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System76 Lemur Pro Laptop Offers 14 Hour Battery Life, Coreboot Firmware For $1099+
After they were teasing the new Lemur Pro at the end of March, the Lemur Pro is now ready and formally announced by Linux PC vendor System76...
OpenSUSE Leap + SUSE Linux Enterprise Planning To Move Closer In 2020
SUSE and the openSUSE community are working to move SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Leap closer together...
ReactOS 0.4.13 Released With Fixes For USB Storage, Less Blue Screens of Death
ReactOS 0.4.13 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source operating system project continuing to strive for binary software compatibility with Microsoft Windows...
Samsung Releases exFAT-Utils To Format File-System, Fsck
With the new exFAT file-system merged for Linux 5.7, Samsung engineers responsible for this open-source native Linux kernel driver for Microsoft's exFAT file-system support have now issued their first official release of exfat-utils...
The Qt Company Provides A Brief Comment On Open-Source
Yesterday a KDE developer who serves on the board of the KDE Free Qt Foundation commented that The Qt Company is evaluating restricting new releases to paying customers for 12 months. That was said to be under consideration due to COVID19 / coronavirus impacting their finances and needing to boost short-term revenues. The Qt Company has now come out with an incredibly brief statement on the matter...
Linux 5.7 Begins Landing Support For The Kendryte K210 Dual-Core RISC-V SoC
The RISC-V architecture changes have been submitted for the Linux 5.7 kernel and includes early work on bringing up a new RISC-V dual-core SoC...
Ceph Sees Some Nice Performance Improvements With Linux 5.7
The Ceph open-source distributed storage platform is seeing some nice performance-related work to its kernel component in the Linux 5.7 kernel...
Intel Media Linux Driver Q1-2020 Released With Tiger Lake Features, Better VP9 Encode
Intel's open-source multimedia crew has released their Media Driver Q1'2020 build for Linux users. This Intel Media driver is what provides Video Acceleration API (VA-API) capabilities for Intel GPU-based video encode/decode for Broadwell through next-gen Tiger Lake...
X-Plane 11 Flight Simulator With Vulkan Performing Very Well On Linux - NVIDIA/AMD OpenGL vs. Vulkan Benchmarks
Last week the X-Plane 11.50 beta was released with its long awaited Vulkan renderer to complement its mature OpenGL rendering code. Since then we've been busy benchmarking with 23 different graphics cards of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce line-ups while running Ubuntu Linux and comparing the OpenGL vs. Vulkan rendering performance for this realistic flight simulator.
LOOPFS File-System Proposed For Linux
LOOPFS is the latest Linux kernel file-system proposal...
Linux Security Feature Revised For Randomizing The Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call
Patches have been revised for allowing Linux to support kernel stack base address offset randomization for each system call...
New Qt Releases Might Now Be Restricted To Paying Customers For 12 Months
With an apparent blame on the novel coronavirus, The Qt Company is said to be considering restricting new Qt releases to paying customers for a period of twelve months in an effort to boost their near-term finances...
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Should Trip Less Often On Some GPUs With Linux 5.7
Last week there were a bunch of new improvements and features for the open-source kernel graphics/display drivers merged for Linux 5.7. There were not any feature changes on the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver front while this week at least are some fixes/workarounds so it's less buggy for some hardware...
OverlayFS Can Be Paired With VirtIO-FS On Linux 5.7
The OverlayFS union mount file-system has a number of fixes and other changes with Linux 5.7...
The Qt Company Publishes A 2020 Roadmap Culminating With The Qt 6.0 Release
The Qt Company has made public their 2020 road-map for Qt software releases...
TURNIP Vulkan Driver Lands Initial Geometry Shader Support
The TURNIP open-source Vulkan driver continues advancing in-step with the other Mesa drivers...
AMD Rebases Their OpenMP For Radeon GPUs Against LLVM 11
At the end of last year with ROCm 3.0 AMD introduced the AOMP compiler for OpenMP support targeting Radeon GPUs. AOMP is another downstream of LLVM Clang and on Tuesday marked the latest update...
Google's Propeller Is Beginning To Be Upstreamed For Spinning Faster Program Binaries
We have begun seeing the start of upstreaming on Google's Propeller Framework for offering post-link-time binary optimizations in the LLVM compiler stack to offer measurably faster (re)generated binaries...
GNOME Launching A Community Engagement Challenge With $65k+ In Cash/Prizes
The GNOME Foundation in cooperation with Endless has launched their first Community Engagement Challenge where they are offering up many prizes and cash...
Some Older Intel Tablets Finally Seeing Working Touchscreen With Linux 5.7
While Intel's open-source Linux hardware support is extremely good even in time for launch day of not only for their server / data center products but also desktop and mobile platforms, occasionally there are exceptions. One of the biggest exceptions over the past decade has been the Bay Trail support sometimes taking years to see fixes or finishing up areas of the support. The latest example of this is some Intel Bay Trail and Cherry Trail tablets finally seeing working/reliable touchscreen support on Linux 5.7...