Open-source News

Comedy point and click adventure Plot of the Druid is now in Early Access  GamingOnLinux

GE-Proton 7-39 released improving Overwatch 2 for Steam Deck & Linux  GamingOnLinux

GE-Proton 7-39 released improving Overwatch 2 for Steam Deck & Linux  GamingOnLinux

More Development Activity Ticking Up Around Vulkan For Blender  Phoronix

There has long been plans for supporting the Vulkan API with the Blender 3D modelling open-source software but there has been a lack of developers working on it. Fortunately, things are starting to (slowly) come together on Vulkan enablement for Blender...

Best Cryptocurrency Wallets for Ubuntu and Linux  Captain Altcoin

With the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT / RX 7900 XTX having been announced last week and set to ship on 13 December, it's down to crunch time for ensuring that the open-source Linux driver support is in shape. Unlike on the Windows side where it's just expected of the user to navigate to AMD.com and download a convenient driver installer, on Linux that's not exactly the case. AMD will likely have their Radeon Software for Linux driver package on their website but that is limited in scope to their few supported enterprise/LTS Linux distributions supported, while most gamers/enthusiasts will be left wondering about the Linux kernel and Mesa versioning requirements...

Cemu emulator for Wii U now provides an AppImage  GamingOnLinux

Cemu emulator for Wii U now provides an AppImage  GamingOnLinux

An ugly hack within the Linux kernel that has been in mainline for over three years has been called out. Due to a buggy X.Org Server / xf86-video-modesetting DDX, the Linux kernel has been imposing different behavior on whether a process starts with "X" and in turn disable the atomic mode-setting support...

The Linux Kernel Has Been Forcing Different Behavior For Processes Starting With "X"  Phoronix

With next-generation Meteor Lake CPUs the integrated graphics are set to have native HDMI 2.1 display capabilities. Intel's open-source Linux kernel driver has begun those HDMI 2.1 preparations and sent out today were early patches for enabling HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL)...

Intel Preparing HDMI 2.1 FRL For Their Linux Driver, Native HDMI 2.1 For Meteor Lake  Phoronix

Intel compiler engineers continue being very busy working to land as much of the new CPU feature support as they can into GCC 13 for what is the next annual compiler release that will debut as GCC 13.1 in the early months of 2023...

Debuting on Sunday was Meson 0.64 as the newest version of this open-source build system that is increasingly being used by a variety of software projects for its speed, good cross-platform support, and overall feature set compared to alternatives...

Meson 0.64 Build System Released With Intel oneAPI Compiler Support, Incremental ThinLTO  Phoronix

Linux is not just for developers and command line pros  ZDNet

The best Microsoft Teams experience on Linux is now a PWA  Windows Central

Linux is not just for developers and command line pros  ZDNet

Microsoft Teams progressive web app comes to Linux  BetaNews