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Zink Benchmarks - Mesa OpenGL Running Over Vulkan

Phoronix - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 23:45
With the upcoming Mesa 19.3 release one of the big new features is the "Zink" driver that provides a Mesa OpenGL implementation over Vulkan. This in theory allows for a generic OpenGL driver running over Vulkan hardware drivers, but there is a lot of work ahead before it's really a viable option.

DragonFlyBSD Pulls In AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Code From Linux 4.9

Phoronix - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 21:25
DragonFlyBSD developer François Tigeot has continued doing a good job in continually updating their kernel's graphics driver code with a port of the AMD Radeon graphics source code from the Linux kernel along with related components like TTM memory management...

KDE Plasma 5.18 Bringing Better GTK/GNOME App Integration

Phoronix - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 21:00
For KDE users often still running GNOME/GTK applications from the Plasma desktop, the experience is about to get a lot better with Plasma 5.18...

GCC Might Finally Have A Static Analysis Framework Thanks To Red Hat

Phoronix - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 17:52
Clang's static analyzer has become quite popular with developers for C/C++ static analysis of code while now the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) might finally see a mainline option thanks to Red Hat...

The GCC 10 Compiler Lands OpenMP / OpenACC Offloading To AMD Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 16:16
A few days ago I wrote about the OpenMP / OpenACC offloading patches for Radeon "GCN" GPUs being posted and seeking inclusion in the GCC 10 compiler that will be released in a few months. Those patches were successfully merged meaning this next annual update to the GNU Compiler Collection will feature initial OpenMP/OpenACC code offloading support to supported AMD GPU targets...

Open source radio system delivers emergency alerts and music to the Yukon and beyond

opensource.com - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 16:00

"Radio Rob" Hopkins lives in Tagish, Yukon, 120km south of the capital city, Whitehorse. It is here that he created Open Broadcaster, an open source system that enables small rural market radio stations to manage their operations and volunteers.


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Linux 5.5 Should Bring Another Power Management Improvement For Intel Ice Lake

Phoronix - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 14:08
The upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel cycle should bring an improvement for power management on Intel's latest-generation Ice Lake processors...

IWD 1.1 Released For Intel's Linux Wireless Daemon

Phoronix - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 13:06
Released at the end of October was Intel's IWD 1.0 wireless daemon while hitting the web this week was version 1.1...

Debian Moves Closer To Voting On Proposals Over Init System Diversity

Phoronix - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 09:00
Following the decision by Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman to seek a general resolution over init system diversity and just how much Debian developers care about supporting systemd alternatives, the general resolution vote is moving closer...

GCC Developers Discuss New Option For Recording Compiler Flags / Details In Binaries

Phoronix - Sun, 11/17/2019 - 01:14
GCC developers recently have been discussing a new proposal over an option for preserving the command-line flags/options used when building a binary as well as the associated compiler version...

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