Open-source News

The Freedreno Gallium3D driver that provides reverse-engineered, open-source OpenGL support for Qualcomm Adreno GPUs is now capable of OpenGL 4.5 with the Adreno 600 series graphics processors...

Windows 11 runs on fewer than 1 in 6 PCs  The Register

How to Install and Use Webmin on Ubuntu Linux  Make Tech Easier

Linux Mint Gains a Windows-Style ‘Show Desktop’ Button  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint Gains a Windows-Style ‘Show Desktop’ Button  OMG! Ubuntu!

Bye Bye Linux On The 486. Will We Miss You?  Hackaday

Rakuten Symphony taking off Red Hat, putting on Rocky Linux  RCR Wireless News

The 3 Best Terminal-Based Web Browsers for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Zorin OS 16.2: Shapeshifting desktop to help the Linux-wary feel more at home  The Register

Narrative adventure Where Birds Go to Sleep has a demo up  GamingOnLinux

Godot Engine now has its own dedicated Foundation for funding  GamingOnLinux

Godot Engine now has its own dedicated Foundation for funding  GamingOnLinux

While initially leary of AMD Zen 4's "double pumped" approach for supporting AVX-512 using a 256-bit data path, it's proven to be very efficient for performance and yield great results without negative clock impairments or wreaking havoc on the power consumption. Back in September I delivered a detailed AVX-512 performance analysis on the Ryzen 9 7950X while in this article is a detailed benchmark look at the Core i9 11900K against the Ryzen 7 7700X. The Core i9 11900K being the currently last Intel desktop CPU officially supporting AVX-512 while the Ryzen 7 7700X was used for matching the core/thread count of that Rocket Lake processor for this AVX-512 on/off comparison.

Void Scrappers blends Vampire Survivors mechanics with a space shoot 'em up  GamingOnLinux

Merged this morning into Mesa 22.3 are some adjustments to Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for delivering better Vulkan mesh shading performance with Arc Graphics hardware...

Mesa 22.3 Tunes Intel Arc Graphics For Better Vulkan Mesh Shading Performance  Phoronix

It looks like FineIBT as combining the best of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology and Control Flow Integrity as an enhanced, alternative control flow integrity (CFI) implementation could be ready for mainline with the upcoming Linux 6.2 cycle...

FineIBT Looks Like It Could Be Ready For Linux 6.2  Phoronix

UFS File-Based Optimization Patches For Linux: Shot Down As "Complete & Utter Madness"  Phoronix

JEDEC recently outlined an extension to Universal Flash Storage (UFS) for File-Based Optimizations (FBO) to enhance the performance of UFS devices. A Xiaomi engineer sent out a set of Linux kernel patches for implementing UFS FBO in the name of better performance, but with almost immediate rejection by a veteran Linux kernel maintainer...