AMD To Restore Retry Faults Behavior To Help With Raven Stability
Last week I reported on a possible workaround for helping AMD APUs with stability issues on recent Linux kernels. That behavior will now be the new temporary default in dealing with stability issues on Raven APUs...
Rockchip PX30 Display Support Coming With Linux 5.6
Adding to the many changes on the way with Linux 5.6 is the Rockchip DRM display driver supporting the PX30 SoC...
Fedora 32 Aiming To Ship With The Latest Mono 6 For Microsoft .NET On Linux
A late change proposal for Fedora 32 would jump the shipped Mono package from version 5.20 to version 6.6...
AMD Drops TGSI Support From Their RadeonSI OpenGL Driver
It was just shy of a month ago in Mesa 20.0-devel code that RadeonSI enabled NIR by default to enjoy OpenGL 4.6 support and now already ahead of the Mesa 20.0 branching the previous TGSI code-path has been removed. TGSI has been the default intermediate representation of RadeonSI and other Gallium3D drivers but these days NIR has become the go-to IR for Mesa drivers...
Intel At CES 2020 Talks Up One Of Their Open-Source Projects, Shows Off Tiger Lake
Following AMD's keynote with announcing the Ryzen 4000 series + RX 5600 XT + Threadripper 3990X, Intel now has up their address from the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Here are all the highlights from the perspective of a Linux user...
AMD Announcements From CES 2020: Ryzen 4000 Mobile Series, Radeon RX 5600 XT
Kicking off the Consumer Electronics Show 2020 in Las Vegas, AMD CEO Lisa Su has begun with some interesting product announcements.....
Firefox 72 Released With Picture-In-Picture Video Support Working On Linux
Firefox 72 is now available from Mozilla's FTP server as their first release of 2020 and ahead of their more aggressive release cycle moving forward...
Fedora Project Leader Envisions The Project Becoming An "Operating System Factory"
Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller has shared his vision for Fedora over the next decade and is encouraging discussions about the direction of this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution over the next five to ten years...
Fedora QA No Longer Needs To Test Physical CD/DVD Media As Part Of Their Formal Release Process
This morning's Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) meeting approved more changes for this spring's release of Fedora 32...
With Python 2 EOL'ed, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Moves Along With Its Python 2 Removal
With Python 2 having reached end-of-life at the start of 2020, Ubuntu and Debian developers continue their work on removing Python 2 at least from the base OS. Work continues on transitioning packages to Python 3 or otherwise ultimately dropping unmaintained packages...