Open-source News

Secure Cyber Practices for Reliable Academic Writing on Linux  Tech Critter

GeForce NOW Brings GeForce RTX Gaming to Linux PCs  NVIDIA Blog

Nvidia GeForce Now app for Linux desktops is available this week, along with 10 new games  PC Guide

Nvidia releases GeForce Now beta for Linux.  The Verge

Nvidia GeForce Now is officially on Linux and I can confirm it works really well  PC Gamer

GeForce NOW Releases A List Of New Games And New Linux Beta Test  CGMagazine

NVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux In Flatpak Form  Phoronix

NVIDIA's native GeForce NOW app for Linux bridges the gaming gap: hands on  Neowin

NVIDIA launches a native GeForce NOW app for Ubuntu, following SteamOS  Windows Central

Following NVIDIA's announcement back at CES of their GeForce NOW game streaming service coming to Linux as a native desktop application, today's the day. The GeForce NOW Linux-native build is being published and the review embargo has lifted.

Job listing suggests GOG Galaxy may soon introduce first-party support for Linux  KitGuru

I used to avoid the Linux terminal. Here’s the path that fixed it  How-To Geek

The Succession Question: Linux Kernel Community Confronts Life After Linus Torvalds  WebProNews

A great week for Linux gaming as GOG plans support, and Bazzite has "a brighter future" with new collab  PC Guide

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team last year addressed remaining issues in the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver so old AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 GPUs could transition to using AMDGPU by default rather than the former "Radeon" kernel driver that is largely in maintenance mode for pre-GCN/RDNA GPUs. One caveat though was the GCN 1.1 APU support still having some limitations leading to Kaveri and friends not being able to use the modern AMDGPU DC "Display Core" code. But new patches from Timur take care of those limitations...

Valve Developer Improves Aging AMD APUs On Linux With VRR, DP/HDMI Audio, HDR & Atomic  Phoronix

With Intel Panther Lake now shipping, open-source Intel engineers working on the client side are turning to tidying up support for their next target: Wildcat Lake. That more cost effective alternative to Panther Lake now has Intel Thermal Daemon support in getting ready for Linux desktops/laptops...

Linux Kernel Quietly Formalizes What Happens If Linus Torvalds Steps Away  Linuxiac

The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.15 was released overnight as this VA-API driver implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface used by their proprietary user-space driver stack. The purpose of NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver as this community open-source project continues to be around enabling video acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs with the Firefox web browser on Linux that supports the VA-API interface but not NVIDIA's NVDEC...

NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.15 Released With A Few Fixes  Phoronix