Hashtag Jakarta EE #269
Hashtag Jakarta EE #269 Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I spoke at the Madrid JUG. We also had a panel where my colleagues at the Eclipse Foundation talked about the work they do to support the open...
Illumos on SPARC: possible, but problematic
While SPARC may no longer be supported by the main Illumos project, it still works and is still viable. This page brings together a variety of information regarding Illumos on SPARC, not necessarily limited to Tribblix. ↫ Tribblix website It seems ru...
SVT-AV1 3.0 Released With Faster CPU-Based AV1 Encoding
SVT-AV1 as the open-source, CPU-based AV1 encoder that was started by Intel software engineers and now led by the Alliance for Open Media is out this week with the big SVT-AV1 3.0 release. Here's some details on SVT-AV1 3.0 as well as some initial perf...
Mesa's Venus Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 Support
The Mesa Venus driver code for use with VirtIO-GPU for exposing accelerated Vulkan API support within virtualized environments (VMs) now is advertising Vulkan 1.4 API support...
Flathub safety: a layered approach from source to user
About two weeks ago we talked about why Fedora manages its own Flatpak repository, and why that sometimes leads to problems with upstream projects. Most recently, Fedora’s own OBS Flatpak was broken, leading to legal threats from the OBS project, dem...
