Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving
Red Hat's Karol Herbst spoke at the FOSDEM 2020 conference in Brussels on the state of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Linux graphics driver stack...
Linux 5.6 Media Updates Bring Improvements For Rockchip Users
The Linux 5.6 media driver updates have landed in the kernel...
GNU Binutils 2.34 + GNU C Library 2.31 Released
Two important pieces of the GNU toolchain saw new releases to kickoff February...
Intel Gateway SoC Enablement Continues With Linux 5.6 Plus Other PCI/PCIe Changes
There is plenty of PCI work that landed for the Linux 5.6 kernel merge window...
Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January
During the first month of 2020 on Phoronix were 305 original news stories and another 18 Linux hardware reviews / featured-length articles. Here is a look back at what has been exciting Linux and open-source enthusiasts so far in 2020...
Intel MKL-DNN/DNNL 1.2 Released With Performance Improvements For Deep Learning On CPUs
Intel on Friday released Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL) version 1.2, formerly known as MKL-DNN. With this release comes both new features and better performance...
/dev/random Is More Like /dev/urandom With Linux 5.6
The random changes have been sent in for Linux 5.6 that yield /dev/random behavioral changes and a new random flag...
Ingenic X1000 SoC Being Supported By The Linux 5.6 Kernel
Adding to the Linux 5.6 excitement is the hardware enablement of the MIPS-based Ingenic X1000 SoC...
University of Illinois Releases HPVM As Heterogeneous Parallel Systems Compiler
University of Illinois and associated developers have released HPVM 0.5, their LLVM-based compiler infrastructure for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems with CPU execution and OpenCL-based NVIDIA GPU support...
Intel MPX Support Is Dead With Linux 5.6
Following on from last week's story that it was looking like Linux 5.6 would drop Intel MPX support, that has now taken place...