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Data Suggests CoC + Outreachy Hasn't Helped Increase Female Participation In Debian

Phoronix | Feb. 13, 2021, 6:15 a.m. | Original

An informal case study suggests that since Debian enacted its Code of Conduct and began participating in the Outreachy internship program hasn't helped in increasing female participation within the open-source project but is actually trending lower compared to the early years of this original GNU/Linux distribution.

Daniel Pocock who is a former Debian Developer, O'Reilly author, and Fedora/EPEL packager, carried out a "case study" to see if embracing the Code of Conduct (CoC) and participation in the Outreachy internship program has helped

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OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Released For This Linux Distro Built By The Clang Compiler

Phoronix | Feb. 13, 2021, 2:20 a.m. | Original

One year after OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 released, OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 is now available. Continuing to make OpenMandriva Lx rather unique among Linux distributions is its use of the LLVM Clang compiler by default rather than GCC. Another unique "selling point" of OpenMandriva is its AMD Zen optimized version where the entire package set is rebuilt with Zen optimizations.

OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 continues with using Clang as the default C/C++ compiler and is shipping with the latest stable LLVM toolchain. New with OpenMandriva Lx

Proton 5.13-6 Released With Better PS5 Controller Handling, More Cyberpunk 2077 Fixes

Phoronix | Feb. 13, 2021, midnight | Original

Proton 5.13-6 is out in time for the weekend Linux gamer in providing the latest functionality for this Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux.

The changes appear to be basically the same as what was found in the Proton 5.13-6 RC earlier this week. This Proton 5.13-6 update continues with fixes around the game Cyberpunk 2077, improved controller support for DOOM and other games, better support for PlayStation 5 controllers, the

Wine 6.2 Brings Mono 6.0 Engine, NTDLL Debugger APIs

Phoronix | Feb. 12, 2021, 3:51 p.m. | Original

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day weekend with some wine... Wine 6.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot for running Windows games and applications on Linux/macOS.

Wine 6.2 isn't the most exciting update in recent time but does at least bring the Mono 6.0 engine and with that DirectX support. The official Wine 6.2 highlights include:

- Mono engine updated to version 6.0.0, with DirectX support.
- Support for

Fedora's "Enterprise Linux Next" Taking Flight To Experiment With Next-Gen RHEL Changes

Phoronix | Feb. 12, 2021, 1:44 p.m. | Original

Over the past year there has been much chatter about Enterprise Linux Next within the Fedora camp and now this special interest group (SIG) is finally getting underway.

Enterprise Linux Next driven by Red Hat with cooperation from Fedora developers is aimed to " achieve a continuously
bootstrappable RHEL release. Using the classic approach, RHEL is forked from Fedora and developed privately for some extended time before it re-emerges fully formed as a Product. Instead, we want to take advantage of Fedora’s Rawhide and advances in CI/CD

AMD Ryzen, EPYC 5~6% Faster Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 5.11

Phoronix | Feb. 12, 2021, 10:39 a.m. | Original

Now with the CPUFreq fix landing this week in Linux Git , the mainline Linux 5.11 kernel in its near final state is looking in very good shape for AMD Zen 2/3 hardware from Ryzen laptops and desktops through EPYC servers. The Linux 5.11 development kernel was regressed for the better part of the past two months but now that the frequency invariance regression is addressed, not only is the regression gone but generally is performing much better compared to prior kernel versions.

Continuing in the array of benchmarks

The 11 Most Interesting Features For Linux 5.11 - Lots For AMD + Intel This Cycle

Phoronix | Feb. 12, 2021, 7:24 a.m. | Original

Linux 5.11 stable is expected to be released on Sunday barring any second thoughts by Linus Torvalds that could lead to an eighth weekly release candidate that would in turn push the official release back by one week. In any case, Linux 5.11 will be formally out soon and it's an exciting one on the feature front.

Linux 5.11 has many features / new hardware enablement from both AMD and Intel, new features like S.U.D. for helping out with Linux

Nouveau With Linux 5.12 Has ~5k L.O.C. Change In Preparing For Ampere

Phoronix | Feb. 12, 2021, 6:05 a.m. | Original

With Linux 5.11 there is open-source Nouveau KMS support for Ampere GPUs -- just kernel mode-setting without any form of 3D acceleration. The actual hardware acceleration requires more work and also NVIDIA to release the necessary signed firmware binaries. With Linux 5.12 there still is no 3D acceleration but a big set of patches was merged as a step in that direction.

Nouveau still needs the signed firmware binaries for the GA100 / RTX30 Ampere acceleration but the patches

OBS Studio Merges Its EGL-Wayland Code To Natively Support Wayland

Phoronix | Feb. 12, 2021, 5:45 a.m. | Original

OBS Studio, the cross-platform open-source solution for live streaming and screen recording, has landed the last major piece of its effort to natively support Wayland.

The EGL/Wayland renderer code that has been under review for about one year was finally merged into OBS Studio. This follows earlier work like EGL on X11 support and other preparations while now at last the EGL-Wayland code has been merged to offer native Wayland support via the new windowing system code path.

This has been tested to get OBS

Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense Controller Driver Coming To Linux 5.12

Phoronix | Feb. 12, 2021, 1 a.m. | Original

For as rough of a year as 2020 was, one of the many open-source accomplishments was Sony taking up "official" maintenance of their HID driver and ahead of Christmas to much surprise they published an official PlayStation 5 DualSense open-source controller driver for Linux . That PS5 controller driver is now set to be introduced with the imminent Linux 5.12 merge window.

That PlayStation 5 DualSense controller driver was initially published back in December, just days ahead of Christmas and fully open-source

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