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Arcturus No Longer Experimental - AMD Instinct MI100 Linux Support Is Ready

Phoronix - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 19:26
Being sent in as a "fix" this week to the Linux 5.10 kernel is removing the experimental flag for the Arcturus GPU, days after AMD announced the MI100 accelerator at SC20...

Qt 5.15.2 Released With Another 176 Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 19:09
Two months ago Qt 5.15.1 released with over 400 bug fixes and today the second point release of Qt 5.15 LTS is out with another nearly two hundred fixes...

NVIDIA Is Working On Vulkan Support With RDMA Memory

Phoronix - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 17:38
Well this will be interesting to see what NVIDIA use-case pans out... NVIDIA engineers are working on a Vulkan extension for making use of RDMA memory...

Mesa To Drop Support For Ancient Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 16:35
The fallout should be minimal and hopefully not impact any Phoronix readers, but as Mesa rolls into 2021 it is looking to drop support for loading DRI1 graphics drivers...

How we develop success metrics for open source events

opensource.com - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 16:01

As many open source communities grow larger and older, they may face problems managing members' engagement. People turn towards metrics to understand large systems and prioritize resources, but there has not been a consensus set of metrics for understanding open source communities.


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What do open source product teams do?

opensource.com - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 16:00

If you go to any hip product management conference, you'll hear about product teams. At a minimum, a product team has a product manager, but it often includes roles in marketing, technical architecture, and even user experience (UX).


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Intel Preparing To Restore Frame-Buffer Compression For Tiger Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 13:06
This summer Intel disabled frame-buffer compression for Gen12 Tiger Lake graphics. While FBC helps conserve memory bandwidth and can be beneficial to power-savings, under-run issues and related problems resorted Intel to disabling this common feature for Tiger Lake...

Linux Syscall User Dispatch Close To Mainline For Better Handling Windows Games

Phoronix - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 06:25
Earlier this year we reported on Linux kernel work for better handling Windows games/apps that make system call instructions that bypass the Windows API. Directly making the system calls without going through the WinAPI has become an increasingly common occurrence for modern Windows games, likely as part of their Digital Rights Management schemes. Syscall User Dispatch is now the latest take on that effort...

Mesa 20.3-RC2 Released With ACO Fixes, More Intel Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 03:56
The second release candidate of Mesa 20.3 is now available for testing ahead of its likely stable debut in early December...

Linux Support Published For Intel's "Maple Ridge" Thunderbolt Controller

Phoronix - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 00:55
Announced during the summer was Intel's Maple Ridge controller in the form of the Intel JHL8540 / JHL8340 chips as their first discrete Thunderbolt / USB4 controllers. Linux support for the Intel Maple Ridge controller is now on the way...

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