Open-source News

Automating Routine Tasks in Linux  Virtualization Review

A pending change to the GNOME Shell will make it easier to monitor running background applications that otherwise are not visually presented currently on the desktop...

What You Missed Last Month in New York City (According to Linux)  Papermag

Linux Fu: The Shell Forth Programmers Will Love  Hackaday

Godot Engine 4.0 gets a first Release Candidate  GamingOnLinux

7 Best PS1 Emulators For PC, Android, Linux & More  Cultured Vultures

Coming about over the past two years has been uutils as a re-implementation of GNU Coreutils written within the Rust programming language. This Rust-based version of cp, mv, and other core utilities is reaching closer to parity with the widely-used GNU upstream and becoming capable of taking on more real-world uses...

Transmission FOSS BitTorrent client hits version 4.0  The Register

The open-source Godot 4.0 game engine will finally be released soon while being christened today is the initial release candidate...

Command & Conquer - Combined Arms adds the start of a ...  GamingOnLinux

The Callisto Protocol got a Steam Deck upgrade  GamingOnLinux

Manage Linux services easily  Experts Exchange

Point and click adventure Splittown gets a new Linux demo  GamingOnLinux

Interior Worlds is an upcoming weird spooky liminal space ...  GamingOnLinux

Linux Parallel CPU Start-Up Restored For AMD CPUs To Yield Faster Boot Times  Phoronix

The very promising work around parallel CPU bring-up to speed-up Linux kernel boot times with today's high core count servers and HEDT systems has been revised once more. Notable with the v7 patches is re-enabling support for this time-savings boot feature for AMD processors...

Following yesterday seeing RADV Vulkan Video decoding land in Mesa 23.1, the initial Vulkan Video support for Intel's "ANV" Vulkan driver has also been merged to Mesa 23.1...

Google engineers on Tuesday released AOM AV1 v3.6 as the newest version of their open-source, CPU-based AV1 encoder...

GROMACS as the widely-used molecular dynamics software issued its stable v2023 release this week with improved GPU support via SYCL...

Intel today introduced Embree 4.0 as a major update to this high performance ray-tracing library...