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Wine-Staging 5.5 Released With 850+ Patches Atop Wine

Phoronix - Sun, 03/29/2020 - 12:05
Following Friday's release of Wine 5.5, Wine-Staging 5.5 is now available as the experimental blend of Wine with some 850+ patches atop the upstream code-base with various features in testing...

The Best Features Of The Linux 5.6 Kernel From WireGuard To Y2038 Compatibility To USB4

Phoronix - Sun, 03/29/2020 - 04:14
The Linux 5.6 stable kernel could be released as soon as tomorrow if Linus Torvalds is comfortable with its current state to avoid having an eighth weekly release candidate. Whether Linux 5.6 ends up being released tomorrow or next weekend, this kernel is bringing many exciting changes...

Mesa's Continuous Integration To Begin Seeing Testing Coverage For Wine / DXVK

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2020 - 21:48
In hopefully meaning less regressions moving forward for DXVK with the latest open-source Vulkan drivers, the Mesa continuous integration (CI) infrastructure saw support added for playing DirectX (DXGI) traces with DXVK/Wine...

Kdenlive 20.04 Beta Released With Continuing To Improve The Open-Source Video Editor

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2020 - 20:42
Open-source video editors over the years have generally fallen well short of the stability and feature set offered by proprietary video editing solutions but in recent years at least there has been some measurable progress to the likes of Kdenlive and OpenShot. Out this weekend for testing is the Kdenlive 20.04 beta...

RadeonSI Experimenting With Compute-Based Culling For Navi/GFX10

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2020 - 19:19
The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver has been experimenting with compute-based culling for GFX10/Navi hardware...

It's Official But Sad: TrueOS Is Over As Once The Best Desktop BSD OS

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2020 - 16:38
It's been on life support for a while but to much sadness, TrueOS indeed is no longer being maintained as the once very promising downstream of FreeBSD that for a while offered arguably the best out-of-the-box BSD desktop experience...

Contribute to open source healthcare projects for COVID-19

opensource.com - Sat, 03/28/2020 - 15:00

Many of those that are familiar with the maker movement, including me, believe there is a significant opportunity to apply open source design principles and mass-scale collaborative distributed manufacturing technologies (like open source 3D printing) to at least partially overcome medical supply shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Already, an Italian hospital saved COVID-19 patients' lives by 3D printing valves for reanimation devices.


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Open source fights against COVID-19, Google's new security tool written in Python, and more open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 03/28/2020 - 15:00

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look open source solutions for COVID-19, Google's new security tool, code cleanup software from Uber, and more!


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POCL 1.5-RC1 Released As The Portable OpenCL Implementation For CPUs + Other Targets

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2020 - 14:49
POCL 1.5 is on the way for release in April as the first feature update to this Portable OpenCL implementation since the previous release last September...

Debian To Take On COVID-19 With A Biohackathon

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2020 - 12:00
Debian developers are wanting to do their part to take on the global coronavirus pandemic by hosting a COVID-19 Biohackathon...

Wine 5.5 Released With Expanded UCRTBase C Runtime Usage, Usual Assortment Of Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2020 - 05:23
Wine 5.5 is out as the latest bi-weekly Wine development snapshot for running your favorite Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

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