Intel Graphics Compiler Merges New Vector Compute Backend
While Intel on the hardware manufacturing side continues facing stiff challenges, on the open-source software side the company continues making legendary progress. Out in today's Intel Graphics Compiler and in turn Intel Compute Runtime releases as part of their GPGPU toolchain is the recent open-sourcing and integration of their Vector Compute back-end...
Mir 2.0 Released In Dropping Legacy Bits, New Platform Improvements
Approaching two years already since the release of Mir 1.0 following its shift to Wayland support, Mir 2.0 is now available...
There's An Effort By A System76 Engineer To Bring Coreboot To Newer AMD Platforms
With System76 working towards offering more AMD Linux laptop options as well as continuing to expand their line-up of AMD desktop offerings, it appears their next hurdle is on bringing Coreboot to these current-generation AMD platforms...
Systemd 246 Release Is Imminent With RC2 Released
Systemd 246 should be shipping in the days ahead...
digiKam 7.0 Open-Source Photo Manager Embraces Deep Learning, Improved HEIF Support
DigiKam 7.0 is out for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source photography manager solution...
Linux 5.9 To Support 6GHz WiFi With Qualcomm's Ath11k Driver
The initial batch of WiFi/wireless driver improvements slated for Linux 5.9 landed in net-next this week with a few noteworthy additions...
Linux 5.9 Bringing IBM POWER "System Call Vectored" Support
The Linux 5.9 kernel is set to introduce support for the new IBM POWER System Call Vectored (SCV) ABI with the new SCV and RFSCV instructions. These new instructions can help with performance...
Proposal Raised For GNOME Software Labeling Its Carbon Cost / Environmental Impact
While GNOME software may be free as in beer, at today's GUADEC 2020 annual GNOME developers conference there was a call that GNOME software should label their "embodied carbon cost" as part of collecting more data on the environmental impact of creating said software and working to reduce said impact...
Chrome 85 Beta Brings WebHID API For Better Gamepad Support, AVIF Image Decode
Following the recent Chrome 84 stable release, Google has now promoted Chrome 85 to beta as their latest feature update to this cross-platform web browser...
FGKASLR Revved For Improving Linux Kernel Security
Intel open-source developer Kristen Carlson Accardi continues work on Function Granular Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (FGKASLR) as a big improvement over traditional KASLR address space layout randomization...