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openSUSE Leap 15.4 Beta Builds Now Available For Testing

Thu, 03/03/2022 - 00:00

OpenSUSE has begun the beta phase of openSUSE Leap 15.4...

UCIe Announced For Fostering An Open Chiplet Ecosystem

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 22:00

The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) consortium was announced today for fostering an open chiplet ecosystem for future generations of hardware...

Intel "In-Field Scan" Coming With Sapphire Rapids As New Silicon Failure Testing Feature

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 20:12

Intel In-Field Scan is a hardware feature we have not heard the company talk about publicly until yesterday when they posted a new open-source Linux driver for this hardware failure testing feature being introduced with Sapphire Rapids processors...

Microsoft Has Another Go At Their DirectX Linux Kernel Driver

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 19:38

Microsoft on Tuesday posted a third iteration of their "DXGKRNL" Linux kernel driver for DirectX / Hyper-V compute support for use within Windows Subsystem for Linux / Windows Subsystem for Android...

New Patches Posted For Booting Linux On The Nintendo Wii U

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 18:57

Last month there were discussions around potentially working to upstream the Linux support for Nintendo's Wii U game console. While there are serious limitations to the support, posted today were the patch series for review providing basic Wii U enablement...

CentOS New "AutoSD" Distribution Announced For In-Vehicle Linux Distro

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 18:27

The CentOS Automotive Special Interest Group today is announcing the Automotive Stream "AutoSD" Linux distribution...

HarfBuzz 4.0 Released For This Open-Source Text Shaping Library

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 18:14

The HarfBuzz open-source text shaping library that is used by GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt, Android, Java, Flutter, Firefox, LibreOffice, and numerous other applications and toolkits is out with HarfBuzz 4.0...

Chrome 99 Released With Canvas 2D Improvements, Other Developer Features

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 08:29

We are now one release away from Chrome 100 but prior to that now available is Chrome 99 that brings a number of prominent developer additions...

AMD Adds Support For New "GFX1036" / "GFX1037" Hardware To Linux OpenGL Driver

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 03:20

As part of AMD's new approach for quietly bringing up new graphics hardware support within their open-source Linux graphics driver, today AMD landed new graphics chip support within their RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Valve Launches "Aperture Desk Job" As A Free, Short Game For The Steam Deck

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 02:16

Valve's newest game is... Aperture Desk Job. This is a mini game set within the Portal universe and used for showing off the Steam Deck controls while also working with other game controllers too...

Amazon Officially Launches Luna In The US - Limited Linux Support

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 01:00

After announcing Amazon Luna back in 2020 as their cloud gaming service, today Amazon officially rolled it out to all US users. With this launch also comes a limited, rotating selection of games free to Amazon Prime members...

Mozilla Launches A New MDN, MDN Plus Coming Soon

Tue, 03/01/2022 - 22:15

The Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) has been an invaluable resource over the years for web developers with a plethora of open, detailed documentation on a wide variety of HTMl, CSS, and JavaScript features along with extensive Web API references. While MDN has suffered setbacks from recent Mozilla layoffs, today the organization is launching their new MDN and reaffirming that MDN Plus will be announced soon...

MPlayer 1.5 Released To Advance This Open-Source Video Player

Tue, 03/01/2022 - 20:37

After not seeing a new release for nearly three years, MPlayer 1.5 was released this past weekend for this open-source media player...

Genode OS 22.02 Improves Ability To Use Linux Device Drivers, Adds VirtualBox 3D Guests

Tue, 03/01/2022 - 19:21

Genode OS continues to be developed as an innovative open-source operating system framework. Genode developers closed out February by issuing the Genode OS Framework 22.02 release with many new features and improvements...

Intel Continues Linux Preparations For Xe HP Compute Accelerators

Tue, 03/01/2022 - 19:08

While Intel's DG2/Alchemist Arc graphics card support with the open-source Linux driver stack appears to be getting into shape with the latest upstream code ahead of the graphics cards expected to ship next quarter, the Xe HP compute accelerator support remains very much a work-in-progress for the open-source Intel Linux kernel driver...

Steam Deck, GNOME 42 Advancements & AMD Linux Updates Excited Readers In February

Tue, 03/01/2022 - 18:21

During the course of February on Phoronix were 236 original news articles covering the state of open-source affairs and Linux performance. While the pandemic seems to be lightening up, sadly the ad industry is still in a downward state, but in any event here is a look at the most popular Phoronix content for the past month...

Smartmontools 7.3 Released For Monitoring Disk Drive SMART Status

Tue, 03/01/2022 - 16:00

Smartmontools 7.3 was released as the first update to this open-source package in more than one year for providing a utility (smartctl) and daemon (smartd) for monitoring the SMART capabilities built into modern (S)ATA / NVMe / SCSI / SAS disk drives...