RISC OS Seeing SDL2 Support Brought Up
For those tantilized by the prospects of gaming on RISC OS, SDL2 has been seeing early mainline work on supporting this long-standing operating system...
Netflix Now Exploring AVIF For Image Compression
Following Netflix's AV1 adoption with collaborating with Intel on the SVT-AV1 encoder, now using AV1 streaming for Android users, and others around this advanced royalty-free video codec, Netflix is now exploring AVIF as their next-gen image format...
Mesa 20.0-RC3 Released Along With Mesa 19.3.4 As The Latest Of The Stable Series
New stable and development releases of Mesa3D are available for providing the latest open-source Linux graphics driver experience for OpenGL and Vulkan...
Showing Your Love For Open-Source + Linux Benchmarking This Valentine's Day
For those that enjoy our daily open-source/Linux news each and every day of the year along with all of our original Linux benchmarking / hardware review content, you can show your support this Valentine's Day with a special offer...
Blender 2.82 Released With Many Improvements, 1000+ Fixes
Blender 2.82 is out as the second update over last year's big Blender 2.80 release...
Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance From 16 To 128 Threads With AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
As has been known for a while now, AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors really show their true potential on Linux with often significant increases to the performance thanks to the kernel's better scalability compared to Microsoft Windows. While Microsoft has made some improvements in this area over the past year, with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-core / 128-thread HEDT processor it really shines on Linux. In this article are benchmarks of Windows 10 Professional and Windows 10 Enterprise against Linux on
Imagination Working On A New Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Project
While many in the Linux community still cringe when hearing Imagination Tech's PowerVR given the troubling state of their graphics drivers over the years, in 2020 it looks like they are pursuing a new open-source graphics driver project...
Qt 5.15 Alpha Released With Various Improvements To Qt 3D, QML, Core, New Qt PDF Module
After recently ending feature development on Qt 5.15, the alpha release of this forthcoming tool-kit is now available...
OpenSSH 8.2 Released With FIDO/U2F Support
OpenSSH 8.2 is out this Valentine's Day as the leading SSH suite. Besides working to disable the SSH-RSA public key signature algorithm due to SHA1 collision attacks, OpenSSH 8.2 also comes with new features...
PHP 7.4 Slated To Land In Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
PHP 7.4 should be landing in the Ubuntu 20.04 archive in the next week or so...