progress On D3D Vulkan Backend, USB Device Driver
Wine 5.7 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release and it's a fun one with multiple interesting advancements...
Mesa "Vallium" - Software/CPU-Based Vulkan Based On LLVMpipe
While there has been the CPU-based "Kazan" Vulkan driver (formerly Vulkan-CPU as a Google Summer of Code project) and Google's SwiftShader has been implementing CPU-based Vulkan support, it turns out Red Hat's David Airlie has been working on a Mesa/Gallium3D-inspired Vulkan software renderer...
NVIDIA 440.66.11 Linux Driver Fixes Annoying Bugs With PRIME Sync
NVIDIA has released their latest weekly-ish beta update to their Vulkan Linux driver...
Intel FSGSBASE Linux Support Revived For A Performance Boost On Intel/AMD Processors
Earlier this month I reported that Linux developers were reviving work on the Intel FSGSBASE patches as a performance helper going back to Ivy Bridge CPUs but for which past patch series never got over the finish line for mainlining. On Thursday a new version of the FSGSBASE patches were sent out...
Radeon Software 20.10 vs. Upstream Linux AMD Radeon OpenGL / Vulkan Performance
With last week's release of Radeon Software for Linux 20.10 as AMD's first packaged graphics driver update for Linux of 2020, here are some benchmarks showing how the performance compares to what is shipped by Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS as well as when using the newer Mesa and Linux kernel releases for the very latest open-source performance, including switching over to RADV+ACO for Vulkan gaming.
Lenovo To Begin Shipping ThinkPad Laptops With Fedora Pre-Installed
When it comes to finding laptops with Linux pre-loaded by the OEM, it's mostly Ubuntu or its derivatives found most often on these devices. But Lenovo and Red Hat are announcing today that Fedora Workstation 32 will begin appearing soon on select ThinkPad laptops...