Open-source News

New Intel Linux driver update tips 3 new Arc Battlemage GPUs with potential B580, B570 with more VRAM  Notebookcheck.net

Open-Source RADV Radeon Driver Support For RDNA4: "Should Be Good Enough"  Phoronix

Lead RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has provided some insight into the support expectations for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver with the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 "RDNA4" graphics cards...

World's most popular Windows emulator finally supports OpenGL, ARM64EC and high-DPI displays  TechRadar

Linux kernel tweak promises big savings for datacenters  The Register

Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say  The Register

With Wine 10 update, run your Windows app on Linux better than ever  ZDNet

About five years ago X.Org / FreeDesktop.org was experiencing a cloud hosting crisis with their cloud costs running out of control after losing free credits for Google Cloud and the continuous integration (CI) testing driving up expenses. They ended up switching public cloud providers over to Equinix. Equinix ended up sponsoring the X.Org Foundation / FreeDesktop.org with their cloud/hosting needs but now on short notice that is coming to an end...

PyTorch 2.6 is out today as the newest feature release to this widely-used machine learning library...

Intel has three new Battlemage GPUs hidden in Linux drivers  Club386

DOOM + DOOM II adds multiplayer mod support but it's broken on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Ex-Google, Apple engineers raise $10M to give AI its 'Linux moment' with new open source platform  GeekWire

Following a discussion on the Ubuntu development mailing list, Ubuntu developers have decided to adopt Matrix for their official real-time communication channels while deprecating IRC chat...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Linux GPU Compute Performance Review  Phoronix

Last week was the review embargo lift on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card while today the review embargo lifts on the GeForce RTX 5080, both of which graphics cards are officially available in the retail channel tomorrow (30 January). Due to waiting on the official NVIDIA R570 Linux driver release that is recommended for the RTX 50 series Linux gaming, today's tests at Phoronix are looking at the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU compute performance.

Here's the easiest thing Linux developers can do to win more users  ZDNet

Intel's Latest Linux Driver Hints At Several More Discrete Arc Battlemage GPUs  Hot Hardware

As expected, GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 is now available as the newest half-year feature release to this important C library for Linux systems and other environments...

GNU C Library 2.41 Released With New C23 Features, Intel / AMD / Arm CPU Optimizations  Phoronix

Bytedance is praising eBPF as the in-kernel virtual machine for dynamic programs to help speed-up network packet processing, greater tracing and profiling abilities, and a wide-range of other purposes for these dynamic in-kernel programs. By tapping eBPF, Bytedance is reporting a 10% improvement to their networking throughput...