New Linux
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-01-21 09:50:09 UTC
- Modified: 2014-01-21 09:50:09 UTC
Summary: Linux 3.13 released, Linux 3.14 planned, maintenance releases, and graphics news
Linux Kernel 3.13
-
Today, January 19, Linus Torvalds has proudly announced the immediate availability for download of the highly anticipated Linux kernel 3.13, which brings major improvements, numerous new and updated drivers, as well as a dozen of new features.
-
This release includes nftables, the successor of iptables, a revamp of the block layer designed for high-performance SSDs, a power capping framework to cap power consumption in Intel RAPL devices, improved squashfs performance, AMD Radeon power management enabled by default and automatic Radeon GPU switching, improved NUMA performance, improved performance with hugepage workloads, TCP Fast Open enabled by default, support for NFC payments, support for the High-availability Seamless Redundancy protocol, new drivers and many other small improvements.
Linux Kernel 3.14
-
The first 3.14 pull request worth pointing out on Phoronix are the scheduler changes sent in by Ingo Molnar. The most notable change with this pull is the initial implementation of SCHED_DEADLINE. SCHED_DEADLINE is a new CPU scheduler for the Linux kernel that's been in development for several years and has undergone numerous revisions. SCHED_DEADLINE implements the Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling algorithm.
-
The Intel MID (Mobile Internet Device) platform updates for the Linux 3.14 kernel include supporting Merrifield and Clovertrail platforms. Clovertrail has been around for a while but Merrifield is Intel's new smart-phone architecture focused on Android. Merrifield has a 22nm Atom SoC and it's expected to start appearing this quarter.
-
Daniel Vetter of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center blogged on Wednesday about the major changes queued up for the Linux 3.14 kernel as it concerns their DRM kernel graphics driver. The main changes for Intel DRM in Linux 3.14 include runtime D3 support, wwatermark computation / frame-buffer compression fixes, a rewrite of the low-level backlight code, work on full PPGTT support, Bay Trail Atom improvements, and a kernel option to disable legacy fbdev support.
Old Linux Kernels
-
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced a few hours ago, January 15, that the eight maintenance release of the stable Linux kernel 3.12 is now available for download.
More Kernel
-
To complement the many Intel vs. AMD CPU/APU Linux benchmarks published earlier this week as part of our AMD A10-7850K "Kaveri" APU coverage, here's some results mostly examining the performance-per-Watt and overall system power consumption of the many different Intel and AMD processors running Ubuntu Linux.
-
Kernfs is the sysfs logic that in turn can be taken advantage of by other subsystems in need of a virtual file-system with handling for device connect/disconnect, dynamic creation, and other attributes.
Graphics Stack
-
We're getting close to the 1.4.0 release date - well, actually that was supposed to be Jan 16, but we ended up slipping a week to get a more solid first beta (1.3.92) out. We tagged that Jan 10 and here's 1.3.93, aka second beta or release candidate:
-
2013 has been a dramatic and controversial year for graphics in Linux, yet actual changes to the overall graphics stack have so far been more incremental than revolutionary. But with us closing in on several Linux distributions' Long-Term Support releases this is to be expected, as stability weighs stronger than novelty among consumers of these products. This next summer may be a safer window for distros to undertake major transitions; we should expect to see major graphics system transitions in desktop distros at that point. The landing of XWayland support in the X server can be seen as an early indicator of a Wayland desktop future, since it's a crucial prerequisite.
Intel
-
Some open-source Intel Linux developers have been busy this weekend to ensure the Broadwell open-source driver enablement work will be ready for when the hardware ships in a few months time so it won't be like the poor open-source Kaveri driver.
AMD
-
The Linux 3.13 kernel that will be released in the very near future is very worth the upgrade if you are a RadeonSI user -- in particular, the Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs and newer on the Gallium3D Linux graphics driver -- but other open-source graphics driver users as well may also see nice improvements in the new kernel release. Here's some benchmarks showing off the gains found with the Linux 3.13 kernel for Radeon HD and R9 graphics cards.
-
The latest benchmarks of the AMD A10-7850K APU to share on Phoronix and to complement yesterday's Windows vs. Linux OpenGL comparison are benchmarks of the APU's Radeon R7 Graphics compared to numerous AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards.
-
While the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver continues making much headway as the modern open-source AMD Gallium3D Linux graphics driver along with the GLAMOR library it depends upon for 2D acceleration, the 2D performance of the Linux desktop is still quite poor compared to the proprietary Catalyst driver.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Articles Published by Bots, Dominating Google News
- So a lot of the Web is Microsoft chatbot-generated anti-Linux FUD
- EPO Staff Representatives Confront the President Who Says 'F--king' in Front of Female Workers Over Measurable Discrimination Against Female Colleagues
- Central Staff Committee versus Lukashenko's sponsor
-
- They Will Never Leave Linus Torvalds Alone, Rust is Just Another Way to Cause Instability and Infighting in Linux
- We already identified the Rust "community" as troublemakers more than 5 years ago and we wrote about the evidence
- Moving Away From Certificate Authorities (CAs) Like Let's Encrypt Means Taking Away From the US Government the Power to 'Censor' Sites by Revoking Certificates
- Gemini capsule is cheap to run and easy (easier than a Web site) to maintain. More people disillusioned and frustrated with social control media flock to it.
- BetaNews' Managing Editor Wayne William Took Charge of GNU/Linux Articles and His Articles Are Real (He Actually Wrote Them)
- We are frankly relieved to see that Wayne William recognised the problem and did something about it
- Links 14/02/2025: Publicity Rights Violated (ByteDance), Bribes to Trump Passed via Social Control Media 'Settlements' Again
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 14/02/2025: Constitution, Cosmic DE, and More
- Links for the day
- Links 14/02/2025: Measles Outbreak in Texas, Zelensky Warns Russia Will Attack a NATO Country
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 13, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Gemini Links 13/02/2025: gwit and Restart
- Links for the day
- Links 13/02/2025: Algorithm Bots and 'Teleport' Breakthrough
- Links for the day
- IBM Layoffs in 'RTO' Clothing Reported by Thomas Claburn
- This "hey hi" (AI) nonsense is just a go-to excuse that IBM and GAFAM (and many others) use
- Still Waiting for the EU to Abolish the Illegal and Unconstitutional Court Linked to EPO Corruption and Lobbyism by the Patent Litigation Industry
- Sadly, all the blogs that used to talk about those issues have been infiltrated and then completely hijacked by the very perpetrators of the illegality
- Social Engineering of the Free Software Movement is a Corporate Takeover With Code of Conduct (CoC) to Drive Out or Expel Dissent
- Richard Stallman (RMS) covered "cancel culture"
- Links 13/02/2025: Mass Layoffs at Google (Disguised as "Buyouts"), Telecoms Price Hikes as Collusion/Price-Fixing
- Links for the day
- [Video] Richard Stallman Questions and Answers Session in Google's YouTube or Invidious
- From last night
- Gemini Links 13/02/2025: Broken Watches and Naming Types
- Links for the day
- Corrupt Bill Gates Worming His Way Into Richard Stallman Videos in Google's YouTube
- Reputation laundering riding other people's names?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Links 12/02/2025: Crytek Layoffs, Security Holes, and Giving Ukraine to Russia
- Links for the day
- Relaying GAFAM Talking Points and Lies Using GAFAM LLMs, or Slop Pasted in by Brittany Day
- linuxsecurity.com is relaying slop, i.e. misinformation
- Photos From This Evening's Talk by Dr. Richard Stallman in Torino, Maybe a Video Soon
- The talk that Dr. Richard Stallman gave today (a few hours ago) was recorded and streamed
- IlSoftware.it Covers Richard Stallman's Visit to Give Talks in Italy
- The publication is in Italian, the talk was in English
- Macho Patent Office
- At the EPO there's always room for women in top roles
- Gemini Links 12/02/2025: "Bream Gives Me Hiccups", Making Chinese Tea, and More
- Links for the day
- This is Why Codeberg Issues an Apology Today
- This response was clear and relatively swift
- The Register Studies (to Affirm) Reports of IBM Layoffs "at the Finance and Operations business unit"
- something about that specific unit
- Links 12/02/2025: SSL FUD, DEI Phase-out, Felonies Committed by MElon (Data Breaches)
- Links for the day
- Italian Media Covers Richard Stallman's English Talk Ahead of Tonight's Public Appearance
- article in La Stampa
- Destruction and Distortion of Information, Including Facts About Linux (Bonus: This is Destroying the Planet)
- All that LLMs have going for them is hype, and moreover media that intentionally misrepresents them and their supposed capabilities
- Google Seems to Have Just Killed All Instances of Invidious
- YouTube is rapidly becoming just "another Neflix"
- Microsoft Skype in a Freefall: About 20% Decrease in Site Traffic in 3 Months (Amid Microsoft Phasing Out Credits)
- Microsoft axing more services/features may mean that now they scrape the bottom of the barrel and Skype will simply die, discontinuing service (like ICQ) in a matter of years
- Gemini Links 12/02/2025: Depression, Gabbro, WikiTok, and More
- Links for the day
- Links 12/02/2025: Health, Security, and Monopolies
- Links for the day
- Gemini Protocol is Increasingly Important to the Net
- Gemini Protocol will turn 6 this summer
- Former EPO Manager Warns That the Illegal 'Court' for "Unitary Patents" Enables “Law Shopping”
- Daniel X. Thomas opposed the very existence of the UPC, which any honest person could recognise was both illegal and unconstitutional
- Like GAFAM, the EPO is Passing the Financial Pains to Staff
- the EPO is operating illegally at this point
- Morale at Microsoft Ruined by the Company Labelling Thousands of Workers 'Low Performers', Sacking Them on the Spot and Denying Them Basic Benefits
- people laid off as "low performers" go to social control media to bemoan the label
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, February 11, 2025