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Currently the Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan drivers have relied upon matching executable names for applying game/application-specific workarounds. But with Vulkan as part of the instance creation information and VkApplicationInfo it's possible to optionally advertise the rendering engine and version in use. The Mesa Vulkan drivers are now making use of that information to allow for more uniform workarounds...

While the Linux kernel is well known for not offering a stable API/ABI, Google and other enterprise Linux distribution vendors tend to aim at providing their own stable ABI for the lifespan of their products. Google engineers talked in Portugal this week at Linux Plumbers Conference 2019 about some of their means to maintaining a stable API/ABI for Android's Linux kernel...

How Google's Android Maintains A Stable Linux Kernel ABI  Phoronix

While the Linux kernel is well known for not offering a stable API/ABI, Google and other enterprise Linux distribution vendors tend to aim at providing their own ...

If you are running the likes of the Raptor Blackbird for a POWER open-source desktop and wanting to run Fedora on it, currently you need to use the Fedora "server" CLI installer and from there install the desired packages for a desktop. But moving forward, Fedora is beginning to spin Workstation and Live images for PPC64LE...

One of the steps Intel's open-source developers continue working on for Linux is supporting "execute only memory" that will already work with some of today's processors and serve as another defense for bettering the security of systems particularly in a virtualized environment...

Intel Continues Investing In Execute-Only Memory Support For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

One of the steps Intel's open-source developers continue working on for Linux is supporting "execute only memory" that will already work with some of today's ...

PineTime is a $25 Smartwatch / Companion for PinePhone Linux Phone  CNX Software

We've recently seen Linux smartphones are coming in a few weeks or months, but the $150 PinePhone may not come alone, and soon be joined by a $25.

Op-Ed: Some Huawei laptops in China now come loaded with Deepin Linux  Digital Journal

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While the upcoming Linux 5.4 kernel cycle is finally bringing a driver for Microsoft exFAT file-system read/write support, it's dated on an old Samsung code drop that has seen little public work over the years. Since queued for staging-next, there has been a big uptick in clean-ups and other activity, but there also exists another alternative out-of-tree exFAT Linux driver...

An Alternative exFAT Linux File-System Driver Based On Samsung's sdFAT  Phoronix

While the upcoming Linux 5.4 kernel cycle is finally bringing a driver for Microsoft exFAT file-system read/write support, it's dated on an old Samsung code drop ...

Huawei releases Linux variants of the MateBook 13, MateBook 14, and MateBook X Pro  Notebookcheck.net

Huawei has added the MateBook 13 for Linux, MateBook X Pro for Linux, and the MateBook 14 for Linux onto Vmall, the Chinese shopping site for Huawei and ...

Borislav Petkov has taken to improve the Linux kernel's memset function with it being an area previously criticzed by Linus Torvalds and other prominent developers...

Intel's speedy Clear Linux distribution could be running under the hood of your car...

PineTime is a $25 smartwatch companion for Linux smartphones (work-in-progress from Pine64)  Liliputing

The folks at Pine64 have been selling inexpensive Linux laptops for a few years, and they're getting ready to launch their first Linux smartphone. But the team ...

Linux Software Industry Growth, Shares, Opportunities and Forecast to 2019-2025  The Torn News

“Linux Software Market” report provides in depth analysis of Market Trends, Market Share, Industry Size, Growth, Opportunities. Also Linux Software market ...

While Intel CPUs aren't shipping with 5-level paging support, they are expected to be soon and distribution kernels are preparing to enable the kernel's functionality for this feature to extend the addressable memory supported. With that, the mainline kernel is also looking at flipping on 5-level paging by default for its default kernel configuration...

The Linux Kernel Is Preparing To Enable 5-Level Paging By Default  Phoronix

While Intel CPUs aren't shipping with 5-level paging support, they are expected to be soon and distribution kernels are preparing to enable the kernel's ...

KDE Frameworks 5.62 is out today as the latest monthly update to this collection of KDE libraries complementing the Qt5 tool-kit offerings...

There's an exciting patch set to GNOME Shell and Mutter now pending for finally wiring up the full-screen unredirected display / full-screen bypass compositing for helping the performance of full-screen games in particular on Wayland...

Based off yesterday's release of Wine 4.16, the Wine-Staging 4.16 update out today is more prominent with a number of new patches introduced to this experimental/testing flavor of Wine for running Windows games/applications on Linux...