Open-source News

Leaked Linux Kernel Patch Confirms Intel’s 10nm Ice Lake Chip Heading For Desktop CPUs?  Happy Gamer

The SYCL train continues rolling: besides this single-source high-level C++ target for OpenCL playing a big role at Intel with their forthcoming oneAPI and as part of that also working on SYCL LLVM support for upstream, new SYCL learning courses, and other industry adoption around this Khronos standard, Imagination Technologies is getting behind it in at least one way...

A number of recent laptops have begun appearing that offer support for built-in privacy screens with the press of a button. These privacy screens reduce much of the visible light when viewed at angles to try to block out the screen contents from anyone that may be sitting besides the user. Linux has finally begun seeing this support prepared...

Google Plumbing The Linux Support For Privacy Screens On Intel Laptops  Phoronix

Linux driver code points toward multi-GPU support in Intel's upcoming discrete video cards  TechSpot

Disney streaming service, Disney+, doesn't work on Linux... yet  Notebookcheck.net

Arm unveils two lightweight NPUs for edge AI  LinuxGizmos.com

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7 Get Important Kernel Security Update  Softpedia News

Following the closure of Librem 5 initial "Aspen" batch shipping window and it coming out that the devices were just sent to employees/insiders, Purism has now provided more information on the shipping windows ahead and known issues...

Linux driver suggests Intel might be considering multi-GPU support  PC Gamer

Linux driver suggests Intel might be considering multi-GPU support  PC Gamer

Linux driver suggests Intel might be considering multi-GPU support  PC Gamer

The UBports community has released the eleventh over-the-air update to Ubuntu Touch that they continue advancing as the open-source Linux smartphone/tablet stack based currently on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS...

Multi-GPU Xe Support For Intel Linux Graphics Driver Bared, Promises Awesome Capabilities  Happy Gamer

Linux Operating System Industry Global Market Research and Analysis 2019-2025  TheNewsWire24

Just earlier this month NVIDIA announced their funding of the Blender Foundation at the flagship "patron" level and now AMD has followed them in backing this foundation for assisting the development of this leading 3D creation software...

AT&T sets a date to drop DANOS into the Linux Foundation, names IP Infusion as the reseller  FierceTelecom

Firefox 70 Linux Performance, Firefox 70 vs. Chrome 78 Benchmarks  Phoronix

With the new releases of Mozilla Firefox 70 and Google Chrome 78 here are fresh benchmarks of these web browsers with testing under Ubuntu Linux. Additionally, on the Firefox side looking at the performance with WebRender and compared to prior releases.

With Ubuntu 19.10 having successfully shipped last week and the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS cycle just getting off the ground, longtime Ubuntu Desktop Director Will Cooke announced he is leaving Canonical...