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DTPM "Avoid Burning Yourself" Framework Diverted From Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Sun, 01/03/2021 - 09:22
Yesterday I wrote about the DTPM framework being sent in for Linux 5.11 but ultimately Linus Torvalds has decided not to accept it out of the merge window...

Wine 6.0-RC5 Released With 21 Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 01/03/2021 - 04:40
Wine 6.0 stable should be out this month but for now is another weekly release candidate of this open-source project that allows running Windows games/applications on Linux, macOS, and BSD platforms...

Linux No-Copy Bvec Patches Revved For The New Year As Another I/O Optimization

Phoronix - Sun, 01/03/2021 - 01:50
The Linux kernel has been seeing incredible innovations and optimizations in the I/O area in recent times from IO_uring to numerous performance enhancements. One of the recent performance enhancements seeing activity and promising results is the no-copy bvec behavior...

Mesa's Clover OpenCL Adds Support For Loading SPIR-V IL Programs

Phoronix - Sun, 01/03/2021 - 01:27
The latest OpenCL "Clover" work to land in Mesa 21.0 is support for the cl_khr_il_program extension...

11 Features That Didn't Make It In 2020 For Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Sat, 01/02/2021 - 23:29
For as great as Linux 5.11 is with its new features, there is also some prominent material that has yet to be upstreamed into the mainline kernel -- some of which is likely to hit in 2021 while other changes have less likely ambitions for mainline...

ReactOS Has Been Steadily Improving As An Open-Source Windows Implementation

Phoronix - Sat, 01/02/2021 - 20:45
ReactOS as the long work-in-progress open-source operating system implementation of Windows enjoyed much progress over the course of 2020...

Even With The New Year's Holidays, KDE Still Saw Some Improvements This Week

Phoronix - Sat, 01/02/2021 - 19:28
While development on KDE (and other open-source projects too) was lighter this week as a result of the Christmas and New Year's holidays, the KDE desktop still saw some refinements this week...

Explore the night sky with this open source astronomy app

opensource.com - Sat, 01/02/2021 - 16:00

I have always been fascinated with the night sky. When I was younger, the only reference materials available were books, and they seemed to depict a sky that looked different from the one I saw from my home.


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Valve's Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming Marketshare

Phoronix - Sat, 01/02/2021 - 10:36
Valve just published their Steam Survey numbers for December 2020 and it's a huge letdown for Linux gamers if the numbers are indeed accurate...

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