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Flashrom Splits Into Two For This Firmware/ROM Flashing Utility

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 18:31
The Flashrom project that serves as an open-source firmware/ROM flashing utility not only for system BIOS/UEFI on motherboards but also capable of flashing firmware for various network / GPU / storage controller cards and other programmable devices has decided to effectively split into two...

Google Continues Working On More Linux HDCP Bits

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 18:20
Google engineers continue working on enhancing the Linux infrastructure around supporting High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) for Chrome OS...

Mesa 23.0.3 Released With Another Batch Of Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 07:48
Mesa 23.0.3 was released on Friday as the newest stable release for this collection of open-source user-space GPU driver components...

User Mode Linux - Hackaday

Google News - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 01:02
User Mode Linux  Hackaday

Redesigned Flathub Site Launches For Flatpak Apps

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 00:13
A redesigned version of the Flathub website has launched for this weekend's Linux App Summit. Flathub remains the centralized website for exploring and finding new Flatpak sandboxed Linux apps...

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Performance Looking Very Good For Intel Arc Graphics

Phoronix - Sat, 04/22/2023 - 20:04
Mesa's Zink driver that implements OpenGL atop the Vulkan API has for a while been in wonderful shape for open-source AMD Radeon graphics and even in decent shape for the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack while it's also been getting into more robust shape for use on Intel's dedicated graphics cards...

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