eBPF has been one of the greatest Linux kernel innovations of the past decade and now Microsoft has decided to bring this "revolutionary technology" to Windows Server and Windows 10.
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The Daemon engine that has been in development for many years as part of the Unvanquished open-source game project released their long-awaited 0.52 beta ahead of the game's next beta later in the week. Daemon was originally based on the open-source id Tech 3 game engine but in 2021 continues pushing ahead working on features like WebAssembly support and renderer enhancements.
6 Hours Ago - Linux Gaming - Daemon Engine 0.52 Beta - 2 Comments
10 May
Two weeks have passed since OpenZFS 2.1-rc4 while today a fifth release candidate was issued for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems.
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It's been a half-year already since Coreboot 4.13 was released so out now is Coreboot 4.14 that is represented by over thirty six hundred new commits adding dozens of new motherboards now supported.
DragonFlyBSD 6.0 has officially launched today as the newest version of this popular BSD operating system.
10 May 04:16 PM EDT - BSD - DragonFlyBSD 6.0 - 3 Comments
Following the recent RTX 30 series Linux gaming benchmarks and RTX 30 compute comparison, I was curious how the Linux performance for the flagship GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card compares to the Windows 10 performance in various GPU compute workloads. Well, here are those benchmarks for those wondering about Vulkan / OpenCL / CUDA / OptiX compute performance between Windows and Linux with the very latest NVIDIA drivers.
10 May 11:35 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 9 Comments
The OpenPOWER Foundation today announced LibreBMC as a POWER-based, open-source BMC.
10 May 09:26 AM EDT - Hardware - LibreBMC - 2 Comments
Today's Vulkan 1.2.178 specification update notes a rather peculiar vendor extension in the works: VK_NVX_binary_import.
10 May 07:10 AM EDT - NVIDIA - VK_NVX_binary_import - 23 Comments
AMD has published a set of patches refactoring their MCE kernel driver, making various machine check architecture (MCA) address translation updates in preparing for "future systems" while at the same time finally introducing Data Fabric 3 support for EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors and newer.
10 May 06:21 AM EDT - AMD - AMD MCE - Add A Comment
The Illumos project born out of the former Sun Microsystems OpenSolaris codebase has decided to end support for SPARC hardware.
10 May 06:05 AM EDT - Operating Systems - OpenSolaris Illumos - 24 Comments
9 May
Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 5.13-rc1 as a Mother's Day kernel test release that also marks the closure of the merge window for the cycle.
9 May 06:09 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.13-rc1 - 5 Comments
Following the two week merge window, feature development on the Linux 5.13 kernel is slated to end today with the release of Linux 5.13-rc1. Here is a look at some of the most interesting new features and improvements for this kernel that in turn should debut as stable around the end of June.
9 May 01:45 PM EDT - Software - 2 Comments
The Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) in cooperation with the Chinese openEuler Linux distribution have been working on their own project akin to Google Summer of Code and Outreachy for paying university-aged students to become involved in open-source software development.
9 May 11:06 AM EDT - Free Software - Student Funding - 64 Comments
Linux 5.10 as the latest Long Term Support release when announced was only going to be maintained until the end of 2022 but following enough companies stepping up to help with testing, Linux 5.10 LTS will now be maintained until the end of year 2026.
9 May 10:41 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - +4 Years - 4 Comments
Oracle engineers have continued working on the "Maple Tree" data structure for the Linux kernel as an RCU-safe, range-based B-tree designed to make efficient use of modern processor caches.
In addition to work like Linux 5.13 addressing some network overhead caused by Retpolines, this next kernel's return trampoline implementation itself is seeing a simplification.
9 May 08:50 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.13 Retpolines - Add A Comment
The Linux 5.13 kernel has initial support for dealing with SPI one-time programmable (OTP) flash memory regions.
9 May 06:13 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 5.13 SPI OTP - Add A Comment
This week happened to see new releases of two prominent open-source AV1 video encoders.
9 May 12:00 AM EDT - Multimedia - AV1 Encoding - 15 Comments
8 May
Support for the Loongson 2K1000 is finally mainline with the forthcoming Linux 5.13 kernel.
8 May 11:56 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.13 + Loongson - 8 Comments
Outside of the i915 kernel graphics driver one of the areas Linux 5.13 is seeing more discrete graphics card bring-up work is within their PMT driver for enabling platform monitoring / telemetry support with this inaugural Intel PCIe graphics card.
8 May 09:14 AM EDT - Intel - DG1 Graphics Card - 8 Comments
The PowerPC architecture pull request for the Linux 5.13 cycle brings some improvements to its 32-bit support and other enhancements.
8 May 07:12 AM EDT - Hardware - 32-bit POWER Improvements - 6 Comments
GIMP 2.99.6 is out today as the latest development release of this popular open-source image manipulation program.
8 May 06:13 AM EDT - Free Software - GIMP 2.99.6 - 17 Comments
KDE developers remain very active polishing up the KDE desktop and addressing various bugs ahead of next month's Plasma 5.22 feature release.
8 May 05:55 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Polishing - 29 Comments
7 May
Wine 6.8 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot providing the latest support for running the latest Windows games and applications under Linux, macOS, and BSD systems.
7 May 04:55 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 6.8 - 18 Comments
Last month when carrying out tests of Windows 10 vs. Linux on the Intel Core i9 11900K "Rocket Lake" processor we were very surprised to see Windows 10 frankly performing so well compared to Ubuntu and picking up more wins than usual. That unexpectedly strong showing for Windows 10 might be due to Intel's P-State behavior with Rocket Lake or other power management tuning or there the lack of on Linux at this time. But it led me to wondering if the latest Windows 10 updates spelled out anything different on the AMD Ryzen side... So here are some benchmarks of the latest Microsoft Windows 10 against Ubuntu 21.04 on the same AMD Ryzen 9 5900X system.
7 May 01:52 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 34 Comments
Intel's open-source graphics driver developers volleyed an initial set of nearly 100 experimental patches working on GuC submission support as they work towards integrating the DRM scheduler into their graphics driver.
7 May 10:30 AM EDT - Intel - Graphics GuC Scheduler - 3 Comments
The FreeBSD project published their Q1 status report yesterday that outlines the progress they made over the past quarter on advancing this leading open-source BSD operating system.
7 May 09:11 AM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD Q1 - 4 Comments
The VFIO changes for the Linux 5.13 kernel aren't particularly exciting this cycle but one of the changes does raise some eyebrows with the VFIO NVIDIA NVLink2 driver being removed. This driver is being removed as it shouldn't have been even added in the first place for lack of an open-source client/user exercising it.
7 May 06:14 AM EDT - NVIDIA - VFIO NVLink2 - 23 Comments
Earlier this year with v21.02 Alpha, 7-Zip added initial Linux support upstream at long last. Out this week is now version 21.02 alpha that continues to refine the Linux support while also now punctually publishing the source code too.
7 May 05:53 AM EDT - Free Software - 7-Zip 21.02 - 12 Comments