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Red Hat's Stratis 2.2 Linux Storage Solution Released
A new version of Stratis is ready to go as Red Hat's open-source storage solution built atop LVM and XFS for offering easy and modern local storage management on Linux systems that aim to rival the likes of Btrfs and ZFS but without having to rely on a new file-system...
WayVNC 0.3 Released - The Wayland VNC Server Now Supports Copy & Paste
WayVNC 0.3 released today as the Wayland VNC server built atop the WLROOTS library...
Micron Looks To Upstream Their Media Pool "Mpool" Object Storage To The Linux Kernel
Micron's Mpool is at the heart of their HSE Open-Source Storage Engine in providing an object storage media pool built atop block storage devices. Micron engineers are now looking at possibly having Mpool upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel...
Intel oneAPI 1.0 Officially Released
After announcing oneAPI at the end of 2018 and then going into beta last year, oneAPI 1.0 is now official for this open-source, standards-based unified programming model designed to support Intel's range of hardware from CPUs to GPUs to other accelerators like FPGAs. Intel's oneAPI initiative has been one of several exciting software efforts led by the company in recent years while continuing to serve as one of the world's largest contributors to open-source software.
Wine-Staging 5.18 Adds sRGB Color Profile, Another Fix For Microsoft Flight Simulator
Building off Friday's release of Wine 5.18 is now an updated Wine-Staging that adds just over 600 patches atop the upstream code-base for delivering experimental/testing features...
AMDVLK 2020.Q3.6 Vulkan Driver Brings Several Fixes
AMD driver developers today released AMDVLK 2020.Q3.6 as their latest open-source snapshot of their official Vulkan graphics driver...
LVFS/Fwupd Serve More Than 20 Million Firmware Downloads For Upgrades On Linux
It was just earlier this summer that the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) crossed 17 million firmware downloads while today the Linux hardware community is celebrating that already surpassing 20 million downloads!..
NetBSD Changes Its Default X11 Window Manager After Two Decades
It's 2020 and NetBSD has changed its default X11 window manager after more than two decades with TWM...
OpenSSH 8.4 Brings Better Support For FIDO/2FA Keys
Version 8.4 of OpenSSH has been released and among its wide assortment of changes is a lot of continued work on FIDO/2FA key handling...
Vulkan 1.2.155 Released With EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64
Vulkan 1.2.155 is out this morning as a small weekly update over last week's spec revision that brought the Vulkan Portability Extension 1.0 for easing software-based Vulkan implementations running atop other graphics APIs...
Broadcom Has 200G Ethernet Link Speed Support Coming To Its Driver For Linux 5.10
Broadcom engineers have prepared their Linux network driver infrastructure for supporting 200G link speeds...
MSM Adreno DRM Driver For Linux 5.10 Has DisplayPort, Per-Process Pagetables
Rob Clark who founded the Freedreno/MSM driver project and current Googler sent in the MSM direct rendering manager driver updates targeting the upcoming Linux 5.10 merge window. This time around the Adreno kernel graphics/display driver has some notable additions...
Linux 5.9 Stable Expected In Two Weeks, But For Now Is Linux 5.9-rc7
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.9-rc7 as the newest weekly test candidate for Linux 5.9. Due to the regressions encountered this cycle and prominent issues being resolved late, he's looking at releasing Linux 5.9 in two weeks time rather than next week...
More Vulkan NCNN Inference Benchmarks On AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce Under Linux
Given the interest from the RealSR-NCNN Vulkan benchmarks on various NVIDIA and AMD Radeon graphics cards looking at this neural network inference framework with the task of upscaling an image by 4x the resolution using RealSR, here are some more benchmarks of the NCNN framework accelerated by Vulkan on different GPUs under Ubuntu Linux...
Independent Developers Tackling Snapdragon 630/660 SoC Support For The Upstream Linux Kernel
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 660 is approaching four years old and the Snapdragon 630 a bit younger than that, but these mobile phone SoCs may soon find renewed life on the upstream Linux kernel thanks to the work of community developers...
DP-HDMI2.1 Protocol Converter Support Being Tackled For Intel Linux Graphics
Patches sent out on Friday provide an initial DP-HDMI2.1 PCON implementation for the Intel Linux kernel graphics driver...
Virt-Manager 3.0 Released With UI Improvements, Cloud-Init Option
Virt-Manager 3.0 quietly got released a little more than one week ago...
After ~70% FPS Boost For Zink, The OpenGL-on-Vulkan Code Is ~50% The GL Native Speed
For those following the development of Zink as a software OpenGL driver built atop the Vulkan API, there are some new performance numbers to discuss this weekend...
KWinFT Projects Hit Beta Ahead Of Stable Releases Aligned With KDE Plasma 5.20
KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin focused on better Wayland support and other modernization efforts is approaching its first stable release next month around the same time as KDE Plasma 5.20...
Warzone 2100 Lands Vulkan Renderer, Adaptive V-Sync For 20+ Year Old Game
Warzone 2100 as the real-time strategy/tactics game that first premiered in 1999 before becoming open-source in 2004 and then fully open-source with game data in 2008 is now evolving in 2020 with Vulkan graphics support...
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| Calibre 5.0 Ebook Manager Released with Text Highlighting Support, Dark Mode
Coming almost a year after the Calibre 4.0 series, Calibre 5.0 is here with some major changes. This include the ability to highlight text in the E-book viewer, which is one of the most requested feature for this powerful ebook manager.
Users will be able to use colors when highlighting text in ebooks, as well as to use all sorts of text formatting and styles, including strikethrough and underline. In addition, you can even add notes to your highlights.
All the highlights will be stored in the respective EPUB file, which makes them easy to share. In addition, you can browse all your highlights in the Calibre library using the Browse annotations tool.
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Android Leftovers
| Compute module and dev kit aim Snapdragon 865 at AR/VR
Lantronix has launched 50 x 29mm “Open-Q 865XR SOM” and $995 dev kit that runs Android 10 on a 15-TOPS NPU equipped Snapdragon 865 with 6GB LPDDR5, 802.11ax, and triple MIPI-CSI interfaces.
Intrinsyc, a subsidiary of Lantronix, has introduced an IoT-oriented compute module and development kit based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 (SXR2130P) SoC. The $445 Open-Q 865XR SOM and $995 Open-Q 865XR SOM Development Kit follow Intrinsyc’s more smartphone-oriented Snapdragon 865 Mobile HDK. The Open-Q 865XR targets imaging intensive embedded applications including Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) applications in AI machine learning, medical, gaming, logistics and retail sectors.
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