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Valve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Developer

Tue, 06/27/2023 - 08:00
If your dream is to work for Valve Software, getting experienced with the open-source Linux graphics driver development niche seems to be a decent pathway. Besides Valve, all the big hardware companies are routinely looking for more Linux graphics driver developers as well...

Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5

Tue, 06/27/2023 - 06:21
Capping off an exciting first day of the Linux 6.5 merge window is a pull request seeking to land the long-in-development Bcachefs file-system into this next kernel version...

Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes

Tue, 06/27/2023 - 05:12
Upsetting many in the open-source community was Red Hat's announcement last week that they would begin limiting access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources by putting them behind the Red Hat Customer Portal and publicly would be limited to the CentOS Stream sources. In turn this causes problems for free-of-cost derivatives like AlmaLinux moving forward. Red Hat today issued another blog post trying to address some of the criticism...

NVK Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Progresses On Running Some Games

Tue, 06/27/2023 - 05:00
Faith Ekstrand today published a blog post outlining recent efforts around NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware developed namely by the Nouveau development community. Some recent highlights include:..

Fedora Workstation 39 Eyes Switch To Anaconda WebUI For Installations

Tue, 06/27/2023 - 03:10
For the past year and a half Red Hat engineers have been developing a new web-based UI for their Anaconda OS installer and with the Fedora Workstation 39 release later this year they are looking at possibly switching to it by default...

RADV Lands Fragment Shader Interlock Support - Useful For Emulators, DXVK & VKD3D

Tue, 06/27/2023 - 01:58
Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan driver has merged support for VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock, which is a highly sought after extension by game emulators and also important for DirectX over Vulkan layering efforts and more...

Slint 1.1 Released For This Rust-Tailored GUI Toolkit, New Royalty-Free License

Tue, 06/27/2023 - 01:20
Back in April was the release of Slint 1.0 for this open-source, Rust-focused graphical toolkit formerly known as SixtyFPS. Today marks the release of Slint 1.1 as the first significant feature update after crossing the 1.0 milestone...

AMD Ryzen 7000 Series EDAC Support Submitted For Linux 6.5

Tue, 06/27/2023 - 00:55
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates have been submitted today on this first day of the Linux 6.5 merge window. Headlining the EDAC changes this cycle is bringing AMD Zen 4 client support...

Mozilla Firefox 116 To Allow For Wayland-Only Builds

Mon, 06/26/2023 - 18:37
Another exciting milestone has been reached on Mozilla's long journey of improving the native Wayland support for the Firefox web browser on Linux...

XFS Support For FS-VERITY Moves Closer To Mainline

Mon, 06/26/2023 - 18:23
Among the early pull requests for the now-open Linux 6.5 merge window is the FS-VERITY pull for that support layer enabling file-systems to leverage transparent integrity and authenticity protections fr read-only files. The FS-VERITY updates for Linux 6.5 are helping to ease the upcoming XFS file-system support...

Libreboot 20230625 Released With A Few More Old Systems Added

Mon, 06/26/2023 - 18:10
Libreboot as the downstream of Coreboot focused on providing fully open-source system firmware without binary blobs has been quite active recently. There have been several new systems added recently, introducing support for shipping ROMs without CPU microcode included, and other changes. This latest wor has culminated into the Libreboot 20230625 release...

Vulkan 1.3.255 Released With Cooperative Matrix Extension

Mon, 06/26/2023 - 17:55
Vulkan 1.3.255 was quietly released prior to the weekend and brings with it a new cooperative matrix extension...

Linux 6.4 Released With Early Apple M2 Code, More WiFi 7, AMD Guided Autonomous Mode

Mon, 06/26/2023 - 07:38
As expected Linux 6.4 is out today as stable as an on-time release following a relatively quiet cycle the past two months...

Mesa's Rusticl Lands Experimental FP16 OpenCL Support

Mon, 06/26/2023 - 01:25
Mesa's Rust-written OpenCL implementation Rusticl for Gallium3D drivers has now added experimental FP16 to its feature set...

Linux 6.5 Features Expected: Parallel CPU Bring-Up, Intel Shadow Stack, MIDI 2.0 & More

Sun, 06/25/2023 - 21:28
With Linux 6.4 expected for release today the Linux 6.5 merge window will then open. From my close monitoring of the many "-next" Git development branches along with some early pull requests already submitted, here is a look at some of the features that will likely be found in Linux 6.5 barring any last minute issues or objections from Linus Torvalds himself...

Zink's Mike Blumenkrantz Tackling Mesa WSI Inefficiencies

Sun, 06/25/2023 - 18:32
Earlier this month I ran some fresh benchmarks of Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan against RadeonSI. While Zink in general is already quite speedy and in good shape for most workloads, those tests uncovered some troubled spots and Zink lead developer Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve has been diving into some of those issues with fixes. Another merge request is pending to deal with inefficiencies in the Mesa Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code...

Wine-Staging 8.11 Brings Performance Improvements, Registering URL Protocol Handlers

Sun, 06/25/2023 - 18:02
Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.11, Wine-Staging 8.11 is out this Sunday morning with 502 patches atop the upstream Wine code...

New Patches Allow LoongArch ClangBuiltLinux Builds

Sun, 06/25/2023 - 17:42
While the upstream LLVM/Clang compiler has been building the AArch64 and x86_64 mainline Linux kernel builds for quite some time, for those interested in China's LoongArch CPU architecture it's the latest target seeing work to enable compiling the Linux kernel under Clang...

Linux's Corsair PSU Driver Being Updated For Newer Power Supplies

Sun, 06/25/2023 - 07:20
Added to the Linux kernel back in 2020 was a community-written Corsair power supply driver for exposing various sensor data that their higher-end PSUs make available via a USB interface. This reverse-engineered "corsair-psu" driver has continued to be improved upon and adding support for newer Corsair PSUs. A new patch out this weekend extends the corsair-psu driver for handling newer 2022~2023 model power supplies...

Linux 6.4 Bringing Great Improvements From AMD G.A.M. To Early Apple M2 Code, More Rust

Sun, 06/25/2023 - 00:17
With it having been another smooth week so far in the upstream kernel world, it's looking like Linus Torvalds is likely to promote Linux 6.4 tomorrow rather than going ahead with an extra release candidate. As such, here's a reminder about what makes Linux 6.4 a great summer-time kernel upgrade...

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