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BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Lands Its SD/MMC Drivers, Continues Other Hardware Efforts

Phoronix - Sun, 02/07/2021 - 20:30
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has continued pushing forward in 2021. The range of their work so far is quite diverse from finally landing SD/MMC driver support to at the same time being a bit more forward-looking and already working on 5-level paging support to handle terabytes of system RAM...

FWUPD Is Being Ported To The BSDs To Handle Firmware Updating

Phoronix - Sun, 02/07/2021 - 18:55
With the incredible success of FWUPD and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) where most major hardware vendors are supporting it in some capacity for distributing firmware updates to Linux customers, there are BSD developers working to it port it over to their camp to support firmware updates...

RADV Preference On Spilling Buffers To Help Discrete GPUs For Some Games

Phoronix - Sun, 02/07/2021 - 16:35
Dropping a conditional (if) statement from the RADV driver in Mesa is helping the performance of discrete Radeon graphics cards with the RADV Vulkan driver for some games...

Why the success of open source depends on empathy

opensource.com - Sun, 02/07/2021 - 16:00

Open source development's collaborative innovation and community ethos have changed the world. In The Open Organization, Jim Whitehurst explains that success in open source is found by "thinking of people as members of a community, moving from a transactional mindset to one built on commitment." However, there is still a barrier at the core of the open source development model: Frequently, it lacks human empathy.


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3 ways to play video games on Linux

opensource.com - Sun, 02/07/2021 - 16:00

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. Today, I'll start with gaming.


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Mageia 8 RC1 Brings AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1, NVIDIA GLVND, Linux 5.10 LTS

Phoronix - Sun, 02/07/2021 - 13:00
In addition to OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 nearing release, Mageia that shares a similar Mandrake/Mandriva lineage is nearing its next major release in the form of Mageia 8...

FreeBSD 13.0-BETA1 Released With WireGuard, Updated ZFS, NUMA Optimizations

Phoronix - Sun, 02/07/2021 - 09:17
FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is aiming to debut before the end of March and there is good chances of that with the FreeBSD 13.0 release process so far being on schedule. With that, this weekend marks the availability of FreeBSD 13.0-BETA1...

Debian 10.8 Released With Dozens Of Fixes, Switches To More Parallel Build Process

Phoronix - Sun, 02/07/2021 - 01:32
Debian 10.8 as the Linux distribution's latest quarterly update is now available ahead of Debian 11 expected later in the year...

LibreSOC Still Striving To Produce An Open-Source Hybrid CPU/GPU Built On OpenPOWER

Phoronix - Sun, 02/07/2021 - 00:28
LibreSOC remains the very ambitious project of creating a fully open-source hybrid CPU/GPU SoC but with a very uphill battle still in front of them...

VoltPillager: Researchers Compromise Intel SGX With Hardware-Based Undervolting Attack

Phoronix - Sat, 02/06/2021 - 22:55
Security researchers out of the University of Birmingham have crafted another attack against Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) when having physical motherboard access and using their "VoltPillager" hardware device they assembled for about $30 USD...

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