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Microsoft Made More Linux / Open-Source Announcements In 2019 From exFAT To WSL2

Phoronix - Fri, 12/20/2019 - 09:00
Under the continued guidance of Satya Nadella, Microsoft made more interesting open-source / Linux moves in 2019 most notably with allowing exFAT support to be introduced into the mainline Linux kernel and also introducing Windows Subsystem for Linux 2...

Gentoo Developers Exploring The Possibility Of Shipping Distribution Binary Kernels

Phoronix - Fri, 12/20/2019 - 08:07
While much of the lure to Gentoo Linux is on being a source-based distribution and assembling your system packages from source, some Gentoo developers are toying with the idea of providing some new kernel binary options similar to that of the more conventional binary Linux distributions...

Chrome 80 Beta Brings SVG Favicons, Further FTP Support Deprecation

Phoronix - Fri, 12/20/2019 - 04:54
Following last week's release of Chrome 79, the Chrome 80 web browser has been promoted to beta,..

2020 technology must haves, a guide to Kubernetes etcd, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Fri, 12/20/2019 - 04:40

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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Proton 4.11-11 Released With DXVK 1.5, Few Game Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 12/20/2019 - 04:09
Just in time for those taking advantage of Valve's annual Steam Winter Sale, a new release of the Wine-based Proton software is now available that powers Steam Play for running Windows games generally very well on Linux...

Alpine Linux 3.11 Introduces KDE/GNOME Desktop Support, Raspberry Pi 4 Compatibility

Phoronix - Fri, 12/20/2019 - 01:24
Alpine Linux is a distribution that prides itself on being "small, simple and secure" with being a lightweight distribution built off Musl libc and Busybox and popular for use within containers. But with today's Alpine Linux 3.11 release they are seemingly pursuing desktop Linux support...

Mesa 20.0's RADV + ACO Vulkan Driver Now Consistently Beating AMD's AMDVLK Linux Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 12/19/2019 - 23:26
The Mesa RADV Vulkan driver paired with the Valve-funded ACO compiler back-end is yielding an incredibly power competitor to AMD's own AMDVLK Vulkan driver that is derived from the source-code of their shared Windows Vulkan driver code-base. Here are some year-end benchmarks looking at the RADV vs. RADV ACO vs. AMDVLK Vulkan driver Linux gaming performance on Ubuntu with several generations of Radeon graphics hardware.

NVIDIA's Open-Source PhysX SDK Nearing 5.0 Release

Phoronix - Thu, 12/19/2019 - 20:46
NVIDIA's PhysX SDK physics implementation, which NVIDIA has been providing open-source code drops on, will soon see a 5.0 release...

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