Open-source News

The Open-Source ATI R300 Graphics Driver Is Still Being Improved Upon In 2024

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 19:18
It's been over twenty years since the ATI Radeon R300 series was introduced but thanks to the open-source Mesa Gallium3D OpenGL driver, there continues to be new improvements made to this driver for these aging Radeon graphics cards on Linux. A few hundred lines of code were merged today for further enhancing the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver in 2024...

Newlib 4.4 Released With Long Double Support On i386 / AArch64 / x86_64 & Xtensa Port

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 19:05
For those making use of the Newlib C standard library for embedded systems, Red Hat kicked off the new year by releasing Newlib 4.4...

AMD Proposes An FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 18:53
AMD engineers are proposing an FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface to overcome current limitations of the Linux kernel's FPGA manager subsystem...

Glibc 2.39 Should Be Out On 1 February & Might Drop Itanium IA64 Linux Support

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 06:12
A release plan has been drafted for the upcoming GNU C Library "glibc" 2.39 release as well as some possible last minute changes...

AMD Address Translation Library "ATL" Coming With Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 04:00
The AMD Address Translation Library (ATL) is cleaning up and centralizing existing code within the Linux kernel for Zen-based systems. After being reviewed on the kernel mailing list, the AMD ATL is set to be introduced as part of the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle...

Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE Moving To Linux 6.2 Due To Hardware Issues

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 02:26
Given the pace of hardware support and improvements these days, it's rather sad Linux Mint 21.3 continues to default to the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel that is the non-HWE default of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for which the operating system is based. But at least Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE ISOs are being rolled out to make Linux 6.2 easily available for those with newer hardware support requirements...

Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023

Phoronix - Thu, 01/04/2024 - 02:15
While years ago it was hard envisioning Microsoft contributing significantly to the Linux kernel or Mesa 3D graphics driver stack, maintaining its own in-house Linux distribution, or publishing so much open-source software, these days it's par for the course thanks to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Linux dominating Azure instances, etc. Over the course of 2023, Microsoft continued investing in various Linux/open-source efforts that benefit their cause...

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