Besides Keith Packard working on the concept of resource leasing for the X.Org Server and resource leasing support for RandR, he's also now proposing a "NonDesktop" property for the Resize and Rotate protocol.
Adding to the excitement of Linux 4.15, AMD has queued some more changes that were sent in today for DRM-Next.
19 October 04:04 PM EDT - AMD - DRM-Next AMDGPU Excitement - 4 Comments
Purism has announced today all laptops to be shipping from their company will now have the Intel Management Engine (ME) disabled.
19 October 03:09 PM EDT - Hardware - Management Engine - 7 Comments
Earlier this week we looked at the EPYC 7251 Linux performance as AMD's lowest-cost server CPU from this latest generation of Zen-based processors. That eight core / sixteen thread CPU packed a nice amount of performance considering its hitting the $500 price point, but if you are looking for a single socket system and have $750 USD to lay out on a CPU, the AMD EPYC 7351P packs in even more value.
19 October 11:07 AM EDT - Processors - 31 Comments
While Samsung Galaxy smartphones may not be as open or free spirited as the proposed Librem 5 smartphone, there is a new alternative for those wanting to run a traditional Linux distribution on their Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
19 October 09:21 AM EDT - Hardware - Samsung DeX - 30 Comments
Mesa 17.2.3 is now available as the latest bi-weekly update for this current stable driver series.
19 October 08:48 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 17.2.3 - 5 Comments
The official Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" spins are now available.
19 October 08:10 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 17.10 ISOs - 14 Comments
The long ongoing work to implement an OpenGL/GLSL shader cache for the Intel Mesa driver has been revised once more with 32 new patches hitting the mailing list today.
19 October 06:14 AM EDT - Intel - i965 GLSL Shader Cache - 7 Comments
The kernel bits for Keith Packard's work around "DRM leasing" for improving virtual reality (VR) support on Linux will land for Linux 4.15.
19 October 06:04 AM EDT - X.Org - VR HMD Changes - 2 Comments
Peter Hutterer has today released libinput 1.9.0 as the latest version of this library used by both Wayland and X11 systems for unified input handling.
19 October 05:51 AM EDT - X.Org - Libinput 1.9 - 10 Comments
Abandoning their convergence dream earlier this year and with that the sun-setting of the Unity desktop environment and Mir display server, Ubuntu 17.10 is shipping today with its new GNOME-powered desktop backed by Wayland.
19 October 12:00 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 57 Comments
18 October
With Ubuntu 17.10 set to ship tomorrow that features just not an upgraded Linux kernel and Mesa 3D stack but also transitions from Unity 7 + X.Org to GNOME Shell + Wayland, here are some comparison gaming benchmarks on a few different AMD Radeon graphics cards.
18 October 05:38 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - 15 Comments
Matthias Clasen has today released GTK+ 3.92 as the latest test release in the long road towards the major GTK4 tool-kit update.
18 October 02:27 PM EDT - GNOME - GTK4 - 5 Comments
It was more than one year ago that VirtualBox 5.1 was released while today it's finally been succeeded by a new feature release.
18 October 01:53 PM EDT - Oracle - Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 - 13 Comments
AMD's GPUOpen initiative has put out a new release of their Windows and Linux supported Radeon GPU Profiler program for profiling Vulkan (and Direct3D 12) games.
18 October 12:30 PM EDT - AMD - GPU Profiler - 3 Comments
Besides Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" launching tomorrow, System76 is also expected to issue their first official release of the Ubuntu-derived Pop!_OS operating system they plan to begin shipping on their laptops/desktops. Curious about their modifications to Ubuntu 17.10, I decided to give the latest snapshot of it a ride.
18 October 11:59 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 17 Comments
Google has released Chromium/Chrome 62 as the latest update to its widely-used web browser.
18 October 10:18 AM EDT - Google - Chrome 62 - 20 Comments
The AMDKFD kernel driver that is a component of HSA support on Linux for Radeon GPUs is seeing more upstreaming work in Linux 4.15, but only for older APUs.
18 October 09:38 AM EDT - AMD - AMDKFD Compute - 4 Comments
Fleet Commander is now declared "production ready" by the Red Hat developers working on this software project for easing the process of deploying and managing Fedora/Red Hat desktops across a large number of systems.
18 October 09:14 AM EDT - Red Hat - Fleet Commander - 17 Comments
Just a quick public service announcement if you rely upon AppArmor for security on your Linux distribution like Ubuntu/Debian and plan to soon upgrade to the Linux 4.14 kernel...
18 October 08:16 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - AppArmor Borked - 26 Comments
Fedora 27 is now under its final freeze for release in the next few weeks so here's a recap of the prominent changes coming to this next installment of the Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution.
18 October 06:28 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 27 - 13 Comments
Landing in the Chromium browser code-base this morning is a JPEG encode accelerator interface.
18 October 06:11 AM EDT - Google - Chrome JPEG Encode - 11 Comments
For users of the Xfce4 desktop environment, a new release of xfce4-notifyd 0.4 is now available as the project's newest feature release.
18 October 05:58 AM EDT - Desktop - xfce4-notifyd 0.4 - 5 Comments
17 October
AMD this week has quietly released an updated AMDGPU-PRO 17.40 hybrid driver targeting mining and GPGPU compute Linux customers.
17 October 09:07 PM EDT - AMD - AMDGPU-PRO 17.40 - 5 Comments
The Etnaviv Gallium3D driver that provides reverse-engineered, open-source graphics support for Vivante graphics hardware is almost to exposing OpenGL 2.0.
17 October 05:17 PM EDT - Mesa - Etnaviv GL2 - 11 Comments
Today marks the final freeze for Fedora 27 with hopes of shipping the official release soon.
17 October 04:50 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 27 Frozen - 2 Comments
Recently making waves in our forums was talk of a kernel patch to address a case where the AMD CPB (Core Performance Boost) isn't being exposed by Ryzen processors. Here's more details on that and some benchmarks.
17 October 03:55 PM EDT - AMD - Linux 4.14 CPB - 12 Comments
Mutter 3.27.1 has just been released as the first development release for the GNOME 3.28 cycle of this compositor / window manager.
17 October 12:42 PM EDT - GNOME - Mutter 3.27.1 - 7 Comments
Croteam has just released The Talos Principle VR, the virtual reality edition of their award-winning The Talos Principle puzzle game. SteamOS/Linux with the HTC Vive is supported alongside Windows.
17 October 12:14 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - The Talos Principle VR - 11 Comments
We have been delivering a number of EPYC 7601 Linux benchmarks since receiving this 32 core / 64 thread high-end server processor a little more than one month ago. Recently we received some additional EPYC processors from AMD for testing and for this next batch of benchmarking decided to begin with the EPYC 7251, which is the current lowest-end EPYC part. For priced at under $500 USD, this eight core / 16 thread processor has a lot to offer.
17 October 10:18 AM EDT - Processors - 22 Comments
While the AMDGPU DC code is expected to land for Linux 4.15 with goodies like Vega display support, HDMI/DP audio, and atomic mode-setting, one of the sought after display features won't be initially supported: FreeSync or the VESA-backed AdaptiveSync.
17 October 06:08 AM EDT - Radeon - FreeSync - AdaptiveSync - 54 Comments
At the end of September initial Meson support landed in Mesa while hitting 17.3-devel Git now is support for more of the Mesa drivers under this new build system.
17 October 05:49 AM EDT - Mesa - Meson Mesa - 13 Comments
16 October
Following last week's look at using the new "Coffee Lake" Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 CPUs for Linux gaming comparison among our other ongoing tests of these new "8th Gen" processors, a frequent request has been a closer look at the gaming performance between the Core i7 8700K and the Ryzen 7 1800X. Here's a look with two AMD Radeon graphics cards and two NVIDIA GeForce offerings.
16 October 04:05 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - 48 Comments
Epiphany 3.27.1 was released a short time ago as the first development release of this web-browser for the GNOME 3.28 cycle.
16 October 02:31 PM EDT - GNOME - Epiphany 3.27.1 - 10 Comments
Today marks the official availability of DragonFlyBSD 5.0.
16 October 11:52 AM EDT - BSD - DragonFly 5.0 - 15 Comments
KDE Frameworks 5.39.0 was released this weekend as the latest complementary add-ons/libraries to Qt.
16 October 10:03 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Frameworks 5.39 - 18 Comments
The TERES-I has been released as a do-it-yourself ARM 64-bit Linux laptop. The price isn't bad, but it's also not targeted as being a high-end/performance-oriented laptop.
16 October 08:58 AM EDT - Hardware - TERES-I 240EUR Laptop - 43 Comments
Longtime Nouveau contributor Karol Herbst has been working on an updated list of project ideas for new contributors or those that may be wanting to participate in an Endless Vacation of Code / Google Summer of Code.
16 October 06:29 AM EDT - Nouveau - Nouveau Project Ideas - 33 Comments
Greg Kroah-Hartman on the behalf of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board has today announced the Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement. This statement is designed to better fend off copyright trolls.
16 October 06:11 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement - 32 Comments
AMD has announced the world's first "Raven Ridge" APU with this notebook being powered by Ryzen 5 CPU cores paired with Vega graphics.
16 October 05:53 AM EDT - AMD - HP ENVY x360 15-bq101na - 32 Comments