AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 Released With TMZ Enabled, Improved Memory Allocation
As the first open-source code drop in two weeks, AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 is out today as the latest update to this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver stack for Linux...
Khronos Releases OpenVG 1.1 Lite For High Quality Vector Graphics On Mobile
It's been a while since hearing of OpenVG as The Khronos Group's hardware-accelerated 2D vector graphics API. But today they announced a "Lite" version of OpenVG 1.1...
Genode OS 20.05 Adds Capability-Based Security Using SECCOMP, Drops Python 2 + Rust
Version 20.05 of the Genode open-source operating system framework is now available with many improvements...
Apache Updates Subversion - SVN 1.14 LTS Released
For those making use of the Subversion centralized version control system as an alternative to Git, SVN 1.14 LTS is now available...
8GB Raspberry Pi 4 Launched For $75 USD
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM...
BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Support Still Being Worked On For Open-Source Display Driver
With the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel merge window one of the features you still won't find in the mainline kernel is the VC4 DRM kernel driver supporting the Broadcom BCM2711 SoC and in turn the Raspberry Pi 4 open-source display support...
Red Hat Tosses Its Weight Behind Quarkus
Following recent announcements, Red Hat is now ready in fully supporting Quarkus to enhance its Kubernetes support...
Google Engineers Are Becoming Concerned Over Some Arm Platforms Lacking Spectre V2 Mitigations
As a result of at least "a few AArch64 platforms" lacking firmware support for mitigating Spectre Variant Two, Google engineers are evaluating the possibility of Retpolines for the 64-bit Arm architecture...
AMD Lines Up Another Batch Of Radeon Graphics Fixes For Linux 5.8
Linux 5.8 features for the Radeon "AMDGPU" kernel driver include the likes of Navi soft recovery and better handling of critical thermal faults on Radeon GPUs as well as enabling TMZ support. With feature work being capped off already on the DRM graphics front for Linux 5.8, AMD developers have been tidying up the code and readying more fixes for all of the new code set to premiere with this imminent merge window...
Mesa 20.1 Released With Numerous Linux Graphics Driver Improvements
Mesa 20.1 has managed to release on time today as this quarter's feature update to this collection of open-source user-space graphics driver components...