Qt Developers Discuss Theoretical Clang-Based Tool For Porting Qt5 Code To Qt6
While the future of Qt as an open-source project isn't too clear for now it's progressing as if all is well. One of the new items being discussed on the Qt 6 front is discussing a possible LLVM Clang based tool to help developers in automatically converting all of their Qt 5 syntax into a Qt 6 compatible manner...
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Now Available For Download
Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa" is now available as the distribution's newest long-term support release...
Mesa's DRM Library Now Has Proper FreeBSD Support Upstream
Mesa's DRM library (libdrm) that resides between the Mesa drivers and the Direct Rendering Manager kernel interfaces now has proper FreeBSD support upstream in this important library...
Intel Deep Learning Reference Stack 6.0 Released For Maximizing Performance
Two years ago Intel announced the open-source Deep Learning Reference Stack with providing an easy-to-use, performance-focused stack for exploiting deep learning capabilities on Intel x86_64 hardware. Today marks version 6.0 of this toolkit...
NVIDIA Announces MONAI Open-Source AI Project
NVIDIA has announced MONAI as their newest open-source initiative...
GNU Shepherd 0.8 Released As An Alternative To Systemd
GNU Shepherd, the official init system and service manager of the GNU operating system, is out with its newest update...
TLB State Access Being Tightened Up On Linux For Better Security
The latest Linux kernel security work being pursued by Thomas Gleixner is tightening up access around the kernel's per-CPU TLB state access for the translation lookaside buffer...
Intel Working On Slim Bootloader Integration Improvements For The Linux Kernel
Slim Bootloader is the open-source initiative Intel announced in Q3'2018 for providing a very bare bones BSD-licensed open-source firmware implementation. We're now seeing new Linux patches for improving the integration with the Slim Bootloader...
OpenZFS Sees 3x Throughput Boost For ZVOL Sync Write Performance
Last week brought FreeBSD support merged into OpenZFS and it turns out there is another recently-merged exciting advancement for this cross-platform open-source ZFS file-system code in terms of a big speed boost...
LibreOffice 7.0 Will Prefer Building Its Rendering Code With LLVM's Clang Compiler
With the release of LibreOffice 7.0 in a few months, the open-source office suite will now prefer building at least portions of its code-base with the LLVM Clang compiler over GCC or Microsoft MSVC even if the default compiler is not Clang...