LLVM Clang Now Has Support For Custom-Width Integers With _ExtInt
While the C language committing is still evaluating adding N-bit integer support to the programming language, LLVM's Clang compiler has already added its experimental _ExtInt() implementation...
Dell XPS 7390 Intel Ice Lake Performance Hit Hard By A Linux Kernel Regression
At the beginning of the month I wrote about the Dell XPS with Core i7 1065G7 Ice Lake running much slower when upgrading to the development release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS from 19.10. It turns out the performance hit is due to an upstream kernel regression that's thrashing the performance...
Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora 32 Linux Performance
Fedora 32 isn't making it out this week due to last minute blocker bugs but should hopefully surface next week. In any case, here are some initial benchmarks looking at the performance of Fedora 32 in its effectively final state compared to Fedora 31 for seeing how the performance has shifted with its plethora of updates.
Nginx 1.18 Stable Released With Many Fixes, Improvements
Nginx 1.18 is out this week as their newest stable branch succeeding the Nginx 1.16 series for this versatile HTTP server and reverse proxy / load balancer / HTTP cache / mail proxy...
Mesa's DRM Library Now Has Proper FreeBSD Support Upstream
Mesa's DRM library (libdrm) that resides between the Mesa drivers and the Direct Rendering Manager kernel interfaces now has proper FreeBSD support upstream in this important library...
Steam Audio SDK 2.0 Beta 18 Released
Valve has released a new beta version of Steam Audio, their featureful spatial audio solution for game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine. This new release brings expanded Android support and a number of new audio features...
Ubuntu 20.04's Server Installer Sees Last Minute Work To Better Handle Linux RAID Installs
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is due for release on Thursday and it's seen a last minute upgrade to its "Subiquity" server installer...
Intel Deep Learning Reference Stack 6.0 Released For Maximizing Performance
Two years ago Intel announced the open-source Deep Learning Reference Stack with providing an easy-to-use, performance-focused stack for exploiting deep learning capabilities on Intel x86_64 hardware. Today marks version 6.0 of this toolkit...
Linux 5.8 To Properly Support The RME Babyface Pro High-End Audio Hardware
While a peculiar name for some expensive audio hardware, the Linux 5.8 kernel is set to properly support the RME Babyface Pro and RME Babyface Pro FS...
Amazon Plumbing Nitro Enclaves Support For Linux To Isolate Highly Sensitive Data
Amazon is working on upstreaming support into the Linux kernel for AWS Entro Niclaves for additional isolation around highly sensitive data within the EC2 cloud...