Open-source News

RISC-V With Linux 5.16 Enabling Open-Source NVIDIA Driver As Part Of Default Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 11/13/2021 - 19:17
The RISC-V architecture updates were sent out on Friday for targeting the nearly-over Linux 5.16 merge window...

KDE Lands More Plasma Wayland Fixes, Other Enhancements For Plasma 5.24

Phoronix - Sat, 11/13/2021 - 18:23
Like clockwork KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary each Saturday highlighting the accomplishments of this free software desktop project...

Why now is a great time to consider a career in open source hardware

opensource.com - Sat, 11/13/2021 - 16:00

It has become commonplace in the software industry for programmers of all flavors to build careers writing code that releases to the commons with open source licenses. Industry headhunters often demand access to the code to vet future employees. Those that focus their career on open source development get rewarded. According to payscale.com, Linux sysadmins earn more than their Windows counterparts, indicating better pay and job security for jobs in open source software. There's also a good feeling (maybe even karma) that comes with sharing your work.


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Valve Shares New Steam Deck Details, Proton Update Available For Testing

Phoronix - Sat, 11/13/2021 - 07:13
Valve today hosted the much anticipated Steam Deck Development Livestream where they and their partners at AMD talked more about the forthcoming Steam Deck's hardware and software...

Intel Posts Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Raptor Lake - Same As Alder Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 11/13/2021 - 05:37
When writing this morning about intel "Raptor Lake" Linux enablement to begin, I didn't expect that to bear fruit so quickly in just a matter of hours... As predicted, that Linux bring-up for the Alder Lake successor is beginning now -- and doing so at full-speed with the initial Raptor Lake S (RPL-S) graphics support being posted...

Radeon Software 21.40.1 Linux Driver Unifies ROCm, Uses New Driver Distribution Model

Phoronix - Sat, 11/13/2021 - 04:52
AMD this week quietly released Radeon Software for Linux 21.40.1 as a fundamentally big update for this packaged driver stack targeting enterprise Linux distributions...

Experimental Mesa Zink Code Managing To Run Wayland's Weston Compositor

Phoronix - Sat, 11/13/2021 - 03:30
Following Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan translation driver finally running "glxgears" in a correct and performant manner, the newest milestone acheived by lead Zink developer Mike Blumenkrantz is managing to run Wayland's Weston compositor...

Linux To Start Seeing Enablement Patches For Intel "Raptor Lake"

Phoronix - Sat, 11/13/2021 - 02:55
Following today's inaugural patch, over the coming weeks we are expected to see Intel Raptor Lake patches beginning to make it out onto the public kernel mailing list for review...

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