X-Plane 11 Flight Simulator With Vulkan Performing Very Well On Linux - NVIDIA/AMD OpenGL vs. Vulkan Benchmarks
Last week the X-Plane 11.50 beta was released with its long awaited Vulkan renderer to complement its mature OpenGL rendering code. Since then we've been busy benchmarking with 23 different graphics cards of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce line-ups while running Ubuntu Linux and comparing the OpenGL vs. Vulkan rendering performance for this realistic flight simulator.
LOOPFS File-System Proposed For Linux
LOOPFS is the latest Linux kernel file-system proposal...
Linux Security Feature Revised For Randomizing The Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call
Patches have been revised for allowing Linux to support kernel stack base address offset randomization for each system call...
New Qt Releases Might Now Be Restricted To Paying Customers For 12 Months
With an apparent blame on the novel coronavirus, The Qt Company is said to be considering restricting new Qt releases to paying customers for a period of twelve months in an effort to boost their near-term finances...
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Should Trip Less Often On Some GPUs With Linux 5.7
Last week there were a bunch of new improvements and features for the open-source kernel graphics/display drivers merged for Linux 5.7. There were not any feature changes on the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver front while this week at least are some fixes/workarounds so it's less buggy for some hardware...
OverlayFS Can Be Paired With VirtIO-FS On Linux 5.7
The OverlayFS union mount file-system has a number of fixes and other changes with Linux 5.7...
The Qt Company Publishes A 2020 Roadmap Culminating With The Qt 6.0 Release
The Qt Company has made public their 2020 road-map for Qt software releases...
TURNIP Vulkan Driver Lands Initial Geometry Shader Support
The TURNIP open-source Vulkan driver continues advancing in-step with the other Mesa drivers...
AMD Rebases Their OpenMP For Radeon GPUs Against LLVM 11
At the end of last year with ROCm 3.0 AMD introduced the AOMP compiler for OpenMP support targeting Radeon GPUs. AOMP is another downstream of LLVM Clang and on Tuesday marked the latest update...
Google's Propeller Is Beginning To Be Upstreamed For Spinning Faster Program Binaries
We have begun seeing the start of upstreaming on Google's Propeller Framework for offering post-link-time binary optimizations in the LLVM compiler stack to offer measurably faster (re)generated binaries...