Open-source News

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU Compute Performance  Phoronix

Ahead of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics cards seeing retail availability tomorrow, today the review embargo expires on the GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics cards. I've been testing out the GeForce RTX 5070 under Linux and today have a number of GPU compute benchmarks to share.

Open-sourced back in January was the Yandex Perforator as a new software project for uncovering code inefficiencies and potentially "save billions of dollars" in expenses. Perforator has continued evolving since its open-source announcement and out today is Perforator 0.0.5 as the latest milestone...

Fedora Linux 39 review  MSN

The AMD BC-250 is a crypto mining GPU launched by AMD back during the Bitcoin mining craze when it was profitable using GPUs for mining. At its heart is a Navi "RDNA1" GPU similar to the APU found within the Sony PlayStation 5. The AMD BC-250 can be found used these days for $50~100 USD and with the latest open-source Mesa graphics driver code for Linux systems can now be used with the Vulkan API for graphics/gaming...

Linux's AMD Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For The BC-250 Mining Board  Phoronix

In addition to mapping the Direct3D graphics API to Vulkan, Wine developers are working on mapping the Direct3D video acceleration APIs to work atop the Vulkan Video API...

While AMD hasn't released an updated Windows driver for the Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs since 2022 for Windows 10, over in the Linux/open-source space the driver support continues. It will hopefully continue reliably too now that the Mesa RADV continuous integration (CI) has added driver testing with an old Hawaii GPU...

RADV Driver Adds CI Coverage For Aging Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs  Phoronix

Fedora Linux 39 review  MSN

Going back nearly one year Intel has been working on Linux driver support for a new adaptive sharpening filter with Lunar Lake graphics. That's culminated into working on a common DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences and this week the latest patch series for that property was posted...

Intel Revises DRM Sharpness Property For Use With Lunar Lake Sharpening Capabilities  Phoronix

I built the perfect anti-MacBook out of this Chromebook  Android Police

Our Linux App with GUI Is Here  ExpressVPN

Hands on: I tried Fedora Linux 39 - see what I thought about this lightweight distro  TechRadar

Download VMWare Workstation Pro (free) for Windows and Linux  Gizmodo

The post Running Whisper AI for Real-Time Speech-to-Text on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Whisper AI is an advanced automatic speech recognition (ASR) model developed by OpenAI that can transcribe audio into text with

The post Running Whisper AI for Real-Time Speech-to-Text on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Rakuten opts for Red Hat's Enterprise Linux for Real Time  Telecompaper EN

Red Hat Inks Linux Tie-Up with Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Symphony at MWC  The Fast Mode

The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements made over the past month...