Open-source News

WayVNC 0.7 Released As VNC Server For Wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors

Phoronix - Thu, 10/05/2023 - 20:55
WayVNC 0.7 was released today as the newest feature update to this VNC server for use with wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC will dynamically attach to running Wayland sessions and allow for convenient VNC server support...

Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC Support Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 10/05/2023 - 19:09
The Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC that can power fully-autonomous (Level 5) driving for vehicles and provide other assisted-driving technologies for a variety of automobiles could soon see mainline support in the Linux kernel...

Intel Vulkan Driver Implements A Transfer Queue For DG2/Alchemist GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/05/2023 - 18:52
In addition to Vulkan sparse support that works with the existing i915 kernel driver, another exciting open-source Intel Vulkan driver development this week is landing a transfer queue implementation for DG2/Alchemist GPUs. This in turn can help with hybrid graphics systems and other situations...

New Patches Speed-Up Linux's Accounted Kernel Memory Allocations By ~30%

Phoronix - Thu, 10/05/2023 - 18:44
A set of patches posted last week can improve the Linux kernel's performance of accounted kernel memory allocations by around 30%...

GCC Security Policy Merged To GCC Git

Phoronix - Thu, 10/05/2023 - 18:22
Following discussions on the GCC mailing list in recent weeks, a GCC security policy was added for the GNU Compiler Collection codebase to outline the compiler project's security process...

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