Open-source News

One of the interesting reveals so far from this week's X.Org Developers' Conference in Montreal is that Intel has been developing a new back-end compiler for their OpenGL/Vulkan Linux drivers based upon their experiences so far with their NIR support and the less learned over the past number of years...

Intel's open-source crew has had a busy week with their first public OpenVKL release, OSPray 2 hitting alpha, and now the release of MKL-DNN where they are also re-branding it as the Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL)...

Flatpak 1.5 Linux App Sandboxing Rolls Out with New Features, Many Improvements  Softpedia News

Watch: Ubuntu Touch Running on the PinePhone Open Source Linux Smartphone  Softpedia News

Top 10 Linux distributions OS most popular in last 6 months of 2019  H2S Media

For those wondering about the current performance of desktop Linux distributions against Microsoft Windows 10 with the latest updates as we embark upon fall update season, here is a look at the performance of eight different Linux distributions compared to Windows 10. While a larger set of cross-platform tests are currently being worked on, for this article we are focusing on different "creator" workloads from video/audio encoding, render workloads, and related software prior to the larger comparison in the next week or two.

Mozilla Firefox 69.0.2 Released to Fix YouTube Crash on Linux, Other Issues  Softpedia News

The Blender 2.81 release cycle has entered its "bcon2" development phase of development with the focus shifting to bug fixing and stabilizing new features with now being past the initial window of merging in the big ticket items...

Newsboat is a command line based RSS feed reader for Linux  Ghacks Technology News

As was anticipated, PostgreSQL 12.0 is now officially available...

Oracle Autonomous Linux: 10 Things Larry Ellison Wants You to Know  Cloud Wars

Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine selects MontaVista Linux for Next Generation Marine Radar  Yahoo Finance

Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine selects MontaVista Linux for Next Generation Marine Radar  PRNewswire

If you are a user of AMD Radeon RX 5700 "Navi" graphics and don't mind riding Mesa Git, the latest 19.3-devel code as of yesterday has several more GFX10 fixes/improvements...

Flatpak 1.5 is the newest pre-release for this Linux app sandboxing and distribution tech...

The lossy ASTC texture compression algorithm has been widely adopted in recent years with it being official extensions to both OpenGL and OpenGL ES. While it may not be as messy as the S3TC patent situation of the past, it turns out Arm's license on Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression actually is quite restrictive outside of the context of Khronos' APIs...

While initially queued as a work-in-progress feature for Linux 5.5, AMD has now submitted a batch of "fixes" to the current Linux 5.4 cycle that include enabling of the LRU bulk moves performance-boosting functionality...

Securing Linux Systems in a New Vulnerable World  Infosecurity Magazine

In order for a system administrators to recognize or analyze problems on a CentOS 8 or RHEL 8 server, it is important to know and view the events that occurred on the server in...

Igalia is working on supporting OpenGL ES' GLSL marking of variables as "mediump" when the precision involving those variables can be lowered to half-float 16-bit registers. That in turn can help with performance when honoring that precision marking, which to date Mesa has ignored...