Open-source News

How to zip a folder in Linux  Yahoo Singapore News

How to zip a folder in Linux  Tom's Guide

How to remove Linux from dual boot  XDA Developers

On Friday in addition to Intel submitting their new Xe kernel graphics driver to DRM-Next ahead of Linux 6.8, the red team sent in their latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver changes ahead of this next kernel cycle. Exciting on the AMD side is landing the AMD color management properties support! But on the downside, it's compile-time disabled for the time being...

AMD Stages The Radeon Graphics Color Management Code For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Manjaro 23.1 was released overnight as the newest version of this popular Arch Linux based desktop Linux distribution...

Box64 and Box86 are out with new releases this weekend for these open-source projects allowing x86_64 and x86 binaries to run on ARM64 Linux systems...

Box64 v0.2.6 Brings Support For More CPU Extensions, Better Syscall Emulation  Phoronix

KDE developers remain very busy working toward the release of the Plasma 6 desktop in late February...

How to shut down Linux from the terminal  XDA Developers

Vivaldi 6.5 Releases With Future-Ready Features  It's FOSS News

Tutorial: Use Linux cpio to back up and restore files  TechTarget

As I wrote about last week that Intel's modern Xe kernel graphics driver was nearing submission for the mainline kernel and today it's indeed been submitted to DRM-Next. The Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is the modern alternative to the long-used i915 DRM kernel driver and is fitted to support Tigerlake graphics and newer -- both integrated graphics hardware as well as discrete GPUs/accelerators...

Intel's New "Xe" Kernel Graphics Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Pop!_OS 22.04 Welcomes PipeWire 1.0.0, COSMIC Desktop Evolves  Linuxiac

Manjaro Linux 23.1.0 'Vulcan' now available to download — choose from GNOME, Plasma, and XFCE editions  BetaNews

Wine 9.0-rc2 is now available as the latest weekly release candidate on the road to the stable Wine 9.0 release in early 2024...

Earlier this month at AMD's AI event in San Francisco they announced ROCm 6.0 while launching the MI300X and MI300A accelerators. While announced back on the 6th, today marks the actual availability of ROCm 6.0 with the source code and binaries now publicly available...

AMD ROCm 6.0 Now Available To Download With MI300 Support, PyTorch FP8 & More AI  Phoronix

A few months back GNOME developer Christian Hergert noted that Linux terminal emulators could be much faster following his experiments but then concluded at the time he didn't want to develop a new terminal becase "creating your own terminal is like 20 lines of code these days." Well, he ended up shifting stance a bit and has now announced Prompt, a new container-focused terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop...