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Vulkan Ray-Tracing Along With Other New/Updated Benchmarks For February
There have been plenty of new and updated benchmarks over the course of February ahead of upcoming CPU and GPU launches...
Linux Mint's Update Manager To Encourage Users To Apply Security Updates
Last week the Linux Mint project shared the troubling news how many of its users are behind on important security updates or in some cases even running end-of-life versions. In trying to help address the issue, Linux Mint is working on improvements to its Update Manager to encourage users to apply updates...
Xilinx Volleys Latest Open-Source Alveo Accelerator Driver Code
Back in March 2019 Xilinx announced they were looking to upstream their Alveo FPGA accelerator drivers into the mainline kernel code. They followed through with posting the initial kernel patches and then fast forward to the end of 2020 they posted a new iteration of the patches. This month the company, which is in the process of being acquired by AMD, posted the third iteration of their open-source Linux kernel driver patches...
Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021
For more than four years Apple's MacBook Pro has featured the Touch Bar as a display / control bar input device above the keyboard on these laptops. While there have been reports of Apple potentially phasing out the Touch Bar in future models, an open-source Linux driver for the component is still working its way toward the mainline kernel...
Edit video on Linux with this Python app
In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. Here's how I use Linux to edit videos.
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Zrythm DAW Sees New Release And Should Have "Almost No Crashes"
Zrythm 1.0.0-alpha.12.0.1 released this week as the interesting open-source, GTK-based digital audio workstation that has been moving closer to a 1.0 release...
Void Linux Has Been Working To Deliver Great POWER Support
Void Linux, a rolling-release distribution we have covered before that is known for its XBPS package manager and interesting design decisions like using the Runit init system and supporting the Musl C library, has recently been working on enhancing its POWER CPU architecture support...
Broadcom VK Accelerator Driver, More Intel ACRN Code Arrives For Linux 5.12
Greg Kroah-Hartman this week sent in "the large set of char/misc/whatever driver subsystem updates", which as usual -- given it's a catch-all area of kernel drivers not fitting well into other subsystems -- there is an interesting mix of additions...
Mesa Flips On OpenGL Threading For Valheim To Deliver Better Performance
For those enjoying the Valheim, the new survival/sandbox game that has been an incredible success and sold more than four millions of copies so far while being a low-budget indie game, Mesa should be providing better performance when using its OpenGL renderer...
Wine-Staging 6.3 Should Fix Some Half-Decade Old Bugs For Some Installers
Two weeks ago Wine-Staging 6.2 came in at 669 patches while now with the Wine-Staging 6.3 point release has climbed to just under 700 patches atop the upstream Wine code-base...
KDE Rolling Out New CLI Tools, Many Crash Fixes
KDE developers have been wrapping up February with a number of new command line tools being worked on for applying various cosmetic changes to the desktop. There have also been many crash fixes addressed in recent days...