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Blender 3.x Roadmap Has Big Plans For Vulkan, Other Improvements

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 19:22
With Blender 3.0 releasing soon, the Blender project has published a Blender 3.x road-map outlining some of their plans for future releases...

Embedded DisplayPort 1.5 Specification Published

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 16:52
It's been six years already since VESA published the Embedded DisplayPort 1.4b specification while finally it's been succeeded by eDP 1.5...

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Launches As Newer, Faster $10 Single Board Computer

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 14:00
The Raspberry Pi Foundation today is launching the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W as their newest single board computer succeeding the $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W...

Nitrokey FIDO U2F Support Coming With Linux 5.16

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 13:00
If you happen to have a Nitrokey FIDO U2F as a two-factor authentication key, proper Linux support is about to land. While at launch it mentioned working out-of-the-box across all major browsers and platforms -- including Linux -- a change is needed to the kernel that's now on the way for the 5.16 cycle...

DragonFlyBSD's makefs Adds Support For FAT

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 12:25
One could consider it long overdue, but DragonFlyBSD has finally merged support for FAT file-systems with the makefs utility...

Mesa 21.3-rc3 Released With Many Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Fixes

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 06:41
The latest weekly test release of Mesa 21.3 is now available ahead of the anticipated stable debut in November...

Project Wakefield Is OpenJDK's Effort To Improve Java On Wayland

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 02:00
Project Wakefield is the recently established OpenJDK initiative to implement native Wayland support within Java...

X.Org Server 21.1 Released With Variable Rate Refresh In Modesetting Driver, Other Work

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 01:33
X.Org Server 21.1 is now officially available as this first xorg-server update in three years and what began development as X.Org Server 1.21 prior to the versioning change...

Intel Announces 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" CPUs, Linux Tests Forthcoming

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 00:00
Intel is using their inaugural Intel Innovation virtual event today to formally announce the highly-anticipated 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" processors. These first desktop processors built on their "Intel 7" process and employ a hybrid architecture will be available in retail channels next week. Today we can talk more about Alder Lake specifications and features while our Linux performance benchmarks and support analysis will come once the Alder Lake review embargo expires next week.

Intel Announces New Developer Zone To Showcase Their Wide Array Of Software

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 00:00
Along with announcing Alder Lake and other hardware advancements, Intel is using their new Innovation event kicking off today to also talk more about their vast collection of software... This follows Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's comments from earlier in the week around a bias towards open-source and a pledge to openness. As part of this, Intel is today announcing a new and unified Developer Zone...

Qt 6.2.1 Released With 200+ Bug Fixes

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 17:38
It's been just shy of one month since Qt 6.2 debuted as the first Qt6 Long-Term Support (LTS) release and ported many of the remaining modules over from Qt5. Shipping today is now Qt 6.2.1 as the first point release with more than two-hundred fixes...

Nintendo Switch Controller Driver Finally Set For Linux 5.16

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 17:06
After stalling last year when it was queued up in HID's "for-5.10/nintendo" branch only to not make it into HID-next at the time, that threshold has now been crossed with the latest Nintendo Switch controller driver now ready for introduction in Linux 5.16. This open-source driver enables the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con and Pro controllers to work under Linux with a mainline kernel driver...

Apple Silicon GPIO Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.16

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 16:34
Along with the Apple Silicon PCIe driver, another new driver for supporting Apple Silicon (primarily with a focus on the Apple M1 for now) with the upcoming Linux 5.16 cycle is a new pinctrl/GPIO driver...

Qualcomm MSM DRM Driver Improvements Submitted Ahead Of Linux 5.16

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 14:00
The MSM DRM driver for supporting the open-source display/graphics support with Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs has submitted their main feature pull request to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.16 merge window...

Alternative Python Implementation "Pyston" Plans For Greater Performance, 64-bit ARM

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 06:56
Pyston as the alternative Python implementation open-sourced originally by Dropbox is forming ambitious plans for a bright future...

Intel AMX Support Appears Ready For Linux 5.16

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 02:00
It's been over one year since Intel disclosed Advanced Matrix Extensions and began posting patches for bringing up AMX support under Linux in anticipation of Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors. While the compiler-side work to GCC and LLVM/Clang has been landing, finally with the forthcoming Linux 5.16 cycle that AMX support appears ready for landing...

NVIDIA 495.44 Linux Driver Released With GBM Support

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 23:07
Following the NVIDIA 495 beta Linux driver from earlier this month, NVIDIA 495.44 is out today for Linux users as the stable release...

Intel Core i9 11900K: Five Linux Distros Show Sizable Lead Over Windows 11

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 21:09
Now that Windows 11 has been out as stable and the initial round of updates coming out, I've been running fresh Windows 11 vs. Linux benchmarks for seeing how Microsoft's latest operating system release compares to the fresh batch of Linux distributions. First up is the fresh look at the Windows 11 vs. Linux performance on an Intel Core i9 11900K Rocket Lake system.

Canonical Looking For Community Feedback As Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Development Begins

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 20:25
With Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" beginning development, Canonical is soliciting community feedback as they plot out more of the planned changes for this next major release and areas to focus on enhancing over the next six months...

Raspberry Pi 4 Granted Official Vulkan 1.1 Conformance

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 18:05
Last week I mentioned how Mesa landed Vulkan 1.1 support for the V3DV driver most notably used by the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer. With those changes in Mesa Git, The Khronos Group has now officially granted this driver Vulkan 1.1 conformance for the Raspberry Pi 4...

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