Open-source News

Mesa's Continuous Integration To Begin Seeing Testing Coverage For Wine / DXVK  Phoronix

Open-source video editors over the years have generally fallen well short of the stability and feature set offered by proprietary video editing solutions but in recent years at least there has been some measurable progress to the likes of Kdenlive and OpenShot. Out this weekend for testing is the Kdenlive 20.04 beta...

Biohackathon: GNU/Linux Debian Join Hands To Fight COVID-19  Fossbytes

The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver has been experimenting with compute-based culling for GFX10/Navi hardware...

It's been on life support for a while but to much sadness, TrueOS indeed is no longer being maintained as the once very promising downstream of FreeBSD that for a while offered arguably the best out-of-the-box BSD desktop experience...

Many of those that are familiar with the maker movement, including me, believe there is a significant opportunity to apply open source design principles and mass-scale collaborative distributed manufacturing technologies (like open source 3D printing) to at least partially overcome medical supply shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Already, an Italian hospital saved COVID-19 patients' lives by 3D printing valves for reanimation devices.

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In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look open source solutions for COVID-19, Google's new security tool, code cleanup software from Uber, and more!

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POCL 1.5 is on the way for release in April as the first feature update to this Portable OpenCL implementation since the previous release last September...

Debian developers are wanting to do their part to take on the global coronavirus pandemic by hosting a COVID-19 Biohackathon...

Wine 5.5 is out as the latest bi-weekly Wine development snapshot for running your favorite Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

Wine 5.5 Released With Expanded UCRTBase C Runtime Usage, Usual Assortment Of Fixes  Phoronix

decent free antivirus/malware/spyware scanner for Linux : which one to take?!  Neowin

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Share, Size 2020  openPR

RHEL9 Likely To Drop Older x86_64 CPUs, Fedora Can Better Prepare With "Enterprise Linux Next"  Phoronix

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 will likely see support for older x86_64 CPUs eliminated to focus on more modern x86_64 Intel/AMD families. With that, Red Hat developers working on Fedora have been working on an "Enterprise Linux Next" proposal to not only vet such x86_64 build changes but also to provide a feedback workflow for other changes...

When it comes to the AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors we have looked at the various higher-end SKUs since their launch last August up to and including the EPYC 7742 with its 64 cores / 128 threads per socket. But for those wondering about the EPYC 7002 series performance at the bottom end of the spectrum, here are some fun benchmarks of the EPYC 7232P and EPYC 7262 on the near-final Ubuntu 20.04 LTS state compared to various vintages of Intel Xeon CPUs -- most notably, a curiosity driven look at the 8 core / 16 thread Intel Haswell Xeon performance.

Agile Linux: Enabling DevOps with Continuously Delivered Embedded Linux  WIND

New Linux-powered SoC taps an old ARM9 architecture  LinuxGizmos.com

New Linux-powered SoC taps an old ARM9 architecture  LinuxGizmos.com

MERA, Mocana, and Osaka NDS Join Automotive Grade Linux  Yahoo Finance