Open-source News

Last week AMD's open-source Linux engineers published the initial Linux kernel driver patches for the "Sienna Cichlid" GPU that appears to be almost definitely the big Navi 2. Now that those AMDGPU patches are public, the folks working on the user-space drivers have had the go-ahead to begin volleying their related patches for Sienna Cichlid. Out today is the RadeonSI OpenGL driver support for this next-generation Navi GPU...

Radeon Navi 2 "Sienna Cichlid" Published For AMD's OpenGL Driver  Phoronix

Firefox 77 / 78 Beta vs. Chrome 83 Linux Browser Benchmarks  Phoronix

Given the recent releases of Chrome 83 and Firefox 77 while Firefox 78 was promoted to beta, here are some current web browser benchmarks from the Linux desktop for these different browser releases.

On Sunday Greg Kroah-Hartman began sending in his pull requests to the different areas of the kernel he oversees for the ongoing Linux 5.8 merge window...

SpaceX: We've launched 32,000 Linux computers into space for Starlink internet  ZDNet

Ubuntu opens the door to talking with Linux Mint about Snap  ZDNet

After Munich agreement, Hamburg moves to Linux  Fudzilla

Longtime open-source Intel Linux graphics driver developer Chris Wilson on Sunday sent out a big patch series that introduces a new fair low-latency scheduler for the Intel kernel graphics driver...

Intel Graphics Driver Sees Fair Low-Latency Scheduling Inspired In Part By BFS/MuQSS  Phoronix

Last week saw the main Direct Rendering Manager driver updates for Linux 5.8 with a lot on the open-source graphics front while a secondary pull request was submitted today with the Freedreno "MSM" DRM driver changes for this open-source Qualcomm Adreno driver implementation...

Linux 5.8 Will Light Up The Adreno 405 / 640 / 650 GPUs On Open-Source  Phoronix

While more laptops are shipping these days finally with Icelake "Gen 11" graphics and Tiger Lake with "Gen 12" graphics are expected soon, there still is an incredible amount of hardware out there making use of Intel Gen 9 graphics that have been in use since Skylake. It's looking like for the Ubuntu 20.10 cycle, there is going to be an emphasis on offering better performance for this very common generation of Intel UHD Graphics...

Linux 5.7 Released – Main Changes, Arm, MIPS and RISC-V Architectures  CNX Software

Normally the NTB patches for new kernel cycles aren't particularly noteworthy but this time around for Linux 5.8 is Icelake support...

Linux 5.8 Adding NTB Support For Upcoming Ice Lake Xeon CPUs  Phoronix

SparkyLinux 2020.06 Released: Based On GNU/Linux Debian 11 'Bullseye'  Fossbytes

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the latest Firefox release, a new CMS, huge leaps in open source audio engineering, and more.

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We've all been there. "I'm going to get this Raspberry Pi to try out. They look kinda cool." And then, like tribbles on an Enterprise, suddenly you have Kubernetes clusters and NFS servers and Tor proxies. Maybe even a hotel booking system!

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How to install Ubuntu: run Linux on your laptop or PC  Alphr