Open-source News

The Zephyr Project Marks Critical Milestones for Security and Product-Ready Maturity  PRNewswire

As we have been expecting, as of a few minutes ago in Mesa 20.2-devel Git, the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver has enabled the Valve-backed ACO shader compiler by default rather than AMD's official AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end...

Testing Intel FSGSBASE Patches For Helping Elevate Linux Performance  Phoronix

After covering the Linux patches for FSGSBASE for years, it's looking like Linux 5.9 will finally land the support for this CPU capability present since Ivy Bridge on the Intel side and more recently on AMD CPUs with Bulldozer and Zen. Here are benchmarks looking at some of the performance benefits the Linux FSGSBASE patches can provide for an Intel Xeon Cascade Lake Refresh server.

Linux Mint 20 Gets Approved For 'Stable' Release: Download ISO Here  Fossbytes

Patch time! NVIDIA fixes kernel driver holes on Windows and Linux  Naked Security

KIOXIA Releases Latest KumoScale Software Suite, Enables Next-Gen Cloud Deployments  Business Wire

The Linux 5.9 kernel is slated to begin introducing new restrictions on allowing writes to CPU model specific registers (MSRs) from user-space...

Linux To Begin Tightening Up Ability To Write To CPU MSRs From User-Space  Phoronix

Linux To Begin Tightening Up Ability To Write To CPU MSRs From User-Space  Phoronix

MontaVista Launches Carrier Grade eXpress (CGX) 3.1 and Steps Up Yocto Alignment  Stockhouse

MontaVista Launches Carrier Grade eXpress (CGX) 3.1 and Steps Up Yocto Alignment  PRNewswire

IAR Systems Delivers Efficient Embedded Software Building on Linux #113168  New Kerala

PhotoGIMP is a GIMP mod for Linux, Windows and macOS that copies the aesthetics and order of Photoshop and functions like its shortcuts  Explica

While Intel has been providing daily snapshots of the oneAPI Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) open-source compiler, today marks the latest monthly feature compiler release to their cross-architecture language for direct programming that is based on C++ while leveraging SYCL, LLVM/Clang, and other open-source technologies for exploiting the potential of hardware from CPUs to GPUs and FPGAs...

Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-06 Released With New Features  Phoronix

Longtime KDE developer David Edmundson has issued a call for help in porting work for Plasma 6.0...

Microsoft extends enterprise security protections to non-Windows platforms  Fudzilla

Intel Squaring Away "Hours of Battery Life" Feature For New Notebooks On Linux  Phoronix

Intel's open-source Linux developers have got the Tiger Lake and Gen12 graphics support largely squared away at this point, but a few remaining features remain. One of the features new to Tigerlake/Gen12+ on the graphics side is HOBL, or "Hours of Battery Life", while the Linux support there is still being tidied up...