System76 Thelio Major Proves To Be A Major Player For Linux Workstations
For the past two months we have been testing the System76 Thelio Major and it's been working out extremely well with performance and reliability. The Thelio Major offering with options for Intel Core X-Series or AMD Ryzen Threadripper and resides between their standard Thelio desktop with Ryzen/Core CPUs and the Thelio Massive that sports dual Intel Xeon CPUs.
X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator Beta Released With Vulkan API Support
For years we have been looking forward to X-Plane with a new Vulkan renderer to replace its aging OpenGL renderer. Finally today the X-Plane 11.50 Beta has been made public for this realistic flight simulator that supports Metal on Apple platforms and Vulkan everywhere else...
GNOME 3.36.1 Released With First Batch Of Fixes
Following last month's release of GNOME 3.36 with its many new features and performance improvements, GNOME 3.36.1 is out today with the first batch of updates/fixes to this H1'2020 open-source desktop...
Mesa OpenGL Threading Enabled For More Games Yielding Sizable Performance Jumps
Well known open-source AMD OpenGL driver developer Marek Olšák has enabled more Linux games to run with Mesa's GLTHREAD functionality enabled for helping with the performance...
LXD 4.0 LTS Released For Offering The Latest Linux Containers Experience
Ahead of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release later this month, the Canonical folks working on LXD for Linux containers and VMs have released LXD 4.0 LTS...
Btrfs File-System Updates Land In Linux 5.7
SUSE's David Sterba sent in the Btrfs file-system updates this week for the Linux 5.7 kernel...
LLVM Plumbs Support For Intel Golden Cove's New SERIALIZE Instruction
Yesterday we noted Intel's programming reference manual being updated with new Golden Cove instructions for Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake and with that Intel's open-source developers have begun pushing their changes to the compilers. The latest updates add TSXLDTRK, a new HYBRID bit for Core+Atom hybrd CPUs, and a new SERIALIZE instruction. After GCC was receiving the patch attention yesterday, LLVM is getting its attention today...
Linux 5.6.2 Released With Fix For The IWLWIFI Intel WiFi Driver
Basically a half-week after Linux 5.6 shipped as stable, we are up to the second point release of it...
Intel 10th Gen H-Series Mobile CPUs Hit Up To 5.3GHz
Days after AMD announced their full Ryzen 4000 series mobile CPU line-up, Intel has now introduced their 10th Gen Core H-series processors...
GCC 10 Release Candidate Likely Hitting In The Next Few Weeks
The month of April usually sees the new annual GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) feature releases and for GCC 10 in the form of GCC 10.1 as the first stable release in the series does stand chances of releasing this month...