2 March

Blender 2.83 To Be An LTS Release, Blender 3.0 Next Summer

Given the explosive growth of the Blender 3D modeling software in recent times and with receiving more sponsors/supporters and more organizations beginning to make use of this cross-platform, open-source software, the Blender release team has put out their plans for the next few years.

2 March 11:15 AM EST - Free Software - Blender Release Plans - 2 Comments

1 March

GhostBSD 20.02 Brings Custom ZFS Partition Editor, Updater Improvements

For those looking to experiment with a BSD-based desktop open-source platform, GhostBSD has been competing well as one of the few in this field. GhostBSD 20.02 is out and continues being based on TrueOS/FreeBSD stable packages while shipping the GTK-based MATE desktop environment as its out-of-the-box desktop solution.

1 March 06:43 AM EST - BSD - GhostBSD 20.02 - 3 Comments
Simple Patch Lets Amazon's EC2 Linux Network Driver Start ~90x Faster

With how ubiquitous the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is, one may have assumed that for years the software stack was already extensively optimized to insane levels, especially as it concerns the boot time for being able to quickly respond to changes in load... But it turns out there still is some low hanging fruit such as with Amazon's "ENA" network driver and a new patch allowing it to initialize 90 times quicker.

1 March 03:00 AM EST - Virtualization - Amazon ENA Driver - 14 Comments

29 February

Wine-Staging 5.3 Fixes Online Play For Some Recent Games

Following yesterday's Wine 5.3 release, Wine-Staging 5.3 was issued as the latest testing/experimental flavor of Wine. Wine-Staging 5.3 is still carrying 800+ extra patches compared to upstream Wine while it has updated its Event FD synchronization code and also added one important addition this cycle.

29 February 07:29 AM EST - WINE - Wine-Staging 5.3 - 2 Comments
Qt Wayland's Maintainer Is Leaving The Company

While the Qt5 tool-kit on Wayland is in fairly good shape in recent times, the Qt Wayland module that provides the Wayland platform abstraction and helpers for assembly Qt-based Wayland compositors could run the risk of regressing.

29 February 12:05 AM EST - Qt - Qt Wayland - 31 Comments

28 February

Jcat: A New Alternative To Microsoft Catalog Files

Prolific open-source developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat who has been responsible for the creation of PackageKit, the ColorHug colorimeter hardware, GNOME Software, and for the past number of years focused on the Fwupd firmware updating utility and Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) has a new open-source project.

28 February 11:41 AM EST - Free Software - Jcat - 6 Comments
Unity 8 Desktop Renamed To Lomiri

The Unity 8 desktop environment that continues to be developed by the UBports open-source community for use on UBports' Ubuntu Touch and ultimately back on the Linux desktop as well have renamed the project.

28 February 08:45 AM EST - Ubuntu - Lomiri - 53 Comments
Qt 5.15 Reaches Beta

The Qt Company has released their first beta of the forthcoming Qt 5.15 tool-kit.

28 February 06:41 AM EST - Qt - Qt 5.15 Beta 1 - 10 Comments

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