Open-source News

How to uninstall Spotify from Ubuntu Linux?  Linux Shout

Minigalaxy, a simple open source GOG client for Linux adds lots of new features  GamingOnLinux

What Is SparkyLinux? The Midweight Debian Alternative Explained  MUO - MakeUseOf

Ubuntu Users Get New Linux Kernel Security Updates That Patch 15 Vulnerabilities  9to5Linux

3 Ways to Install Spotify App on Debian 11 Bullseye  Linux Shout

LinkedIn donates Feathr, their feature store, to the Linux Foundation  Dataconomy

Linux will take a leading role  Gearrice

What is Fork Bomb in Bash? Understanding :(){ :|:& };:  It's FOSS

The Rust programming language will join the Linux kernel  TechSpot

Isometric fantasy RPG Zoria: Age of Shattering gets a new demo and Kickstarter  GamingOnLinux

Nintendo Switch 2 rumours resurface after Linux confirms T239 chip  Metro.co.uk

Over the summer Google announced Tau T2A as the first Google Cloud Compute Engine VM to run on Arm. The T2A series is powered by Ampere Altra processors and complement the Tau T2D series powered by AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors that launched last year. I have been trying out the Tau T2A series for the past several weeks and have some initial benchmarks to share today for showing how the Ampere Altra Arm VMs can perform against the existing T2D series.

GE-Proton 7-35 out now with more fixes for Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

GE-Proton 7-35 out now with more fixes for Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

In addition to a ~10% performance boost seen yesterday for RADV ray-tracing performance with Quake II RTX, another merge request also made it to Mesa 22.3 for much more significantly bolstering the RADV ray-tracing performance. With all of the recent RADV ray-tracing work, we are finally reaching a point where it's becoming viable for Linux gamers on this open-source driver...

Mesa Radeon Driver "RADV" Ray-Tracing Performance Becoming Viable For Linux Gaming  Phoronix

This past weekend was the GNU Tools Cauldron where Siemens presented a status update on the work around GPU accelerator offloading for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and the work being done around OpenMP and OpenACC support...

NVIDIA Linux driver 515.76 is out, as is Mesa 22.2 for AMD / Intel  GamingOnLinux

A new Proton Experimental release hooks up NVAPI for lots of games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Sound Open Firmware is what started as an open-source Intel effort to push towards more open sound/DSP firmware and has grown since that point into a Linux Foundation project also supported by other vendors like Mediatek, AMD, Realtek, and others. Sound Open Firmware 2.3 was released on Tuesday as the latest advancement for this open-source audio DSP firmware stack...