F18/FLANG Merged Into LLVM 11 Codebase As Modern Fortran Compiler
Following a number of setbacks over recent months, the modern Fortran "f18" compiler front-end to LLVM has been upstreamed under the FLANG branding...
Mesa 20.1's RADV Lands More Performance Improvements For Recent id Tech Games
A number of recent id Tech games (though seemingly not DOOM Eternal) have seen another performance optimization with Mesa 20.1's RADV Radeon Vulkan driver...
System76 Lemur Pro Laptop Offers 14 Hour Battery Life, Coreboot Firmware For $1099+
After they were teasing the new Lemur Pro at the end of March, the Lemur Pro is now ready and formally announced by Linux PC vendor System76...
OpenSUSE Leap + SUSE Linux Enterprise Planning To Move Closer In 2020
SUSE and the openSUSE community are working to move SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Leap closer together...
ReactOS 0.4.13 Released With Fixes For USB Storage, Less Blue Screens of Death
ReactOS 0.4.13 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source operating system project continuing to strive for binary software compatibility with Microsoft Windows...
Samsung Releases exFAT-Utils To Format File-System, Fsck
With the new exFAT file-system merged for Linux 5.7, Samsung engineers responsible for this open-source native Linux kernel driver for Microsoft's exFAT file-system support have now issued their first official release of exfat-utils...
The Qt Company Provides A Brief Comment On Open-Source
Yesterday a KDE developer who serves on the board of the KDE Free Qt Foundation commented that The Qt Company is evaluating restricting new releases to paying customers for 12 months. That was said to be under consideration due to COVID19 / coronavirus impacting their finances and needing to boost short-term revenues. The Qt Company has now come out with an incredibly brief statement on the matter...
Linux 5.7 Begins Landing Support For The Kendryte K210 Dual-Core RISC-V SoC
The RISC-V architecture changes have been submitted for the Linux 5.7 kernel and includes early work on bringing up a new RISC-V dual-core SoC...
Ceph Sees Some Nice Performance Improvements With Linux 5.7
The Ceph open-source distributed storage platform is seeing some nice performance-related work to its kernel component in the Linux 5.7 kernel...
Intel Media Linux Driver Q1-2020 Released With Tiger Lake Features, Better VP9 Encode
Intel's open-source multimedia crew has released their Media Driver Q1'2020 build for Linux users. This Intel Media driver is what provides Video Acceleration API (VA-API) capabilities for Intel GPU-based video encode/decode for Broadwell through next-gen Tiger Lake...