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Qt Developers Discuss Theoretical Clang-Based Tool For Porting Qt5 Code To Qt6

Fri, 04/24/2020 - 00:30
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

Thu, 04/23/2020 - 22:34
Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa" is now available as the distribution's newest long-term support release...

Intel's Clear Linux To Divest From The Desktop, Focus On Server + Cloud Workloads

Thu, 04/23/2020 - 21:54
Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux has made some inroads in the desktop space over the past two years with providing a nice desktop installer last year, enhancing their documentation, and making available more desktop packages. Clear Linux has offered some of the fastest performance even for desktop workloads like web browser performance and has worked out equally well on AMD hardware. But moving forward they are going to be shifting back to their roots on focusing on server and cloud workloads...

The Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Begins Rendering On Arm Bifrost Hardware

Thu, 04/23/2020 - 21:03
With the open-source Panfrost Gallium3D driver having its Arm Midgard graphics support in order, the developers involved have begun working more on the newer Bifrost architecture...

Samsung Respins exFAT-Utils As exFATprogs In New Release

Thu, 04/23/2020 - 20:05
A few weeks ago the Samsung engineers responsible for the new Microsoft exFAT Linux kernel driver released exFAT-Utils as their user-space utilities for managing and creating exFAT file-systems under Linux. A new release is out and exFAT-Utils has been re-spun as exfatprogs...

Qt Creator 4.12 Released For Improving Qt/C++ Development

Thu, 04/23/2020 - 19:43
A few weeks ahead of Qt 5.15, The Qt Company has released Qt Creator 4.12 as their Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment that also supports other languages via the Language Server Protocol...

Facebook Posts Latest Memory Controller Patches With Up To 45% Better Slab Utilization

Thu, 04/23/2020 - 14:20
Facebook engineer Roman Gushchin presented a new slab memory controller for Linux last September. The new memory controller has been very promising with the potential of using 30~40% less memory and less memory fragmentation, among other benefits. The third revision to that kernel work has now been sent out for evaluation...

Loongson Linux Work Continues - Dual Socket Support, Loongson-7A1000 Enablement

Thu, 04/23/2020 - 12:04
Loongson, the Chinese MIPS64 CPUs that are becoming more common within China but not so much internationally, continues seeing better Linux kernel support. There has been a fair amount of Loongson Linux work in recent months including in the current 5.7 cycle while more should be on tap for Linux 5.8...

Mesa 20.0.5 Released With The Latest Batch Of Intel/AMD Graphics Driver Fixes

Thu, 04/23/2020 - 06:43
While Mesa 20.1 will soon be hitting its feature freeze with hopes of releasing as stable in May, for now the Mesa 20.0 series is the "latest and greatest" on the stable front. Mesa 20.0.5 rolled out today with three weeks worth of fixes...

LLVM Clang Now Has Support For Custom-Width Integers With _ExtInt

Thu, 04/23/2020 - 01:36
While the C language committing is still evaluating adding N-bit integer support to the programming language, LLVM's Clang compiler has already added its experimental _ExtInt() implementation...

Dell XPS 7390 Intel Ice Lake Performance Hit Hard By A Linux Kernel Regression

Wed, 04/22/2020 - 23:40
At the beginning of the month I wrote about the Dell XPS with Core i7 1065G7 Ice Lake running much slower when upgrading to the development release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS from 19.10. It turns out the performance hit is due to an upstream kernel regression that's thrashing the performance...

Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora 32 Linux Performance

Wed, 04/22/2020 - 20:10
Fedora 32 isn't making it out this week due to last minute blocker bugs but should hopefully surface next week. In any case, here are some initial benchmarks looking at the performance of Fedora 32 in its effectively final state compared to Fedora 31 for seeing how the performance has shifted with its plethora of updates.

Nginx 1.18 Stable Released With Many Fixes, Improvements

Wed, 04/22/2020 - 19:15
Nginx 1.18 is out this week as their newest stable branch succeeding the Nginx 1.16 series for this versatile HTTP server and reverse proxy / load balancer / HTTP cache / mail proxy...

Mesa's DRM Library Now Has Proper FreeBSD Support Upstream

Wed, 04/22/2020 - 18:52
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...

Steam Audio SDK 2.0 Beta 18 Released

Wed, 04/22/2020 - 18:36
Valve has released a new beta version of Steam Audio, their featureful spatial audio solution for game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine. This new release brings expanded Android support and a number of new audio features...

Ubuntu 20.04's Server Installer Sees Last Minute Work To Better Handle Linux RAID Installs

Wed, 04/22/2020 - 14:38
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is due for release on Thursday and it's seen a last minute upgrade to its "Subiquity" server installer...

Intel Deep Learning Reference Stack 6.0 Released For Maximizing Performance

Wed, 04/22/2020 - 12:03
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...

Linux 5.8 To Properly Support The RME Babyface Pro High-End Audio Hardware

Wed, 04/22/2020 - 07:19
While a peculiar name for some expensive audio hardware, the Linux 5.8 kernel is set to properly support the RME Babyface Pro and RME Babyface Pro FS...

Amazon Plumbing Nitro Enclaves Support For Linux To Isolate Highly Sensitive Data

Wed, 04/22/2020 - 04:41
Amazon is working on upstreaming support into the Linux kernel for AWS Entro Niclaves for additional isolation around highly sensitive data within the EC2 cloud...

NVIDIA Announces MONAI Open-Source AI Project

Wed, 04/22/2020 - 02:03
NVIDIA has announced MONAI as their newest open-source initiative...

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