Graphics: Weston 6.0.1, GPUs in OpenStack, Panfrost and Vulkan

• weston 6.0.1

  Weston 6.0.1 is released with build system fixes to smooth the
  transition to Meson. Other miscellaneous bugfixes are also included.
  
  Note that the PGP signing key has changed to 0FDE7BE0E88F5E48.
  
  - (1):
        zunitc: Fix undeclared identifier 'NULL'
  
  Alexandros Frantzis (1):
        clients/simple-dmabuf-egl: Properly check for error in gbm_bo_get_handle_for_plane
  
  Antonio Borneo (2):
        clients: close unused keymap fd
        log: remove "%m" from format strings by using strerror(errno)
  
  Daniel Stone (2):
        weston: Properly test for output-creation failure
        compositor: Don't ignore --use-pixman for Wayland backend
  
  Fabrice Fontaine (1):
        Fix build with kernel < 4.4
  
  Harish Krupo (4):
        meson.build: Fix warning for configure_file
        window.c: Don't assume registry advertisement order
        data-device: send INVALID_FINISH when operation != dnd
        Fix: clients/window: Premature finish request when copy-pasting
  
  Kamal Pandey (1):
        FIX: weston: clients: typo in simple-dmabuf-egl.c
  
  Luca Weiss (1):
        Fix incorrect include
  
  Marius Vlad (3):
        meson.build/libweston: Fix clang warning for export-dynamic
        compositor: Fix invalid view numbering in scene-graph
        compositor: Fix missing new line when displaying buffer type for EGL buffer
  
  Pekka Paalanen (7):
        meson: link editor with gobject-2.0
        meson: link cms-colord with glib and gobject
        meson: link remoting with glib and gobject
        meson: DRM-backend demands GBM
        meson: dep fix for compositor.h needing xkbcommon.h
        build: add missing dep to x11 backend
        libweston: fix protocol install path
  
  Scott Anderson (1):
        compositor: Fix incorrect use of bool options
  
  Sebastian Wick (1):
        weston-terminal: Fix weston-terminal crash on mutter
  
  Silva Alejandro Ismael (1):
        compositor: fix segfaults if wl_display_create fails
  
  Simon Ser (1):
        build: bump to version 6.0.1 for the point release
  
  Tomohito Esaki (1):
        cairo-util: Don't set title string to Pango layout if the title is NULL
  
  git tag: 6.0.1
  

• Wayland's Weston 6.0.1 Released With Build System Fixes & Other Corrections

  Weston 6.0 was released back in March with a remote/streaming plug-in and Meson becoming the preferred build system among other improvements. Weston 6.0.1 was released today by Simon Ser with various fixes to this reference Wayland compositor. Weston 6.0.1 is mostly made up of Meson build system fixes/improvements to ensure a good Meson experience. There is also a fix for building with pre-4.4 kernels and a variety of other smaller fixes.

• OpenStack Stein feature highlights: vGPU support coming in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15

  Red Hat is working on the next release of the supported enterprise distribution of OpenStack, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15, based on the Stein community release. In this multi-part blog series, we’ll be examining some of the features that Red Hat and the open source community have collaborated on–starting with a look to future workloads, such as artificial intelligence. "How does OpenStack enable next generation workloads?" you ask. When it comes to computer-driven decision making, machine learning algorithms can provide adaptable services that can get better over time. Some of these workloads, such as facial recognition, require GPUs to ingest and process graphical data in real time. But the more powerful GPUs often used for machine learning and such are expensive, power-hungry, and can take up a lot of room in the servers' chassis. When working with GPUs at scale, optimized utilization is key to more cost effective machine learning.

• Panfrost Gallium3D Picks Up Yet More Features Thanks To Collabora's Summer Internship

  Just a few days ago I wrote how the Panfrost Gallium3D driver continues making incredible progress for this community-driven, open-source graphics driver targeting Arm Bifrost/Midgard graphics. There's yet another batch of new features and improvements to talk about. Most of this feature work continues to be done by Panfrost lead developer Alyssa Rosenzweig who is interning at Collabora this summer and appears to be spending most of her time working on this reverse-engineered Arm graphics driver supporting their recent generations of IP.

• Vulkan 1.1.112 Released While Open-Source ANV + RADV Drivers Continue Marching Along

  Vulkan 1.1.112 was outed this morning as the newest documentation update to this high performance graphics and compute API. Vulkan 1.1.112 is quite a mundane update with just documentation corrections and clarifications this go around and not any new extensions. But at least the clarifications should help out some and other maintenance items addressed by this Vulkan 1.1.112 release. It's not a surprise the release is so small considering Vulkan 1.1.111 was issued just two weeks ago.

today's howtos

• How to create snapshots on Linux with Timeshift

• A good firewall for a small network

• This will take the last two commands from bash_history and open your editor with the commands on separated lines

• Using i3 with multiple monitors

• Three commands to update Fedora

• Using AWS Textract in an automatic fashion with AWS Lambda

• Using dummy-hcd to play with USB gadgets

• Automated High Availability in kubeadm v1.15: Batteries Included But Swappable

5 Best and Free Desktop Email Clients for Linux and Windows

If you are looking for free Email clients for Linux and Windows – here are 5 of them we list which you can try and consider for casual or professional uses. Web based email is popular today which can be accessed via browser or mobile apps. However, big and medium enterprises, generic users still prefers native desktop email clients for heavy and office uses. Microsoft Outlook is the most popular desktop email client which is of course not free and you have to pay huge licence fee to use. There are multiple options for free desktop email clients available. Here are the best 5 free and open source email clients which you can go ahead and try then deploy for your needs.

On the Road to Fedora Workstation 31

So I hope everyone is enjoying Fedora Workstation 30, but we don’t rest on our laurels here so I thought I share some of things we are working on for Fedora Workstation 31. This is not an exhaustive list, but some of the more major items we are working on. Wayland – Our primary focus is still on finishing the Wayland transition and we feel we are getting close now, and thank you to the community for their help in testing and verifying Wayland over the last few years. The single biggest goal currently is fully removing our X Windowing System dependency, meaning that GNOME Shell should be able to run without needing XWayland. For those wondering why that has taken so much time, well it is simple; for 20 years developers could safely assume we where running atop of X. So refactoring everything needed to remove any code that makes the assumption that it is running on top of X.org has been a major effort. The work is mostly done now for the shell itself, but there are a few items left in regards to the GNOME Setting daemon where we need to expel the X dependency. Olivier Fourdan is working on removing those settings daemon bits as part of his work to improve the Wayland accessibility support. We are optimistic that can declare this work done within a GNOME release or two. So GNOME 3.34 or maybe 3.36. Once that work is complete an X server (XWayland) would only be started if you actually run a X application and when you shut that application down the X server will be shut down too.