Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Linux Performance The Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid-state drives are now available from Internet retailers. For those wondering how these SSDs compare with EXT4 under Linux against other PCIe 4.0/3.0 drives, here are a variety of benchmarks. |
Fwupd 1.5 Released With Expanded Hardware Support, New Capabilities Version 1.5 of the Fwupd utility is available for updating various component firmware/BIOS natively on Linux and integrating with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for the easy distribution of said firmware images... |
The Qt Company Details The Graphics Stack Changes With Qt 6.0 If all goes well Qt 6.0 will make its official debut in December. One of the areas much talked about for Qt 6 development has been the graphics architecture changes and better supporting more APIs besides OpenGL... |
"Open-Source Windows" ReactOS To See Improved Memory Management ReactOS Deutschland e.V. has hired one of their long-time contributors to work full-time on the "open-source Windows" implementation's memory management for the next quarter... |
Corsair Power Supplies May Soon See Sensor Support Exposed Under Linux Select high-end Corsair power supplies such as their RMi / HXi / AXi series are able to expose various sensor metrics via USB interface to the system. To date this sensor functionality has only worked under Windows with their proprietary software but now an open-source driver is seeking mainline inclusion for supporting these sensors under Linux... |
Linux Patches Aim To Provide Fork'ing Brute Force Attack Mitigation Building off a set of "request for comments" patches from September, a set of patches were sent out on Sunday for providing brute force attack mitigation around the fork system call... |
Linux 5.10-rc1 Released With New Hardware Support, Security Additions Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.10-rc1 that also marks the end of the feature merge window for this EOY2020 kernel. Linux 5.10 isn't the largest kernel update in recent time but still has a lot of interesting additions and improvements... |
Linux 5.10 Brings Many Changes From Better CPU Support To File-System Optimizations The Linux 5.10 merge window is set to close this afternoon followed by around seven weeks worth of release candidates before the stable kernel release in December. As usual here is our look at the many new features set to premiere with this next version of the Linux kernel. |
New TTM Code Can Yield 3~5x Faster Page Allocation For AMDGPU, Other Benefits The Linux kernel's TTM memory management code that is most notably used by the Radeon / AMDGPU kernel drivers but also Nouveau, QXL, VMWGFX, and others, is seeing a new back-end allocation pool that can yield 3~5x faster page allocation performance for video memory... |
Alder Lake Support Published For The Open-Source Intel Compute Stack This past week Intel began adding Alder Lake support to their Linux graphics driver and that also continued on the compute side with the Intel Compute-Runtime receiving initial support for Alder Lake S "ADLS" too... |
LLVM Lands Very Basic Support For AMD Zen 3 CPUs While AMD has landed Znver3 support in GNU Binutils, the company hasn't yet sent out patches for either the GCC or LLVM/Clang compilers in setting up the Zen 3 target with its new instructions or optimized scheduling model / cost table. But a basic implementation has been merged to LLVM for allowing "-march=znver3" based on the limited public details thus far... |
It's Time To Admit It: The X.Org Server Is Abandonware The last major release of the X.Org Server was in May 2018 but don't expect the long-awaited X.Org Server 1.21 to actually be released anytime soon... |
Red Hat's Tom Stellard Now Serving As LLVM Release Manager After six years serving as the LLVM release manager and taking over the role from LLVM founder Chris Lattner followed by Bill Wendling, Google's Hans Wennborg has stepped down from his position and handed it over to Red Hat's Tom Stellard... |
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan At ~97% Piglit Testing Conformance Not only is the Zink Gallium3D code for OpenGL accelerated by Vulkan up to around 69% the speed of Intel's OpenGL driver but it's at around a 97% passing test rate for Mesa's Piglit testing... |
KVM For Linux 5.10 Brings New "TDP" MMU To Help VMs With Hundreds Of vCPUs, TBs of RAM The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is seeing plenty of improvements with the Linux 5.10 kernel... |