Open-source News

Last quarter Intel began upstreaming their open-source Alder Lake S graphics support for Linux. It hasn't been too big of a feat or revealed many details since it's still Gen12 / Xe graphics seen since Tiger Lake. But it's been coming along and over the past month is now wired up into Intel's open-source Media Driver stack too...

The fifth weekly release candidate of Linux 5.11 is now available for testing...

Linux 5.11-rc5 Kernel Released Following A Busy Sunday  Phoronix

With this past week's release of Pyston 2.1 as an alternative Python interpreter I was curious to see how the performance compared to that of upstream Python... So here are some weekend benchmarks with a Ryzen 9 5900X system...

How to Find Cheap Linux VPS?  Techstory

GNU Binutils 2.36 is out today as the latest version of this collection of binary utilities for Linux/open-source systems...

The Linux kernel mentor program for the spring 2021 period is now accepting applications...

Learn To Get Involved In Linux Kernel Development This Spring  Phoronix

Intel Has A New Driver For Linux 5.12: Reporting Your Laptop's Hinge/Keyboard Angle  Phoronix

Intel's latest open-source Linux driver contribution is a hinge driver that is set to debut with Linux 5.12...

COVID-19 Impact Analysis of Linux Computer Market Report 2020 | Dell, System76, Purism, Slimbook, TUXEDO Computers, Vikings, etc.  Murphy's Hockey Law

While GTK 4.0 has been released, there still is major work to look forward to with future GTK4 releases. One area seeing recent and ongoing improvements is with the toolkit's OpenGL renderer...

In my work life, I often deal with geospatial data. This data not only carries the customary sorts of attributes we see every day but also geographic attributes, like points, lines, enclosed areas, polygons, and surfaces. This data is typically projected from latitude, longitude, and sea-level-elevation data to other coordinate systems to facilitate analysis and viewing.

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In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 14 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.

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Comprehensive Report on Linux Software Market 2021 | Size, Growth, Demand, Opportunities & Forecast To 2027 | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

With the upcoming GCC 11 compiler release the GNU compiler's just-in-time (JIT) library is no longer considered to be of alpha quality...

Two years and nine patches later, xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.17 is out as the latest X.Org driver update for this open-source NVIDIA driver component...

Voltage, temperature, and fan speed reporting among desktop motherboards under Linux remains one of the unfortunate areas even in 2021... Many SIO ICs remain publicly undocumented and the Linux driver support is often left up to the community and usually through reverse-engineering. Thus the mainline Linux kernel support is left to suffer especially among newer desktop motherboards. At least for Linux 5.12 some ASRock motherboards will begin seeing their voltage/temperature reporting now function...

Linux 5.12 To Allow Voltage/Temperature Reporting On Some ASRock Motherboards  Phoronix

You can presently operate Linux on Apple M1 machines  Insider Advantage Georgia