Open-source News

AMDGPU Patches Revived For Better Hot Device Unplug / External GPU Handling  Phoronix

We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to  Ars Technica

There have been a few Vulkan spec updates without any new extensions introduced but this weekend's Vulkan 1.2.145 revision does bring new functionality...

Vulkan 1.2.145 Released With VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state  Phoronix

Windows Subsystem for Linux (held back Ubuntu updates)  Thurrott.com

In addition to changing the acceptable language within the LLVM project, another topic this week sure to be interesting is on the establishing of an "incubator" process similar to that of Apache Incubator projects...

A few days ago I mentioned that it looked like the FSGSBASE patches could finally land for Linux 5.9 and indeed this performance-sensitive x86_64 feature is on track for premiering the next kernel cycle. But additional testing is encouraged...

FSGSBASE Testing Is Encouraged Ahead Of Linux 5.9  Phoronix

FSGSBASE Testing Is Encouraged Ahead Of Linux 5.9  Phoronix

Vantage Student Earns Certification, Scores in Top 10 Percent Nationally  West Bend News

Google's Nearby Share for Android may also be compatible with ChromeOS, Linux, Windows and macOS  Notebookcheck.net

Google's Nearby Share feature for Android may also support Chrome OS, Windows, Linux, and macOS  gizmochina

Two weeks after ROCm 3.5, the AMD Radeon team has now issued a patch update to this Radeon Open Compute stack...

TwilioQuest is a free role-playing video game for Windows, Linux and macOS with which you can learn to program  Explica

The Future of the Windows Subsystem for Linux - Thurrott.com  Thurrott.com

The Raspberry Pi 1 through Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and even the Raspberry Pi Zero can now see Vulkan support via a new unofficial "RPi-VK-Driver" that is offering even better performance than the Broadcom OpenGL driver...

The Pascal programming language is 50 years old this year. The Free Pascal Compiler for Pascal / Object Pascal is out with version 3.2 to celebrate, five years since FPC's previous 3.0 stable series. Somewhat amusing. this FPC 3.2 compiler update adds a Windows 16-bit target support for building Pascal code for Windows 3.0+...

FPC 3.2 Pascal Compiler Released In 2020 - Even Adds Windows 3.0 16-bit Support  Phoronix

KDE developers continue making much progress on enhancing their desktop through this pandemic and the nice summer weather...

KDE Plasma 5.19 Sees Many Regression Fixes, Other Work For Plasma 5.20  Phoronix