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Steam On Linux Tries Again For Video Hardware Acceleration By Default On NVIDIA GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 09:15
Last month Steam on Linux aimed to enable NVIDIA GPU video hardware acceleration by default but ultimately ran into problems. With Tuesday's Steam beta update they hope to have that resolved and re-enabled the NVIDIA GPU video hardware acceleration by default...

One Of Intel's Newest Open-Source Projects Is A New Font For Developers

Phoronix - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 06:50
A recent Intel open-source project that went under my radar until now (and seemingly many others) is Intel One Mono, a new font catering to developers...

Linux 6.5 To Add Support For Some New AMD CCP Hardware

Phoronix - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 04:52
The upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel is set to add support for some new hardware to AMD's decade-old cryptographic co-processor (CCP) driver...

New developments at Opensource.com

opensource.com - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 01:30
New developments at Opensource.com admin Tue, 06/06/2023 - 13:30

You may have noticed that it's been quiet here on Opensource.com lately. That's because there's a new project in the works, and while there aren't many specific details to announce yet, there's plenty to talk about. What better to start with than the entire internet?

The internet, and top-level domains

You may know that the internet is a network. A network, by definition, is a group of connections. The term "internet" is in fact a portmanteau of "interconnected" and "network". The internet is a network of interconnected networks, and originally it consisted of two: The military network and the academic network. Once the internet got popular outside those two groups, it became apparent that different designations were needed to differentiate, say, a commercial entity from a charitable organization from a university or a governmental department.

These designations are called top-level domains (TLD). There are many available today, but for a long time there were only a handful. The original TLDs remain popular, and you probably know that when you go to, for instance, a .com address, you're visiting a commercial site, but when you visit a .org address you're going to a non-profit website.

Open source is a network

Open source can be many things. It's can be commercial, it can be non-profit, it can be academic, it can be cultural. No matter what form it takes, though, it's always a network. Sometimes (but not always) it's a network of computers, but most importantly it's a network of people. Whether people are gathering at a conference or a pub or in an online chat room, open source is a community of people.

The website Opensource.com has been supported by a commercial entity for 12 years. But the people (that's you and me) that make up the Opensource.com community aren't commercial entities, we're people.

In one month, Opensource.com is going to resolve that bug. Stay tuned!

The community is hard at work on something new.

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RADV+Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance On Mesa 23.2-devel

Phoronix - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 00:20
It's been a while since last looking at the Zink performance for this OpenGL implementation built atop the Vulkan APIs, but with all of the Zink progress by Valve's Mike Blumenkrantz and others, here is a fresh round of testing. This article is seeing how for Mesa Git the performance of Zink on the RADV Vulkan driver compares to that of the native RadeonSI driver while testing with both the Radeon RX 7600 and RX 7900 XTX graphics cards.

Intel Announces Faster Arc Pro A60 & A60M Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 00:14
Intel today announced the Arc Pro A60 graphics card and the A60M as the mobile variant of this new faster class of Arc Pro Graphics...

Experimental OpenGL 3.1 Support For Apple M1/M2 Graphics On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 06/06/2023 - 23:35
Experimental driver code available via the Asahi Linux "edge" packages allow for OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL ES 3.0 to be exposed for Apple Silicon M1/M2 SoCs under this Arch Linux based OS...

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