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RADV Driver Adds VK_EXT_line_rasterization In Preparing For Eventual Vulkan CAD Apps

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2020 - 15:00
Added to the Vulkan API last summer was VK_EXT_line_rasterization for line rasterization like employed by CAD applications. The open-source Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is now supporting this extension...

eXtern OS – A NodeJS Based Linux Distribution

Tecmint - Wed, 02/19/2020 - 14:56
eXternOS is a free, new and exciting Linux operating system based on Nodejs, being developed by a computer engineering and computer science student who goes by name Anesu Chiodze. It is a whole different...

Red Hat Volleys New Patches For Exposing More File-System Info + Mount Notifications

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2020 - 13:05
Longtime Linux kernel developer David Howells of Red Hat sent out his latest patch revision exposing new capabilities for exposing more VFS and mount information to user-space along with notification support for any file-system mount topology changes...

Intel Sends Out Latest Patches For Mitigating Graphics Flaw On Ivybridge/Haswell

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2020 - 09:46
It has been one month and a few days since Intel first made public the need for graphics driver patching of Gen 7/7.5 graphics for older Ivybridge / Haswell hardware to fix a graphics hardware flaw. That vulnerability also affected the common Intel Gen9 graphics but there the mitigation was uneventful and quickly merged without causing any performance hit. But for Ivybridge/Haswell one month later the graphics driver mitigation for CVE-2019-14615 is still being addressed...

GNOME 3.36 Beta 2 Released With Initial Setup Parental Controls, Lock-Screen USB Disable

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2020 - 07:34
GNOME 3.35.91 is out today as the second beta ahead of next month's GNOME 3.36 desktop release...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Moves Ahead With Python 2 Removal - But Sticks Around For Derivatives

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2020 - 04:35
With Python 2 having been end-of-life since the start of the year and Ubuntu 20.04 being a long-term support release, Ubuntu developers are working hard to ensure Python 2 isn't shipped as part of this next Ubuntu LTS release...

Google Cloud Rolls Out "N2D" VMs Built Atop AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2020 - 02:39
We are seeing more cloud providers now offering AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" series processors with the latest being Google now offering the new N2D VM family in beta for their public cloud...

Linux Looking To Sunset The Calxeda ARM Server Support

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2020 - 01:44
It's already been six years since the collapse of Calxeda as the first promising ARM server company. With that, the Linux kernel upstream developers are looking at dropping the Calxeda platform support...

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