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Ubuntu 21.04 Is The "Hirsute Hippo", Releasing On 22 April

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 21:31
Following last week's Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" release, Ubuntu 21.04 development is now getting underway as the Hirsute Hippo...

Qt 6 To Ship With Package Manager For Extra Libraries

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 21:00
Adding to the list of changes coming with the Qt 6 toolkit, The Qt Company has now outlined their initial implementation of a package manager to provide additional Qt6 modules...

Sony Engineer Talks Up Using Flutter + Wayland For Their Embedded Interfaces

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 19:00
A Sony engineer confirmed at this week's Embedded Linux Conference Europe that the company has begun using the Flutter toolkit atop Wayland as their means of developing user-interfaces on embedded systems...

Mesa 20.3 Supports Intel Alder Lake Gen12 Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 18:32
Last week Intel open-source engineers began publishing Linux kernel patches for the "Alder Lake S" graphics support. That work should be found in the Linux 5.11 cycle being christened as stable in early 2021. In user-space, Alder Lake graphics patches also appeared for their OpenCL / oneAPI Level Zero compute stack and now merged into Mesa 20.3 as well for OpenGL / Vulkan support...

The Linux Kernel Looks To Eventually Drop Support For WiMAX

Phoronix - Wed, 10/28/2020 - 16:05
With the WiMAX 802.16 standard not being widely used outside of the Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communication System (AeroMACS) and usage in some developing nations, the Linux kernel may end up dropping its support for WiMAX but first there is a proposal to demote it to staging while seeing if any users remain...

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