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Red Hat extends several product life cycles to ease migration pressures

Red Hat News - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 12:00

Red Hat's lifecycles are carefully planned to give our customers a stable platform for building, deploying and maintaining their applications while also delivering innovation at a steady pace. Red Hat understands that undertaking planned migrations during this crisis is more challenging than usual, and we want to help take pressure off organizations while they are focused on near-term operations.

Vulkan 1.2.139 Released With VK_EXT_robustness2 Extension

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 12:00
The routine Vulkan 1.2.139 maintenance update brings with it two new extensions...

Linux 5.7-rc3 Kernel Released: "In A World Gone Mad, The Kernel Looks Almost Boringly Regular"

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 06:00
Linus Torvalds just released the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel...

Manjaro 20.0 Released With Its Flagship Easy-To-Use, Arch-Based Xfce Desktop Distro

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 05:32
Manjaro 20.0 "Lysia" is out today with its flagship Xfce spin as well as its GNOME and KDE editions for this popular, desktop-minded, Arch-based Linux distribution...

Wine Patches Cleaned Up, Out For Review On Very Early POWER 64-Bit Support

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 03:47
With the Raptor Blackbird popular among open-source enthusiasts for a libre 64-bit Linux desktop compute and that getting more POWER9 hardware out in the wild, more users are interested in seeing Wine work for 64-bit POWER hardware. Last year was some early porting work done by Raptor Computing Systems but now a cleaned up patch series has been sent out with this very primitive PPC64 work...

Intel SGX Enclaves Support For Linux Sent Out For A 29th Time

Phoronix - Mon, 04/27/2020 - 00:27
Going on since 2016 has been the long-running effort getting the Software Guard Extensions (SGX) support into the mainline Linux kernel. Sent out this week was the SGX foundation patches for the twenty-ninth time as it works to get into shape for upstream acceptance...

AMD Joins The Academy Software Foundation, Open Shading Language Becomes Hosted Project

Phoronix - Sun, 04/26/2020 - 20:18
Some news that went seemingly unreported at large this month until stumbling across it... AMD has joined the Academy Software Foundation as a premier member. This joint initiative between the Linux Foundation and Academy of Motion Picture Arts is focused on pushing open-source software through the motion picture and content creation industries. Additionally, the Open Shading Language has become a new hosted project under the Academy Software Foundation...

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