Open-source News

As a result of increased bug reports where Linux users are reporting Intel graphics hangs but not including the most pertinent details like the Mesa version, the Intel Mesa drivers are now embedding the driver name and Mesa version as part of their error state...

For months now Intel's open-source driver developers have been working on the "Gen12" graphics support needed most notably for Tiger Lake and more recently is also confirmed for Rocket Lake. But Gen12 is also needed for the highly anticipated Xe Graphics with the discrete graphics offerings to come in the months ahead by Intel. Building off the existing Gen12 graphics driver code, Intel today published the first DG1 patches for enabling their first discrete graphics card under Linux...

Intel Sends Out Patches Bringing Up The "DG1" Graphics Card Under Linux  Phoronix

A patch slated to be merged for the Linux 5.8 kernel cycle next month that simply deletes ten lines of code (well, six lines of code and four lines of comments) will for some systems yield "significant power savings" due to an oversight in the kernel code that has lasted for about twelve years...

Deleting A Few Lines Of Code Can Yield "Significant" Power Savings On Some Linux Systems  Phoronix

The fourth weekly release candidate is available of Mesa 20.1, the Q2'2020 feature update to the open-source OpenGL / Vulkan driver stack predominantly used by Linux systems. This is the last scheduled release candidate with Mesa 20.1 stable potentially coming out next week if testing goes well and the remaining blocker bugs are addressed...

Adding to the amount of surprising news this week, Electronic Arts just announced they will be open-sourcing portions of Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert in order to help the mod community around this franchise...

EA To Open-Source Part Of Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert To Help The Mod Community  Phoronix

EA To Open-Source Part Of Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert To Help The Mod Community  Phoronix

Linux on Windows 10 gets major computing boost  TechRadar

Compute Express Link is the interconnect standard backed by Intel, AMD, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Dell, and others for building off PCI Express with new CPU-to-device and CPU-to-memory capabilities. Intel's stellar open-source team has been working on plumbing the Linux kernel support for this next generation of devices...

Intel Continues Prepping Initial Bits For Compute Express Link Device Support (CXL)  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market 2020-2026 | Country Level Analysis, Current Trade Size and Future Prospective  3rd Watch News

K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating System Market 2020 Precise Outlook – Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS  Cole of Duty

RenderDoc 1.8 is out as the newest feature release for this cross-platform, open-source graphics debugging and profiling utility for Vulkan, Direct3D 11/12, OpenGL, and OpenGL ES APIs...

Polyverse Launches Polymorphing for SUSE Linux Enterprise  PR Web

SUSE, Elektrobit innovate at the edge  IT-Online

Microsoft Edge for Linux shown off briefly at Build 2020  Windows Central

All the cool Windows 10 features Microsoft announced at its Build conference  The Next Web

Community Voice: Would You Pay $12 Per Year For Your Favorite Linux OS?  Forbes