Open-source News

NVIDIA Posts Patches For SVM Atomics Support With Open-Source Nouveau  Phoronix

There are a new round of kernel patches posted today by NVIDIA for the open-source, traditionally reverse-engineered "Nouveau" graphics driver: implementing support for SVM atomic memory operations...

Linux Software Market to Watch: Spotlight on Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Linux Foundation to Take Over Facebook's Open Source 5G Mobile Core Software  The Fast Mode

The work-in-progress FUTEX2 system call for improving Windows games on Linux via Wine / Steam Play remains one of the items left to be addressed in 2021 with the work on that being funded by Valve and tackled by Collabora engineers...

The FUTEX2 System Call Continues Working Its Way Towards Mainline In 2021  Phoronix

How to mount Box.com cloud storage on Linux  LXer

CloudLinux Expands Extended Lifecycle Support Beyond CentOS  ITPro Today

KDE developer Roman Gilg continues pushing ahead with KWinFT as a fork of the KWin window manager / compositor and other select components. He spent a lot of time last year better optimizing the X11 and Wayland handling while he's been relentlessly working this year to push it even further...

Open source "vaccine passports:" Linux Foundation Public Health talks development, security, and digitally restoring trust  TechRepublic

At last month's Linux.Conf.Au virtual conference was a presentation by Google engineer Nick Desaulniers on the current state of building the Linux kernel with LLVM Clang as an alternative to GCC...

Building The Linux Kernel With Clang Continues To Be Useful, New Features Pursued  Phoronix

Building The Linux Kernel With Clang Continues To Be Useful, New Features Pursued  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market 2021: Qualitative and Quantitative research | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  NeighborWebSJ

Mozilla has been sponsoring the Rust programming language for more than a decade while in 2020 as part of Mozilla's big round of layoffs most of the Rust team was let go along with dropping the Servo web engine team. Following that plans were drafted to create the Rust Foundation as an independent entity...

Best Virtual machines for Windows 10 to run Linux  H2S Media

AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs. NVIDIA RTX 30 Linux Performance Heating Up  Phoronix

Given the open-source Radeon driver progress for RDNA2 over the past three months since the Radeon RX 6800 series were launched, here is a look at how the Radeon RX 6800 series and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series is currently competing on Linux when using the latest Linux drivers from the respective vendors.

Linux 5.11 could arrive next week, as Linus Torvalds slams the Superbowl  TechRadar

Hitting Mesa 21.1 this morning is a scheduler implementation for Panfrost Gallium3D, the open-source Arm Mali graphics driver...