Open-source News

Framework 12 Platform Tuning For Better Performance Or Power Efficiency Review  Phoronix

5 tweaks and apps that helped me appreciate Ubuntu as a lifelong Windows user  XDA

Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation Lands on Linux, Works on Steam Deck  TechPowerUp

Linux contains dangerous secure boot flaw: hackers can bypass it with a USB stick  oodaloop.com

Following all of the Linux and broader open-source software enablement around Power11 the past three or so years, IBM today formally announced their new Power11 hardware...

The AMD Hardware Feedback Driver has been queued up via a TIP branch for expected merging during the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. This new open-source AMD driver is designed to help make the kernel's scheduler make better decisions around task placement for heterogeneous processor designs with a mix of the "classic" and "dense" cores...

SUSE launching region-locked support for the sovereignty-conscious  theregister.com

In addition to Intel upstreaming the Xe3 graphics firmware needed for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs to linux-firmware.git so those firmware binaries can get picked up by Linux distributions ahead of Panther Lake laptops shipping, Intel also upstreamed fan control firmware as a first for their graphics card efforts...

Fan Control Firmware Updated For Intel Battlemage Graphics Cards On Linux  Phoronix

How a 12-year-old bug in Sudo is still haunting Linux users  csoonline.com

Linux Gaming Improves, Thanks to DXVK 2.7  extremetech.com

The Ardour digital audio workstation (DAW) software has removed its build support for the GTK+ (GTK2) toolkit in favor of now exclusively relying upon "YTK" as its own localized fork of this toolkit...

Not the end-of-life for Linux and open-source . Podcast with SUSE  TechHQ

Interestingly a batch of new AMD GPU firmware files were upstreamed to linux-firmware.git yesterday in preparing for the next AMD product launch of hardware featuring RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics...

AMD Merges New RDNA 3.5 iGPU Firmware Files Ahead Of Next Product Launch  Phoronix

FEX 2507 is now available for this open-source emulator that allows running x86/x86_64 games and applications atop 64-bit ARM Linux devices whether they be AArch64 servers or ARM64 single board computers and other devices...

FEX 2507 Brings New Optimizations & Gets Some Ubisoft Games Running  Phoronix

Bazzite gets a new app store, newly supported devices, improved WiFi and more  GamingOnLinux

OBS Studio 31.1.0 released with Multitrack Video for Linux, explicit sync support for PipeWire  GamingOnLinux

Lossless Scaling Frame Generation has been ported to Linux  VideoCardz.com