Open-source News

ExpressVPN Adds A GUI To Their Linux App

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 23:07
There are a number of NetworkManager VPN plug-ins for different virtual private networking providers as a great way for setting up VPN access from the Linux desktop. But for those interested in using ExpressVPN with their official Linux client, they now offer a GUI to ease the setup process for using their commercial VPN service and proprietary software package...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU Compute Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 22:00
Ahead of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics cards seeing retail availability tomorrow, today the review embargo expires on the GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics cards. I've been testing out the GeForce RTX 5070 under Linux and today have a number of GPU compute benchmarks to share.

Perforator 0.0.5 Released - Switches To Apache 2.0 License, Drops CLA Requirement

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 21:35
Open-sourced back in January was the Yandex Perforator as a new software project for uncovering code inefficiencies and potentially "save billions of dollars" in expenses. Perforator has continued evolving since its open-source announcement and out today is Perforator 0.0.5 as the latest milestone...

Linux's AMD Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For The BC-250 Mining Board

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 19:49
The AMD BC-250 is a crypto mining GPU launched by AMD back during the Bitcoin mining craze when it was profitable using GPUs for mining. At its heart is a Navi "RDNA1" GPU similar to the APU found within the Sony PlayStation 5. The AMD BC-250 can be found used these days for $50~100 USD and with the latest open-source Mesa graphics driver code for Linux systems can now be used with the Vulkan API for graphics/gaming...

Direct3D Video Decode To Vulkan Video API Being Worked On For Wine

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 19:32
In addition to mapping the Direct3D graphics API to Vulkan, Wine developers are working on mapping the Direct3D video acceleration APIs to work atop the Vulkan Video API...

RADV Driver Adds CI Coverage For Aging Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 19:30
While AMD hasn't released an updated Windows driver for the Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs since 2022 for Windows 10, over in the Linux/open-source space the driver support continues. It will hopefully continue reliably too now that the Mesa RADV continuous integration (CI) has added driver testing with an old Hawaii GPU...

Intel Revises DRM Sharpness Property For Use With Lunar Lake Sharpening Capabilities

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 19:18
Going back nearly one year Intel has been working on Linux driver support for a new adaptive sharpening filter with Lunar Lake graphics. That's culminated into working on a common DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences and this week the latest patch series for that property was posted...

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