Open-source News

Linux Foundation Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Europe 2020  ComputerWeekly.com

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) announced on Thursday that they are funding improvements to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) around GPU compute offloading...

Could you build a better TikTok?  Stuff.co.nz

Linux Software Market 2020 Performance Outlook After COVID-19, Types (Debian, Fedora, Opensuse, Others), Top Companies (Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Samsung, Oracle, RedHat, Facebook, etc)  Owned

While Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 is the latest and greatest series for Oracle's kernel spin derived from upstream Linux 5.4 as an alternative on Oracle Linux to their "Red Hat Compatible Kernel", for those still making use of the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 5, a new update was issued today...

Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel "R5U4"  Phoronix

Building off the recent release of Chrome 85, Google has now released the beta of Chrome 86 with a number of goodies introduced and promotions for some existing functionality...

The fourth and likely last release candidate of Mesa 20.2 is now available for testing while the formal release should happen next week...

Just over one month ago was the GTK 3.99 release and now that has been succeeded by GTK 3.99.1 in getting quite close to the long-awaited GTK 4.0 tool-kit release...

Cortex-R82 runs 64-bit Linux with up to 1TB RAM  LinuxGizmos.com

Cortex-R82 runs 64-bit Linux with up to 1TB RAM  LinuxGizmos.com

Next Platform TV for September 3, 2020  The Next Platform

Arm's First 64-bit Cortex-R Chip Adds 'Computational Storage'  EnterpriseAI

Lenovo releases first Fedora Linux ThinkPad laptop  ZDNet

Following the debut of the big Blender 2.90 release and subsequently updating it for the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org, here is a deep dive into the Blender 2.90 performance... A number of areas are being looked at with the initial Blender 2.90 benchmarks from how the performance is on various CPUs and GPUs to the performance of the Blender 2.82 vs. 2.90 to looking at the Windows vs. Linux performance for Blender 2.90 with various means of acceleration.

Could you build a better TikTok?  The Economist

Linux: 29 Years and Counting as a Powerhouse OS  TechNewsWorld

Linux: 29 Years and Counting as a Powerhouse OS  LinuxInsider.com

Escuelas Linux 6.10, updated kernel and new applications  Somag News

The Linux Foundation Announces the Full Line-up of Sessions for the Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2020 Virtual Experience, October 26 - 29 Open for all - Anytime. Anywhere.  PRNewswire