Open-source News

AMD on Friday published a new version of their Advanced Media Framework "AMF" software development kit that enhances the multimedia processing capabilities for Radeon hardware...

Taking place this week was the annual Open-Source Firmware Conference "OSFC" devoted to open-source firmware from Coreboot to open-source BMC solutions and other low-level booting/initialization efforts...

Open-Source Firmware Conference 2021 Videos Now Available  Phoronix

This week saw many fixes landing for the KDE desktop components along with some UI tweaking and other alterations...

KDE Starts December With Numerous Fixes, Other Desktop Refinements  Phoronix

Install opensource CyberPanel on Almalinux | Rocky linux 8  Linux Shout

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There are many file formats used to store digital audio, and they're good for different purposes. Digital audio is, of course, only a representation of sound, a rendering of soundwaves that get translated into sound by a decoder and a set of speakers. Some audio formats, generically called lossless formats, aim to encode audio close to its original analog form. Still, there's a lot of data in the real world, and as yet, digital can only approximate it in very large files.

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What Is ‘Apt-Get’ In Linux And How To Use It?  Fossbytes

What Is 'Apt-Get' In Linux?  Fossbytes

The day has finally come that Mesa's classic OpenGL drivers (non-Gallium3D) have been cleared out of the code-base as part of their modernization effort for mainline...

A Federal Investigator Testified About What Was Allegedly Found On Josh Duggar’s Work Computer  BuzzFeed News

What's New in VMware Horizon 8 Version 2111 ESB  Virtualization Review

Linux distribution NixOS in version 21.11 released  Market Research Telecast

Wine 6.23 is now available for running Windows applications and games on Linux, macOS, and the BSDs. Up next will be the Wine 7.0 release candidate that also marks the feature freeze for what will be the next annual Wine stable release...

Open-source Vizio lawsuit takes an ugly turn  ZDNet

DHCP client configuration for Linux, Windows and macOS  TechTarget

EndeavourOS as the two year old Linux distribution project built atop Arch Linux is out with a shiny new release. Beyond package updates, the new release has several default changes like now making use of the wonderful PipeWire. Looking to 2022, EndeavourOS is also exploring the possibility of a gaming-optimized build of their OS...

Valve says DayZ and five other games are now anti-cheat ready for Linux (and Steam Deck)  The Verge

Valve says DayZ and five other games are now anti-cheat ready for Linux (and Steam Deck)  The Verge