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Wine Developer Begins Experimenting With macOS ARM64 Support
Over the months ahead with Apple preparing future desktops/laptops with their in-house Apple silicon built on the ARM 64-bit architecture, Wine developers are beginning to eye how to support these future 64-bit ARM systems with macOS Big Sur...
Linux 5.9 Brings Safeguard Following NVIDIA's Recent "GPL Condom" Incident
Stemming from the recent discussions over NVIDIA NetGPU code that relied on another shim for interfacing between NVIDIA's proprietary driver and the open-source kernel code, a new patch is on the way for Linux 5.9 to fight back against such efforts...
openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Shipping Linux 5.8
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is among the early rolling-release distributions now shipping a Linux 5.8-based kernel by default...
Ubuntu 18.04.5 + Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS Released
Following last week's release of Ubuntu 20.04.1, the prior Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 Long Term Support series are also seeing new releases...
DXVK 1.7.1 Released With Many Game Fixes For Direct3D Over Vulkan
It's been nearly three months without a new DXVK release for mapping Direct3D 9/10/11 atop the Vulkan API while finally today there is a big feature release out...
Unity Game Engine Planning For Many Improvements In 2021
The popular, cross-platform Unity game engine is planning for a very exciting 2021...
KDE Ships 20.08 Application Updates
KDE has shipped their latest collection of applications with newest feature updates...
Intel Offers New Xe Graphics Details, Product Updates At 2020 Architecture Day
This week Intel held their 2020 Architecture Day, albeit virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of interesting technical information was shared on both the hardware and software sides. Here are some of the interesting highlights.
Intel Is Using IGC In Their Windows Drivers, Internal Prototype For Mesa
At Intel's Architecture Day this week the company was talking about work on their new Windows graphics driver that is being timed for Xe but supporting existing generations of hardware as well. One of the interesting takeaways was seeing the Windows driver is now using the open-source "IGC" back-end...
Intel oneAPI 1.0 "Gold" Is Coming Later This Year
Recently I wrote about it looking like oneAPI 1.0 was lining up and now there is further confirmation of the first production release of this Intel software collection indeed coming this year...
Qt Creator 4.13 RC Released With Initial Meson Integration, Updated C++ Code Model
The Qt Company today issued the first release candidate of their forthcoming Qt Creator 4.13 integrated development environment as well as a beta of their Qt Design Studio 1.6...
FUSE Read/Write Passthrough Updated For Much Better File-System Performance
Of various criticisms around FUSE for implementing file-systems in user-space, one of the most prolific issues is around the performance generally being much lower than a proper file-system kernel driver. But with the FUSE passthrough functionality that continue to be worked on, there is the potential for much better FUSE file-system performance...
Navi 2 Fixes, Other Graphics/Display Fixes Sent In For Linux 5.9
Following all of the feature updates to the open-source GPU/DRM drivers for Linux 5.9 that included a lot of new material, the first batch of fixes have now been sent in for mainline in addressing early fallout from these many changes...
Mesa 20.2-RC2 Released With Many Fixes For RadeonSI + RADV Drivers
The second weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Mesa 20.2 is now available for testing...
POWER10 Virtualization, Intel SERIALIZE Come For KVM On Linux 5.9
Sent in last week for the Linux 5.9 kernel merge window were the initial batch of changes to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) while today some additional interesting changes were sent out...
Ubuntu Is Looking At Offering Better WiFi Support By Using Intel's IWD
Ubuntu developers are looking at using Intel IWD as the iNET wireless daemon to potentially replace WPA_Supplicant for offering a better WiFi experience...
Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q3 Released For Linux
AMD has released their Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q3 driver as their quarterly update to this enterprise-rated driver for their professional/workstation graphics offerings. In step with the new Windows driver release is also the 20.Q3 packaged Linux driver for enterprise distributions including RHEL/CentOS 8.1, RHEL/CentOS 7.8, Ubuntu 18.04.4, and SUSE SLED/SLES 15...
Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Adds Compute Kernel Support In Mesa 20.3
While Mesa 20.2 isn't even releasing for a few weeks, Mesa 20.3 is already seeing new feature work that will debut next quarter...
QEMU 5.1 Release Brings Many Improvements To This Open-Source Virtualization Component
QEMU 5.1 is now available for this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...
LibreOffice 7.0 Is Already Approaching A Half-Million Downloads
It was just one week ago that LibreOffice 7.0 was released and it has already seen around a half-million downloads for this leading open-source, cross-platform office suite...
Red Hat Begins Talking Up The New RHEL Flatpak Runtime
With the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, the Flatpak sandboxing and app distribution tech is ready to shine and there is also the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux Flatpak runtime...
Intel Making Progress On Their "mOS" Modified Linux Kernel Running Lightweight Kernels
For a while now Intel has been quietly been working on "mOS" as the "multi-OS" that is a modified version of the Linux kernel that in turn is running lightweight kernels for high-performance computing purposes...
Artwork Help Is Needed For Debian 11 "Bullseye"
If you are more of an artistic type than programmer, there still is plenty of valuable assistance that can be provided to free software projects... The latest call for help is that of the Debian project in looking for the Debian 11 "Bullseye" desktop artwork...
Go 1.15 Released With Much Improved Linker, New CPU Mitigations
Go 1.15 is out as a rather significant update to this popular, modern programming language...
Fedora's FESCo Approves Using DXVK As Their Default Wine Direct3D Back-End
Last month was the proposal for Fedora to make DXVK their default back-end for Direct3D 9/10/11 usage with their packaged Wine build rather than WineD3D. That's now been approved for Fedora 33!..
NUVIA Published New Details On Their Phoenix CPU, Talks Up Big Performance/Perf-Per-Watt
Since leaving stealth last year and hiring some prominent Linux/open-source veterans to complement their ARM processor design experts, we have been quite eager to hear more about this latest start-up aiming to deliver compelling ARM server products. Today they shared some early details on their initial "Phoenix" processor that is coming within their "Orion" SoC...
Intel Publishes 18 New Security Advisories For 52 Vulnerabilities
It is Intel's August 2020 disclosure day with 18 new advisories being issued for covering 52 vulnerabilities...
Mozilla Laying Off Around A Quarter Of Their Employees
Mozilla today announced they are laying off around 250 of their employees with Mozilla Corporation and closing up their Taipei, Taiwan operations...
Linux 5.9 Bringing Mellanox VDPA Driver For Newer ConnectX Devices
There are a few changes worth mentioning out of the VirtIO updates submitted today for the Linux 5.9 kernel...
Intel Adds Capability To Linux 5.9 For NVDIMM Firmware Updates Without Reboots
For Intel NVDIMMs like DC Persistent Memory there is support on the way with Linux 5.9 to support firmware updates to the non-volatile memory device without the need for a system reboot...
F2FS With Linux 5.9 Adds Secure TRIM, New Garbage Collection Option
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have been sent in for the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel...
GhostBSD 20.08.04 Shipping With Updated Packages - Including MATE 1.24
For those wanting to experiment with an actively-maintained BSD-powered, desktop-focused operating system, GhostBSD remains a great choice powered off FreeBSD...
LibreOffice / The Document Foundation Generated Around One Million Dollars For 2019
The Document Foundation that is behind the cross-platform LibreOffice open-source office suite has published their 2019 annual report...
GNU Emacs 27.1 Adds HarfBuzz Text Shaping, Native JSON Parsing
If looking for a text editor that offers more features than the recent release of Nano 5.0, GNU Emacs 27.1 is out...
Linux 5.9 Performance Is Off To A Great Start With FSGSBASE Boost
The FSGSBASE support that was finally mainlined a few days ago for Linux 5.9 is off to providing a nice performance boost for both Intel and AMD systems. Looking at FSGSBASE is one of the first areas I've dived into for Linux 5.9 kernel testing with this article serving as some preview/teaser data points.
User Xattr Support Finally Landing For NFS In Linux 5.9
The NFS code going into Linux 5.9 is finally presenting support for user extended attributes (user xattrs)...
A "Large Hardware Vendor" Wants A EULA Displayed For Firmware Updates On Linux
The open-source Fwupd firmware updating utility paired with LVFS as the Linux Vendor Firmware Service has seen explosive growth for vastly improving the BIOS/firmware updating experience on Linux. Many major hardware vendors distribute their firmware updates on LVFS for consumption by Fwupd and more than 17 million firmware files have been served. Now though there is a new "large hardware vendor" willing to distribute their firmware updates this way but they want a end-user license agreement (EULA) added...
Fedora Btrfs Activity Continues - New Options To Control Discard, Compression
Fedora developers continue embracing the work on making the Btrfs file-system the default for F33 desktop variants. Their latest progress report indicates new installation options being wired up for the Btrfs support...
Linux 5.9 HID Has Improvement For Faster Probe/Boot Time
The HID changes for Linux 5.9 aren't too many but there are a few worth mentioning for improving input device support on Linux...
R600 Gallium3D Now Has Compute Shaders Working With NIR
If you are still rocking a pre-GCN AMD Radeon graphics card on the R600g driver for the HD 2000 through HD 6000 series, you really ought to consider upgrading in 2020, but otherwise at least from the open-source community there continues to be improvements...
XFS Is Packing Many Improvements With Linux 5.9
The XFS file-system has many improvements ready for the Linux 5.9 kernel...
Linux 5.9 Enables P2PDMA For All AMD CPUs Zen + Newer
The PCI subsystem updates have been sent in for the Linux 5.9 kernel. Peer-to-peer DMA support is now solid for all AMD CPUs of the Zen family or newer...
Intel Emmitsburg Support Begins Appearing In Linux 5.9
Not much is publicly known about Intel's Emmitsburg chipset. Prior to noticing some Linux patches recently referencing Intel Emmitsburg, the only other public mentions of it has been in the context of the Windows HWiNFO program mentioning it in their change-log. With Linux 5.9, Intel has begun adding Emmitsburg support...
NihAV Is An Experimental Multimedia Framework Written In Rust
NihAV is a new open-source, multimedia framework being pursued by FFmpeg/Libav developer Kostya Shishkov...
AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Driver Under Review A Sixth Time For Linux
While a lot of interesting changes are coming for the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel, sadly a long overdue change isn't going to make the merge window and that is the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub driver...
Linux 5.9 Brings More IBM POWER10 Support, New/Faster SCV System Call ABI
With Linux 5.8 there is initial support for booting POWER10 CPUs while with Linux 5.9 there is more POWER10 work underway. Additionally, Linux 5.9 is bringing support for the newer and faster system call ABI for POWER9 and newer with the SCV instruction...
Fedora 33 Moving Closer To LTO-Optimizing Packages
Going back to last year Fedora has been working to enable link-time optimizations by default for their packages. That goal wasn't achieved for Fedora 32 but for Fedora 33 this autumn they still have chances of marking that feature off their TODO list...
Fujitsu Begins Adding A64FX Support To GCC Compiler
The Fujitsu A64FX ARM processor that has 48 cores per node and 32GB of HBM2 memory that currently powers the fastest supercomputer is beginning to see GCC compiler support...
Several Drivers Promoted Out Of Staging With Linux 5.9
The "staging" area of the kernel, where new drivers and other code live that has yet to prove itself or live up to kernel code quality standards, saw a few drivers graduate into Linux mainline proper for the current 5.9 cycle...
LLVM Clang 11 Has A Nice Build Speed Improvement With New Feature For Pre-Compiled Headers
There are many improvements in LLVM/Clang 11.0 due out in the weeks ahead though an interesting change merged prior to last month's code branching that slipped under our radar... If using the clang-cl driver for MSVC or when otherwise making use of pre-compiled headers (PCH) functionality, there is a new option that can offer significant build time speed-ups...
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