Open-source News

Intel Developing Universal Scalable Firmware As Next-Gen Firmware Platform

Phoronix - Thu, 11/18/2021 - 02:55
Intel passed along news today of their development efforts around Universal Scalable Firmware, a new initiative they are pursuing to simplify and scale firmware development for hardware from edge computing devices to the cloud...

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Planning To Vastly Improve Its Documentation

Phoronix - Wed, 11/17/2021 - 22:00
Back in the day Ubuntu's Wiki was a great resource for Linux documentation but less so these days while the Arch Linux Wiki is often viewed as a gold standard for open-source documentation. Canonical though is now hoping to radically improve the documentation for Ubuntu and its other software offerings...

Copper Aims To Improve Mesa's Zink Efficiency In 2022

Phoronix - Wed, 11/17/2021 - 21:32
Following the news from last week of experimental Zink code running Wayland's Weston compositor over this Mesa-based OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation, developer Mike Blumenkrantz has opened up about some of the ongoing work to improve the efficiency of Zink and making such advancements a reality...

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