Open-source News

Get PAYDAY 2 and lots of DLC in this Humble Bundle  GamingOnLinux

Similar to prior Wayland vs. X.Org desktop comparison impact on Linux gaming, here is a fresh round of tests looking at the (X)Wayland vs. X.Org GNOME session performance with Ubuntu 23.04 and the latest NVIDIA proprietary and AMD open-source graphics drivers on Linux.

The Vulkan API v1.3.254 specification update was published today with just a few fixes/clarifications to the documentation but also two new extensions...

GNOME Wayland vs. X.Org Performance For Radeon & NVIDIA ...  Phoronix

ChamelDoH: New Linux Backdoor Utilizing DNS-over-HTTPS Tunneling for Covert CnC  The Hacker News

AMDVLK 2023.Q2.3 is out today as the newest snapshot of AMD's official open-source Vulkan driver...

In Other News: Linux Kernel Exploits, Update on BEC Losses, Cybersecurity Awareness Act  SecurityWeek

In Other News: Linux Kernel Exploits, Update on BEC Losses ...  SecurityWeek

How to Find a MAC Address from an IP Address  Alphr

Dev Boots Linux 292612 Times to Find Intel, AMD Kernel Bug  Tom's Hardware

The fee, or no to the fee  The Register

New Beta for Valheim adds in world modifiers letting you customize ...  GamingOnLinux

FreeSync Panel Replay is a new feature for AMD Ryzen laptops with the DCN v3.1.4 display block or newer for helping to reduce power usage when the screen contents are unchanged...

AMD Prepares Linux Driver For New Feature: FreeSync Panel Replay  Phoronix

Arm and NXP engineers have posted the initial open-source Linux driver patches for an Ethos-U driver for their machine learning processor to enable Linux to dispatch AI inference jobs to the hardware. It's yet another inference/accelerator driver working its way toward the mainline kernel but is off to a rocky start with many code issues being raised...

Arm Ethos-U Linux Driver Posted For Machine Learning Processor  Phoronix

Soulstone Survivors a great Vampire Survivor-like has a huge skill ...  GamingOnLinux

A new version of the "Not so Common Desktop Environment" is now available, a modern Linux desktop that continues to mimic the look and feel of the old CDE Unix desktop environment...

Factorio adds controller support in experimental update  GamingOnLinux

While IO_uring has been one of the greatest Linux kernel innovations in recent years for helping to deliver more performant and efficient I/O, it's also been home to various security vulnerabilities. Due to ongoing security issues, this interface for asynchronous I/O is being restricted or outright disabled across Google products...