Open-source News

Over the past several months there has been work on Intel's Linux kernel graphics driver for async page-flipping to yield better performance. That work was revised against today for hopefully making it into a kernel release in the near future albeit too late for Linux 5.9 but regardless nice to see this work moving forward...

Intel Async Page-Flipping Support Revised For Benefiting Skylake Graphics And Newer  Phoronix

Tech Leaders and Health Authorities from Around the Globe Collaborate to Combat COVID-19  PRNewswire

Tech Leaders and Health Authorities from Around the Globe Collaborate to Combat COVID-19  Canada NewsWire

creating a new partition-sheme : which partions should leave forvever - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

A few months back we wrote of experimental work for creating "secret" memory areas with memfd and now that work has turned into the secretmemfd system call that is under review...

Linux Secret Memory "secretmemfd" System Call Remains Under Review  Phoronix

Vulkan 1.2.148 was released on Sunday with two new extensions...

While the open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver allows pre-GCN AMD graphics card owners continue making use of their graphics cards, there are diminishing returns with newer games requiring Vulkan that is not supported by pre-HD7000 series hardware as well as far greater performance and efficiency improvements in the more recent generations. In any case, if you are still using a Radeon HD 2000 through HD 6000 series graphics card, some new life is being pushed into the open-source driver via the in-development NIR back-end...

Radeon R600 Gallium3D NIR Backend Continues Advancing  Phoronix

The latest FFmpeg multimedia library code can see faster H.265 video encoding with the Video Acceleration API when running on Icelake and newer Intel graphics...

PINE64 Reopens Pre-Order Of $200 ARM Linux Laptop Pinebook Pro  Fossbytes

Linux Foundation Planning Kubernetes Security Certification  Silicon UK

Global Linux Operating System Market Size 2020 Competition by Manufacturers, Concentration Rate, Production Volume, Price – 360 Market Updates  Owned

Linux Operating System Market Is Booming Worldwide | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux  3rd Watch News

PolarFire SoC Icicle 64-bit RISC-V and FPGA Development Board Runs Linux or FreeBSD (Crowdfunding)  CNX Software

In my previous seven articles in this series about systemd, and especially in the most recent article, time and date have come up in multiple contexts. systemd uses calendar time, specifying one or more moments in time to trigger events (such as a backup program), as well as timestamped entries in the journal. It can also use timespans, which define the amount of time between two events but are not directly tied to specific calendar times.

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There's a question that pops up quite frequently at TotalCross—in our day-to-day work, after presentations, in Reddit discussions, and sometimes even in our Telegram channel. Let's answer it once and for all: No, TotalCross Virtual Machine is not another Java Virtual Machine. This article explains the differences between the two, how TotalCross interacts with Java, and how to know which is best for your application.

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You have tests for everything; maybe you even have a badge in your project repository stating 100% test coverage. But what are these tests helping you do? How do you know?

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How to download and use VM image of Samurai Web Testing Framework on VMware  H2S Media