Open-source News

Meson v0.60 Build System Brings Numerous Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 10/25/2021 - 01:54
Meson 0.60 was released on Sunday as the newest version of this increasingly popular and widely-used cross-platform build system...

AMD Continues Work On USB4 Support In Their Linux Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 10/24/2021 - 23:08
Earlier this month AMD's open-source driver engineers began posting patches for the AMDGPU kernel driver to handle USB4 DP tunneling. That tunneling for DisplayPort with USB4 is for upcoming Yellow Carp / Rembrandt APUs. The USB4 driver bring-up within AMDGPU continues...

GNU Toolchain Begins Landing LoongArch Support

Phoronix - Sun, 10/24/2021 - 22:53
In addition to Loongson working on Linux kernel support for their MIPS-derived LoongArch CPU architecture, the first bits of the GNU toolchain support for this Chinese CPU architecture have been merged...

Google Continues Work On User-Managed Concurrency Groups For Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 10/24/2021 - 18:21
Earlier this year was news that Google is finally working to open-source their Fibers user-space scheduling framework. For the better part of the past decade they have been developing this user-space scheduling framework and finally now are working on offering public, open-source code intended for upstream around their work...

Bareflank 3.0 Hypervisor Released With Microkernel Design, AMD Virtualization Support

Phoronix - Sun, 10/24/2021 - 17:37
Bareflank, as what started a few years ago as a Linux hypervisor written in modern C++ and focused on security and other new features as a "hypervisor SDK" of sorts, is now up to version 3.0...

Open source gets dirty with 3D printing

opensource.com - Sun, 10/24/2021 - 15:00

Open source has touched a lot of scientific disciplines, but one area where it is missing is soil science. Until recently, you could only find it in educational materials. A team from the Université de Lorraine, INRAE in France, and Western University in Canada bring open source to the soil science community.


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Celebrating our brand, people and culture during We Are Red Hat Week

Red Hat News - Sun, 10/24/2021 - 12:00

When I joined as chief people officer in April of this year, I had a feeling that Red Hat was going to be the right place for me because of the culture and our values. The last seven months have proven that intuition correct. Red Hatters not only welcomed me, but they embraced me and my ideas, despite coming from outside the company, and I’ve had incredible opportunities to see our open culture in action.

Mediatek Posts 8k Lines Of New Linux Kernel Driver Code For AI Processing Unit Support

Phoronix - Sun, 10/24/2021 - 05:24
For a number of months Mediatek engineers have been posting some Linux kernel driver code for bringing up the AI Processing Unit (APU) within the MT8192 SoC while out this weekend is the complete patch series at more than eight thousand lines of code...

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