Wine 5.0-RC5 Released With Fixes For Different Games
We are likely to see the stable Wine 5.0 release within the next week or two but for now Wine 5.0-RC5 is available for the latest testing...
AMD Has DP MST DSC Support Ready For The Linux 5.6 Kernel
In addition to their AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature updates sent out on Thursday, AMD also sent in a special pull request to DRM-Next on its own of a new feature: DP MST DSC...
GRUB Boot Loader Adds Support For LUKS2 Encrypted Disks
The GRUB boot-loader has finally merged support for dealing with LUKS2 encrypted disks...
OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Beta Adds Clang-Built Kernel Option, Experimental Zypper
In time for some weekend testing is the beta release of OpenMandriva Lx 4.1...
Amazon Engineers Introduce "DAMON" For Linux Kernel To Monitor Data Accesses
Amazon engineers announced their work today on "DAMON", a Linux kernel module for monitoring of data accesses for specific user-space processes...
Multipath TCP Support Is Working Its Upstream - First Bits Landing With Linux 5.6
We've already been looking forward to Linux 5.6 with already there being a lot of good stuff coming and now it's even more exciting: at least the prerequisites have been merged overnight for Multipath TCP (MPTCP) support!..
AMD Has More Radeon Graphics Driver Code Ready For Linux 5.6
Time is quickly running out to get new code into DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.6 merge window. AMD on Thursday did send out another feature pull request with some interesting additions worth mentioning...
GNOME 3.35.3 Released As Another Step To GNOME 3.36
GNOME 3.35.3 is out today as the latest development release on the road to GNOME 3.36...
OpenWrt 19.07 Released With WPA3 Support, Ath79 Target
The long awaited release of OpenWrt 19.07 took place this week for this Linux distribution popular for embedded, primarily networking devices...
The XanMod Kernel Is Working Well To Boost Ubuntu Desktop / Workstation Performance
It's been four years since last testing out the XanMod kernel as a spin of the Linux kernel with various patches and extra tuning designed to offer better desktop/workstation performance, similar to the Liquorix kernel. But given the recent Liquorix kernel testing and discussions over kernel schedulers and more, here are some fresh benchmarks of the latest XanMod kernel. Long story short, I am quite impressed by these latest XanMod results.