Open-source News

Potentially for the Mozilla Firefox 103 release we could see VA-API video acceleration for Linux users finally enabled by default while as of today has been flipped back on again in Firefox Nightly builds...

Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run Linux soon  Ars Technica

Hackable $219 Pinebook Pro Linux Laptop Back on Sale After Frustrating Yearlong Delay  MUO - MakeUseOf

Last month System76 and HP began teasing an HP developer laptop with AMD Ryzen SoC and running Pop!_OS while today that HP Dev One laptop has formally launched...

Linux Fu: Easy Widgets  Hackaday

Following the recent news about Nouveau shifting code around so their shader compiler can be used outside of Nouveau Gallium3D, Red Hat's Karol Herbst who has been a longtime Nouveau developer has been posting patches for his new "NVK" Nouveau Vulkan driver effort...

Red Hat Experimenting With "NVK" Nouveau Open-Source Vulkan Driver  Phoronix

Why you should consider following Shopify’s Ruby investment lead  TechRepublic

What Is Steam Proton and How Does It Run Windows Games on Steam Deck?  MUO - MakeUseOf

Firefox 102 Enters Beta Testing with Geoclue Support on Linux, Improved PDF Reading  9to5Linux

Firefox 102 Enters Beta Testing with Geoclue Support on Linux, Improved PDF Reading  9to5Linux

The perf events changes that landed last week for the Linux 5.19 kernel bring some exciting platform PMU updates on the AMD side while also supporting newer CPUs on the Intel side...

Google Drive, Free Phone Apps, Reasons to Switch from Linux to Windows, and Google Opinion Rewards Tricks  MUO - MakeUseOf

Coreboot developers are releasing Coreboot 4.17 today with various new motherboards supported, support for GRUB2 atop SeaBIOS as a payload, and various low-level code improvements too. Plus Coreboot 4.17 brings the "coreDOOM" payload -- yes, it's possible to get the game Doom running atop this system firmware. There is also AMD Platform Secure Boot (PSB) support introduced to Coreboot too...

How to install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy  Linux Shout

Since 2020 the Vulkan API has offered a fragment shading rate extension for allowing games to provide higher levels of detail in a scene compared to other less important areas of the screen. Desktop OpenGL has also offered a fragment shading rate extension while this week a similar extension has been added for OpenGL ES...

Tuxera has issued its first new release of the NTFS-3G FUSE driver for NTFS read/write support on Linux and other platforms since last August's prior stable release. This new version was issued last week in order to ship security fixes...

NTFS-3G Driver For FUSE-Based NTFS Support Updated For Security Fixes  Phoronix

The PCI subsystem changes have landed for the in-development Linux 5.19 kernel...

PCI Changes Land In Linux 5.19 - Including Power Management Quirk For Intel DG2 Graphics  Phoronix