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Coreboot 4.19 is now available as the latest tagged release for this prominent open-source project allowing various motherboards with their proprietary firmware/BIOS to be replaced by this free software solution...

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver's implementation of the graphics pipeline library (VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library) is becoming much faster thanks to fast-linking and various pending fixes. In turn this will get games making use of the extension the ability to ideally have no shader pre-caching while still enjoying no in-game stuttering. Valve's Linux graphics driver developers working on RADV have been working through some issues with the RADV graphics pipeline library and for Mesa 23.1 looks like it could be in good shape...

Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Get Support For VPU “Versatile Processing Unit” Accelerator In Linux 6.3  Wccftech

Building off the release of the Kodi 20 HTPC/PVR software that released earlier this month, LibreELEC 11 Beta 1 is now available as a Linux distribution built around Kodi 20...

LibreELEC 11 Beta 1 Released As Linux OS Built Around Kodi 20 ...  Phoronix

For fans of the RAGE 2 first person shooter game as the sequel to id Software's Rage game from nearly a decade ago, the latest Mesa Git code has landed a fix courtesy of Valve's Linux graphics driver developers to correct the rendering...

Valve Fixes RAGE 2 Breaking For Recent Mesa RADV Driver  Phoronix

Valve fixed up Dead Space on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Beyond BharOS: 5 mobile operating systems you can actually try on your Android phone  The Indian Express

The Linux Foundation Reflects on Open Source's Role in Climate ...  Slashdot

GNOME 43.3 Brings Minor Fixes to GNOME Maps and GNOME Software  9to5Linux

Any Linux experts out there? | All About Circuits  All About Circuits

Batch Printing and 6 Other Linux Printing Tips and Tricks  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Use Pastebins From Your Linux Terminal to Share Text Online  MUO - MakeUseOf

MPV 0.35.1 is out this weekend as the latest update to this open-source media player developed as a fork originally from MPlayer/mplayer2...

The best Linux distros to use on WSL  Windows Central

Published back in November were a set of patches for allowing (e)BPF to extend the Linux kernel's scheduler. That interesting work is continuing with Friday having brought a second revision to the patches...

Patches Updated For Hooking eBPF Programs Into The Linux ...  Phoronix

How to Use Lightburn for Laser Engraving and Cutting  MUO - MakeUseOf

What Is VMware ESXi and Which Operating Systems Does It Support?  MUO - MakeUseOf