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Mesa's Rusticl driver as a modern Rust-based OpenCL implementation for open-source Gallium3D drivers has shown it's capable of outperforming AMD's open-source ROCm compute stack for at least some GPUs and workloads...

USB4 v2.0 Specification Published For Doubling The Performance  Phoronix

The USB Implementers Forum on Tuesday announced the USB4 v2.0 specification that allows USB transfer speeds up to 80 Gbps over USB Type-C connections...

Switch: Hacker CTCaer hints at upcoming Linux and Android release for new Nintendo Switch models (2019/Lite/OLED)  Wololo.net

AMD under their GPUOpen umbrella has published a paper on their new technology dubbed "GI-1.0" that is a fast, scalable two-level radiance caching scheme for real-time global illumination. This means of real-time global illumination says it can deliver comparable quality to other GI implementations while said to be much faster. GI-1.0 will be open-source, AMD says, but the code isn't yet published...

Microsoft Promotes Its Open-Source Terminal To The Default For Windows 11 CLI Apps  Phoronix

As some interesting open-source news out of Microsoft today, their open-source Windows Termina that has been in development the past few years and providing many modern features is now the default beginning with Windows 11 22H2...

MoltenVK as the portability layer for Vulkan that exposes this industry standard graphics API on Apple's macOS, iOS, and tvOS platforms is now able to expose Vulkan 1.2 compatibility...

Open Compute Project Foundation Announces an Expanded Collaboration with the Linux Foundation. USA - English - USA - English  PR Newswire

Open Compute Project Foundation Announces an Expanded Collaboration with the Linux Foundation.  PR Newswire

Git 2.38.1 Released For Two New Security Vulnerabilities  Phoronix

Git 2.38.1 was just released along with updates to older versions, including the new point releases of v2.30.6, v2.31.5, v2.32.4, v2.33.5, v2.34.5, v2.35.5, v2.36.3, and v2.37.4. The big set of Git updates today is due to two more security issues coming to light...

Sweet point and click dino adventure Zid Journey is up on Kickstarter with demo  GamingOnLinux

How to easily install fonts in Linux on a per-user basis  ZDNet

How to List Linux Services With systemctl  How-To Geek

How to List Linux Services With systemctl  How-To Geek

AMD, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA have used this week's OCP Global Summit to announce Caliptra as their open specification for a silicon Root-of-Trust (ROT) to be found with future CPUs / SoCs, GPUs, NICs, SSDs, and other hardware components.

Last year the OpenPOWER Foundation announced LibreBMC as a POWER-based open-source BMC and now they have progressed to the point of actually demoing this BMC backed by a fully open-source software stack...

How to add Arch Linux AUR-like repositories to Ubuntu- and Fedora-based Linux distributions  TechRepublic

How to add Arch Linux AUR-like repositories to Ubuntu- and Fedora-based Linux distributions  TechRepublic