LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 Released For This Vulkan-Supported Open-Source Office Suite
Ahead of the official release expected in early August, the second release candidate of LibreOffice 7.0 is now available for testing...
Monado Working On Positional Tracking Support Via Libsurvive To Further Open-Source AR/VR
The Monado open-source OpenXR runtime for AR/VR headsets is making progress on integrating open-source positional tracking capabilities...
Microsoft Releases Its Own Open-Source Process Monitor For Linux
Microsoft's newest open-source Linux software is ProcMon for Linux, a rewritten and re-imagined version of its Processor Monitor found on Windows within their Sysinternals suite...
FreeBSD Getting Close To Finally Migrating Development From Subversion To Git
The FreeBSD project has published their Q2'2020 status report that outlines their neat-complete work on migrating from Subversion to Git plus many hardware support improvements for this BSD operating system and more...
LLVM 11 Feature Development Is Over With Many Changes
LLVM 11 feature development has ended with the code having been branched in Git this morning and the first release candidate expected shortly...
F2FS Preparing To Introduce New "Secure Erase" Functionality
A new feature that's been in development for a while with the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) looks set to land with the forthcoming Linux 5.9 cycle...
Intel DG1 Graphics Card Bring-Up On Linux Continues - Latest Bits For Local Memory
Recently there have been a lot of open-source Linux patches flowing concerning Intel's bring-up of their DG1 discrete graphics card for developers. That work continued this week with the latest patches in wiring up LMEM support...
Linux 5.8 Formally Adds The Inclusive Terminology Guidelines
Merged overnight into the Linux kernel source tree are the new guidelines concerning the use of "inclusive terminology" for future code...
Intel Media Driver Q2-2020 Ships With Better Tiger Lake Support
Intel has shipped its second quarter open-source Media Driver release that provides accelerated video encoding/decoding capabilities on Linux systems...
Linux Developers May Discuss Allowing Rust Code Within The Kernel
A Google engineer is looking to discuss at this year's Linux Plumbers Conference the possibility of allowing in-tree Rust language support...