Open-source News

Intel engineers this week published new Linux open-source driver code for TPMI, the Topology Aware Register and PM Capsule Interface. Intel TPMI for seemingly future processors will allow for more streamlined power management handling and other enhancements over the way the Intel power management drivers currently function...

Handshakes is a free sokoban puzzler about two hands meeting  GamingOnLinux

Prison Architect: Jungle Pack releases soon with another free update  GamingOnLinux

CentOS Stream & Clear Linux Achieve Greater Performance On 4th ...  Phoronix

As part of other ongoing performance tests of Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" testing, I was curious to see how the more well-tuned Linux distributions are performing with the flagship Xeon Platinum 8490H processors relative to the common Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release. Here are those benchmark numbers alongside AMD's flagship Genoa server platform with two EPYC 9654 processors.

Escuelas Linux 8.0: A Major Upgrade for the 25th Anniversary  It's FOSS News

Why Open Source Software ‘Fragments’ - And How To Fix It  Forbes

TuxCare KernelCare Enterprise Integrated with orcharhino Data ...  Business Wire

Inspired by the classic SimTower, build up high with Property Pro  GamingOnLinux

Proposed Linux Patch Would Allow Disabling CPU Security Mitigations At Build-Time  Phoronix

A proposed Linux kernel patch would provide a new Kconfig build time option of "CONFIG_DEFAULT_CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF" to build an insecure kernel if wanting to avoid the growing list of CPU security mitigations within the kernel and their associated performance overhead...

Going to live my dream of Fifth Element flying cars in MiLE HiGH TAXi  GamingOnLinux

Wine 8.1 released starting another year of Windows to Linux ...  GamingOnLinux

For those making use of the new Radeon RX 7900 series "RDNA3" graphics cards on Linux, the open-source Mesa driver code has seen nearly three dozen patches merged yesterday providing a variety of small updates to this support...

The OpenMPI message passing interface library is ready to completely abandon 32-bit software support with its forthcoming v5.0 release...

As mentioned a few weeks back, Red Hat has been working to arrange a developer "hackfest" to further work out plans and development around HDR display support on the Linux desktop. They are aiming to bring together graphics driver developers, desktop developers, and other Linux stakeholders -- including possibly the likes of Valve -- to work out planning of high dynamic range monitor support over the next year or two for the Linux desktop. That Red Hat HDR hackfest has now been organized to happen in late April...

Red Hat's Display/HDR Hackfest Scheduled For April  Phoronix

OBS Studio 29.0.1 rolls out with many bug fixes  GamingOnLinux

A half-year has passed already since Dbus-Broker 32 was released for this drop-in replacement to the reference D-Bus implementation that is focused on providing better performance and reliability. Today that's been succeeded by Dbus-Broker 33 as a relatively minor update to this software from the BUS1 project...

OBS Studio 29.0.1 Is Out to Fix Linux Crash on Wayland, X11 Capture Issue  9to5Linux