Open-source News

POSTAL 2 got a surprise 20th anniversary update with Steam Deck ...  GamingOnLinux

POSTAL 2 got a surprise 20th anniversary update with Steam Deck ...  GamingOnLinux

For those wondering how the NVIDIA Linux gaming/GPU performance is looking relative to Windows 11, here are some benchmarks using the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 graphics cards. Both NVIDIA RTX 40 graphics cards were tested on Windows 11 Pro and Ubuntu 23.04 while primarily focusing on games making use of Valve's Steam Play to reflect current Linux gaming trends as well as featuring some other cross-platform GPU accelerated software.

Takara Cards is a unique space sci-fi deckbuilding tactical strategy ...  GamingOnLinux

Godot Engine 4.1 to get FSR 2.2, better 3D support for OpenGL ...  GamingOnLinux

Deceptive Bytes' new Active Endpoint Deception solution for Linux is ...  EIN News

Deceptive Bytes' new Active Endpoint Deception solution for Linux is now available  EIN News

HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed added a slick story campaign  GamingOnLinux

Linux kernel developers are preparing for the first upgrade to its Rust toolchain since the Rust code initially merged in Linux 6.1...

The Linux Kernel Preparing For An Upgrade To Its Rust Toolchain  Phoronix

The upstream, open-source Nouveau DRM kernel driver working to make use of the NVIDIA GPU System Processor "GSP" will ideally lead to more punctual new hardware support, hopefully overcome the power management / re-clocking challenges that have plagued the driver for years with very low performance, and other current limitations. But it will also lead to more NVIDIA GPU firmware files in the linux-firmware tree and increased bloat...

Nouveau Using The NVIDIA GSP Will Lead To More Firmware Bloat  Phoronix

Aviz Launches Cutting-Edge Experience Center in Collaboration ...  Business Wire

Pakistani Hackers Use Linux Malware Poseidon to Target Indian Government Agencies  The Hacker News

AMDVLK 2023.Q2.1 Brings Mesh Shaders, Several New Vulkan Extensions  Phoronix

AMD has published AMDVLK 2023.Q2.1 as their first official open-source Vulkan driver update for the quarter that for Linux users serves as an alternative to the Mesa RADV driver or the code bundled up into their Radeon Software packaged driver...

While the Godot 4.0 open-source game engine only shipped at the start of March, there are already plans underway for some renderer upgrades that will be part of the upcoming Godot 4.1 engine upgrade...

Godot 4.1 Planning For More Renderer Improvements, AMD FSR 2.2  Phoronix

As expected following the GCC 13 release branching this week, the first release candidate of what will be the premiere GCC 13.1 stable release is now available...

The Hero C Compiler "HCC" wants to make it easy to compile C code to run on GPUs by compiling common C11 code and turning it into SPIR-V modules that can then be consumed by GPUs with Vulkan support...