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Intel Preparing Resizable BAR Support For Their Arc Graphics On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 22:11
Ahead of the Intel Arc "Alchemist" graphics cards shipping this year, Intel's open-source developers have continued ironing out the Linux driver support. The most recent kernel patches are for getting their Resizable BAR "ReBAR" support in order...

Wasmer 2.2 Bringing Its WebAssembly "Singlepass" Compiler To AArch64

Phoronix - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 18:25
Wasmer 2.2-rc1 is out today as the WebAssembly run-tme to "run any code on any client" with its broad platform coverage and allowing numerous programming languages from Rust to PHP to C# being able to be compiled into WebAssembly and then running on any OS or embedded into other languages for execution...

JEDEC Publishes HBM3 Standard (JESD238)

Phoronix - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 17:51
JEDEC has published the JESD238 HBM3 standard as the next version for High Bandwidth Memory...

Congratulations to the 2022 Opensource.com Community Award recipients

opensource.com - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 16:00

Many journeys into open source start with community interactions. Code is an important contribution, but so is sharing knowledge. The community knowledge base is often a person's first exposure to a project.

I love working with the community of authors here at Opensource.com. I have the privilege of visiting with the members in our Correspondents program weekly and am really looking forward to building relationships with authors and readers alike.


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Software Privacy Day: Use Delta Chat, an open source chat tool

opensource.com - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 16:00

It's Software Privacy Day again, the day meant to encourage users everywhere to spare a thought about where their data actually goes when it's posted on, over, or through the Internet. One of the cottage industries around Internet communication that seems to ebb and flow in popularity is the venerable chat application. People use chat applications for all manner of conversations, and most people don't think about what bots are recording and monitoring what's being said, whether it's to effectively target ads or just to build a profile for future use.


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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Looks To Drop Its Partner Archive In Favor Of The Snap Store

Phoronix - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 14:00
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will likely do away with the Ubuntu/Canonical Partner Archive where their software partners could upload select proprietary/binary-only software for easy access by Ubuntu users...

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