Open-source News

Zlib-ng 2.0 Released As More Performant + Modern Zlib Fork

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 05:17
Zlib-ng 2.0 is out today as the first stable release of this zlib fork focused on "next generation" systems with speedier performance and a more modern API, among other changes...

RHEL In Your Car? Red Hat Building Out Automotive Infotainment Team

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 03:08
Red Hat is in the process of building out an "infotainment" team to work on low-level Linux infrastructure work around their growing automotive efforts...

System76 Pangolin Laptop Launches - Powered By AMD Ryzen 4000 Series

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 00:00
Going back to last December System76 had been teasing a new Pangolin laptop that would be AMD powered. Finally their new laptop has launched with Ryzen 4000 series mobile processors and making use of the integrated Radeon graphics...

Intel Details Rocket Lake S Processors, Linux Benchmarks To Come

Phoronix - Tue, 03/16/2021 - 23:00
Intel today is publicly detailing their 11th Gen "Rocket Lake S" processors. Here is what you need to know about Rocket Lake S although we cannot yet share any Linux performance figures until that later Rocket Lake S review embargo lift date.

OpenJDK 16 Released With The JDK Source Beginning To Use C++14 Features

Phoronix - Tue, 03/16/2021 - 23:00
Java 16 is out today in the form of the OpenJDK 16 general availability release...

V3DV Vulkan Driver Enjoys More Optimizations To Help The Raspberry Pi 4

Phoronix - Tue, 03/16/2021 - 22:08
Igalia has outlined some of the recent V3D compiler work they've been engaging in to help with the Vulkan driver performance on the Raspberry Pi 4 while the compiler back-end work also benefits the Mesa OpenGL driver too...

Pages