Open-source News

The Budgie Desktop Hopes To Do A Wayland-Only Release This Year  Phoronix

The NVK driver within Mesa for open-source NVIDIA GPU support for the Vulkan API that works with the Nouveau DRM kernel driver is now capable of advertising Vulkan 1.3 API support...

We're nearly one month to the day until the release of the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release alongside the new KDE Gear apps and KDE Frameworks 6.0. Developers aren't letting up at all with more performance optimizations and fixes continuing to hit the codebase...

Following the recent Wine 9.0 stable release earlier this month, Wine 9.1 is now available as the first bi-weekly development release in the new series that will ultimately culminate with the Wine 10.0 stable release in early 2025...

The best Linux distributions for beginners in 2024: Expert tested and reviewed  ZDNet

How to Install Linux on Chromebooks?  Sportskeeda

While Intel typically does a great job with their open-source Linux hardware support with enabling all features under Linux and doing so in a timely manner -- often well in advance of the client and server hardware availability -- an exception in recent years has been around the web cam support for many newer Intel laptops. Since Alder Lake an increasing number of Intel-powered laptops have been relying on a raw MIPI camera sensor connected to the IPU6 IP. Intel has been tightly controlling the intellectual property around IPU6 so in turn their Linux support has consisted of an out-of-tree kernel driver and a proprietary user-space component. But thanks to Linaro and Red Hat, an open-source alternative has been forming...

It's Becoming Possible To Use The Webcam On Newer Intel Laptops With Open-Source Linux  Phoronix

While not quite as exciting as yesterday's AMD XDNA driver publishing for Ryzen AI on Linux, a notable patch series out of AMD today on the Linux front is enabling AMD Core Performance Boost controls within their P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...

AMD Core Performance Boost Patches Posted For P-State Linux Driver  Phoronix

Red Hat announced today that beginning April they will be rolling out a new pricing model for Red Hat Enterprise Linux use in the public cloud...

As part of the renewed efforts around the Servo open-source web engine and making it usable for embedded purposes, the Servo engine has been tacking on a number of new features in recent weeks...

Simon Ser just released Sway 1.9-rc1 as the newest test release for this i3-inspired Wayland compositor...

Flathub now has over one million active users  GamingOnLinux

The uutils project providing a Rust-written Coreutils re-implementation has released v0.0.24 and it passes another 29 GNU test cases as the project nears its 1.0 release...

Uutils 0.0.24 Advances Rust-Written Coreutils Implementation  Phoronix

THE FINALS freezing on Linux? Here's ways you can fix it  GamingOnLinux

Bitcoin Pioneer Jeff Garzik Taps 'Star Trek' Icon to Direct 'Deathlands' TV Adaptation  Decrypt

Forget Chrome: Here's How to Install Firefox on a Chromebook  MUO - MakeUseOf

AMDVLK 2024.Q1.1 has dropped as AMD's first open-source Vulkan API driver release of the new year for Radeon graphics on Linux...