Open-source News

While AMD officially supports a much narrower range of more recent Radeon hardware with their official graphics drivers for Windows (and Linux - as it pertains to their Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver and AMDVLK official Vulkan driver), thanks to the open-source community around AMD's open-source driver code there are always nifty things that come about... As I wrote about earlier this year, an independent developer has been striving to bring Vulkan to the Radeon HD 6000 series. Yes, the 13 year old "Northern Islands" graphics processors...

Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon ...  Phoronix

Amazon's Fire OS for Smart TVs and tablets may drop Android for a new Linux-based OS  Liliputing

AMD Closing In On IOMMU SVA Support For Linux  Phoronix

The IOMMU changes for Linux 6.7 aren't particularly noteworthy besides adding SMMUv2 support for the Qualcomm SDM670 and SM7150 SoCs. But the IOMMU updates also take the kernel one step away from supporting Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) on AMD platforms in the near future...

Ubuntu Core Linux Developer Preview is ready for testing  ZDNet

RX 6800 XT is Faster Than RX 7800 XT in Linux Gaming  Tom's Hardware

Valve just announced the Steam Deck OLED as an upgraded version of their Steam Deck handheld Linux gaming device...

Valve Announces The Steam Deck OLED With Upgraded Display ...  Phoronix

IC Resources — Freelance job Embedded Linux Developer ...  free-work.com

In addition to the OpenZFS code this week landing sync parallelism to improve write performance scalability, another shiny new feature was also merged: RAIDZ expansion...

OpenZFS Lands Exciting RAIDZ Expansion Feature  Phoronix

The Last Digitally-Free Nation on Earth  LinuxInsider

Humble Bundle has a stack of great platformers in this new bundle  GamingOnLinux

DAOS Foundation Launches to Broaden Governance and Development of the Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage Project  Yahoo Finance

DAOS Foundation Launches to Broaden Governance and ...  PR Newswire

Cloud Hypervisor 36 has been released as this Rust-written VMM that started out as an Intel open-source project that since was folded into the Linux Foundation umbrella with support from Microsoft, Arm, and other vendors. More recently even the likes of AMD and Ampere Computing have been onboard with this cloud and security focused virtualization hypervisor...

Cloud-Hypervisor 36 Brings AMD CPU Topology Support, AIO ...  Phoronix

Andrew Morton last week sent out all of the memory management "MM" changes for the Linux 6.7 kernel for which there is a lot of code churn...

Linux 6.7 MM Brings Performance Optimizations, Better Handling ...  Phoronix