QEMU 4.2 Released With Many Improvements For Linux Virtualization
QEMU 4.2 is out this morning as a key piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...
Trying Out The Skia+Vulkan Powered LibreOffice 6.5 Development Build
While LibreOffice 6.4 isn't even coming out until the end of January, we are already stoked about the follow-on release to this open-source office suite... Currently the development builds are towards LibreOffice 6.5 (though given the big impact we wouldn't be surprised if it morphed into LibreOffice 7.0) and one of the features that landed at the end of November is the Cairo drawing being replaced by Skia and with that Vulkan-based rendering support for this free office
Fedora 32 Will Feature Bleeding-Edge Compilers Again With LLVM 10 + GCC 10
Fedora Linux is on track to deliver another bleeding-edge compiler toolchain stack with Fedora 32 due out this spring...
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2.1 Released
Released earlier this month was Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 while now available is a point release with a couple of fixes...
AMD Pushes Updated AMDVLK Vulkan Code Following Adrenalin 2020 Unveil
Earlier this week AMD unveiled the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition driver and we await a Radeon Software for Linux / AMDGPU-PRO driver update for Linux users on supported distributions. But AMD has begun pushing some updated AMDVLK open-source Vulkan driver code ahead of a possible tagged release in the next few days...