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Intel oneDNN 1.5 Released With Non-x86 CPU Support, Initial Xe Graphics Support
Intel's oneDNN 1.5 deep neural network library has been released that is part of their oneAPI initiative and formerly known as MKL-DNN and DNNL...
Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Updated With WSL Support
Along with Intel and NVIDIA offering new Windows drivers with WSL2 support, AMD has released an updated Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition driver with support for Windows Subsystem for Linux...
Amazon Introduces AWS Snowcone: 8TB Of Storage For Edge Computing Within 9 x 6 x 3 Inches
Amazon's AWS has today introduced the smallest member of the "Snow" family for migrating data into/out-of the cloud...
Windows 10 May 2020 Performance For WSL vs. WSL2
For those curious about the performance of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with the recently released Windows 10 May 2020 Update, here are benchmarks of Ubuntu 20.04 on both WSL and WSL2 compared to the bare metal Ubuntu 20.04 LTS performance on the same system.
NVIDIA, Intel Post New Windows 10 Graphics Drivers For WSL2 Linux App Support
Intel and NVIDIA have both published new Windows 10 graphics drivers that support the new experimental capabilities coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) for running Linux GUI applications atop Windows and ultimately for exposing GPU compute capabilities as well inside the WSL2 environment...
Intel's IWD 1.8 Wireless Daemon Released With WiFi P2P Support
The iNet wireless daemon (IWD) software developed by Intel's open-source team have released IWD 1.8...
Intel Vulkan Driver Adds Pipeline Creation Cache Control Extension
Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver has landed support for the recent VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_cache_control extension...
Ubuntu 20.10 Looking At Restricting Access To Kernel Logs With dmesg
Ubuntu 20.10 will likely join other Linux distributions in restricting access to dmesg by unprivileged users...
FreeBSD 11.4 Released With Various Hardware Support Improvements, Tooling Enhancements
For those not on the current FreeBSD 12 stable series but currently relying on FreeBSD 11, the FreeBSD 11.4 stable release is now available...
QML Online Now Hosted By The KDE Project For Qt/QML On The Web
QML Online is a Qt/QML adaptation for the web powered by EmScripten / WebAssembly...
Intel Releases New Microcode For Skylake CPUs (20200616)
While Intel updated the CPU microcode for Skylake and other affected generations last week as part of the SRBDS / CrossTalk vulnerability that was made public last week Tuesday, today Intel quietly released another microcode revision but this time just for Skylake...
FFmpeg 4.3 Released With AMD AMF Encoding, Vulkan Support, AV1 Encode
FFmpeg 4.3 is out as the latest version of this key open-source multimedia library. FFmpeg 4.3 is quite a big release...
AMD Announces The Ryzen 3000XT Series
After weeks of rumors, AMD today officially confirmed the existence of the Ryzen 3000XT series...
Eight Features Not In Linux 5.8 From The DirectX Kernel Driver To FSGSBASE & DAMON
Linux 5.8 is shaping up to be one of the biggest kernel releases ever and while there are many new Linux 5.8 features, here is a look at some prominent and recently discussed material that didn't make the cut this cycle...
GFX1030 Target Merged Into LLVM 11 AMDGPU Back-End For Navi 2
Following the recent Linux kernel and Mesa patches for AMD "Sienna Cichlid" enablement for this "Navi 2" graphics processor, the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end support has been merged into LLVM 11...
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Now Exposes GLSL 1.30
The Zink Mesa driver for implementing OpenGL over the Vulkan API is now quite close to hitting OpenGL 3.0...
Linux Lands And Then Reverts Usage Of Flexible Array Members
As a change past the Linux 5.8 merge window now that the flurry of code activity has settled down was changing the use of zero-length arrays in structs with flexible array members. Linus Torvalds did pull the change into Linux 5.8 but then decided shortly afterwards to drop the change at least for the time being...
Fedora Developers Are Looking At Better Managing Retired Packages
A change proposal for Fedora 33 would introduce the concept of "fedora-retired-packages" for removing retired packages when upgrading Fedora...
Radeon RADV Driver Merge Request Opened To Use ACO By Default
A merge request opened at the end of last week would now have the Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver default to using the Valve-backed ACO shader compiler in place of the default LLVM AMDGPU back-end...
CentOS 8 Rebased Against RHEL 8.2
The CentOS crew maintaining this community enterprise Linux operating system rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux have announced their RHEL 8.2-based release...