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X-Plane Now Shipping Zink To Avoid Vendor OpenGL Drivers  Phoronix

As written about last year, the Laminar Research developers responsible for the incredible X-Plane flight simulator software have been working to make use of Mesa's Zink for leveraging OpenGL atop Vulkan to thereby avoid vednor OpenGL drivers that can vary in quality across platforms. With X-Plane 12.04b3, that goal is finally realized...

X-Plane 12 now uses the open source Zink driver to help Plugins  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.3 Adds Support For Tmpfs IDMAPPED Mounts - Benefits ...  Phoronix

Introduced to the mainline kernel two years ago with Linux 5.12 was the IDMAPPED mounts functionality that is useful from systemd-homed to containers and other use-cases. Since then more Linux file-systems and software has added support for IDMAPPED mounts and it's being furthered along now with Linux 6.3...

The merge request for landing the first of "many" parts of the Wayland driver for Wine was opened this morning. This is part of the effort of allowing Windows games/applications running under Wine to operate natively on Wayland rather than having to go through XWayland...

It's not too often I get to talk about major FreeBSD graphics driver improvements, but with the latest X.Org Server Git code paired with the recent NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver there is now support for PRIME render offload should you be using a multi-GPU setup on this BSD...

AMD-Xilinx XDMA Driver Being Merged For Linux 6.3  Phoronix

Adding to all of the other AMD changes coming with Linux 6.3 is now also having the AMD-Xilinx XDMA driver in tow. Getting this XDMA subsystem driver upstreamed is important for unblocking more Xilinx-based feature code to be merged into the Linux kernel...

Back in 2020 Google and the Open-Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) came up with a "Criticality Score" to rank the importance/criticality of open-source projects. The Criticality Score is a means of quantifying the importance of an open-source project such as if in need of funding or development assistance. Criticality Score 2.0 has now been published...

AppImage vs. Snap: How to Choose the Right Linux Software ...  ITPro Today

CIQ and Rocky Linux Pioneer Enterprise Linux Software Supply ...  CIOReview

Linux 6.3 Bringing Proper Support For The 8BitDo Pro 2 Wired ...  Phoronix

The 8BitDo Pro 2 Wired Controller as a popular ~$35 USD gaming controller will see proper support with the Linux 6.3 kernel...

Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Shows Increasing HPC Interest  Phoronix

Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution CBL-Mariner has been public now for about two years. CBL-Mariner has been in use for Microsoft's use-cases from their Azure cloud to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) while their newest release continues a recent trend of pointing towards a high performance computing (HPC) workloads focus too...

Who writes Linux and open source software?  The Register

Flathub Plans to Evolve as the Universal Linux App Store  It's FOSS News

Merged on Thursday to Mesa 23.1 was implementing VK_EXT_pipeline_library_group_handles using hashed stages with support for caching and replay. What makes this work notable is that it in turn allows the popular game Cyberpunk 2077 running with Steam Play / VKD3D-Proton on Linux to begin enjoying ray-tracing support...

Linux 6.3 Scheduler Updates Bring Fixes & Minor Optimizations  Phoronix