Open-source News

Firefox 137 Enters Public Beta Testing with HEVC Playback Support on Linux  9to5Linux

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...

ExpressVPN Adds A GUI To Their Linux App  Phoronix

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 gets an Easy Anti-Cheat upgrade - finally works properly on Linux  GamingOnLinux

UnplugRed Magic Carpet, free atmospheric delay for macOS, Linux and Windows  Synth Anatomy

Firefox 136 Has Arrived: Here's What's New  How-To Geek

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU Compute Performance  Phoronix

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.

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...

Fedora Linux 39 review  MSN

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Fedora Linux 39 review  MSN

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...

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

I built the perfect anti-MacBook out of this Chromebook  Android Police

Our Linux App with GUI Is Here  ExpressVPN