Open-source News

Announcing the Schedule for cdCon + GitOpsCon North America 2023  Yahoo Finance

Announcing the Schedule for cdCon + GitOpsCon North America 2023  InvestorsObserver

From early December to late February there was an absence of new Compute-Runtime updates for that open-source stack for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux. It was out of trend as they worked to move from a weekly~biweekly release rhythm to a monthly release cadence while taking extra time for making various other changes too. After that three month lull, they are back to pushing out new compute updates and damn it's looking nice. At least in my testing, the progress they've quietly made over the past few months has been very nice for the compute stack compatibility/support and performance.

ipmitool Repository Archived, Developer Suspended By GitHub  Phoronix

The ipmitool utility on Linux systems is widely-used for controlling IPMI-enabled servers and other systems. This tool for interacting with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is extremely common with server administrators while now its development is in a temporary state of limbo due to GitHub...

Linux desktop leaders unite behind Flathub app store. Here's why  ZDNet

Linux desktop leaders unite behind Flathub app store. Here's why  ZDNet

Firefox 111 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Ubuntu Lunar Lobster could be the surprise hit of 2023  ZDNet

Turn-based colony builder on the red planet Terraformers is out now  GamingOnLinux

The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan support for Intel's next-generation Meteor Lake client processors is taking a step forward with next quarter's Mesa 23.1 release...

Intel Meteor Lake Graphics IDs Enabled For Mesa 23.1  Phoronix

How to sideload Android apps on Chromebooks  Android Central

Learn Linux TV Releases Ubuntu Flatpak Remix Distro  WebProNews

Action-RPG in Early Access 'Last Epoch' adds in online multiplayer  GamingOnLinux

Following last night's Linux 6.2-rc2 release that brings a workaround for system stuttering on some AMD Ryzen systems, that workaround was quickly back-ported to the Linux 6.1 LTS and 6.2 stable series and spun into new releases for Monday morning...

Linux 6.1.19 LTS & 6.2.6 Released With AMD System Stuttering Workaround  Phoronix

digiKam 7.10 Photo Management App Adds Support for New Cameras, Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

AMD is working to enable VirtIO GPU and pass-through GPU support for the Xen virtualization hypervisor with Radeon graphics...

Intel's Linux engineers continue working on Linear Address Masking (LAM) for making use of untranslated address bits of 64-bit linear addresses so that it can be used for arbitrary metadata. The hope is that this LAM metadata can lead to more efficient address sanitizers, optimizations for JITs and VMs, and more, but it's been a lengthy journey getting the support upstreamed...