Open-source News

You may recall a few days ago how Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz boosted the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver draw throughput by +55%. Well, he now had a go at optimizing the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver and has squeezed out a 60% improvement to the draw throughput. Even more interesting is that it was just a few lines of code...

Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem maintainer has shared some notes following this week's Linux Plumbers Conference in Dublin. In particular, the matter of whether the growing number of accelerators / AI devices belong within the DRM subsystem or elsewhere and separately there is renewed talks of user-space consoles to potentially push Linux distributions towards moving away from the in-kernel VT...

Linux Foundation Announces Open Wallet Initiative  iProgrammer

Vampire Survivors 1.0 coming soon along with a price increase  GamingOnLinux

Castle Game Engine building up towards a huge new release  GamingOnLinux

Castle Game Engine building up towards a huge new release  GamingOnLinux

Linux luminaries discuss efforts to bring Rust to the kernel  The Register

Intel announced today that beginning with 2023 notebooks, the Intel Pentium and Intel Celeron brands will be replaced by... Intel Processor...

How to Tell If a Bash String Contains a Substring on Linux  How-To Geek

How to Tell If a Bash String Contains a Substring on Linux  How-To Geek

In addition to Ubuntu supporting the StarFive VisionFive and Nezha RISC-V boards, Canonical engineers are also working on supporting the Sipeed LicheeRV board too for next month's 22.10 release. The Sipeed LicheeRV is notable in being one of the cheapest RISC-V boards out there: pricing starts at $16.90 USD...

Linux Computer Market - Forecast (2022 - 2030)  Fighting Hawks Magazine

Cyber Security Today, Sept. 16, 2022 - Queen's death exploited by phishing scam, new Linux backdoor found, and more  IT World Canada

A.W.O.L. is a new FREE retro FPS using the Build Engine (Duke Nukem 3D, Ion Fury)  GamingOnLinux

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs. Ryzen 7 5800X3D On Linux 6.0 Benchmarks  Phoronix

Along with the fresh look at the Intel Core i9 12900K vs. AMD Ryzen 9 5950X on Linux using the latest development kernel and other bleeding-edge software packages, today's article is a fresh look at how the Ryzen 7 5800X3D with 3D V-Cache is performing relative to the Ryzen 7 5800X.

343 working on Halo: The Master Chief Collection anti-cheat for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Intel submitted their final set of "drm-intel-gt-next" feature changes intended for merging in the upcoming Linux 6.1 kernel merge window that opens in early October...

Intel Sends More Meteor Lake Code, GSC For Xe HP SDV For Linux 6.1  Phoronix

Canonical announced this morning that they have partnered with ASUS IoT, the division of ASUS focused on providing "Internet of Things" hardware, to certify Ubuntu Linux for their devices...