Open-source News

How to Use Your Android Phone as a Speaker for Your Windows, Mac, or Linux Computer  MUO - MakeUseOf

KDE Plasma 5.26.2 Disables Animated Wallpaper Feature on X11 Due to Severe Memory Leak  9to5Linux

In recent months there has been a lot of RADV ray-tracing optimizations and improvements for maturing the ray-tracing support by this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa. The RADV ray-tracing performance is about to take another step forward with a pending merge request providing a PLOC BVH builder that can improve the Quake II RTX performance by around 33%...

EA begins swapping out Origin for EA app on Steam  GamingOnLinux

How to Check the Maximum RAM Capacity of a Computer  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Check the Maximum RAM Capacity of a Computer  MUO - MakeUseOf

Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition upgraded with full Linux / Steam Deck compatibility  GamingOnLinux

With the recent Linux 6.1 merge window there sadly weren't any Nouveau Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver improvements for getting the RTX 30 "Ampere" OpenGL support working yet with the mainline kernel even with RTX 40 series having launched. Needless to say, there also wasn't any progress on the re-clocking front for getting the GTX 900 series and later running in a performant manner on this open-source driver. But the Nouveau developers at Red Hat haven't simply been idling but rather have been working on the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) support for improving the RTX 20 "Turing" support and newer...

Nouveau Linux DRM Driver Making Progress On NVIDIA GSP Support  Phoronix

Rakuten Symphony and CIQ bring back open source and open community to Open RAN deployments with CentOS Successor, Rocky Linux  TelecomTV

An updated version of the Rust "gccrs" front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) was sent out today for review. The GCC Rust "v3" patches address developer comments raised during earlier review as they try to get this new Rust programming language support merged in time for GCC 13...

A change proposal drafted for next year's Fedora 40 is looking at "porting Fedora to modern C" by ensuring the contained C source code of packages is compliant with strict C99 compilers...

Daniel Stenberg has announced the release of cURL 7.86 as the newest version of this command-line utility and library for various networking purposes...

cURL 7.86 Released With Experimental WebSocket API  Phoronix

Steam Deck hits over 6000 games marked Verified or Playable  GamingOnLinux

A new version of Canonical's Mir open-source display server is now available for what serves as a Wayland compositor for various Ubuntu use-cases around IoT and other niche purposes...

GE-Proton 7-38 is out now fixing up Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves  GamingOnLinux

Intel's Open-Source Compute Runtime Performing Increasingly Well ...  Phoronix

Vanilla OS is a brilliant take on the Linux desktop  TechRepublic

Cat9 And LASH Want To Change Your Linux Command Line  Hackaday