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Intel Gallium3D Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.2 For Gen4 Through Haswell Graphics

Phoronix - Mon, 06/14/2021 - 08:18
The independently-developed "Crocus" driver providing a Mesa Gallium3D implementation for Intel Gen4 "i965" through Gen7 "Haswell" graphics has now been merged into Mesa 21.2 for ultimately aiming to improve the open-source OpenGL support for these aging Intel integrated graphics generations...

Linux 5.13-rc6 Released With The Kernel Cycle Smoothing Out

Phoronix - Mon, 06/14/2021 - 06:48
After several weeks worth of 5.13-rc releases where there were more changes than Linus Torvalds would like to see, Linux 5.13-rc6 is out now and it's on the smaller side while panning out nicely for this later stage of kernel development...

KWinFT Going Through Code Refactoring, Working On WLROOTS-Based Usage

Phoronix - Mon, 06/14/2021 - 01:30
Announced last year was KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin to focus on improving the Wayland support more rapidly and incorporating other modern technologies. KWinFT has been making progress on advancing its code-base while in recent months it was seemingly more quiet. However, it turns out KWinFT is alive and well and has been going through some code refactoring while preparing for the next wave of feature work...

Linux 5.14 To Begin Enabling The Intel Graphics TTM Memory Management Bits for dGPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 06/13/2021 - 19:07
While a decade ago Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers resisted TTM at the time and instead devised the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) for kernel graphics memory management needs in its place, now with discrete graphics cards and dedicated video memory, Intel has been working on making use of TTM memory management for those purposes. With Linux 5.14 the initial bits are going to be there for using TTM by the Intel driver when running with discrete graphics having local memory...

Last Year's L-Shaped Desk Build Has Been Holding Up Well

Phoronix - Sun, 06/13/2021 - 18:17
As a quick follow-up to last year's L-shaped desk build for accommodating plenty of displays, laptops, and more, it's still working out very well...

Wasmtime 0.28 Released With C++ Embedding Support

Phoronix - Sun, 06/13/2021 - 17:51
In addition to the recent WebAssembly project releases of Wasmer 2.0-rc and WASM3 v0.5, the Bytecode Alliance that is made up of Intel and Mozilla and other organizations has announced Wasmtime 0.28...

Intel's ConnMan 1.40, IWD 1.15 Released For Linux Networking

Phoronix - Sun, 06/13/2021 - 15:00
A number of Intel's open-source projects have been seeing new released this week presumably for making Q2/H1-2021 goals, including two of the networking projects maintained by the company: the ConnMan connection manager and IWD wireless daemon...

10 go-to breakfasts for open source technologists today

opensource.com - Sun, 06/13/2021 - 15:00

In May, we asked some of our contributors what they eat for breakfast. After all, busy developers, sysadmins, and other IT pros need to fuel up quickly before they are ready to take on the rigors of their jobs.

After reading about our contributors' morning meals, many Opensource.com readers were quick to share what they eat to start the day. So if the first 16 quick breakfasts didn't feed your hunger, here are 10 more options.


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