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Mesa 20.3-RC2 Released With ACO Fixes, More Intel Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 03:56
The second release candidate of Mesa 20.3 is now available for testing ahead of its likely stable debut in early December...

Linux Support Published For Intel's "Maple Ridge" Thunderbolt Controller

Phoronix - Fri, 11/20/2020 - 00:55
Announced during the summer was Intel's Maple Ridge controller in the form of the Intel JHL8540 / JHL8340 chips as their first discrete Thunderbolt / USB4 controllers. Linux support for the Intel Maple Ridge controller is now on the way...

Radeon RX 6800 "Sienna Cichlid" Firmware Added To Linux-Firmware.Git

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 22:29
The last piece of the puzzle to the open-source AMD Radeon RX 6800 / RX 6800 XT driver support is now upstream in its respective location...

AMDVLK 2020.Q4.5 Vulkan Driver Brings Radeon RX 6000 Series Support

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 20:00
While it was just two days ago that AMDVLK 2020.Q4.4 was released, AMD has made good on their word to provide punctual AMDVLK open-source Vulkan driver support for their new RDNA 2 "Big Navi" graphics cards and that has resulted in a new AMDVLK release...

Mir 2.2 Released With Display Wall Capabilities, Composite Bypass On GBM-KMS

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 19:28
Mir 2.2 is out this morning as the newest update to this Wayland compositor and display server...

IBM, Red Hat, VMware & Others Form The Inclusive Naming Initiative

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 19:07
The Inclusive Naming Initiative has been formed by various industry players to make "consistent, responsible choices to remove harmful language" from software...

Automate your tasks with this Ansible cheat sheet

opensource.com - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 16:01

Ansible is one of the primary tools in the world of automation and orchestration because of its broad usefulness and flexibility. However, those same traits are the very reason it can be difficult to get started with Ansible. It isn't a graphical application, and yet it also isn't a scripting or programming language.


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The relationship between labor and open source

opensource.com - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 16:00

The open source software ecosystem is a fascinating blend of personal passion projects and massive, collaborative corporate efforts. Sometimes there is even overlap when the passion projects are actually key components of the huge corporate projects or when a corporate project is abandoned by the original maintainers, but someone takes up the cause and makes it their personal passion project. Regardless of where an open source project falls on that spectrum, there is a lot of labor involved in the development and maintenance of open source projects.


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Xilinx Publishes An Open-Source AI Engine Kernel Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 11/19/2020 - 13:05
In addition to AMD and Xilinx bringing ROCm to FPGAs, another interesting open-source/Linux milestone for the company being acquired by AMD is their publishing of the AI Engine open-source kernel driver with ambitions for upstreaming it...

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