Open-source News

Linux to Support Firewire Until 2029  Tom's Hardware

AMD has contributed support to Mesa's VA-API Gallium3D state tracker for supporting AV1 video encoding...

Linux version of RTM Locker ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers  BleepingComputer

Charming monster collector Cassette Beasts is out now  GamingOnLinux

While AMD has yet to launch the Radeon RX 7600 or RX 7600 series graphics cards (sans the RX 7700S), AMD's GPUOpen tooling has seen new releases today in preparation for those forthcoming RDNA3 GPUs...

RTM Locker Ransomware Targets Linux Architecture  Infosecurity Magazine

Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry  DevOps.com

Street Fighter 6 on Steam Deck and Linux tested, Valve sets it to ...  GamingOnLinux

Play God in the Linux Terminal With Conway's Game of Life  MUO - MakeUseOf

New Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches Allow Tuning For Up To 10~15% Better Performance  Phoronix

After profiling and raising an issue by Google's Chrome OS engineers, there is a set of "request for comments" patches out today for the Intel Linux graphics driver that can provide 10~15% better performance when operating in the tuned mode...

How to install Cockpit for Linux  TechTarget

Introduced one month ago in Vulkan 1.3.246 was the new VK_EXT_shader_object extension that was worked on by developers from Activision to Valve. Zink lead developer Mike Blumenkrantz at Valve has been busy the past few weeks on getting this shader object support wired up for use by this OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...

Microsoft Edge & Brave browsers not loading pages or crashing ...  PiunikaWeb

Linux Has A New Firewire IEEE-1394 Maintainer - Intends To Maintain Support To 2029  Phoronix

It's likely been years since many of you have heard of Firewire and some readers likely never had the opportunity to use it. The Firewire interface was great back in the day and during the early period of digital video cameras, but modern versions of USB and Thunderbolt are far faster, allow longer cable distances, and numerous other advantages. While Firewire hasn't seen much activity in years and can be outpaced by USB 3.0 and beyond, there is a new Firewire subsystem maintainer for the Linux kernel and he intends to keep at it for the next six years...

Vulkan 1.3.249 is out today as the latest spec update for this industry-standard high performance graphics and compute API. Notable with Vulkan 1.3.249 is the introduction of VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch...

Clonezilla Live 3.1 Released with Memtest86+ 6.10, Improved RAID Support  9to5Linux

Proton Experimental upgraded for April 26th brings fixes and new ...  GamingOnLinux

For those making use of the Radeon R600 Gallium3D driver within Mesa for supporting the Radeon HD 2000 series through the HD 6000 series (pre-GCN) graphics cards, Mesa 23.2 is finally ready to drop its TGSI code path for what was once the default intermediate representation (IR) used by Gallium3D drivers but in more recent years NIR has become the preferred IR format...