Open-source News

Them's Fightin' Herds gets cross-play between Steam and Consoles  GamingOnLinux

Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip is out now  GamingOnLinux

Valheim gets an important bug-fix for Linux players  GamingOnLinux

Intel has published the Intel Extension for TensorFlow that makes use of TF's PluggableDevice mechanism to now provide an Intel GPU back-end for TensorFlow that works with the Data Center GPU Flex Series as well as Arc Graphics discrete GPUs...

Intel Extension For TensorFlow Released - Provides Intel GPU Acceleration  Phoronix

How to Set Up a LOMP Stack on Ubuntu Server  Make Tech Easier

How to Set Up Keylogging on Your Linux Computer  MUO - MakeUseOf

TUXEDO OS Delivering Some Performance Gains Over Ubuntu 22.04 LTS  Phoronix

Linux PC retailer TUXEDO Computers earlier this month released TUXEDO OS 1. The Bavarian Linux PC vendor has long modified their stock Ubuntu installations to cater toward their intended customers/audience and ship with the various software modifications while now with TUXEDO OS is an easy-to-setup ISO image of their customized Ubuntu-based Linux OS. I've been trying out TUXEDO OS on the AMD Ryzen powered TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2 and ran some comparison benchmarks against (K)Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS.

Linux exFAT Programs v1.2 Allows Repairing Corrupted Filesystems  Phoronix

In addition to the exFAT Linux kernel driver for supporting Microsoft's exFAT file-system on Linux, in user-space is "exfatprogs" providing the various utilities for interacting with this file-system popular on SD/SDCX storage and flash drives. The exfatprogs 1.2 release today brings fsck.exfat support for repairing corrupted exFAT file-systems on Linux...

Earlier this month one of the interesting milestones for Mesa's Rust-based OpenCL "Rusticl" implementation was getting Rusticl running on Zink so that this OpenCL implementation was running atop this Gallium3D driver in turn running atop a bare metal Vulkan driver. As of yesterday some of that necessary code was merged to Mesa 22.3...

While the Intel Core i9 13900K is running fast and well on Linux, a few Raptor Lake IDs have come to light that have been missing from various drivers and only now being addressed...

Linux 6.1 Picking Up A Few Missing Intel Raptor Lake IDs  Phoronix

Just last week I wrote about Glibc preparing more optimizations for AVX-512 CPUs with implementing more C library functions in EVEX512 enhanced vector extension versions. This week there is more EVEX512 function work...

Glibc Preparing Another Round Of Optimizations To Benefit AVX-512 CPUs  Phoronix

Btrfs' async discard functionality will likely be turned on by default with the upcoming Linux 6.2 kernel cycle when running on an SSD...

Steam Deck Beta adds QR code logins, Gaming Mode UI in Desktop Mode  GamingOnLinux

With Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" having shipped last week, Canonical engineers are moving ahead and beginning to get things going for the Ubuntu 23.04 development cycle now under the "Lunar Lobster" codename...

Ubuntu 23.04 Development Gets Started As The "Lunar Lobster"  Phoronix