Linux 5.7 Staging Will Be ~28.7k Lines Of Code Lighter Thanks To Nuking WUSB + UWB
With the Linux 5.7 kernel cycle in two months there is some "spring cleaning" within the staging area that is leading to almost twenty-nine thousand lines of code being removed thanks to removing a deprecated feature...
Lima Gallium3D Driver Picks Up Multi-Submit Optimization In Mesa 20.1
It's been a while since last having any news to report on Mesa's Lima Gallium3D driver for old Mali 400/450 series hardware, but an important optimization was merged today...
Linux 5.6-rc2 Released - Led By Documentation + Tooling Updates
The second weekly release candidate of Linux 5.6 is now available and overall it's quite a calm test release...
Wine 5.2 With Better Handling For The Null Display Driver, UTF-8 Support
Wine 5.2 is out as the second bi-weekly development release of Wine following the recent Wine 5.0 stable debut. This post-5.0 unstable series is ultimately leading up to Wine 6.0's release early next year...
A Quick Look At The Blender 2.82 Performance On Intel + AMD CPUs
With Blender 2.82 having released on Friday, this weekend we've begun our benchmarking of this new Blender release as the leading open-source 3D modeling solution currently available. Here are some preliminary v2.81 vs. v2.82 figures on different higher-end Intel and AMD processors...
Vulkan 1.2.133 Released With VK_KHR_shader_non_semantic_info
It's been nearly one month since the release of Vulkan 1.2.132 and that came shortly after the big Vulkan 1.2 milestone, but out today is now Vulkan 1.2.133...
MyPaint 2.0 Released With New Features For Open-Source Drawing/Painting
If the likes of GIMP and Krita aren't satisfying your digital drawing/painting needs, MyPaint 2.0 has finally been released as a big update to this simplicity-minded, cross-platform and open-source program...
NVIDIA 440.58.01 Linux Driver Fixes Vulkan Game Crashes, New Extensions
Not scheduled to go live until Monday but up this weekend is the NVIDIA 440.58.01 Linux beta driver that offers a few Vulkan updates...
KDE Sees Improvements For Samba Shares, Fixing Mouse Input For GTK Apps On XWayland
While this week marked the release of KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS, KDE developers haven't let up on their bug fixing activities and other improvements to this open-source desktop environment...
GCC 10 Adds Late Support For -std=c++20 To Target C++20
With C++20 now effectively complete, GCC developers have made a rather late change for GCC 10 that is also long overdue and that is introducing the -std=c++20 switch for targeting C++20...