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Mozilla + Intel + Red Hat Form The Bytecode Alliance To Run WebAssembly Everywhere

Wed, 11/13/2019 - 01:00
Mozilla, Fastly, Intel, and Red Hat have announced the Bytecode Alliance as a new initiative built around WebAssembly and focused on providing a secure-by-default bytecode that can run from web browsers to desktops to IoT/embedded platforms...

LinuxBoot Continues Maturing - Now Able To Boot Windows

Tue, 11/12/2019 - 22:05
LinuxBoot is approaching two years of age as the effort led by Facebook and others for replacing some elements of the system firmware with the Linux kernel...

Librsvg Continues Rust Conquest, Pulls In CSS Parsing Code From Mozilla Servo

Tue, 11/12/2019 - 20:49
For about three years now GNOME's SVG rendering library has been transitioning to Rust. This library, librsvg, now makes further use of Rust around its CSS parsing code and Mozilla's Servo is doing some of that heavy lifting...

Coreboot Support Is Being Worked On For Fwupd/LVFS

Tue, 11/12/2019 - 20:23
In making it more easy to update Coreboot system firmware, the ability to update Coreboot via the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) with Fwupd is finally being worked out...

Qualcomm's Adreno 640 GPU Is Working Easily With The Freedreno OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

Tue, 11/12/2019 - 20:10
The Adreno 640 GPU that is used by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855/855+ SoCs is now working with the open-source Freedreno Gallium3D OpenGL and "TURNIP" Vulkan drivers with the newest Mesa 20.0 development code...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Timeline Semaphore Support

Tue, 11/12/2019 - 13:55
A change to look forward to with Mesa 20.0 due out next quarter is Vulkan timeline semaphore support (VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore) for Intel's "ANV" open-source driver...

GStreamer Conference 2019 Videos Now Available Online

Tue, 11/12/2019 - 13:23
Taking place at the end of October during the Linux Foundation events in Lyon, France was the GStreamer Conference to align with the annual developer festivities...

KDE Frameworks 5.64 Released

Tue, 11/12/2019 - 09:20
Sunday marked the release of KDE Frameworks 5.64 as the latest monthly update to this collection of libraries complementing Qt5...

Google Chrome To Begin Marking Sites That Are Slow / Fast

Tue, 11/12/2019 - 05:22
Chrome has successfully shamed web-sites not supporting HTTPS and now they are looking to call-out websites that do not typically load fast...

The Disappointing Direction Of Linux Performance From 4.16 To 5.4 Kernels

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 23:25
With the Linux 5.4 kernel set to be released in the next week or two, here is a look at the performance going back to the days of Linux 4.16 from early 2018. At least the Linux kernel continues picking up many new features as due to security mitigations and other factors the kernel performance continues trending lower.

SUSE Continues Working On Linux Core Scheduling For Better Security

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 20:55
SUSE and other companies like DigitalOcean have been working on Linux core scheduling to make virtualization safer particularly in light of security vulnerabilities like L1TF and MDS. The core scheduling work is about ensuring different VMs don't share a HT sibling but rather only the same VM / trusted applications run on siblings of a core...

Pre-Loaded Linux PCs Continue Increasing - TUXEDO Computers Sets Up New Offices

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 20:27
From System76 setting up their own manufacturing facility for Linux desktops to Dell offering more Linux laptop options, the demand for pre-loaded Linux PCs continues to increase. One of the smaller Linux PC vendors also now expanding is German-based TUXEDO Computers...

Shortwave Enters Beta As New GNOME Internet Radio Player

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 20:09
Shortwave is a new Internet radio player built for GNOME with GTK3 and has been in development the past year...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Continuing To Work On Python 2 Removal

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 14:40
The goal for Ubuntu 20.04 is to ship with Python 2 removed since Py2 will be end-of-life after the after the start of the year and this next Ubuntu Linux release is a Long-Term Support release, but there still are many Python 2 depending packages left currently in Debian unstable and Ubuntu's "Focal Fossa" archive...

Arch Linux Updates Its Kernel Installation Handling

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 13:06
Arch Linux has updated the behavior when installing the linux, linux-lts, linux-zen, and linux-hardened kernel options on this popular distribution...

Linux 5.4-rc7 Kernel Released With VirtualBox Shared Folder Driver In Place

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 09:00
Linux 5.4-rc7 was just released as the newest test candidate of the maturing Linux 5.4 kernel. At this stage it's looking like an eighth weekly RC will be warranted next weekend before officially releasing Linux 5.4.0 on 24 November...

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 vs. Clear Linux Performance On The Dell Ice Lake Laptop

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 08:24
Last month I posted benchmarks looking at the Windows 10 vs. Linux OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance for the Ice Lake "Gen11" graphics. But for those wondering about the CPU/system performance between Windows and Linux for the Core i7-1065G7 with the Dell XPS 7390, here are those benchmarks as we compare the latest Windows 10 to Ubuntu 19.10 and Intel's own Clear Linux platform.

Steam For Linux Beta Adds Experimental Namespaces/Containers Support

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 06:53
Longtime Linux game developer Timothee Besset has outlined the support introduced by Valve this week in their latest Steam Linux client beta for supporting Linux namespaces / containers. This experimental functionality may in the end provide better support for 32-bit compatibility as more Linux distributions focus solely on x86_64 packages, reducing some of the fragmentation/library conflicts between some Linux distributions and Steam, and other headaches currently plaguing the Steam Linux space...

Reiser4 File-System Is Still Ticking In 2019 - Now Updated For Linux 5.3 Compatibility

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 05:41
While Linux 5.4 is rolling out in about two weeks, the out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system has just been updated for Linux 5.3 support...

Virtual KMS Driver To Work On Virtual Refresh Rate Support (FreeSync)

Mon, 11/11/2019 - 00:45
Over the past year and a half the VKMS Linux DRM driver has come together as the "virtual kernel mode-setting" implementation for headless systems and other environments not backed by a physical display. Interestingly being tacked on their TODO list now is VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) support. Separately, the prominent VKMS developer is now employed by AMD...

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