Open-source News

How to encrypt a file on Linux (and when you should)  ZDNet

As part of the process for getting Intel's new Xe DRM kernel driver upstreamed as the eventual replacement to the existing i915 driver for Gen12 graphics hardware and newer, Intel engineers on Monday posted the initial Xe DRM scheduler patches that have been separated out to get review on them, figure out what can be common/shared among drivers, and get those bits upstreamed...

System76 Pangolin Review: A 15-Inch Linux Laptop for the Masses  WIRED

NVIDIA has published updated NVIDIA TU10x /TU11x "Turing" GPU firmware to support newer RTX 20 hardware revisions and fix outstanding issues affecting the open-source Nouveau driver...

Updated NVIDIA Turing Firmware Published For Open-Source Nouveau Driver  Phoronix

WiFi Flaws Allow Network Traffic Interception on Linux, iOS, and ...  HackRead

Ubuntu 23.04 'Lunar Lobster' beta is here in all its glitchy glory  The Register

Heroic Games Launcher 2.7.0 is out now for Epic Games and GOG  GamingOnLinux

04 | April | 2023  Hackaday

As I pointed out at the end of March, AMD has begun bringing up a new CDNA GPU in their Linux kernel driver code, past the currently known Instinct MI300 "GFX940" series. This "GFX943" part is some new CDNA multi-XCC accelerator and the open-source AMD engineers have begun posting many patches for this new GPU target. The initial bits of that support will appear in the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle...

Initial Support For AMD's Next-Gen, Multi-XCC CDNA Accelerator ...  Phoronix

Open-Source FaceID With RealSense  Hackaday

A currently-testing implementation of VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock has been published for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver. This Vulkan fragment shader interlock support is used by some game emulators as well as being useful in running Direct3D 12 atop Vulkan and similar purposes...

M5Stack CM4Stack - A tiny Raspberry Pi CM4 Linux computer with ...  CNX Software

M5Stack CM4Stack – A tiny Raspberry Pi CM4 Linux computer with an integrated 2-inch display  CNX Software

Peter Hutterer, Red Hat's leading Linux input expert, today released xf86-input-libinput 1.3 as the newest version of this X.Org Server driver for making use of libinput in an X.Org Server world...

Wayland 1.22 is now available as the newest feature update to this core set of Wayland protocol and helper code...

Hell Let Loose planning Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Linux Gaming Laptop Now Comes with an NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU  9to5Linux

Asus announce the ROG Ally gaming handheld  GamingOnLinux