Red Hat developers have been working to improve the performance of multi-threaded workloads on NUMA systems.
66 Minutes Ago - Linux Kernel - NUMA/Sched Code - Add A Comment
Independent commentator Artem S. Tashkinov is back at it again with his latest thoughts on GNU/Linux and its problems in a post entitled "Why Linux/GNU might never succeed on a large scale".
3 Hours Ago - Hardware - 2017 Thoughts - 12 Comments
AMD Ryzen continued to be a very popular area of interest by Phoronix readers as did our Linux vs. Windows benchmarks, among other hardware tests in July. Last month on Phoronix your's truly authored 23 featured articles/reviews and 290 news articles.
6 Hours Ago - Phoronix - July 2017 - Add A Comment
31 July
With the Radeon RX Vega 56 and Vega 64 shipping in two weeks, here are some benchmarks of the latest Radeon and NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers with an assortment of modern GPUs. With these latest Linux GPU results are also the current performance-per-Watt and thermal metrics as recorded automatically via the Phoronix Test Suite benchmarking software. This Radeon vs. NVIDIA Linux comparison should be particularly interesting given the very good Mesa Git performance results posted yesterday that show RadeonSI performing well beyond the AMDGPU-PRO OpenGL levels.
31 July 07:09 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 36 Comments
While covered in our OpenGL 4.6 overview from when the embargo expired this morning on this updated graphics API, the Mesa feature list has been updated to reflect the state of OpenGL 4.6 support.
31 July 04:49 PM EDT - Mesa - SPIR-V - 3 Comments
One month after the Phoronix Test Suite 7.2.1 release, the first development milestone release of Phoronix Test Suite 7.4-Tynset is now available for cross-platform, open-source benchmarking evaluation.
31 July 03:22 PM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Phoronix Test Suite 7.4 - 5 Comments
OpenBSD is now the latest BSD switching from GCC to LLVM's Clang C/C++ compiler by default.
31 July 02:59 PM EDT - BSD - OpenBSD Clang - 16 Comments
Jonas Ådahl has announced the newest release of the Wayland protocols collection, Wayland-Protocols 1.10.
31 July 01:34 PM EDT - Wayland - Wayland-Protocols 1.10 - 21 Comments
A big update is available today of OPNsense, the fork of pfSense that serves as a FreeBSD-based network operating system / firewall.
31 July 12:34 PM EDT - BSD - OPNsense 17.7 - 4 Comments
Adding to the exciting morning about OpenGL 4.6 and the Radeon RX Vega launch is the massive patch series adding NIR support to RadeonSI having been merged to Mesa Git.
31 July 10:07 AM EDT - Mesa - RadeonSI NIR - 9 Comments
While this morning the embargo lifted on the exciting OpenGL 4.6 update, those hoping SIGGRAPH 2017 would bring "Vulkan 1.1" or some big update on that front, that is not the case.
31 July 09:26 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan Portability - 12 Comments
As we have been anticipating for weeks/months, a new formal update to OpenGL has been in the works and it's officially out today. Meet OpenGL 4.6! This is a pretty significant update and internally they had the debate whether to call it OpenGL 5.0, but here we are with OpenGL 4.6 that features Vulkan/SPIR-V extensions and more. The good news is the open-source Mesa drivers aren't too far out from OpenGL 4.6 support, at least RadeonSI and Intel.
31 July 09:00 AM EDT - Software - 16 Comments
The embargo just expired on the Radeon Pro Software Crimson ReLive Edition for Vega Radeon Professional Graphics. There isn't much to share from the Linux driver side, except worth noting that Vega Pro graphics hardware has a "secure processor" onboard.
31 July 09:00 AM EDT - Radeon - Secure Processor - 28 Comments
For NVIDIA Linux users read our OpenGL 4.6 overview if you haven't already and then go forth and download the new experimental driver.
31 July 09:00 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA OpenGL 4.6 - 3 Comments
It's been a while since last having anything to report on with the once very popular MythTV HTPC/DVR software, but today it's out with a new stable release: MythTV 29.
31 July 08:54 AM EDT - Multimedia - MythTV 29.0 - 7 Comments
Mesa 17.2 will be officially released in one or two weeks, so here's a recap of all the improvements made to this open-source 3D Linux driver stack over the past quarter.
31 July 08:11 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 5 Comments
The second release candidate of Mesa 17.2 is now available for testing.
31 July 07:15 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 17.2 - Add A Comment
ReactOS, the "open-source Windows" operating system developed by the community, is nearing its next release (v0.4.6) and has out a release candidate.
31 July 06:05 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Open-Source Windows - 9 Comments
AMD made for an exciting start to SIGGRAPH 2017 by launching the Vega consumer parts last night.
31 July 05:36 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon RX Vega - 42 Comments
30 July
Following the Linux and BSD multi-threaded tests on the Intel Core i9 7900X, I next decided to try this system with the Solaris-based OpenIndiana. Sadly, it didn't end well.
30 July 07:47 PM EDT - Operating Systems - OpenIndiana Solaris - 11 Comments
AMD's GPUOpen initiative has announced the open-source availability of their ProRender renderer.
30 July 06:58 PM EDT - AMD - ProRender Source - Add A Comment
Linus Torvalds has just released the Linux 4.13-rc3 kernel as the latest weekly test build.
30 July 04:03 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.13-rc3 - 1 Comment
With this week's release of AMDGPU-PRO 17.30, here are some fresh benchmarks of this latest AMD hybrid Linux graphics driver release compared to using the newest pure open-source driver stack in the form of the Linux 4.13 development kernel and Mesa Git.
30 July 11:08 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 46 Comments
Bitrig, the operating system that forked OpenBSD back in 2012, is no longer being developed.
30 July 09:44 AM EDT - BSD - Bitrig - 19 Comments
It's finally Vega week where AMD will be launching the long-awaited Radeon RX Vega graphics cards... But what about the Linux driver status?
30 July 08:19 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Vega Linux Driver - 44 Comments
The Etnaviv open-source driver stack that provides reverse-engineered graphics driver support for Vivante graphics cores is working now not only on conventional Linux distributions but also Android environments.
30 July 07:49 AM EDT - Mesa - Etnaviv - 2 Comments
29 July
Jacob Lifshay, the student developer via GSoC 2017 working on a Vulkan CPU-based implementation to essentially serve as a software renderer that is making use of LLVM, now has working SPIR-V to LLVM IR translation.
29 July 11:18 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan On The CPU - 2 Comments
Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has exited beta ahead of its formal debut in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
29 July 10:57 AM EDT - Microsoft - Windows 10 WSL - 35 Comments
Mesa 17.2 is coming in as one of the largest updates ever to Mesa 3D, at least in terms of code delta.
29 July 09:16 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 17.2 - Add A Comment
One of this year's Google Summer of Code projects affecting Mesa is porting its OpenMAX IL Gallium3D state tracker from using Bellagio to Tizonia.
29 July 08:52 AM EDT - Mesa - OpenMAX IL - 3 Comments
Finalizing Fedora's switch from Python 2 to Python 3 by default is still going to take several more Fedora release cycles and should be done by the 2020 date when Python 2 will be killed off by upstream.
29 July 08:27 AM EDT - Fedora - Python 2 To Python 3 - 9 Comments
The TrueOS BSD distribution has finished porting over more than one thousand FreeBSD RC scripts into OpenRC format for this dependency-based init system.
29 July 08:22 AM EDT - BSD - TrueOS OpenRC - 32 Comments
28 July
It's not quite ready for primetime yet by Linux gamers, but Piper as the GTK-powered user-interface for controlling gaming mice on Linux is getting into shape.
28 July 12:14 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Piper - 15 Comments
With Intel's recently-launched Core i9 7900X I have carried out some interesting BSD vs. Linux benchmarks when testing out various distributions and comparing each of them at 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 20 threads on this $999+ USD processor.
28 July 08:02 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 20 Comments
Get the popcorn ready as this should be an interesting discussion item: is using Qt QML better than HTML5 when designing user-interfaces?
28 July 07:27 AM EDT - Qt - Qt QML vs. HTML5 - 47 Comments
The official update to LibreOffice 5.4 is now available following a slight delay.
28 July 06:29 AM EDT - LibreOffice - LibreOffice 5.4 - 9 Comments
The second alpha release of the "Artful Aardvark" 17.10 is now available for Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie, and Ubuntu Kylin.
28 July 06:02 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 17.10 Alpha 2 - 8 Comments