Open-source News

As written about for several months on Phoronix, an open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver has been in the works that by the end of the summer this "NVK" driver has been seeing a lot of activity by Jason Ekstrand of Collabora along with David Airlie and Karol Herbst of Red Hat. Jason today talked at XDC 2022 about this NVK driver effort...

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan "NVK" Driver Continues Progressing  Phoronix

Installing LibreOffice On Slackware 15  Linux Journal

Installing LibreOffice On Slackware 15  Linux Journal

DEATHLOOP and Monster Train are in the new Humble Choice Bundle  GamingOnLinux

This New Linux Kernel Update Can Damage Your Laptop Display  Tom's Hardware

Collabora Announces NVK, a New Open-Source Vulkan Driver for NVIDIA Hardware in Mesa  9to5Linux

How to Kill a Linux Process by Port Number  How-To Geek

How to Kill a Linux Process by Port Number  How-To Geek

How to Make Your First Linux App With Flutter  Make Tech Easier

Intel laptop users running Linux are being advised to avoid running the latest Linux 5.19.12 stable kernel point release as it can potentially damage your display...

Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 To Avoid Potentially Damaging The Display  Phoronix

How to go passwordless for shell scripts in Linux  TechRepublic

In this article, we will show you how to Use Touchpad on Linux Laptop as a Graphics Pad. Linux is an open source operating system (OS). An OS is the  BollyInside

IBM Does A "Quasi-Acquisition" Of Red Hat Storage  Phoronix

Back in 2019 IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat while today is a "quasi-acquisition" of sorts being announced with Red Hat's Storage team being transferred to the IBM Storage team...

I always love pull requests that start off with "there's a bunch of performance improvements..." as is the case with the new Btrfs feature pull for Linux 6.1...

AMD Ryzen 7000 gives Windows users the perfect reason to move to Linux  TechRadar

Btrfs Brings Some Great Performance Improvements With Linux 6.1  Phoronix

Last week I shared some initial numbers how surprisingly when disabling Zen 4 CPU security mitigations can actually *hurt* the Ryzen 7000 series CPU performance. While conventional wisdom and with past Intel/AMD processors yield better performance when disabling the CPU security mitigations, with the Ryzen 9 7950X it was found to be basically the opposite. I have since conducted more tests and using an AMD Ryzen 5 7600X to confirm the earlier results and dig deeper into the data.