NetBSD Working On Better OSS Compatibility / Translation Layer, Encouraging Native API Use
While the Open Sound System (OSS) usage hasn't been prevalent on Linux systems in many years, on NetBSD there still is some software making use of the OSS interfaces in not supporting the native NetBSD audio interfaces. Better OSS compatibility via a translation layer is available while ultimately they are working on transitioning more open-source software to support the native interfaces...
Qt 6.0 Gets A Release Date With An Initial Release Schedule Published
The Qt Company has published an initial release schedule for Qt 6.0...
AMD SPI SoC Linux Driver Appears Ready For Mainline In Linux 5.8
The new spi-amd driver looks like it could make its debut in Linux 5.8...
Intel Media Driver 20.2.pre1 Released With More Work Towards Gen12 + Discrete GPUs
Following the release a few weeks back of the Intel Media Driver Q1-2020 update for this open-source Linux video encode/decode driver for Intel graphics, their first pre-release of the Q2-2020 driver update is now out for testing...
Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" Open For Development
Just days after Canonical shipped the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" release, Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" is now open for development...
OpenCL 3.0 Bringing Greater Flexibility, Async DMA Extensions
OpenCL 3.0 is being released today in provisional form. OpenCL 3.0 is making OpenCL 2.x functionality now optional to make it better suited for a range of devices plus there is new functionality introduced like subgroups, extensions for asynchronous data copies, and more.
Vulkan 1.2.139 Released With VK_EXT_robustness2 Extension
The routine Vulkan 1.2.139 maintenance update brings with it two new extensions...
Linux 5.7-rc3 Kernel Released: "In A World Gone Mad, The Kernel Looks Almost Boringly Regular"
Linus Torvalds just released the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel...
Manjaro 20.0 Released With Its Flagship Easy-To-Use, Arch-Based Xfce Desktop Distro
Manjaro 20.0 "Lysia" is out today with its flagship Xfce spin as well as its GNOME and KDE editions for this popular, desktop-minded, Arch-based Linux distribution...
Wine Patches Cleaned Up, Out For Review On Very Early POWER 64-Bit Support
With the Raptor Blackbird popular among open-source enthusiasts for a libre 64-bit Linux desktop compute and that getting more POWER9 hardware out in the wild, more users are interested in seeing Wine work for 64-bit POWER hardware. Last year was some early porting work done by Raptor Computing Systems but now a cleaned up patch series has been sent out with this very primitive PPC64 work...