Open-source News

Firefox 108 Now Available With WebMIDI, Import Maps Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 12/13/2022 - 00:45
Firefox 108 is now available for download as the last major Firefox web browser release of 2022...

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX + RX 7900 XT Linux Support & Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 12/12/2022 - 22:00
Today's the day that the embargo expires on being able to provide reviews on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards... After testing both the Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX graphics cards the past two weeks, today I have the initial performance numbers to share on these graphics cards and the current state of the open-source Linux graphics driver for these first RDNA3 graphics cards. Here is the first look at AMD's new flagship desktop Radeon graphics cards running under Linux with fully upstream and open-source graphics drivers.

AMD P-State EPP Won't Be Ready Until Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Mon, 12/12/2022 - 20:00
For those that were holding out hope that the AMD P-State Linux driver's EPP functionality for more power/performance control under Linux would be ready for the Linux 6.2 kernel merge window, it's been rejected for the cycle and will be held off until at least the Linux 6.3 cycle begins in February...

Raspberry Pi Supply Chain Issues Beginning To Ease Up

Phoronix - Mon, 12/12/2022 - 18:44
The Raspberry Pi team has a positive supply chain update with some good news ahead of Christmas and when they expect to reach pre-pandemic supply chain levels...

Linux 6.2 Adding FSCRYPT Support For China's Questionable SM4 Cipher

Phoronix - Mon, 12/12/2022 - 18:30
As part of the many pull requests being sent in early for the Linux 6.2 merge window to avoid crunch time around the holidays is the FSCRYPT file-system encryption framework updates...

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