Open-source News

Nearly A Decade Later, UPower Still Working Towards 1.0 Release

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 15:00
For nearly one decade there has been talk of UPower 1.0 while in 2021 that still has yet to materialize for this former "DeviceKit-Power" project but at least now there is UPower v0.99.12 as the first release in two years...

Try quantum computing with this open source software development kit

opensource.com - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 15:00

Classical computing is based on bits. Zeros and ones. This isn't because there's some inherent advantage to a binary logic system over logic systems with more states—or even over analog computers. But on-off switches are easy to make and, with modern semiconductor technology, we can make them very small and very cheap.


read more

Oracle Sends Out Latest Linux Patches So Trenchboot Can Securely Launch The Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 12:00
Trenchboot continues to be worked on for providing boot integrity technologies that allow for multiple roots of trust around boot security and integrity. Oracle engineers on Friday sent out their latest Linux kernel patches so it can enjoy a "Secure Launch" by the project's x86 dynamic launch measurements code...

RADV Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Begins Landing Ray-Tracing Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 07:05
In recent months RADV lead developer Bas Nieuwenhuizen began working on Vulkan ray-tracing support for this Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver that isn't officially supported by AMD but as an alternative to the company's open-source AMDVLK driver or their cross-platform proprietary Vulkan driver. Hitting the Mesa 21.2-devel code a few minutes ago is the initial Vulkan ray-tracing bits for RADV!..

Wine 6.11 Released With Theming Support For All Built-In Programs

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 04:10
Wine 6.11 is out as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot for running an increasing number of Windows applications and games on Linux...

Proton 6.3-5 RC Allows More Windows Games To Run On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 03:00
Just in time for the weekend Linux gamers is a new release candidate of the upcoming Proton 6.3-5 that powers Valve's Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Pending Patches Allow Direct3D 9 "Gallium Nine" To Run Over Mesa's Zink Vulkan

Phoronix - Sat, 06/19/2021 - 01:54
Mesa's Zink is well known for working to provide a generic OpenGL implementation over the Vulkan API that can be used across hardware/drivers. While still focused on OpenGL-over-Vulkan, with some pending patches it turns out Zink can support Gallium3D Nine for ultimately allowing Direct3D 9 atop this layer...

GravityMark OpenGL/Vulkan Performance For NVIDIA RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series

Phoronix - Fri, 06/18/2021 - 21:30
A few days ago I wrote about GravityMark as a new cross-API GPU benchmark from a former Unigine developer. Being curious about the Linux GPU driver performance for this benchmark that is focused on delivering maximum GPU acceleration support, I ran some benchmarks on the latest NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards with this benchmark for OpenGL and Vulkan.

Pages