Khronos Moves Ahead With Developing "ANARI" API For Analytic Rendering
Khronos announced last year they would be looking to pursue an analytic rendering API and following the evaluation they have decided to move it forward...
Ampere Altra Announced - Offering Up To 80 Cores Per Socket
Ampere Computing, the ARM server start-up founded by former Intel president Renee James and staffed by many former Intel folks, is today announcing Altra as their next-generation server processor. Ampere started off with the assets of AppliedMicro's X-Gene ARMv8 IP and that turned into the Ampere's eMAG as a decent entrant into the field two years ago. But now with more resources and engineering talent under their belt, they are now preparing to ship the Ampere Altra as up to 80 cores per
Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration
Firefox 75 due to be released next month should finally have its native Wayland support in good order...
Systemd 245 RC2 Released With Systemd-Homed, Partitioner + More
Released one month ago was systemd 245 RC1 while now a second release candidate is available. Systemd 245 stable should be shipping in the near future as well in order to make some of the spring Linux distribution releases like Fedora 32...
Miguel de Icaza Talks Up WebAssembly Greatness
GNOME co-founder Miguel de Icaza, who also started the Mono project and now working at Microsoft following their 2016 acquisition of Xamarin, has penned his first blog post in nearly one year -- and it's about WebAssembly...
OBS Studio 25.0 RC1 Adds Vulkan Game Capture Support, Browser Capturing
The first release candidate of OBS Studio 25.0 is now available for this cross-platform open-source software popular with game streamers...
DragonFlyBSD 5.8 Released For This Popular + Performant BSD Operating System
DragonFlyBSD 5.8.0 release images began propagating tonight as the latest installment of this long ago forked FreeBSD operating system...
IBM To Transition Their z/OS, POWER + AIX Compilers To Being LLVM/Clang-Based
IBM last week made the bold announce that they will be transitioning to LLVM/Clang-based compilers across their hardware portfolio for C, C++, and Fortran compilation...
Steam Survey Updated For February 2020 With Latest Linux Figures
After hitting 0.9% in January for the Steam on Linux marketshare that was a high for at least the past year, the Linux gaming percentage dropped slightly for February...
NVIDIA Engineer Shows Off New Linux Patches For Proactive Memory Compaction
Veteran Linux engineer Nitin Gupta of NVIDIA has unveiled his latest patches on the work he got started on last year: proactive memory compaction for Linux motivated by the latency issues brought on by he current on-demand compaction when an application requests a lot of hugepages...