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Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 05:12

Upsetting many in the open-source community was Red Hat's announcement last week that they would begin limiting access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources by putting them behind the Red Hat Customer Portal and publicly would be limited to the CentOS Stream sources. In turn this causes problems for free-of-cost derivatives like AlmaLinux moving forward. Red Hat today issued another blog post trying to address some of the criticism...

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NVK Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Progresses On Running Some Games

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 05:00

Faith Ekstrand today published a blog post outlining recent efforts around NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware developed namely by the Nouveau development community. Some recent highlights include:..

Fedora Workstation 39 Eyes Switch To Anaconda WebUI For Installations

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 03:10

For the past year and a half Red Hat engineers have been developing a new web-based UI for their Anaconda OS installer and with the Fedora Workstation 39 release later this year they are looking at possibly switching to it by default...

RADV Lands Fragment Shader Interlock Support - Useful For Emulators, DXVK & VKD3D

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 01:58

Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan driver has merged support for VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock, which is a highly sought after extension by game emulators and also important for DirectX over Vulkan layering efforts and more...

5 Reasons Why Ubuntu Cinnamon Is Better Than Other Ubuntu ... - MUO - MakeUseOf

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Linux Distro Reviews: Fedora — The Distro In Red Hat's Shadow - WebProNews

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Slint 1.1 Released For This Rust-Tailored GUI Toolkit, New Royalty-Free License

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 01:20

Back in April was the release of Slint 1.0 for this open-source, Rust-focused graphical toolkit formerly known as SixtyFPS. Today marks the release of Slint 1.1 as the first significant feature update after crossing the 1.0 milestone...

AMD Ryzen 7000 Series EDAC Support Submitted For Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Tue, 06/27/2023 - 00:55

The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates have been submitted today on this first day of the Linux 6.5 merge window. Headlining the EDAC changes this cycle is bringing AMD Zen 4 client support...