Open-source News

Once again, we've wrapped up another Red Hat Summit. We've been surprised and humbled by how many people have joined us online this year to learn about Red Hat's products and plans for the next year. Likewise, we want to thank all of our partners and customers who've shared their stories and successes on the journey to the open hybrid cloud, and their thoughts on the road ahead. Here's a look at some of our highlights. 

Mesa 20.1 feature development is now over with it being branched from Git master and subsequently Mesa 20.1-RC1 being released this evening...

Popcorn Linux has been a multi-year effort out of Virginia Tech's Software and Systems Research Group for distributed thread execution across systems and even potentially different ISAs/accelerators given today's heterogeneous hardware...

Virginia Tech's "Popcorn Linux" For Distributed Thread Execution Seeking Feedback, Possible Upstreaming  Phoronix

New deep dive video explores Windows Subsystem for Linux's Project Astoria roots  Neowin

New deep dive video explores Windows Subsystem for Linux's Project Astoria roots  Neowin

New deep dive video explores Windows Subsystem for Linux's Project Astoria roots  Neowin

Fedora 32 released with Lenovo support  ZDNet

It looks like AMD Zen 3 CPUs will finally be supporting PCID! And memory protection keys are coming too, at least according to AMD's latest programmer reference manual...

A premium supporter was asking this week whether for those newly-upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS if the graphics stack is in good enough shape or if I would recommend running Mesa 20.1-devel for better AMD Linux gaming performance... The short answer, sans any particular changes you are after in Mesa 20.1-devel, the bigger gain for running on this new Ubuntu release is to instead enable RADV+ACO as a much more pressing boost...

For Radeon Gamers On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, It's Generally Worthwhile Flipping On RADV's ACO  Phoronix

How to run Linux distro app as WSL 2 running on WSL 1  H2S Media

Windows Subsystem for Linux started as Project Astoria on Windows Phone - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser

CutiePi designs an open source, Raspberry Pi-powered Linux tablet (crowdfunding coming soon)  Liliputing

VESA announced today version 2.0 of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode specification...

DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 Brings Interoperability With USB4  Phoronix

Lenovo to offer ThinkPads with Linux installed  IT PRO

Adding to the last minute AMD Radeon additions for making the Mesa 20.1 feature cut-off is enabling displayable DCC support for Navi 12 and Navi 14 graphics processors...

Radeon Displayable DCC Gets Enabled For Navi 12 + Navi 14 GPUs  Phoronix

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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