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Eric Engestrom has delivered another on-time release of a Mesa stable point release. Out today is Mesa 23.1.2 for delivering the latest stable bug fixes for this collection of open-source graphics driver components commonly used on Linux systems...

Since June of last year shortly after Intel announced the Gaudi 2 AI accelerator they began posting the open-source driver patches for Gaudi 2 with the mainline Habana Labs driver. That support landed in Linux 6.0 and since then they've continued refining that support for this new processor support for deep learning training and inference workloads...

Intel's Habana Gaudi 2 Accelerator Linux Driver In Good Shape  Phoronix

Linux Foundation & National Spectrum Consortium to Collaborate ...  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation & National Spectrum Consortium to Collaborate on OpenRAN Architecture and Testing to accelerate US innovation  Yahoo Finance

Linux Operating System Market 2031 Growth Drivers along with Top ...  KaleidoScot

Building off the huge Godot 4.0 release from March, the first beta of the Godot 4.1 game engine is now available for testing as another step forward for this open-source, cross-platform game engine...

GuliKit reveal an upgraded anti-drift thumbstick module for Steam ...  GamingOnLinux

In addition to Apple revealing this week support is coming for the JPEG-XL image format in their Safari web browser, another step forward for this royalty-free image codec is FFmpeg now able to decode animated JPEG-XL files...

Use a camera to solve puzzles in hand-drawn adventure TOEM  GamingOnLinux

Overnight another 25 patches were merged to Mesa 23.2 for improving RADV's ray-tracing code after the merge request had been in the works for the past two months...

The libei 1.0 project milestone has now been achieved for this open-source effort started by Red Hat's Peter Hutterer for better emulated input support on Wayland...

Mesa 23.1's RADV driver added initial support for Vulkan Video with select video formats while now a set of patches have been merged to Mesa 23.2-devel for making the H.265 (HEVC) decoding more robust...

Colony building strategy game Imagine Earth adds Linux support  GamingOnLinux

5 Best Sticky Note Apps for Linux (2023)  Beebom

5 Best Sticky Note Apps for Linux  Beebom

Minarca: A Backup Solution You'll Love  Linux Journal

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Back in March the AMD Radeon ProRender SDK 3.1 finished transitioning to HIP for using AMD's HIP C++ interface rather than OpenCL for newer Radeon GPUs. Following that, the Radeon ProRender plug-ins have also now finished being converted over to using HIP on AMD Radeon Vega (GFX9) GPUs and newer...

Intel’s New Open Source Mono Font is Pretty Decent  OMG! Ubuntu!