Open-source News

Red Hat's "Stalld" Thread Stall Detector + Booster Sees New Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 22:10
Back in August we reported on Red Hat engineers developing Stalld as a new Linux service for detecting stalled threads and also allowing select threads to be boosted based on policy. In the months since Stalld continues to be developed and recently saw new releases...

FlightGear 2020.3 Released For This Leading Open-Source Flight Simulator

Phoronix - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 19:55
FlightGear 2020.3 is out today as the newest feature update to this long-standing, open-source flight simulator software package...

Mesa Moves Closer To Having OpenCL 3.0 Support In Clover Gallium3D

Phoronix - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 19:35
It's not across the finish line at least yet but Mesa 20.3 just merged today the initial prep changes needed for exposing OpenCL 3.0 support within the Clover Gallium3D state tracker...

Intel "Big Joiner" Enabling Nearly Squared Away For Allowing 8K Output On A Single Port

Phoronix - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 19:12
For the past several months there have been a number of Intel Linux DRM patch series around "big joiner" support and that is looking like it may soon be finished up for allowing support for driving 8K displays off a single port...

AMD Radeon Graphics Updates For Linux 5.11 Bring New Hardware, Other Enhancements

Phoronix - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 16:10
An initial round of predominantly AMDGPU kernel driver patches have been called upon for pulling into DRM-Next as new feature work for Linux 5.11...

Share RPG battle maps with this open source web app

opensource.com - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 16:01

I play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), a tabletop role-playing game in which players take control of mythic heroes to explore imaginary dungeons and fight make-believe dragons. D&D players often like to draw maps on big sheets of butcher's paper, or buy and craft evocative set pieces, so that they can track their progress through the realms with gaming miniatures.


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A web-native approach to open source scientific publishing

opensource.com - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 16:00

This summer, eLife was pleased to launch Executable Research Articles (ERAs) in partnership with Stencila, allowing authors to post computationally reproducible versions of their published papers in the open-access journal.


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Intel Lands Vulkan Ray-Tracing Prep Work In Mesa 20.3

Phoronix - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 13:04
Following the news that we were first to report last month on Intel starting open-source public patches for Vulkan ray-tracing in preparation for their forthcoming Xe HPG graphics card, the initial prep work for that Vulkan ray-tracing support has now been merged in time for Mesa 20.3...

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