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Open-Source Firmware Foundation Established For Advancing Open Firmware

Phoronix - Wed, 02/09/2022 - 03:12
The Open-Source Firmware Foundation (OSFF) is getting up and running with hopes of expanding open-source firmware usage throughout the industry...

Steve King - Linux Journal

Google News - Wed, 02/09/2022 - 01:07
Steve King  Linux Journal

Vulkan Ray-Tracing's VK_KHR_ray_query Lands For Intel's Open-Source Linux Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 22:13
Ahead of upcoming Intel Arc graphics cards shipping with ray-tracing capabilities, Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver has landed its VK_KHR_ray_query support...

KDE Plasma 5.24 Released With Wayland Support In Increasingly Great Shape

Phoronix - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 20:55
KDE Plasma 5.24 is out as the newest version of this popular open-source desktop environment that will also be their new Long-Term Support (LTS) release...

Chimera Linux Pushes Ahead For FreeBSD User-Space Atop Linux, Built Using LLVM

Phoronix - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 20:14
While so many Linux distributions these days are just cosmetic changes and basic package alterations atop the likes of Ubuntu / Debian and Fedora, Chimera Linux that started last year continues to be an interesting project to watch for using the Linux kernel but with the FreeBSD user-space, making use of the LLVM Clang compiler rather than GCC, using musl as its preferred C library, and other differences...

Intel Preparing Wi-Fi 7 / 802.11be / EHT Support For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 19:00
Intel's open-source engineers have already begun preparing Linux kernel patches around 802.11be Extremely High Throughput (EHT) support that will be known as WiFi 7...

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