Git 2.27-rc0 Released - Still Working To Transition From SHA1 To SHA256
Git 2.27-rc0 was released on Thursday as the first test release towards the next update on this leading version control system...
Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source
While Microsoft executives in past years have called open-source/Linux a "cancer" and other FUD, current President of Microsoft, Brad Smith, acknowledges they were wrong in those past remarks...
LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released With Its Skia + Vulkan Rendering
The first alpha release of LibreOffice 7.0 is out this week for testing ahead of the planned official release of this big open-source office suite update in August...
AMD Renoir Graphics Beating Out Intel Icelake/Gen11 On Linux
Earlier this week I provided the first Linux benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 7 4700U Zen 2 mobile processor on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and running within a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 (14). That initial article was focused on the CPU performance while for your viewing pleasure today are some preliminary benchmark numbers for the Vega 7 graphics up against Intel Gen11/Icelake.
GPUOpen Celebrates Another Day Of Its Relaunch With A New Binary-Only Software Release
AMD this week marked the relaunch of GPUOpen as their resource for creators and game developers with their collection of open-source/open-standards minded offerings on the graphics front. In honor of their relaunch, they said they would be issuing new software releases every day this week. It was a bit odd yesterday with Radeon Rays 4.0 dropping their open-source code-base and today they are introducing another new utility that is also binary-only...
KDE Plasma 5.19 Rolls Out In Beta Form With Many Improvements, Better Wayland Support
The KDE community has released the first beta of the forthcoming Plasma 5.19 desktop release...
NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit Preview
Originally slated for the NVIDIA GTC event but then delayed due to the coronavirus, the Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit is launching today for "cloud native computing" on edge/AI devices.
Linux 5.7 Seeing Radeon FreeSync Fixes, Back-Ported Soft Recovery For Navi
While yesterday GFX10/Navi soft recovery support was sent in to DRM-Next for Linux 5.8, today that material was sent in as a "fix" for Linux 5.7 along with a number of other AMDGPU driver alterations...
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.3 Released With New Extension, Various Fixes
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.3 was released today as the newest version of this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems...
LLVM Lands Support For The Marvell ThunderX3
Announced back in March were the Marvell ThunderX3 Arm server processors with up to 96 cores per SoC and support for 4-way SMT to yield up to 384 threads per socket. These 7nm Arm server processors also support eight channels of DDR4-3200 memory, 64 lanes of PCIe 4.0, and other competitive features for a 2020 server CPU. While we await to see how the ThunderX3 processors perform, the compiler support and other Linux software features