Intel Volleys First Patches As Part Of Linux Bring-Up For Keem Bay
Intel has begun piping the Linux support for Keem Bay...
ASpeed AST2500/AST2600 XDMA Engine Support Pending For Linux
Kernel patches pending that might see mainlining for the upcoming Linux 5.7 window provide ASpeed XDMA engine support for the plethora of AST2500 BMCs found on server platforms and the forthcoming AST2600-based platforms...
Linux 5.7 Netfilter To See AVX2 Optimizations For Big Performance Boost - Can Be Up To ~420%
Linux 5.7's Netfilter framework is set to see better performance on modern Intel and AMD systems thanks to AVX2 optimizations...
Linux 5.6-rc6 Released With The Kernel Coming In At Just The Right Size
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.6-rc6 and the code metrics are looking good for this stage of the kernel cycle...
AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Driver Isn't Yet Queued For Linux 5.7
While a lot of feature work has been building up for Linux 5.7 in various subsystem development repositories ahead of the merge window in a few weeks, one of the big driver additions many users have been clamoring for isn't yet queued. The AMD Sensor Fusion Hub open-source driver for Linux appears stalled pending more reviews from upstream developers...
KDE Frameworks 5.68 Release Brought Many Fixes
Flying under our radar until now was that KDE Frameworks 5.68 was released last week as the monthly update to this collection of KDE-minded libraries complementing the Qt tool-kit...
Chrome 80 Against Firefox 74/75 Performance On Linux
Complementing the Firefox 73 vs. 74 vs. 75 Beta benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux from AMD Ryzen this week, here are those numbers side-by-side with the Google Chrome 80 web-browser for putting the performance into more perspective...
BlueZ 5.54 Linux Bluetooth Stack Released With Just-Works Repairing Policy, EATT Support
Marcel Holtmann of Intel's open-source Linux team released BlueZ 5.54 this morning as the latest version of this widely-used user-space Linux Bluetooth stack...
GNOME's Mutter Finally Wires Up Middle Button Click Emulation
Coming just past the GNOME 3.36.0 release is the merging of a year-old patch-set to tie in middle mouse button click emulation with libinput for Mutter...
KDE Seeing System Tray Improvements, Much Faster Shadowed Rectangles
The Coronavirus doesn't appear to be impacting KDE development speed at all as it's been another week seeing a ton of feature activity for this open-source desktop...