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Google Working On Making VirtIO-GPU More Extensible

Phoronix - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 17:47
Google Chrome OS engineers are working on making Linux's VirtIO-GPU driver more extensible. The VirtIO-GPU driver has been modeled around the Virgl protocol for handling 3D within guest virtual machines but with a new context type addition they aim to support additional protocols...

30 things you didn't know about the Linux kernel

opensource.com - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 15:03

The Linux kernel is turning 30 this year. That's three decades of pioneering open source software, enabling users to run free software, to learn from the applications they're running, and to share what they've learned with friends. It's argued that without the Linux kernel, the luxuries of open culture and free software we enjoy today may not have surfaced when they have. It's highly improbable that the parts of Apple and Microsoft and Google that are open would be open at all without Linux as the catalyst.


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Know your organization's rule makers and rule breakers

opensource.com - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 15:00

In the first part of my review of Michele J. Gelfand's book, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, I explained the author's argument about the ways social norms impact organizational cultures. In this part, I'll explore more deeply the ways understanding social norms can help leaders build open organizations.


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How open source software shapes AI policy, open source comes to medical datasets, and more

opensource.com - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 15:00

Open source made it into a lot of news headlines last month. Read on to learn about some of the major advances.


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Intel AMX Patches For The Kernel Posted A 10th Time, But To Miss Out On Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 12:00
Going back to June of last year there has been work on Intel bringing up Advanced Matrix Extension (AMX) that will debut with next-gen Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" processors as a new programming paradigm. Over the past year they have published patches for the Linux kernel and open-source toolchains with GCC and LLVM Clang. One year later, the AMX kernel patches are up to their tenth revision but will miss out on the imminent Linux 5.15 merge window...

Linux Pipe Code Again Sees Patch To Restore Buggy/Improper User-Space Behavior

Phoronix - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 07:38
It was just last month that the Linux kernel saw a pipe code change to address a user-space regression due to the kernel's policy about not breaking the user-space even if that non-kernel code is in the wrong. A similar kernel regression fix was merged today...

Optimized C3 Entry Handling For AMD CPUs Queued For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 03:15
The work I initially wrote about last week for AMD optimizing their C3 entry handling to avoid an unnecessary cache flush will now be picked up for the upcoming Linux 5.15 kernel cycle...

OpenShot 2.6 Video Editor Released With Computer Vision + AI Effects

Phoronix - Thu, 08/26/2021 - 01:05
OpenShot 2.6 has been released as the newest version of this non-linear open-source video editing system for Linux...

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