Open-source News

Kicking off a number of interesting articles over the week ahead for the Phoronix 19th birthday week is a fresh look at how AMD's official open-source Linux Vulkan driver "AMDVLK" compares to Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver that tends to be more popular with Linux gamers and is the driver backed by Valve, Red Hat, and other stakeholders.

How to install Hashcat on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 LTS  H2S Media

How to Install Eclipse IDE on Linux  Make Tech Easier

System76 working on a standalone PC case, plus a big Open ...  GamingOnLinux

Halls of Torment hits over 70K sales in the first week  GamingOnLinux

Here's how to ZIP files and save space on Windows, Mac, Chromebook, Linux: A complete step-by-step guide  Economic Times

Here's how to ZIP files and save space on Windows, Mac, Chromebook, Linux: A complete step-by-step guide  The Economic Times

Linux laptop/desktop vendor System76 has made some improvements to their Coreboot open firmware offerings to benefit their latest Intel Core 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" wares as well as prior generation devices...

There's a new Ubuntu Linux desktop on its way  ZDNet

There's a new Ubuntu Linux desktop on its way  ZDNet

How To Install and Use PowerShell on Linux - Free Guide  Neowin

Linux Mint Adds Support for Touchpad Gestures  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux hits a multi-year high for user share on Steam thanks to Steam ...  GamingOnLinux

Linux hits a multi-year high for user share on Steam thanks to Steam ...  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat has decided they will be doing less work on desktop applications and will stop shipping LibreOffice as part of a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release (presumably RHEL10). This is also limiting Red Hat's engagement in working on LibreOffice packaging for Fedora while the hope is that the Flatpak'ed LibreOffice will fill the void...

Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement  Phoronix

It's almost a daily occurrence to find interesting Linux kernel patches (and to other open-source projects too!) by Intel's large cabal of open-source engineers. The latest crossing my radar is for allowing the Linux "intel_idle" driver to run inside virtual machine (VM) guests...

Intel's Latest Linux Patches To Boost VM Performance - Particularly ...  Phoronix

The Linux 1-Wire "w1" subsystem is used for supporting drivers with hardware that communicates via a single wire (plus ground) in a simple master-slave configuration The Linux kernel has drivers such as for W1 over GPIO, i2c to W1 bridge, and supporting some very old hardware. The W1 subsystem hasn't seen much work recently while for the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle will be seeing a larger update...

1-Wire "w1" Subsystem Seeing More Activity With Linux 6.5  Phoronix