Open-source News

AMD Ryzen 7000/Epyc Genoa CPUs to Get Perf Boost of up to 22% with Future Linux Update  Hardware Times

The overlooked gorgeous pixel-art Lila's Sky Ark is now on GOG  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.3 EDAC Prepares For Intel Granite Rapids With Up To 12 ...  Phoronix

Intel open-source engineers continue to be quite busy in bringing up the Linux support for Emerald Rapids as the successor to Sapphire Rapids and then as well for Granite Rapids as the Xeon Scalable processors following that. With the i10nm EDAC changes queued up ahead of Linux 6.3, there is support through Granite Rapids as well as confirming Granite Rapids supporting up to 12 channel DDR5 system memory...

How to enable zRAM on Rocky Linux and other RHEL-based distributions  TechRepublic

Trackmania heads to Steam and the devs say it's playable on Steam ...  GamingOnLinux

Canonical security subscriptions for Ubuntu Linux now available  InfoWorld

Ubuntu Pro security subscriptions for Linux now available  InfoWorld

Canonical announced this morning that their Ubuntu Pro subscription service has been promoted from beta to general availability (GA)...

BSD-Powered helloSystem 0.8 Performance Against Linux On AMD ...  Phoronix

With many Phoronix readers having been excited by the recent helloSystem v0.8 release as a FreeBSD-powered OS taking major design inspiration from Apple's macOS, I decided to run some benchmarks to see how this FreeBSD 13.1 based operating system was competing with a few different Linux distributions from an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (Zen 4) desktop.

4A Games release a full Metro Exodus SDK for modders  GamingOnLinux

Canonical Announces General Availability of Ubuntu Pro, Free for Up to 5 PCs  9to5Linux

Developer of point and click adventure Splittown looking at Linux ...  GamingOnLinux

Might and Magic 6, 7 and 8 get an open source reimplementation ...  GamingOnLinux

Following the month-long Christmas break, the Vulkan API working group is back to carrying out weekly(-ish) updates to the Vulkan specification. Out this morning is Vulkan 1.3.240 that brings one new extension in addition to a number of clarifications and corrections to the document...

Now that Wine 8.0 shipped earlier this week, the Wine Git tree is back to accepting new feature patches after it was under a feature freeze since early December. With nearly two months worth of feature work to land, it's been a busy week landing new code for what in turn will be found in the Wine 8.1 bi-weekly development release...

PipeWire 0.3.65 is out today as the newest feature update to this novel server for managing audio/video streams on Linux...

FreeBSD has published its 2022'Q4 quarterly status report that outlines all of the progress made by this open-source BSD operating system project...

GNOME 44 Alpha Released with New Stream Deck App, File Chooser Grid View  9to5Linux