Open-source News

Red Hat recognises Australia and New Zealand partners for their contribution to customer success through open innovation

Red Hat News - Thu, 08/04/2022 - 12:00

The annual Red Hat Australia and New Zealand Partner Awards recognise our dedicated partners in the region for their ongoing commitment to delivering end-to-end customer solutions and expertise using Red Hat’s open source technology portfolio. 

MGLRU & Maple Tree Miss Out On Linux 6.0 But Will Aim For Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Thu, 08/04/2022 - 12:00
A lot of great features are landing for Linux 6.0 but two more are now confirmed to partake in this next major kernel version: Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) and the Maple Leaf data structure...

Valve Expanding Steam Deck Availability To Asian Markets

Phoronix - Thu, 08/04/2022 - 08:45
In addition to continuing to ramp up their Steam Deck production to fulfill existing pre-order reservations this calendar year thanks to addressing supply chain bottlenecks, Valve announced today that in partnership with Komodo they are bringing this Linux-powered gaming console to Asian markets...

Simpler Solution - MacRumors

Google News - Thu, 08/04/2022 - 07:38
Simpler Solution  MacRumors

Mesa 22.2-rc1 Released With AMD RDNA3 & Intel Alchemist Primed, Vulkan Additions

Phoronix - Thu, 08/04/2022 - 07:30
After a few week delay to allow additional features to land, feature development on Mesa 22.2 has ended with Mesa 22.2-rc1 now being available ahead of its stable release in the coming weeks...

GlobalFoundries Partners With Google's Open-Source Silicon Effort To Provide 180nm Tech

Phoronix - Thu, 08/04/2022 - 02:30
Over the past two years Google has been spearheading an effort to make silicon design more open-source and allowing more projects to get started in chip fabrication. That got started with a partnership with SkyWater Technology and Google covering the costs for open-source projects to see their initial chips fabricated on a 130nm process. Google's Open-Source Silicon Design Initiative recently announced SkyWater 90mm manufacturing will get underway for future manufacturing runs. Today the news out of Google's open-source group is that GlobalFoundries has joined this initiative and is providing 180nm manufacturing access...

Linux 6.0 Adding Run-Time Verification For Running On Safety Critical Systems

Phoronix - Thu, 08/04/2022 - 02:00
Another big ticket feature has made it for the Linux 6.0 kernel: the Runtime Verification infrastructure for running Linux on safety-critical systems...

NVIDIA GA103 Support Posted For Open-Source Nouveau Linux Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 08/04/2022 - 01:44
Merged last year into the Linux kernel's Nouveau DRM driver was initial support for GeForce RTX 30 "Ampere" GPUs initially in the form of the GA100 and GA102 parts. That support for the moment is still limited to just mode-setting/display support with 3D still being tackled, but now a patch has been posted that rather trivially extends the support to cover the GA103 GPU too...

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