Open-source News

Mesa Driver Improvement Will Yield Quicker Startup For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Phoronix - Wed, 09/14/2022 - 04:15
AMD Linux graphics driver engineer Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer has made an improvement to Mesa's common code that should yield much faster start-up times for Valve's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive...

Open-Source NVIDIA Outlook Brighter Due To GSP Firmware, But Major Challenges Remain

Phoronix - Wed, 09/14/2022 - 03:11
Longtime open-source Linux graphics driver developer and DRM subsystem maintainer, David Airlie of Red Hat, took the stage at Linux Plumbers Conference today to talk about Nouveau and the state of the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver...

Samba 4.17 Released With Some Performance Enhancements

Phoronix - Wed, 09/14/2022 - 02:51
Samba as the open-source re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol for better file and print server interoperability with Microsoft Windows platforms is out with a new release. In the nearly six months since Samba 4.16 was introduced, Samba 4.17 has built up performance improvements/fixes and other enhancements for this widely-used open-source project...

Godot 4.0 Alpha 17 Released, New Company Raises $8M+ To Advance This Open-Source Engine

Phoronix - Wed, 09/14/2022 - 00:18
Godot 4.0 Alpha 17 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source game engine. Also announced today that the new start-up W4 Games that was started by Godot Engine developers has managed to raise $8.5M USD to support this open-source game engine ecosystem...

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