Linux Hardware Reviews & News
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Monday 9th of April 2018 08:21:04 PM
The Vulkan CTS as the conformance test suite for ensuring drivers are properly and fully implementing the Vulkan graphics and compute API continues getting even more in-depth and attempts to cover as many corner-cases as possible...
Monday 9th of April 2018 06:29:45 PM
Today marks the long-awaited debut of Wayland 1.15 and the Weston 4.0 reference compositor...
Monday 9th of April 2018 05:28:16 PM
Hitting the Mesa mailing list today from AMD developers are a set of twenty-two patches providing VP9 video acceleration support via the Gallium3D VA-API state tracker...
Monday 9th of April 2018 05:15:41 PM
The latest feature pull request for the Linux 4.17 kernel are the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization updates...
Monday 9th of April 2018 05:00:39 PM
When it comes to Mir acting as a Wayland compositor, feature support continues to be extended for making this a more viable offering for those looking to have full Wayland support...
Monday 9th of April 2018 01:09:16 PM
Thanks to Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux driver team, the RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver supports the new VK_AMD_shader_core_properties extension...
Monday 9th of April 2018 12:55:42 PM
As of the Linux 4.16 kernel that was released one week ago, the kernel-side bits are in place for Intel Virtual GPU support and in user-space the upcoming QEMU 2.12 has the necessary code for the GTK and SPICE code-paths...
Monday 9th of April 2018 12:05:43 PM
Over the weekend marked the release of phpMyAdmin 4.8.0 as the latest major update to this widely-used MySQL web-based administration interface...
Monday 9th of April 2018 10:48:30 AM
Prominent Ubuntu community developer Simon Quigley has sparked a discussion about Ubuntu's release milestones and the possibility of moving away with their alpha and beta one milestones moving forward...
Monday 9th of April 2018 10:07:23 AM
Feral Interactive has just confirmed that Rise of the Tomb Raider for Linux will be released this month...
Monday 9th of April 2018 10:00:38 AM
Libinput 1.10.14 is now available and while it's just a point release, there is at least one change sure to catch your attention...
Monday 9th of April 2018 12:29:55 AM
Landing in Linux 4.15 was performance counters support in the Etnaviv DRM driver as the low-level bits for exposing the hardware counters with this reverse-engineered, open-source Vivante graphics driver. The user-space/Mesa side code has now landed too...
Sunday 8th of April 2018 06:40:00 PM
Last month Intel launched the Optane SSD 800P series as a step below the ultra-fast Optane 900P solid-state drives but still a big step ahead of other SSD options like the Intel 760p series. Here are our first Linux performance benchmarks of the Optane 800p series with testing the 118GB SSDPEK1W120GA 800p SSD on Ubuntu.
Sunday 8th of April 2018 06:24:17 PM
Greg Kroah-Hartman today released the first stable point update to the Linux 4.16 kernel that debuted one week ago...
Sunday 8th of April 2018 11:30:23 AM
We are now through the first week of the two week long Linux 4.17 kernel merge window process for introducing the new features/functionality to this next big kernel release...
Sunday 8th of April 2018 10:24:38 AM
For fans of the HandBrake open-source, cross-platform video transcoder software, a big post-1.0 update is now available...
Sunday 8th of April 2018 10:12:00 AM
For fans of the FreeCAD open-source 3D CAD modeling software, a new major release is now available -- the first update in almost two years...
Sunday 8th of April 2018 12:05:35 AM
The Sway Wayland Compositor that is known for its compatibility and inspiration from the i3 tiling window manager is nearly out with its version 1.0 release...
Saturday 7th of April 2018 08:04:28 PM
In addition to Linux 4.17 dropping eight obsolete CPU architectures, this next kernel release is also doing away with POWER4 CPU support...
Saturday 7th of April 2018 03:30:00 PM
Our latest Windows vs. Linux benchmarking interest has been seeing how the AMD Ryzen 7 performance compares with the latest operating systems / Linux distributions. We have recently posted some Windows 10 vs. Windows WSL vs. Windows Linux benchmarks, relative Spectre/Meltdown mitigation impact tests on Windows vs. Linux, and other benchmarks but has mostly been done with Intel or server hardware. For those curious, today's tests were done with an AMD Ryzen 7 1700 platform.
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