The Linux Kernel Code of Conduct Committee Begins Offering Regular Reports
Back in late 2018 when Linus Torvalds went on a sabbatical from kernel development to focus on his inter-personal skills, the kernel added a Code of Conduct. To date there hasn't been much transparency into the Code of Conduct committee that acts upon violations, but that is changing in 2020...
Wine 5.0-RC4 Released With The Stable Update Expected Later This Month
While complicated by New Year's festivities, Wine 5.0-RC4 was released today with just fifteen bug fixes for the week -- also a sign of the development cycle winding down for this annual Wine stable release...
Fedora 32 Looking At Using EarlyOOM By Default To Better Deal With Low Memory Situations
For months there has been many different discussions over the Linux desktop's poor performance when under memory pressure / out-of-memory type situations. That has resulted in some upstream work so far like GNOME GLib's GMemoryMonitor as well as discussions by distribution vendors about what solutions they could enable today to help the low memory situations. Fedora 32 could begin shipping and using EarlyOOM by default to help in this area...
Radeon Gallium3D Fixes Up 10-Bit HEVC Video Decode Support
Hitting Mesa 20.0-devel a short time ago were a set of patches to the Radeon Gallium3D video code for fixing 10-bit HEVC video decode support...
Benchmarking 9 Linux Distributions On A $50 Processor
Your choice of Linux distribution on a budget PC can mean the difference of ~14% performance overall. Here are benchmarks of Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, EndeavourOS, Manjaro Linux, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora Workstation, and Clear Linux on a $50 processor as we roll into 2020 with the newest Linux distribution releases.
Bootlin Working To Boost OpenWrt Security With SELinux + DM-Verity
Embedded Linux consulting firm Bootlin has been working on improving the security of OpenWrt, the Linux distribution popular for running on routers / networking equipment and other embedded Linux networking use-cases...
EXT4 In Linux 5.6 To See Big Write Performance Boost For Direct I/O
For those of you running EXT4 with Direct I/O on the likes of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory or PMEM simulated via a virtual machine, better write performance is coming when overwriting already allocated blocks...
A Possible Workaround For AMD APUs With Stability Issues On Recent Kernels
While we have found recent Linux kernels paired with latest motherboard BIOS releases to work out generally well for recent AMD APUs, not everyone has been having a trouble-free experience on recent kernels. But an affected user has discovered a possible workaround if hitting stability issues...
Libinput 1.15 Released For Improving Input On X.Org + Wayland Desktops
Just under one month since the libinput 1.15 test release, this input handling library is now out with its official update...
Fedora 32 Goes Through Its Formalities To Land GCC 10 + Golang 1.14
Fedora Linux has long been well known for always shipping with bleeding-edge GCC compiler releases even if it means a near-final pre-release, thanks in part to Red Hat's significant engineering resources to GCC and the GNU toolchain in general. With Fedora 32 it's expected to be no different with having the upcoming GCC 10 compiler...