Kernel Progress: Linux 3.14 (Final) Imminent, More DRM Code Expected in Linux 3.15
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-03-19 19:40:20 UTC
- Modified: 2014-03-19 21:31:59 UTC
Linux 3.14
Linux 3.13 was released on Sunday January 19th 2014. Please read What is in Linux 3.13. 3.14-rc5 was released on March 2 2014. Based on the rc release progress so far, it is looking very likely that the Linux 3.14 release will be out before the end of March 2014.
Now, things might change, and maybe next week ends up being another ugly week, but with some luck that won't happen and this is the last rc.
Go out and test. It all looks good..
Linus
In talking about the Linux 3.14 kernel on pretty much a daily basis now for the past few months and already having run dozens of benchmarks from Linux 3.14 in its Git state, here's a recap of some of the most exciting work for this new kernel:
Linux 3.15
David Herrmann sent in a patch on early Sunday (along with some other patches to be covered in another article) for enabling support for DRM render-nodes by default with the next Linux kernel cycle.
Community/Events
The Linux kernel developer panel at Collaboration Summit in Napa, Calif. next week is our first opportunity this year to hear directly from Linux kernel developers about which issues and features are top-of-mind for the kernel community now and in the year ahead. Kernel developers Jens Axboe, Matthew Garrett, Mel Gorman, Greg Koah-Hartman, and Dave Chinner will take the stage for a technical discussion moderated by Jon Corbet. Here, the panelists have answered a few of Corbet's preliminary questions to get the conversation started.
Graphics Drivers/Cards
With the release of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" right around the corner we have out today some new benchmarks of various AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards when testing them with the latest Linux GPU drivers on Ubuntu 14.04 at 4K (3840 x 2160).
AMD has released a new Windows and Linux Catalyst proprietary graphics driver. The Catalyst 14.3 Beta for Linux doesn't advertise any new features, but it comes with some bug-fixes.
Weston
The full-screen shell protocol for Wayland's Weston compositor will allow for features like splash screens and terminal emulators as simple full-screen clients, but the code is still being revised ahead of its hopeful merger.
X.Org
Eric Anholt's big Intel patch-set to the GLAMOR acceleration architecture has now been merged for the mainline X.Org Server.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Links 11/10/2024: Discord Still Blocked in Turkey, Google Might be Split
- Links for the day
- LinuxSecurity (Guardian Digital, Inc) Sloppy With Its 'Linux' Slop
- This kind of stuff is killing the World Wide Web and ruins human knowledge
-
- Links 11/10/2024: Lots More Censorship and Growing Concerns About Health Impact of Social Control Media
- Links for the day
- Going Almost 4.5 Decades Back to Find 'Dirt' on a Person
- That incident was 42.5 years ago. Is that how far some people would go in an effort to discredit a person?
- XBox is Dead. This is Just the Beginning.
- the main reason Microsoft bought Activision/Blizzard was to hide the growing losses and failure of XBox
- The Risk to the "Linux" Brand
- Brands that are not guarded from misuse/abuse will inevitably lose their original meaning and their value
- Gemini Links 11/10/2024: Deploying Common Lisp Programs and Examining FreeBSD
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 10, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, October 10, 2024
- [Meme] Chin-dropping and Jaw-dropping (Considerable Drop in Patent Validity and Quality)
- This drop is very much intentional
- Gemini Links 10/10/2024: Untruth, SSH, Gopher, and More
- Links for the day
- Geminispace Beyond 4,100 Capsules
- 4,000 was less than 8 weeks ago
- Links 10/10/2024: TikTok's Legal Problems, WeblogPoMo Challenges
- Links for the day
- [Meme] European Patent Convention and Vienna Convention Became Only Fictions (Laws and Constitutions Are Now Works of Fiction in Europe)
- A political crisis and blunder
- Almost a Thousand EPO Staff Protesting to EPO Member States That the Office Illegally Grants Software Patents and Other Invalid European Patents
- "The outcome confirms that the concerns about the EPO’s ability to grant legally sound patents remain"
- Loss of Technical Merit(ocracy)
- "buzzword diplomas"
- Junk Science
- science is being compromised for business purposes
- [Meme] Dismantling .io (Stick a Fork, the Hype is Done)
- NVIDIA is an excellent new example of hype driving up fictional "value"
- UNIX is 55 This Year, It is 6 Years Older Than Microsoft
- It should be noted that the surviving co-creator of UNIX, Ken Thompson, 'moved' to GNU/Linux (Debian) in recent years
- This Year, for the First Time Since August 2019 (Bill Gates MIT Scandal, Jeffrey Epstein Bribes), libreplanet-discuss Was Inactive an Entire Month
- The MIT injustice remains and recent "libreplanet" events were held in a venue that's not MIT and far less prestigious than MIT (the "Wentworth" imitation)
- [Meme] Different Ending for Jurassic Park
- UNIX in old movies
- Evolution of Hype
- Passing fads and rebranding
- Groklaw Will Hopefully Come Back
- Sites should be able to run for decades with hardly any human role/interaction, but that's not where we are...
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 09, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, October 09, 2024
- World Wide Web: Only Criminals Would Want Real Security and Vouch for Themselves When They Use Encryption
- In "modern" browsers, the podlock icon probably does not mean what users might think it means
- [Meme] OSI Digging Its Very Own Grave (With Microsoft)
- The very latest blog post from OSI is a hoot
- Gemini Links 09/10/2024: YouTube Woes, Post-Truth Slop
- Links for the day
- Geminispace is More Trustworthy (and Private) Than the World Wide Web
- Unlike the Web, Geminispace does not route the lion's share of traffic through a collective of spying companies
- Nothing Will Be Secure and Robust to Failure Until Microsoft Windows is Eradicated and/or Disconnected From the Internet
- Every system has limited capacity, Windows botnets push things to their limits
- GNU/Linux Took Off at the BSDs' Expense (Amid Telecom Lawsuit) and the Rivalry Persists Because Microsoft is Negligible in the Server Space
- UNIX or POSIX is the future
- Links 09/10/2024: Samsung's Fall, Tensions Growing Near China
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 09/10/2024: Retroware and gmlgcd 2.0
- Links for the day
- Links 09/10/2024: Microsoft's Surface Duo 2 Officially Dead, X/Twitter Shutdown in Brazil, and "OpenAI Is A Bad Business"
- Links for the day
- Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part III
- By Dr. Andy Farnell
- [Meme] Bill Gates With a Side of "Linux"
- Linux Foundation is trolling us with Bill Gates
- Once Again Linux Foundation Makes It Clear It's Being 'Absorbed' by Bill Gates
- Linux Foundation devotes about 2% of its budget to Linux
- Links 08/10/2024: Australian Fines for Twitter (X), Fake Patent Courts Still Not Scuttled
- Links for the day
- World Wide Slop
- If it quacks like a duck...
- IBM is a Boys' Club
- If IBM collapsed, the Red Hat engineers who work on GNU and Linux would simply work elsewhere (on the same projects)
- The Miserable State of GAFAM
- Looking for government handouts
- Microsoft is Acting Like a Company That's Running Out of Money (But Still Pretends to be Wealthy in Order to Attract or Retain Shareholders)
- Azure has had mass layoffs every year since 2020, yet Microsoft keeps telling shareholders that "clown computing" is growing
- Dr. Andy Farnell's Article on Societal Disorganised Attachment and the Role of Social Control Media
- The article is quite long and typos were still being fixed as recently as last night
- Smear Alert: Linus Torvalds Asking for Better Commit Messages Makes Linus a (Grammar) Nazi
- Maybe the "mainstream media" is looking for clickbait or maybe it's actively looking to make a scandal - a phony controversy with which to make the job of coordinating Linux unpleasant
- Gemini Links 09/10/2024: Climate Doom and Clagrange
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 08, 2024
- IRC logs for Tuesday, October 08, 2024
