Open-source News

As yet another open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver change ahead of the upcoming Mesa 23.3 code branching and feature freeze is Vulkan VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix support with the RADV driver for RDNA3 hardware and newer using the GPU's Wavefront Mixed-precision Multiply Accumulate (WMMA) functionality...

RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Cooperative Matrix Support Using ...  Phoronix

SUPER BOMBERMAN R 2 granted Steam Deck Playable status  GamingOnLinux

How to Delete Timeshift Snapshots on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

As we approach the end of 2023, sadly, the real-time kernel "PREEMPT_RT" support still hasn't been mainlined... The main blocker pending is still the ongoing work around non-blocking consoles / threaded console handling to then allow the few dozen remaining out-of-tree RT kernel patches to be merged. The good news is that when the PREEMPT_RT support is ready for mainline, it looks like the RISC-V architecture support will also be real-time friendly too...

Linux RISC-V Preparing For Real-Time Kernel Support ...  Phoronix

Cohesity and Red Hat Enter Strategic Collaboration to Embed Red Hat Enterprise Linux into the Cohesity Data Cloud  Yahoo Finance

Cohesity and Red Hat Enter Strategic Collaboration to Embed Red ...  Business Wire

Hardcore survival RPG 'Heads Will Roll: Reforged' out now  GamingOnLinux

AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver has been around for a decade since the Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" graphics card days while finally the OpenGL renderer string is being changed to reflect "RadeonSI" as the name of the driver in use...

AMD Making It More Clear When Their RadeonSI OpenGL Driver Is ...  Phoronix

How to install Ubuntu Linux the right way  PCWorld

Installing Ubuntu correctly - this is how it works  PCWorld

Linux Process Management in Containers: Challenges and Solutions  hackernoon.com

Given recent talk of upstream Linux Long-Term Support (LTS) kernels likely being reduced from six to two year support windows moving forward, Canonical today decided to re-affirm their support for ten years of support with Ubuntu Long Term Support versions...

Canonical To Stick With 10 Year Support Cycle For Ubuntu LTS ...  Phoronix

How to install Git on Ubuntu  XDA Developers

METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.1 is quite broken ...  GamingOnLinux

Steam Deck gets a fix for a startup bug, plus more Steam Input ...  GamingOnLinux

Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has landed initial support for GFX11.5 "RDNA3 refresh" graphics within the RADV Vulkan driver for the upcoming Mesa 23.3...