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Another ASRock Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge Motherboard Ported To Open-Source Coreboot

Phoronix - Fri, 12/24/2021 - 18:29
Another aging Intel motherboard is now supported by Coreboot for those wanting to free your system down to the BIOS...

Darktable 3.8 Released For This Great Open-Source Alternative To Adobe Lightroom

Phoronix - Fri, 12/24/2021 - 18:04
Just in time for dealing with any holiday photos, Darktable 3.8 is out today as the latest shiny feature update to this open-source RAW photography post-production software...

10 reasons to love Linux in 2021

opensource.com - Fri, 12/24/2021 - 16:01

Opensource.com published well over 150 articles about Linux in 2021. From articles about small utilities for desktop Linux users to tutorials about working with Linux as a server operating system and everything in between, these articles have covered many facets of the Linux ecosystem. It is well worth your time to check out all of them, but here are ten great articles published this year to get you started.


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Intel Prepares More DG2 + XeHP Bits For Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Fri, 12/24/2021 - 16:00
Intel on Thursday submitted a final drm-intel-gt-next pull of new material slated for introduction in the upcoming Linux 5.17 cycle...

Get started with Zyn-Fusion, an open source synthesizer

opensource.com - Fri, 12/24/2021 - 16:00

A wall of synth. That's what I dream of. Given the chance, on one wall of my office, I'd have a modular synthesizer that only Bob Moog himself could truly ever understand. Until I realize this dream, I make do with a very good approximation: Zyn-Fusion.


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Ogre 2.3 Released With Vulkan Render Support, Other Engine Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 12/24/2021 - 13:00
Ogre 2.3 is out for a holiday release as the newest feature release of the Ogre-Next open-source 3D rendering engine code used both for games and applications...

systemd 250 Released With A Huge Number Of New Features, Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 12/24/2021 - 04:44
Systemd 250 is the latest major open-source software project release for those trying to get out their releases before year's end... Simply put, systemd 250 is a very big feature release...

Polychromatic 0.7.3 Released With New Razer Device Support, 8000Hz Polling

Phoronix - Fri, 12/24/2021 - 04:16
Polychromatic as the open-source GUI front-end for working in turn with OpenRazer for configuring Razer peripherals under Linux is out with a new holiday release...

LLVM Clang Lands Initial SPIR-V Toolchain Support

Phoronix - Fri, 12/24/2021 - 02:38
An exciting LLVM development has landed in time for Christmas! Complementary to the LLVM SPIR-V back-end work that could soon be mainlined, Clang has now merged the initial SPIR-V toolchain support. This allows going from Clang to the SPIR-V intermediate representation that is conformant to the OpenCL environment specification -- such as for compiling OpenCL kernels into SPIR-V...

macOS 12.1 vs. Ubuntu vs. Clear Linux vs. Windows Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 12/23/2021 - 22:30
Recently I looked at the macOS 12 performance against Linux when it comes to the Intel-based Macs. Stemming from reader requests and curiosity how Windows would perform in the mix, here are such benchmark results with macOS 12.1, Windows 10, Clear Linux, and Ubuntu 21.10.

Sway 1.7-rc1 Has Better Zero-Copy Direct Scanout, Drops "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia"

Phoronix - Thu, 12/23/2021 - 22:10
The first release candidate of the Sway 1.7 Wayland compositor is now available for testing...

Krita 5.0 Released With Big Improvements For Open-Source Digital Painting / 2D Animation

Phoronix - Thu, 12/23/2021 - 20:00
Krita is easily one of the best digital painting / 2D animation / raster graphics programs out there for being open-source / free software and today is now even better with the Krita 5.0 release...

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