Open-source News

It looks like AMD Zen 3 CPUs will finally be supporting PCID! And memory protection keys are coming too, at least according to AMD's latest programmer reference manual...

A premium supporter was asking this week whether for those newly-upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS if the graphics stack is in good enough shape or if I would recommend running Mesa 20.1-devel for better AMD Linux gaming performance... The short answer, sans any particular changes you are after in Mesa 20.1-devel, the bigger gain for running on this new Ubuntu release is to instead enable RADV+ACO as a much more pressing boost...

For Radeon Gamers On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, It's Generally Worthwhile Flipping On RADV's ACO  Phoronix

How to run Linux distro app as WSL 2 running on WSL 1  H2S Media

Windows Subsystem for Linux started as Project Astoria on Windows Phone - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser

CutiePi designs an open source, Raspberry Pi-powered Linux tablet (crowdfunding coming soon)  Liliputing

VESA announced today version 2.0 of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode specification...

DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 Brings Interoperability With USB4  Phoronix

Lenovo to offer ThinkPads with Linux installed  IT PRO

Adding to the last minute AMD Radeon additions for making the Mesa 20.1 feature cut-off is enabling displayable DCC support for Navi 12 and Navi 14 graphics processors...

Radeon Displayable DCC Gets Enabled For Navi 12 + Navi 14 GPUs  Phoronix

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Linux home directory management is about to undergo major change  TechRepublic

Longtime Linux DRM developer Noralf Trønnes has written a new driver for Linux to serve generic USB display purposes. This driver was written following his idea of turning a Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB to HDMI display adapter...

Generic USB Display Driver Published For Linux - Allowing Nifty Possibilities With Raspberry Pi, Etc  Phoronix

Generic USB Display Driver Published For Linux - Allowing Nifty Possibilities With Raspberry Pi, Etc  Phoronix

Global Linux Operating System Market Report 2020: Size, Share, Regional Outlook, Growth Trends, Key Players, Competitive Strategies and 2026 Forecasts  Latest Herald

If you are still running any pre-Sandybridge Intel hardware, you should really consider upgrading to modern hardware for the performance and efficiency gains... But should you still be tied to an old i865-based system, there is an improvement coming in 2020 for Linux users...

17 Years Later: Intel 865 Chipset Seeing FBC Enabled On Linux  Phoronix

Back in 2018 Microsoft announced Shader Conductor as one of their newest open-source projects at the time for cross-compiling HLSL to other shading languages like GLSL. Out this morning is Shader Conductor v0.3...