Open-source News

Last month Intel published the XeSS 1.0 SDK for their Xe Super Sampling technology showcased with Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards. Sadly their initial SDK drop included Windows binaries and wasn't fully open-source. On Friday XeSS 1.0.1 was published with some bug fixes but still not being fully open-source...

Intel XeSS 1.0.1 Released With Bug Fixes  Phoronix

The KDE Plasma Wayland session is finally supporting high resolution scroll wheel support that was engineered by Red Hat and originally supported under GNOME for allowing a smoother scrolling experience on the Linux desktop...

KDE Plasma Wayland Now Supports High Resolution Scrolling  Phoronix

This morning's batch of Linux kernel point releases to existing stable series is worth upgrading to given the important security fixes...

Linux 6.0.2, 5.19.16 & Other Point Releases Arrive For Fixing WiFi Stack Vulnerabilities  Phoronix

While the freeze ahead of Wine 8.0 is quickly approaching, Wine 7.19 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux and macOS...

Wine 7.19 Released With VKD3D 1.5, MPEG-4 Audio Support  Phoronix

Linux, Windows and macOS Hit By New "Alchimist" Attack Framework  HackRead

Using Wikipedia from the Linux command line  Network World

Learn Linux online for free with Linux Foundation Courses from edX  TechRepublic

How to Use Log2Ram on Linux to Save Wear and Tear on Your Disks  MUO - MakeUseOf

Genode Labs as the creators of the open-source Genode Operating System Framework have released Sculpt OS 22.10 as the newest version of their general purpose operating system...

Linux kernel 6.1 will contain fixes, features. Useful Rust modules? Not yet  The Register

Complete this Linux training course to get your dream IT job  Dmartpreneur

Complete this Linux training course to get your dream IT job  TechRepublic

Ubuntu and Linux Keep Outperforming Windows 11 on AMD Ryzen 9 7950X  WinBuzzer

Linux Fixes 5 Gaping Holes in Wi-Fi  Security Boulevard

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X "Zen 4" Rocks On Intel's Clear Linux  Phoronix

This shouldn't be too surprising to long-time Phoronix readers, but Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux operating system is yielding great performance with AMD Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" processors. Intel's Clear Linux has long shipped HWCAPS support and tuning for AVX-512 and the like to be able to provide optimized libraries when running on their own AVX-512 processors. But with AMD now joining the AVX-512 party -- and Zen 4's AVX-512 implementation performing great -- Intel's Clear Linux distribution is showing leading performance numbers on these new AMD desktop processors.