Open-source News

As outlined yesterday the Radeon RX 7900 series can work on the upstream, open-source Linux driver stack if using Linux 6.0+ and Mesa 22.2 (but ideally 22.3+). But if you aren't wanting to jump to a newer kernel version and are running one of the supported enterprise Linux distributions, today AMD released their Radeon Software for Linux 22.40 driver package with Radeon RX 7000 "RDNA3" series support...

Following last week's approval with the GCC Rust v4 patches for them to be merged, all of the "gccrs" code was upstreamed this morning for GNU Compiler Collection 13...

Valve has finally fixed the Steam Remote Play audio loss bug on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Install Just 7 Apps to Use Your Raspberry Pi Like a Work PC  MUO - MakeUseOf

Siemens pioneers commercial grade Linux support for the RISC-V architecture  Design and Reuse

DH2i Collaborates with Red Hat to Accelerate the Delivery of Intelligent Applications Across the Multi Cloud  Yahoo Finance

PipeWire’s WirePlumber Gets Bluetooth SCO (HSP/HFP) Hardware Offload Support  9to5Linux

Plugable’s $13 USB adapter adds Bluetooth 5.0 to your older PC or build  Ars Technica

Open source evolution sim Thrive v0.6 out with a day and night cycle  GamingOnLinux

Core Devourer is another for fans of Vampire Survivors and Soulstone Survivors  GamingOnLinux

The rather great LEGO Bricktales switches to Vulkan on Linux, adds UI scaling options  GamingOnLinux

This Linux-targeting malware just got more powerful  ZDNet

This Linux-targeting malware just got more powerful  ZDNet

Valve improves the Steam Store on Steam Deck, plus more bug fixes in Beta  GamingOnLinux

Linux Adding New Control Since Its Splitlock Detector Is Wrecking Some Steam Play Games  Phoronix

Back in 2020 the Linux kernel added a split-lock detector since when they occur an atomic instruction spanning multiple cache lines and requiring a global bus lock is needed. This has an unfortunate heavy impact on the system and thus the detector was added to report it to the kernel log when a split-lock occurs. But earlier this year starting with Linux 5.19, kernel developers decided to "make life miserable" and intentionally slow down bad behaving apps that abuse split-locks. That in turn has caused problems for some games -- so far select Windows games running under Steam Play -- and thus a new kernel knob is being added to more easily adjust the behavior...

All of the Arm SoC support additions and DeviceTree updates have been merged for the Linux 6.2 merge window. There is support for a number of additional Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs in the kernel as well as having the initial mainline bits for the Apple M1 Pro/Ultra/Max SoC variants...

Linux 6.2 Expands Support For More Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs, Apple M1 Pro/Ultra/Max  Phoronix

Budgie desktop lead developer (and former Solus Linux developer) Joshua Strobl has proposed a Fedora Budgie desktop spin for Fedora 38...

NixOS 22.11 'Raccoon': Like a proof of concept you can do things with  The Register