Open-source News

Which Linux Distribution Do You Recommend for Programmers?  How-To Geek

The Vulkan 1.4.311 specification update is out today with a handful of issues resolved with various clarifications and other subtle refinements. Plus two new extensions...

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 21st edition for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

NXP’s FRDM i.MX 91 Board Provides Low-Power Solution for Linux-Based IoT Systems  LinuxGizmos.com

In addition to Intel software engineers this week being busy doing a late restructuring of AVX10 support in moving away from possible 256-bit maximum vector register size (a great move and still so excited to see this materialize!), there are also Intel engineers continuing work on enabling Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) on the Linux kernel side...

Intel Updates Advanced Performance Extensions "APX" Code For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Barring any last minute issues or hesitation by Linus Torvalds, the Linux 6.14 kernel is aiming for releasing as stable this coming Sunday on 23 March. Here's a reminder about some of the most interesting changes to find with Linux 6.14...

Even amid the ongoing FreeDesktop.org GitLab cloud/server migration, Eric Engestrom has managed to release Mesa 25.0.2 on schedule as the newest stable release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux systems...

Linux on Android: Google clarifies the new Terminal app’s purpose  Chrome Unboxed

Open Infrastructure Foundation Joins Forces With Linux Foundation  The New Stack

GNOME 48 Has Arrived With New and Improved Desktop Apps  How-To Geek

Mesa RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Driver Performance For The AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Review  Phoronix

With my launch day testing of the Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards on Linux the Mesa RADV driver was used given that is what is predominantly used by Linux gamers/enthusiasts and is used out-of-the-box by all of the major Linux distributions. Last week AMD released an AMDVLK Vulkan driver with RDNA4 GPU support as the company's official open-source Vulkan API Linux driver. For those curious how the Mesa RADV and AMDVLK drivers are competing for the Radeon RX 9070 series, this article is for you with benchmarks of both drivers and both RX 9070 graphics cards.

Linux Fu: A Warp Speed Prompt  Hackaday

Assassin's Creed Shadows out now - Steam Deck Verified but has NVIDIA problems on Desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

Chimera Linux Drops RISC-V Over Performance Woes  It's FOSS News

Arm engineer Karunika Choo today sent out the latest patches developing a new GPU-specific initialization framework for the Panthor open-source kernel graphics driver as part of bringing up support for newer Mali GPUs...

Open Infrastructure Foundation to Join the Linux Foundation, Strengthening Open Source Collaboration  ARC Advisory Group

While there is Kpatch, Ksplice, and other live patching solutions already in use for patching a running Linux kernel for deploying security updates without downtime, Google engineers are developing the Live Update Orchestrator as a new means of transitioning to a new updated kernel with minimal downtime...

Linux developer SeongJae Park has posted a set of patches for the Linux kernel's wonderful DAMON code to provide for self-tuned memory tiering that "just works" and is racking up some nice performance wins...