The Zink Gallium3D driver that implements OpenGL on top of Vulkan has been on quite a roll recently... Beyond reaching OpenGL 4.6 support in yet-to-be-merged patches and passing ~97% of the Piglit OpenGL tests and increasingly good performance compared to Intel's OpenGL driver , the latest interesting milestone is seeing initial work on bringing Zink to macOS.

Given Apple's been phasing out support for OpenGL (and OpenCL), Zink on macOS holds merit -- arguably even

Following the successful shipping of Fedora 33 , Red Hat developers have begun proposing more changes for future Fedora releases.

Jakub Jelen of Red Hat's Crypto Team today proposed deprecating SCP. Yes, SCP as in Secure Copy, but the deprecation is actually about the SCP protocol and not the tool itself. Jakub has written a patch for the SCP tool to use SFTP internally and would allow using the scp tool as-is with existing behavior albeit is actually done via SFTP rather than the SCP protocol. There are some

For any of you that happen to still be relying on the out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system or interested in the technical design of Reiser5 , these file-system drivers have been updated for Linux 5.9 compatibility.

Edward Shishkin continues with Reiser file-system development and spent a portion of his Sunday getting out updated patches for applying Reiser4/Reiser5 support against upstream Linux 5.9.

The v5-unstable patches have been updated against Linux 5.9.2 and in

Following this summer's big round of layoffs at Mozilla , the organization's deep learning open-source speech-to-text engine has been among the projects considered at risk. Fortunately, at least for now, DeepSpeech is still moving forward and is up to version 0.9.

After the summer's layoffs at Mozilla, the future of DeepSpeech has been in question even as the project has been nearing its 1.0 stable release. While back in August they said DeepSpeech 1.0 would be

Landing in Mesa 20.3 during this final week of feature development is support in RadeonSI Gallium3D for EGL_EXT_protected_surface. This long-standing EGL extension allows surfaces/windows to beset as protected and in which case the contents are only accessible to secure accesses. Outside/insecure accesses to the window (surface) contents are blocked.

EGL_EXT_protected_surface is common in the mobile/embedded world and now is supported by the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. This support

The third alpha release of Kodi 19 "Matrix" was released on Sunday for this popular multi-platform HTPC software.

Notable with Kodi 19 Alpha 3 is the gaming integration now has support for Intel integer scaling in order to improve the quality of primarily pixel art games. As mentioned recently, Linux 5.11 brings integer scaling support for the Intel graphics driver . The Intel Linux driver support is coming after the open-source patches were stuck pending until a user-space client was ready to go in

The second weekly release candidate to Linux 5.10 is now available for testing.

Linux 5.10-rc1 last Sunday marked the end of the two week merge window that saw a lot of new features introduced. In case you missed it, see our Linux 5.10 feature list for a look at all of the new functionality for this kernel slated to be released as stable in December.

With the merge window one week past, Linux 5.10-rc2 has merged early

For those still fond of the once venerable KDE 3.5 desktop, the Trinity Desktop Environment is still maintaining its KDE 3.5 fork after more than one decade. Trinity Desktop R14.0.9 debuted today with some additional applications now included and other updates.

New applications included with Trinity Desktop R14.0.9 are the Codeine media player, TDEDocker, and TDEPacman. Codeine was the media player during the KDE 3.x players prior to becoming Dragon Player. TDEDocker allows docking any