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Ubuntu Looking At Discontinuing Its Source ISOs

Thu, 04/01/2024 - 11:36am
Ubuntu's install media (ISO) generation recently broke the assembly of source ISOs. These are the ISOs containing all of the source code packages to Ubuntu Linux with the original motivation of helping GPL license compliance and ensuring the code is easily accessible. But the usefulness in practice is limited and now instead Ubuntu developers are considering the discontinuing of source ISOs...

The Open-Source ATI R300 Graphics Driver Is Still Being Improved Upon In 2024

Thu, 04/01/2024 - 11:18am
It's been over twenty years since the ATI Radeon R300 series was introduced but thanks to the open-source Mesa Gallium3D OpenGL driver, there continues to be new improvements made to this driver for these aging Radeon graphics cards on Linux. A few hundred lines of code were merged today for further enhancing the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver in 2024...

Newlib 4.4 Released With Long Double Support On i386 / AArch64 / x86_64 & Xtensa Port

Thu, 04/01/2024 - 11:05am
For those making use of the Newlib C standard library for embedded systems, Red Hat kicked off the new year by releasing Newlib 4.4...

AMD Proposes An FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface For Linux

Thu, 04/01/2024 - 10:53am
AMD engineers are proposing an FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface to overcome current limitations of the Linux kernel's FPGA manager subsystem...