Open-Source Nouveau Extended To Support The GeForce 16 Series With Hardware Acceleration
With the big Linux 5.6 kernel on the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver side there is finally accelerated support for the GeForce RTX 2000 "Turing" graphics cards (when paired with binary-only microcode). With that initial cut support is no GeForce 16 series Turing support, but that is now on-deck for Linux 5.7...
Linux Kernel Seeing Work To Implement MEMFD "Secret Memory Areas"
There is experimental work pending that plumbs support into MEMFD for creating "secret" memory areas. This secret memory support would then be exposed to user-space for different use-cases...
Wayland 1.18 Released With Meson Support, Other Minor Changes
Wayland 1.18 is out today as the first update to the core Wayland code in nearly one year...
Making The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Run Even Faster - By Loading Up Intel's Clear Linux
One of the interesting takeaways from my pre-launch briefing with AMD on the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X was AMD representatives actually recommending Clear Linux for use on this 64-core / 128-thread HEDT processor and the platform to which they've found the best performance. Yet, Clear Linux is an Intel open-source project. In any case, here are benchmarks of how Clear Linux performs against other Linux distributions on the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X within the System76
Godot Merges Its Vulkan Renderer Ahead Of The v4.0 Game Engine
While the Godot 4.0 release is still months away from seeing its stable debut with the new Vulkan renderer, the Vulkan renderer branch was today merged to mainline...
The Linux Kernel Now Seeing Patches For AMD SEV-ES "Encrypted State" Support
While since 2016~2017 AMD has been posting Linux kernel patches for Secure Memory Encryption (SME) and Secure Encrypted Virtualization, coming out this morning is finally the first public patch series wiring up the Linux kernel for SEV-ES as further enhancing virtualization encryption...
KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released After A Lot Of Polishing, New Features
The KDE community has released Plasma 5.18 as the newest version of their desktop and a release that is also a long-term support release, succeeding the aging Plasma 5.12 LTS...
Qt 5.15 Feature Development Is Over For This Last Step Of The Qt5 Series
Just as scheduled, earlier this month the feature freeze went into effect for Qt 5.15 as the last major step for Qt5 before seeing Qt 6.0 hopefully arrive towards the end of the year...
Mozilla Firefox 73 Now Available
Mozilla Firefox 73 is available this morning as the latest update to this open-source cross-platform web browser...
Red Hat's Stratis 2.0.1 Released For This Linux Storage Management Solution
Red Hat's Stratis storage project for offering enterprise storage capabilities on Linux to compete with the likes of ZFS and Btrfs while being built atop LVM and XFS saw the first update to its daemon of 2020...