GNOME's Mutter Working On Variable Refresh Rate Support (VRR / Adaptive-Sync / FreeSync)
Sway's Wayland compositor recently added Variable Refresh Rate / Adaptive-Sync support to help avoid tearing and stuttering while now GNOME's Mutter is working on similar VRR support on the desktop...
It's Looking Like Android Could Be Embracing WireGuard - "A Sane VPN"
Following the release of Linux 5.6 and WireGuard 1.0 declared, Google has now enabled WireGuard within their Android open-source Linux kernel build...
Intel Begins Prepping More Linux Code For Data Streaming Accelerator In Sapphire Rapids
Last year Intel outlined the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) as a feature on future Intel CPUs for high-performance data movement and transformation operations for networking and storage / persistent memory. We are now seeing more of the Intel DSA work beginning to take shape for the Linux kernel...
Fedora 33 Plans To Default To OpenJDK 11 As The Default Java Version
To date Fedora has defaulted to Java 1.8 / OpenJDK 8 as the default system JDK version but for Fedora 33 later this year they plan to transition to OpenJDK 11...
Linux 5.7 EFI Changes: "The GRUB Project Is Showing Signs Of Life Again"
Ingo Molnar on Monday began sending in his feature pull requests for the Linux 5.7 kernel merge window. Of the pull requests worth noting are the EFI changes...
Linux 5.7's USB Changes Range From Apple Fast Charging To Reporting USB-C Orientation
With the newly-minted Linux 5.6 kernel is initial support for USB4 based on Intel's Thunderbolt code while for Linux 5.7 is a wide variety of other USB changes...
FSINFO System Call, Mount Notifications Sent In For Linux 5.7 To Provide Better Storage Details
Red Hat's David Howells has sent in pull requests introducing the new fsinfo() system call and mount/superblock notifications and as part of that a general notification mechanism for the kernel...
Ubuntu 20.04 GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland Session Performance Impact For Gaming
In the past using the Wayland-based GNOME Shell session and other Wayland compositors has generally resulted in a performance hit in going through (X)Wayland but that is much less so these days. Here are some initial benchmarks of Ubuntu 20.04 running various Steam Linux gaming benchmarks both under the default X.Org-based session and then again when using the Wayland session and its (X)Wayland support.
Split Lock Detection Sent In For Linux 5.7 To Spot Performance Issues, Unprivileged DoS
The previously reported work on split lock detection due to its big performance hit is now queued up for Linux 5.7...
Google's OpenTelemetry Reaches Beta For Open-Source Telemetry Purposes
Nearly one year after announcing OpenTelemetry as the merger of the OpenCensus and OpenTracing projects, Google has announced today OpenTelemetry has advanced to its beta phase...