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Intel Offers New Xe Graphics Details, Product Updates At 2020 Architecture Day
This week Intel held their 2020 Architecture Day, albeit virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of interesting technical information was shared on both the hardware and software sides. Here are some of the interesting highlights.
Intel Is Using IGC In Their Windows Drivers, Internal Prototype For Mesa
At Intel's Architecture Day this week the company was talking about work on their new Windows graphics driver that is being timed for Xe but supporting existing generations of hardware as well. One of the interesting takeaways was seeing the Windows driver is now using the open-source "IGC" back-end...
Intel oneAPI 1.0 "Gold" Is Coming Later This Year
Recently I wrote about it looking like oneAPI 1.0 was lining up and now there is further confirmation of the first production release of this Intel software collection indeed coming this year...
Qt Creator 4.13 RC Released With Initial Meson Integration, Updated C++ Code Model
The Qt Company today issued the first release candidate of their forthcoming Qt Creator 4.13 integrated development environment as well as a beta of their Qt Design Studio 1.6...
FUSE Read/Write Passthrough Updated For Much Better File-System Performance
Of various criticisms around FUSE for implementing file-systems in user-space, one of the most prolific issues is around the performance generally being much lower than a proper file-system kernel driver. But with the FUSE passthrough functionality that continue to be worked on, there is the potential for much better FUSE file-system performance...
Navi 2 Fixes, Other Graphics/Display Fixes Sent In For Linux 5.9
Following all of the feature updates to the open-source GPU/DRM drivers for Linux 5.9 that included a lot of new material, the first batch of fixes have now been sent in for mainline in addressing early fallout from these many changes...
Mesa 20.2-RC2 Released With Many Fixes For RadeonSI + RADV Drivers
The second weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Mesa 20.2 is now available for testing...
POWER10 Virtualization, Intel SERIALIZE Come For KVM On Linux 5.9
Sent in last week for the Linux 5.9 kernel merge window were the initial batch of changes to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) while today some additional interesting changes were sent out...
Ubuntu Is Looking At Offering Better WiFi Support By Using Intel's IWD
Ubuntu developers are looking at using Intel IWD as the iNET wireless daemon to potentially replace WPA_Supplicant for offering a better WiFi experience...
Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q3 Released For Linux
AMD has released their Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q3 driver as their quarterly update to this enterprise-rated driver for their professional/workstation graphics offerings. In step with the new Windows driver release is also the 20.Q3 packaged Linux driver for enterprise distributions including RHEL/CentOS 8.1, RHEL/CentOS 7.8, Ubuntu 18.04.4, and SUSE SLED/SLES 15...
Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Adds Compute Kernel Support In Mesa 20.3
While Mesa 20.2 isn't even releasing for a few weeks, Mesa 20.3 is already seeing new feature work that will debut next quarter...
QEMU 5.1 Release Brings Many Improvements To This Open-Source Virtualization Component
QEMU 5.1 is now available for this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...
LibreOffice 7.0 Is Already Approaching A Half-Million Downloads
It was just one week ago that LibreOffice 7.0 was released and it has already seen around a half-million downloads for this leading open-source, cross-platform office suite...
Red Hat Begins Talking Up The New RHEL Flatpak Runtime
With the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, the Flatpak sandboxing and app distribution tech is ready to shine and there is also the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux Flatpak runtime...
Intel Making Progress On Their "mOS" Modified Linux Kernel Running Lightweight Kernels
For a while now Intel has been quietly been working on "mOS" as the "multi-OS" that is a modified version of the Linux kernel that in turn is running lightweight kernels for high-performance computing purposes...
Artwork Help Is Needed For Debian 11 "Bullseye"
If you are more of an artistic type than programmer, there still is plenty of valuable assistance that can be provided to free software projects... The latest call for help is that of the Debian project in looking for the Debian 11 "Bullseye" desktop artwork...
Go 1.15 Released With Much Improved Linker, New CPU Mitigations
Go 1.15 is out as a rather significant update to this popular, modern programming language...
Fedora's FESCo Approves Using DXVK As Their Default Wine Direct3D Back-End
Last month was the proposal for Fedora to make DXVK their default back-end for Direct3D 9/10/11 usage with their packaged Wine build rather than WineD3D. That's now been approved for Fedora 33!..
NUVIA Published New Details On Their Phoenix CPU, Talks Up Big Performance/Perf-Per-Watt
Since leaving stealth last year and hiring some prominent Linux/open-source veterans to complement their ARM processor design experts, we have been quite eager to hear more about this latest start-up aiming to deliver compelling ARM server products. Today they shared some early details on their initial "Phoenix" processor that is coming within their "Orion" SoC...
Intel Publishes 18 New Security Advisories For 52 Vulnerabilities
It is Intel's August 2020 disclosure day with 18 new advisories being issued for covering 52 vulnerabilities...