Open-source News

Wine 5.22 Released With Video Playback Improvements, More PE Conversion

Phoronix - Sat, 11/21/2020 - 05:07
We should be getting near the end of the Wine 5.xx development releases with the timed Wine 6.0 release likely to come in early 2021, but for now Wine 5.22 is out with the latest feature work for running Windows programs and games on Linux and macOS...

Coreboot 4.13 Adds Intel TXT, Picks Up New Boards For AMD Pollock, Intel Alder Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 11/21/2020 - 03:49
Coreboot 4.13 is out today as the latest tagged version of this open-source firmware platform supporting a wide range of hardware...

Apple M1 ARM Performance With A 2020 Mac Mini

Phoronix - Sat, 11/21/2020 - 01:22
For those curious about the hardware potential out of Apple's in-house M1 processor powering new Mac Book Pros and Mac Mini, for the past week we have been running benchmarks of this ARM-based processor and have a number of benchmarks to share today looking at how the performance compares to prior Intel-powered Macs along with the Rosetta 2.0 performance for running x86_64 binaries on ARMv8.

Xfce 4.16pre2 Is Another Step Forward For This Open-Source Desktop

Phoronix - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 22:04
Xfce 4.16 had been aiming to release in October~November as part of their new timed release approach but that has now slipped into the December~January time-frame but today saw the availability of the second pre-release...

IBM POWER9 CPUs Need To Flush Their L1 Cache Between Privilege Boundaries Due To New Bug

Phoronix - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 20:09
CVE-2020-4788 is now public and it's not good for IBM and their POWER9 processors... This new vulnerability means these IBM processors need to be flushing their L1 data cache between privilege boundaries, similar to other recent CPU nightmares...

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...

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