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9 stories about switching to an open source alternative in 2020
In 2020, as every year, new open source projects launched as alternatives to proprietary solutions. Here is a roundup of the top nine articles about open source alternatives that made the headlines in 2020 on Opensource.com.
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Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Lands Tessellation Shader Support In Mesa 21.0
Landing in Mesa 21.0 on Tuesday was support for OpenGL tessellation shaders (ARB_tessellation_shader) with the Zink Gallium3D code implementing generic OpenGL support atop Vulkan...
LibTraceFS 1.0 Released For Interacting With Linux's Tracing File-System
Merged into the Linux kernel back in 2015 was the TraceFS file-system to better address Linux tracing use-cases that previously were handled atop DebugFS. Now LibTraceFS has reached version 1.0 as the user-space library around TraceFS after being spun out of Trace-CMD earlier this year...
Xfce 4.16 Released With Numerous Improvements To This Lightweight GTK3 Desktop
Xfce 4.16 managed to ship in 2020 as one of the original goals for this release after the much delayed Xfce 4.14 series. Xfce 4.16 comes with many incremental improvements to this GTK3 desktop environment...
Microsoft Adds SPIR-V To DXIL Library In Mesa - With A Focus On WebGPU Support
Microsoft continues pushing new code into Mesa 21.0 as its efforts around Mesa continue to ramp up principally around GPU acceleration within Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as well as allowing the likes of OpenGL and OpenCL to function under Windows 10 in the absence of native GL/CL drivers by using Mesa to translate the APIs for consumption by Direct3D 12 drivers...
Fedora 34 Planning To Make Use Of Systemd-OOMD To Improve Low Memory Experience
At the end of November systemd 247 released with the new Out-of-Memory Daemon (systemd-oomd) and for the Fedora 34 release next year that will likely be enabled by default for all spins...
The State of Safety Certification of Platforms - Embedded Computing Design
The State of Safety Certification of Platforms Embedded Computing Design
Haiku OS Gearing Up For 2021 With Improving ARM Port, Other Hardware Improvements
Haiku as the open-source OS inspired by BeOS continues to be quite active in feature development as 2020 draws to a close...
Linux 5.11 Drops AMD Zen Voltage/Current Reporting Over Lack Of Documentation
The Linux hardware monitoring "k10temp" driver is dropping support for reporting CPU voltage and current information for AMD Zen-based processors over lack of documentation for being able to properly support the functionality...