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Vulkan 1.1.112 Released While Open-Source ANV + RADV Drivers Continue Marching Along
Vulkan 1.1.112 was outed this morning as the newest documentation update to this high performance graphics and compute API...
Raspberry Pi 4 Announced With Dual HDMI, USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, V3D Driver Stack
Managing to make it out today as a surprise is the Raspberry Pi 4. The Raspberry Pi 4 is a major overhaul and their most radical update yet while base pricing still starts out at $35 USD...
Official x86 Zhaoxin Processor Support Is Coming With Linux 5.3
Zhaoxin is the company producing Chinese x86 CPUs created by a joint venture between VIA and the Shanghai government. The current Zhaoxin ZX CPUs are based on VIA's Isiah design and making use of VIA's x86 license. With the Linux 5.3 kernel will be better support for these Chinese desktop x86 CPUs...
Fedora's GRUB2 EFI Build To Offer Greater Security Options
In addition to disabling root password-based SSH log-ins by default, another change being made to Fedora 31 in the name of greater security is adding some additional GRUB2 boot-loader modules to be built-in for their EFI boot-loader...
FreeBSD's Release Engineering Lead Departs The Foundation
Well known FreeBSD developer and leader of their release engineering team, Glen Barber, has left the FreeBSD Foundation but will continue working on FreeBSD as well as coordinating its releases...
There's A Professional Grade Digital Cinema Camera Powered By Linux
Digital camera startup Octopus Cinema has been designing the "OCTOPUSCAMERA" as a digital cinema camera that's professional grade yet is an open platform with removable/upgradeable parts and this camera platform itself is running Linux...
Ubuntu Developer Talks Down Impact Of 32-Bit Changes For Ubuntu 19.10
Following Valve saying they won't be officially supporting Ubuntu 19.10 and Wine developers questioning their Ubuntu 32-bit builds following the announcement this week of not providing new 32-bit packages for new Ubuntu releases, longtime Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee Steve Langasek is trying to provide some clarity into the situation...
AMD Sends In Navi Support & Other Remaining AMDGPU Changes For Linux 5.3
On Saturday night AMDGPU/Radeon DRM maintainer Alex Deucher sent in the final batch of feature updates to DRM-Next that is targeting the upcoming Linux 5.3 kernel...
KDE's Night Color Feature Being Ported From Wayland To X11
It's another busy summer in the KDE space with a nice mixture of bug fixes and features being pursued for KDE Frameworks, KDE Plasma, and KDE Applications...
Fedora 31 Will Finally Disable OpenSSH Root Password-Based Logins By Default
Fedora 31 will harden up its default configuration by finally disabling password-based OpenSSH root log-ins, matching the upstream default of the past four years and behavior generally enforced by other Linux distributions...
Linux Kernel "LOCKDOWN" Ported To Being An LSM, Still Undergoing Review
It didn't make it for the Linux 5.2 kernel and now it's up to its 33rd revision on the Linux kernel mailing list... The "lockdown" patches for locking down access to various kernel hardware features has been reworked now and is a Linux Security Module (LSM) as it still tries to get enough endorsements to be mainlined...
DragonFlyBSD Picks Up Radeon Performance Improvements With Latest Code Update
Slipping just past this week's DragonFlyBSD 5.6 release is now an early feature for the next series: continued work on the Radeon DRM driver ported to this BSD from the Linux kernel...
One Of AMD's Leading LLVM Compiler Experts Jumped Ship To Unity
AMD has lost one of their leading LLVM compiler developers as well as serving as a Vulkan/SPIR-V expert with being involved in those Khronos specifications...
Linux 5.2-rc6 Released With Steam Networking Fix - The Biggest Post-RC1 Release
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 5.2-rc6 development kernel a day ahead of schedule to better fit around his summer travels...
Mesa 19.1.1 Is Coming Next Week With A Variety Of Fixes
Debuting two weeks ago was the Mesa 19.1 quarterly feature update while due out early next week is the first bug-fix point release...
OpenBSD Adds Initial User-Space Support For Vulkan
Somewhat surprisingly, OpenBSD has added the Vulkan library and ICD loader support as their newest port...
Microsoft Releases First Preview Of Windows Terminal
In addition to the recent preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2), Microsoft also kept to their word from the Build 2019 conference of issuing their first preview of "Windows Terminal" in June. The first of several preview releases of Windows Terminal is now available from the Microsoft Store...
Valve Is Funding Improvements To KDE's KWin & More Work On X.Org
As some good news this week amid all the 32-bit Linux gaming drama this week and the networking snafu... Valve is now funding another developer to work on upstream open-source code, in particular on the KDE side this time with a developer who had been working for Blue Systems...
Wine-Staging 4.11 Released With Its 800+ Patches On Top Of Wine
Just hours after releasing Wine 4.11, the team maintaining the experimental/testing version of Wine -- Wine-Staging -- issued their release with more than 800 patches re-based on top...
It Looks Like PulseAudio 13.0 Will Be Releasing Soon
It's been a year since the release of PulseAudio 12 and even eleven months since the last point release but it looks like the next PulseAudio release will be out very soon...