Intel

Vulkan 1.2.134 Released With Many Fixes/Clarifications, New Qualcomm Extension

The Khronos Group has released Vulkan 1.2.134 as their newest revision to this high-performance graphics/compute API...


F2FS vs. EXT4 File-System Performance With Intel's Clear Linux

Intel's performance-oriented Clear Linux distribution recently added support for using F2FS as the root file-system so we were curious to run some benchmarks on it for how it stacks up against EXT4.


GNOME 3.36 RC2 Released Ahead Of The Official Desktop Update Next Week

The second and final release candidate for the GNOME 3.36 milestone is now available for testing this weekend ahead of the official GNOME 3.36.0 debut next week...


Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed

Systemd 245 RC2 was released just earlier this week while now it has been succeeded by the stable release of systemd 245...


Intel

Acer Is Launching In Germany What Could Be A Great AMD Ryzen 5 4500U Linux Laptop

For those that have been looking out for an AMD Linux laptop powered by a Ryzen 4000 series processor, Acer is set to launch a new laptop at least in Germany that could be quite appealing to Linux users...


Intel

Intel's Linux Driver Sees Async Flipping Patches For Better Performance

The latest Intel Linux graphics driver optimization being worked on is asynchronous page-flipping...


Linux PPPD Has A 17 Year Old Vulnerability That Could Lead To Remote Code Execution

It turns out the Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon (PPPD) used for dial-up models, DSL, and other point-to-point network setups on Linux has been bugged for the past seventeen years with a buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution at the system level...


Linux 5.1 To Linux 5.6 Benchmarks On The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

For those wondering how the Threadripper 3990X is performing with the upcoming Linux 5.6 kernel, here are benchmarks of a recent development snapshot of Linux 5.6 as well as benchmarking all of the major kernel releases going back to Linux 5.1...


Mesa 20.1 Lands OpenGL Threading Improvements

Mesa's OpenGL threading "glthread" support has been around for a while but come Mesa 20.1 next quarter will be further improvements to this performance feature...


Mesa 20.0.1 Released With First Batch Of OpenGL/Vulkan Driver Fixes For The Quarter

Following the release of Mesa 20.0 in mid-February, the first point release to this quarter's Mesa 3D feature series is now available...