New Vulkan Extension Could Enhance Frame Timing Controls For Games
Longtime X11 developer Keith Packard who has been working on various infrastructure improvements to the Linux desktop in recent years under contract for Valve has been eyeing the creation of a new Vulkan extension for dealing with frame timing behavior for Vulkan apps/games...
Intel Quietly Released A Redistributable, Lightweight ME "Ignition Firmware" Binary
Towards the end of last year Intel quietly released an "ignition firmware" for the Management Engine (ME) on their Cascade Lake platform that is also their first ME firmware release to be under a license permitting redistribution...
vkBasalt 0.3 Vulkan Layer Adds Support For Using Reshade Fx Shaders
The vkBasalt open-source project began as just providing Contrast Adaptive Sharpening support for Linux/Vulkan games similar to Radeon Image Sharpening. This Vulkan post-processing layer then added an option for applying FXAA anti-aliasing and then SMAA and other effects. Now vkBasalt 0.3 is out today with even more post-processing features...
KDE Begins February With More Improvements In Tow
While KDE Plasma 5.18 is dropping soon, feature work is already underway on Plasma 5.19 and other areas of the KDE desktop stack...
Lightworks 2020.1 Beta Video Editor Brings Linux Improvements
Lightworks 2020.1 is on the way as this professional-grade video editing system's first release of the year and a change in their versioning scheme. Out this week is the first public beta of the still-proprietary video editing system for Windows, macOS, and Linux...
LLVM 10.0 RC1 Is Available For Testing
LLVM 10.0 was branched in mid-January but it took until Thursday to get the first release candidate out the door. That first step towards the release of LLVM 10.0 and sub-projects like Clang 10.0 is now moving along and you can enjoy testing the compiler stack this weekend...
Logitech Input Device Improvements Continue Coming With Linux 5.6
In recent Linux kernel releases we have seen a new gaming keyboard driver, better wireless device support, and a number of new device additions to the Logitech HID driver. With Linux 5.6, there is more Logitech work in tow but not quite as much as the recent kernels...
Steam Kicks Off 2020 With Linux Gaming At The Highest Point In A While
Valve has just reported their January 2020 numbers from the controversial Steam Survey...
OpenMandriva 4.1 Released With Clang'ed LTO+PGO Packages, Linux 5.5 + More
Following the recent beta release with a Clang-built kernel option and experimental Zypper as an alternative to DNF, OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 has been released as part of FOSDEM 2020 celebrations over in Brussels...
Linux 5.6 Adds New CPU Cooling Mechanism With Generic Idle Cooling Driver
The new "cpuidle_cooling" thermal driver in Linux 5.6 is similar to Intel's PowerClamp driver and RAPL framework but is generic for working across CPUs/architectures as an idle cooling driver to cool down CPUs/SoCs by injecting idle cycles at run-time...