Graphics: Intel, NVIDIA and Mesa

• Intel Begins Preparing Linux Graphics Driver Support For Xe HP As "Gen12.5" - Phoronix

  Xe HP is Intel's discrete GPU aiming to compete against the latest-generation AMD and NVIDIA compute accelerators. Xe HP isn't scheduled to reach general availability until well into 2021 while now as they begin ramping up their sampling of Xe HP to potential customers, the Linux open-source driver support is preparing to roll-out. While Xe HP is about scaling up Intel Xe Graphics (Gen12), the Xe HP driver support is introducing it as a new "Gen12.5" target rather than just "Gen12" that is used by Tiger Lake / Rocket Lake / Xe LP.

• NVIDIA Is Working On DMA-BUF Passing That Should Help Improve Their Wayland Support

  NVIDIA is working on allowing their proprietary driver to support passing buffers as DMA-BUF. In turn this should allow for better supporting their proprietary driver on Wayland compared to the EGLStreams mess. A Phoronix reader tipped us off to NVIDIA developer comments last month in response to a KDE EGLStreams bug. A bug report was opened regarding that restarting the compositing breaks the EGLStreams back-end for KDE's KWin.

• Mesa Now 2~5x Faster For SPECViewPerf Following OpenGL Optimizations - Phoronix

  Well known open-source AMD Linux graphics driver developer Marek Olšák has just merged one of his largest set of optimizations in recent times: 2~5x faster performance for SPECViewPerf. SPECViewPerf is the common industry benchmark for measuring graphics performance for professional applications with benchmark viewsets from 3ds Max, CATIA, Maya, Solidworks, Siemens NX, and other programs. The performance when using Mesa drivers have been lagging but now thanks to common Mesa infrastructure improvements by Mesa, the performance is wildly improved.

New Videos About GNU/Linux

• The Top 8 Linux Window Managers of 2020 - YouTube

  So many people do their "top distros" list or a "top apps" list. It's past time that someone did a "top window managers" list. So here is my top eight window managers that are available on Linux.

• Why Did Vivaldi Send Me A Merch Box?? - YouTube

  A few months back I made a video on the Vivaldi browser licence and they liked the video so much that they decided to send me a box of merch so today we're going to unbox it and see what this web browser company sent me.

• LIBREM 5 is shipping, Chromium opens up, and Ubuntu Web Remix offers a Chrome OS alternative - YouTube

  This month, we have the Librem 5 finally shipping to backers, a new open source Chrome OS alternative, Google being more open with Chromium, and tons of Linux gaming improvements.

Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers

• Ubuntu Fridge | Announcing the results of the Ubuntu Membership Board elections

  We have the pleasure to announce the results of the Ubuntu Membership Board elections, in no particular order...

• Adopting open source in the face of fragmentation - Techerati

  Open source fragmentation is enabling innovation and efficiency, but also increasing security risks, writes Lech Sandecki, Product Manager at Canonical – the publisher of Ubuntu In 2020, 99 percent of enterprise codebases contain open source components. Businesses have come to realise that the collective approach of open source toward innovation has incredible benefits, and will help them to integrate technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), machine-learning (ML), and microservices into their solutions. But with this goldrush, which has brought a sharp rise in new applications, it’s becoming more difficult to see, or simply just to know, how many open source components are involved. This fragmentation is consequently hurting compliance officers, who are unable to keep up with the software supply chain. These same officers are struggling with visibility and cannot keep up pace. The challenge is that the landscape is unrecognisable from just a decade ago. Back then, a much smaller pool of commercial open source vendors licensed their software to customers, understood everything about the code, and dealt with every security patch.

• Install Amazon EKS Distro anywhere

  Today, we’re excited to announce that EKS is available outside of AWS, on any Ubuntu system, with the EKS snap. This announcement builds on the existing collaboration between Amazon and Canonical to ensure the quality, security, and usability of Ubuntu-based EKS clusters on AWS.

• Canonical’s LTS Docker Image Portfolio is now available on Amazon ECR Public