Open-source News

Fwupd 1.8.6 is out today as the newest stable release of this open-source firmware updating tool most notably used by Linux systems but also supported on various BSDs and even Windows...

Fwupd 1.8.6 Released With Smaller Package Size, New Hardware Support  Phoronix

How to Enable Audio Casting in Linux  Make Tech Easier

How to Enable Audio Casting in Linux  Make Tech Easier

How to install Tabby Terminal on Ubuntu 22.04 Linux  Linux Shout

Intel on Thursday sent out the initial Linux kernel patches for supporting the LKGS instruction coming with future processors...

Intel Preps The Linux Kernel For LKGS - Part Of FRED  Phoronix

10 best Linux laptops to look for in 2022  Hindustan Times

10 Essential Privacy and Security Apps for Linux Desktops  MUO - MakeUseOf

10 Essential Privacy and Security Apps for Linux Desktops  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Install Ubuntu Linux in VMWare  It's FOSS

At the end of September when the review embargo lifted I looked at the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and 7950X for our launch-day Linux testing and that was then followed by the Ryzen 7 7700X Linux review. Since then I received the fourth and final Ryzen 7000 series desktop processor currently available: the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X. The Ryzen 5 7600X is currently AMD's most affordable Zen 4 processor at $299 USD and provides six cores / 12 threads and a boost clock up to 5.3GHz.

Red Hat's Karol Herbst has managed to get his Rust-based OpenCL implementation "Rusticl" running atop the Zink Gallium3D driver that in turn runs atop Vulkan drivers...

Facepunch put out a fresh statement on Rust for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Facepunch put out a fresh statement on Rust for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

The latest Godot Engine showreel is an impressive look at upcoming games  GamingOnLinux

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

For the past nearly two years the CentOS Hyperscale effort has been working on adapting CentOS Stream to make it more applicable for use within large scale deployments like those at Twitter, Facebook/Meta, and other large companies. This week the special interest group published their latest quarterly report outlining their activities...

This shouldn't be particularly surprising but the in-development Linux 6.1 kernel will likely be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

The media subsystem updates for the Linux 6.1 kernel have landed with new drivers and promotions for some of the existing image/video drivers...