Sony Now "Officially" Maintaining The Linux PlayStation Input Driver, But Leads To Interesting Problem
It turns out Sony is now maintaining the mainline Linux kernel's hid-sony input driver in an "official capacity now across various devices." This hid-sony driver is what traditionally has supported the various PlayStation controllers and other input devices for their hardware. But their newfound "official" support for this open-source input driver could lead to interesting predicaments...
Ubuntu's Zsys Tool For Enhancing The ZFS On Linux Experience Now Supports Snapshots
One of the work items we have been keen to monitor during the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS development cycle is tracking the happenings around Zsys, the Ubuntu/Canonical led utility for helping to administer ZFS On Linux systems. In ending out January, Zsys now has more functionality in tow...
Godot's Vulkan Renderer Is Already Picking Up New Features In 2020
We remain quite excited to see Godot 4.0 this year that most notably is working on Vulkan API support...
Mesa 19.3.3 Released With Many Fixes
While Mesa 20.0 will be entering its feature freeze this week and branching ahead of the stable release expected in about one month, for now the Mesa 19.3 series is the newest available for stable users...
The Big Set Of x86 Changes Hit The Linux 5.6 Kernel
As part of the Linux 5.6 development dance, Ingo Molnar began sending in all of the pull requests this morning for the different areas of the Linux kernel he oversees...
XCP-ng 8.1 Beta Rolls Out While Becoming Part Of The Xen Project
XCP-ng, the Xen-based enterprise-focused hypervisor offering a Xen Server Linux distribution, has released a beta of its next feature release while formally becoming part of the Linux Foundation hosted Xen Project...
Google Makes It Easier To Flash Android Open-Source Project On Phones
Flashing the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) onto devices is now a lot easier thanks to the Android Flash Tool...
Red Hat vs. SUSE vs. Canonical Contributions To The Mainline Linux Kernel Over The 2010s
After last week looking at the AMD/Intel/NVIDIA contributions to the mainline Linux kernel over the past number of years, there were reader requests for seeing how some of the top distributions compare namely Red Hat, SUSE, and Canonical...
Many Linux 5.6 Sound Driver Updates Especially On The Intel / Sound Open Firmware Front
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE today sent in all of the sound driver updates for this next version of the Linux kernel...
Linux 5.6 Crypto Code Brings The New AMD TEE Driver
Herbert Xu sent in all of the crypto subsystem changes on Tuesday for the in-development Linux 5.6 kernel. Interesting us the most out of this crypto work is the AMD Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) driver...