FreeBSD 11.4 Released With Various Hardware Support Improvements, Tooling Enhancements

For those not on the current FreeBSD 12 stable series but currently relying on FreeBSD 11, the FreeBSD 11.4 stable release is now available...


Open Source LLM

QML Online Now Hosted By The KDE Project For Qt/QML On The Web

QML Online is a Qt/QML adaptation for the web powered by EmScripten / WebAssembly...


Intel

Intel Releases New Microcode For Skylake CPUs (20200616)

While Intel updated the CPU microcode for Skylake and other affected generations last week as part of the SRBDS / CrossTalk vulnerability that was made public last week Tuesday, today Intel quietly released another microcode revision but this time just for Skylake...


FFmpeg 4.3 Released With AMD AMF Encoding, Vulkan Support, AV1 Encode

FFmpeg 4.3 is out as the latest version of this key open-source multimedia library. FFmpeg 4.3 is quite a big release...


Apple Silicon|Intel

AMD Announces The Ryzen 3000XT Series

After weeks of rumors, AMD today officially confirmed the existence of the Ryzen 3000XT series...


Eight Features Not In Linux 5.8 From The DirectX Kernel Driver To FSGSBASE & DAMON

Linux 5.8 is shaping up to be one of the biggest kernel releases ever and while there are many new Linux 5.8 features, here is a look at some prominent and recently discussed material that didn't make the cut this cycle...


Open Source LLM|Intel

GFX1030 Target Merged Into LLVM 11 AMDGPU Back-End For Navi 2

Following the recent Linux kernel and Mesa patches for AMD "Sienna Cichlid" enablement for this "Navi 2" graphics processor, the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end support has been merged into LLVM 11...


Open Source LLM

Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Now Exposes GLSL 1.30

The Zink Mesa driver for implementing OpenGL over the Vulkan API is now quite close to hitting OpenGL 3.0...


Linux Lands And Then Reverts Usage Of Flexible Array Members

As a change past the Linux 5.8 merge window now that the flurry of code activity has settled down was changing the use of zero-length arrays in structs with flexible array members. Linus Torvalds did pull the change into Linux 5.8 but then decided shortly afterwards to drop the change at least for the time being...


Fedora Developers Are Looking At Better Managing Retired Packages

A change proposal for Fedora 33 would introduce the concept of "fedora-retired-packages" for removing retired packages when upgrading Fedora...