Open-source News

Fwupd 1.8 Released With New Capabilities, Expanded Hardware Support

Phoronix - Thu, 04/28/2022 - 23:32
In addition to "Fwupd Friendly Firmware" getting off the ground, this week also marks Fwupd 1.8 as the newest version of this open-source solution paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for easy system and component firmware updating on Linux and other platforms...

AMD Radeon RX 6400 On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 04/28/2022 - 19:39
Last week AMD quietly launched the Radeon RX 6400 series as the new low-end RDNA2 graphics. With Radeon RX 6400 there are finally low-profile, single-slot PCIe RDNA2 graphics cards whether they be for 2U servers, mini ITX builds, or other interesting use-cases. Up for testing today is an XFX Radeon RX 6400 4GB low-profile graphics card for Linux benchmarking.

Linus Torvalds Comments On The NTFS Linux Driver Situation

Phoronix - Thu, 04/28/2022 - 19:11
As written about earlier this week, concerns have been raised over the "new" NTFS Linux driver that it's effectively unmaintained already less than one year after being mainlined. Linus Torvalds has since commented on the matter and opens up the door for other developers to maintain it...

AMD Sends Out New Linux Patches As Part Of Their Next-Gen GPU Support

Phoronix - Thu, 04/28/2022 - 17:26
A few patch series were fired off yesterday for enabling new IP blocks on upcoming Radeon graphics processors...

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