LLVM 11.0-RC3 Released For This Big LLVM/Clang Update LLVM 11.0 was originally scheduled to be released at the end of August while now it looks like that official milestone is coming in the next few days or week. 3 Hours Ago - LLVM - LLVM 11.0-RC3

Microsoft Edge Is Coming Out For Linux Next Month As part of a host of announcements for kicking off the virtual Ignite 2020 conference, Microsoft just confirmed they will be releasing their Edge web browser for Linux next month. 9 Hours Ago - Microsoft - Edge On Linux

Firefox 81 Released With Security Fixes, PDF Viewer Enhancements Firefox 81 is out this morning as the newest monthly update to the Mozilla web browser. 12 Hours Ago - Mozilla - Firefox 81

AMD Announces Ryzen/Athlon 3000 C-Series For Chromebooks AMD today announced the Ryzen 3000 and Athlon 3000 C-Series processors for use in Google Chromebooks from multiple vendors. 12 Hours Ago - AMD - AMD 3000 C-Series

ADRIConf Remains The Primary GUI Control Panel For Managing Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers While the Linux kernel graphics drivers and user-space OpenGL/Vulkan drivers expose a lot of options via sysfs on the kernel side and various environment variables and other tunables in user-space, when it comes to graphical control panels to manage these open-source graphics drivers on Linux there are several fragmented different options. For Mesa drivers, ADRIConf remains the leading option. 13 Hours Ago - Mesa - ADRIConf

TURNIP Vulkan Driver Up And Running On Qualcomm's KGSL The TURNIP driver that is associated with the Freedreno driver effort for providing an open-source Vulkan driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics hardware can now run atop Qualcomm's KGSL kernel driver. 14 Hours Ago - Mesa - TURNIP + KGSL

Krita 4.4 Beta Released With Multi-Threading For Fill Layers The beta of the forthcoming Krita 4.4 is now available, which continues on as easily the leading open-source digital painting programs. 15 Hours Ago - KDE - Krita 4.4

VKD3D 1.2 Is Ready To Offer Better Direct3D 12 To Vulkan Support Patches pending for VKD3D take this Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation library up to version 1.2. This library continues advancing in pushing along the D3D12-over-Vulkan performance primarily for Windows games on Linux just as DXVK has done for D3D9 through D3D11. 18 Hours Ago - Vulkan - VKD3D 1.2

21 September

Radeon ROCm 3.8 Released With Hipfort For Fortran On GPUs, Data Center Tool Version 3.8 of ROCm, the Radeon Open eCosystem, is now available. This release continues making more progress on preparing the ROCm graphics compute stack for the upcoming large AMD supercomputer deployments and other data center usage. 21 September 08:34 PM EDT - Radeon - ROCm 3.8

Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 Released With More Phones Supported, UI Improvements The UBports community has announced the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 as their newest over-the-air update to this Ubuntu mobile operating system. 21 September 06:28 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Touch OTA-13

openSUSE Tumbleweed vs. Leap 15.2 vs. Jump Alpha Benchmarks Following the recent alpha debut of the openSUSE Jump distribution for testing that is working to synchronize SUSE Linux Enterprise with openSUSE Leap, there was an inquiry made about the performance of it. So for addressing that premium member's question, here are some benchmarks carried out recently of the latest openSUSE Leap 15.2 against the openSUSE Jump in its early state against the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed. 21 September 03:27 PM EDT - Operating Systems

Oracle To Stick With Solaris "11.4" For Continuous Delivery SRU Releases With no new indications of Solaris 12 or Solaris 11.next and given the past layoffs and previous announcements from Oracle, today's statement that Solaris 11.4 will remain as their continuous delivery model with monthly SRU releases come as little surprise. 21 September 01:24 PM EDT - Oracle - Little Surprise

New OpenBenchmarking.org Features Enhance Discovering Popular + Reliable Tests As part of the new OpenBenchmarking.org being developed as part of Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 due out next quarter, some new features were deployed live on OpenBenchmarking.org this weekend. 21 September 12:04 PM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - OpenBenchmarking.org

Vulkan Portability Extension 1.0 Now Shipping For Expanding Vulkan's Reach The Vulkan Portability Extension (VK_KHR_portability_subset) has been released as part of the effort by The Khronos Group in getting Vulkan running on as many platforms as possible, including the likes of Apple macOS/iOS. 21 September 09:25 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan Portability

Intel Platform Monitoring Telemetry Appears Destined For Linux 5.10 As first outlined earlier this year, Intel has been working on the Linux support for Platform Monitoring Technology as a new hardware telemetry feature first introduced with new Tigerlake hardware. It's looking like the initial Intel PMT support will come with Linux 5.10 while further work is being prepared that builds off its foundation. 21 September 09:09 AM EDT - Intel - Intel PMT

Open-Source Vivante Driver In Some Cases Outperforming Proprietary Driver One of the less talked about open-source graphics drivers talked about is Etnaviv as the reverse-engineered, community-based driver providing OpenGL/GLES support for Vivante graphics IP. While it's still working towards OpenGL ES 3.0 compliance, its performance is currently in some cases competitive -- and even outperforming -- the Vivante proprietary driver. 21 September 08:48 AM EDT - Mesa - Etnaviv 2020

Unity 2020.2 Bringing Some Hefty Performance Optimizations Not only did Unity Software experience a successful IPO last week but they also rolled out the Unity 2020.2 engine into public beta and with that comes some "major speed-ups" for performance. 21 September 08:21 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unity 2020.2 Beta

Experiments Are Underway With Vulkan Powering The KDE Plasma Shell Well known KDE developer David Edmundson has been experimenting with a Vulkan-powered KDE Plasma Shell and did manage to get things working with Qt 5.15 using a few modifications. 21 September 06:42 AM EDT - KDE - Vulkan + Plasma Shell

POWER Coregroup Support Coming With Linux 5.10 There is some new feature code in the IBM POWER CPU architecture's "-next" Git tree for the Linux 5.10 kernel. 21 September 06:28 AM EDT - Hardware - Coregroup

20 September

Linux 5.10 Adding Support For AMD Zen 3 CPU Temperature Monitoring The next version of the Linux kernel will allow monitoring temperatures of the upcoming AMD Zen 3 processors. 20 September 05:31 PM EDT - AMD - Zen 3 k10temp

FFmpeg Now Supports GPU Inference With Intel's OpenVINO Earlier this summer Intel engineers added an OpenVINO back-end to the FFmpeg multimedia framework. OpenVINO as a toolkit for optimized neural network performance on Intel hardware was added to FFmpeg for the same reasons there is TensorFlow and others also supported -- support for DNN-based video filters and other deep learning processing. 20 September 09:41 AM EDT - Multimedia - OpenVINO GPU

OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks In addition to XDC2020 this past week, the Linux Foundation hosted the virtual OpenPOWER Summit North America 2020 event as well with a mix of interesting hardware and software presentations. 20 September 09:17 AM EDT - Linux Events - OpenPOWER

Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor Making Progress On Booting Windows The Cloud-Hypervisor project that is led by Intel open-source folks for providing a cloud-focused hypervisor written in the Rust programming language is out with a new feature release. 20 September 02:50 AM EDT - Intel - Cloud-Hypervisor 0.10

RenderDoc 1.10 Released For This Leading Cross-Platform Graphics Debugger RenderDoc 1.10 was released on Friday for this leading open-source program supporting frame-capture-based debugging on Vulkan, OpenGL / GLES, and Direct3D across Windows, Linux, and Android along with platforms like Stadia and the Nintendo Switch. 20 September 12:04 AM EDT - Programming - RenderDoc 1.10

19 September

AMDGPU TMZ + HDCP Should Allow Widevine DRM To Behave Nicely With AMD Linux Systems Coming together this year for the mainline Linux kernel was the AMDGPU Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) capability for encrypted video memory support with Radeon GPUs. This topic was talked about at this week's XDC2020 conference. 19 September 03:15 PM EDT - Radeon - TMZ + HDCP

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Seeing Some 50~100% FPS Gains After working on getting the Zink OpenGL-over-Vulkan driver up to OpenGL 4.6 with still pending patches, former Samsung OSG engineer Mike Blumenkrantz has been making remarkable progress on the performance aspect as well. 19 September 10:45 AM EDT - Mesa - Zink Gallium3D Performance

Intel Compute Runtime 20.37.17906 Brings Rocket Lake Support Intel's software team has released a new version of their Compute Runtime that provides OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero capabilities for their graphics hardware on Linux. 19 September 07:00 AM EDT - Intel - OpenCL + Level Zero

KDE Plasma 5.21 Bringing Systemd Startup Support, Wayland Improvements KDE developer Nate Graham known for his weekly development summaries characterized this week as "the floodgates started opening! Amazing stuff has been landing left and right every day this week!" 19 September 06:35 AM EDT - KDE - Exciting Week

NVIDIA C++ Standard Library Now Available Via GitHub Introduced last year as part of CUDA 10.2 was libcu++ as the CUDA C++ standard library, which works with not only NVIDIA CUDA enabled configurations but also CPUs. The libcu++ sources are now available via GitHub. 19 September 05:06 AM EDT - NVIDIA - libcu++

Sculpt OS 20.08 Released With Redesigned GUI Stack Building off the recent Genode OS 20.08 operating system framework release is now Sculpt OS 20.08 as the open-source project's general purpose operating system attempt. 19 September 02:41 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Sculpt OS 20.08

FreeBSD 12.2 BETA2 Brings TRIM For Bhyve's VirtIO-BLK, Intel ICE Added The second beta of the forthcoming FreeBSD 12.2 is now available with a fair number of prominent changes accumulating over the past week. 19 September 12:08 AM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD 12.2

18 September

OpenZFS 2.0-RC2 Released With Dozens Of Fixes Nearly one month ago OpenZFS 2.0 saw its first release candidate while now it's been succeeded by another test candidate in time for some weekend exposure. 18 September 06:45 PM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.0

Intel Submits More Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 5.10 Building off their earlier Intel graphics driver pull request of new material queuing ahead of the Linux 5.10 cycle, another round of updates were submitted on Friday. 18 September 03:53 PM EDT - Intel - Linux 5.10 Intel Graphics

Libre-SOC Still Persevering To Be A Hybrid CPU/GPU That's 100% Open-Source The project that started off as Libre-RISC-V with aims to be a Vulkan accelerator but then decided on the OpenPOWER ISA rather than RISC-V is still moving ahead under the "Libre-SOC" branding. 18 September 12:26 PM EDT - Hardware - Libre-SOC

X.Org Is Getting Their Cloud / Continuous Integration Costs Under Control You may recall from earlier this year that the X.Org/FreeDesktop.org cloud costs were growing out of control primarily due to their continuous integration setup. They were seeking sponsorships to help out with these costs but ultimately they've attracted new sponsors while also better configuring/optimizing their CI configuration in order to get those costs back at more manageable levels. 18 September 09:33 AM EDT - X.Org - Expensive Cloud

Linux 5.10 To Support AMD SME Hardware-Enforced Cache Coherency Linux 5.10 is set to support a new feature of AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) as part of the Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). 18 September 07:18 AM EDT - AMD - AMD SME

New /dev/random Implementation Hits 35th Revision Going on for more than four years now has been creating a new /dev/random implementation and this Friday marks the 35th revision to this big set of patches that aim for better performance and security. 18 September 06:39 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - LRNG /dev/random

Etnaviv Gallium3D Adds On-Disk Shader Cache Support Etnaviv as the open-source, reverse-engineered OpenGL graphics driver for Vivante graphics IP now has support for an on-disk shader cache. 18 September 06:24 AM EDT - Mesa - Etnaviv Shader Cache