Open-source News

Big Tech Companies Join Linux in Effort to Kill Google Maps  Gizmodo

VKD3D-Proton 2.8 has been released as a nice Christmas gift to Linux gamers for advancing this Direct3D 12 on Vulkan implementation that is part of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on Linux...

The PineTab2 Is a New Linux Tablet, Coming in 2023  How-To Geek

The PineTab2 Is a New Linux Tablet, Coming in 2023  How-To Geek

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is transitioning to x86-64-v2 CPU requirements and for the x86 32-bit realm they are working to carve-out their i586 packages into a separate "openSUSE:Factory:LegacyX86" archive. But so far no one has stepped up to maintain these 32-bit packages and thus jeopardizing its future...

Xfce 4.18 desktop is finally here  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.2 Will Help With Power Savings For Intel Alder Lake N & Raptor Lake P  Phoronix

There's a fair amount going on in the power management space for both Intel x86_64 and Arm hardware with the Linux 6.2 kernel...

Pine64's PineTab2 will be a Linux-friendly tablet with an RK3566 processor  Liliputing

PINE64 Announces the PineTab2 Linux Tablet with Up to 8GB RAM and RK3566 SoC  9to5Linux

PINE64 Announces the PineTab2 Linux Tablet with Up to 8GB RAM ...  9to5Linux

There is life after Linux, just not a sustainable one - Rethink  Rethink Research

Feature Spotlight | Announcing General Availability (GA) of Linux ...  SentinelOne

Earlier this week was the initial Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX Linux review focusing on the gaming performance while in today's article is a look at the Radeon RX 7900 series when running on Blender 3.4 with its Cycles HIP back-end as well as various OpenCL compute benchmarks against the older Radeon graphics cards and NVIDIA GeForce competition.

Memfault Adds Embedded Linux to IoT Device Reliability Platform  EE Journal

Cloud Hypervisor Project welcomes Ampere Computing as a Member  PR Newswire

AMD today published the AMDVLK 2022.Q4.4 open-source Vulkan driver that provides Navi 31 GPU support for this week's launch of the Radeon RX 7900 XT / RX 7900 XTX graphics cards...

Linux Foundation Opens New Open Map Data Foundation  Geospatial World

Xfce 4.18 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Interest and support around Vulkan Video for adding GPU-accelerated video encode/decode to the Vulkan API has been (sadly) rather slow. But at least the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has seen some new work around enabling H.264 and H.265 video decoding over Vulkan Video...