Open-source News

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver ray-tracing support is about to become much faster with a pending improvement that is currently undergoing review...

Last month the Mold 2.0 high-speed linker was released that shifted from AGPL to MIT licensing after their monetization strategy didn't pan out. This weekend the project is out with its Mold 2.1 release as another step forward for this alternative linker to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD...

Future LibreOffice releases will finally better handle animated PNG (APNG) files. After initial import support was added back in June, merged this week was initial export support for APNG files...

Intel engineer and open-source compiler expert H.J. Lu has landed a much faster log2() implementation within the GNU C Library (glibc) that makes use of FMA instructions with modern x86_64 CPUs...

Glibc log2 Function Up To 69% Faster Thanks To FMA  Phoronix

Building a Mobile Device to Run Linux: The Blackberry Pi  Fagen wasanni

Creating a Custom Handheld Device That Runs a Full Linux ...  OPP.Today

Blackberry Pi Puts Desktop Linux In Your Pocket  Hackaday

How to Create a Windows Virtual Machine in Linux With KVM  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Ultimate Guide to MetaTrader 5 on Linux: Features, Benefits ...  NNN NEWS NIGERIA

10 Best Portable Linux OS/Distros To Install & Run From USB  Simplifying Tech for Everyone

AMD submitted more "new stuff" for their AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel graphics and compute drivers for the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle...

AMD FreeSync Panel Replay Ready For Linux 6.6, Next-Gen GPU Enablement Started  Phoronix

MetaTrader for Linux: The Ultimate Guide to Forex Trading on Linux ...  NNN NEWS NIGERIA

I thought a Raspberry Pi NAS was a good idea - here's why I'm wrong  TechRadar

Linux Kernel Updated To Add Zenbleed Fix For Valve's Steam Deck  Phoronix

Last month when the Linux kernel was mitigated for Zenbleed as a CPU vulnerability affecting AMD Zen 2 processors, it turns out the Steam Deck APU was accidentally left without coverage. An x86/urgent pull request sent out today for the Linux 6.5 kernel and for back-porting to current stable Linux kernel releases will extend the Zenbleed mitigation to protect Steam Deck gamers...

Last year the DisplayPort 2.1 specification was published and now Intel's open-source Linux engineers are working on adding support to the kernel for handling of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode 2.1 support for that DP operation over USB Type-C connections...

Intel Wiring Up DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.1 Support For Linux  Phoronix

One of the new Linux kernel patch series out of AMD this week is for exposing ACPI PHAT, the Platform Health Assessment Table...