Open-source News

Intel's latest addition to Mesa 21.1 with their "ANV" Vulkan driver is... A null hardware layer...

Besides Valheim, there hasn't been much in the way of native Linux game releases recently to really get excited about with much of the activity these days being through Valve's Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux. But in April there will be at least two high profile native Linux game releases...

Total War: Rome Remastered + Metro Exodus Coming To Linux In April  Phoronix

Microsoft Edge for Linux Getting Sign-In and Sync Support  WebProNews

Microsoft Edge for Linux Getting Sign-In and Sync Support  WebProNews

Linus Torvalds weighs in on Rust language in the Linux kernel  Ars Technica

Linux Operating System Market to Increase Exponentially During 2025  GroundAlerts.com

This week marked the hard feature freeze for QEMU 6.0 along with the tagging of QEMU 6.0-rc0. The QEMU 6.0 release should happen around the end of April for this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

Linux Computer Market May See a Big Move with Dell, System76, HUAWEI - Press Release  Digital Journal

Lilbits: Windows, Linux, and Intel news  Liliputing

Launched last week with the AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors was the AOCC 3.0 code compiler as AMD's downstream of LLVM Clang with various patches now catering to optimized for Zen 3. Last week some preliminary benchmarks of AOCC 3.0 on the Ryzen 9 5950X were carried out to good results. Since then I have begun putting AOCC 3.0 through its paces on a AMD EPYC 7003 series server to overall great results.

Learn to Use Linux the Arch Way With ArcoLinux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Panfrost has been the Gallium3D driver providing open-source OpenGL for Arm Mali Bifrost and Midgard GPus while now "PanVK" is in development as an open-source Vulkan driver...

Microsoft Edge is getting a handy Linux upgrade  TechRadar

Microsoft Edge is getting a handy Linux upgrade  TechRadar

This $40 computer science training includes classes on Python, Linux and more  Engadget

Why the Xfce desktop is reminiscent of early Linux desktops, but with a modern sensibility  TechRepublic

Chromebooks could finally become proper Linux gaming computers  Android Police

S3 Ep25: Drained accounts, ransomware attacks and Linux badware [Podcast]  Naked Security

While Intel is well known and loved for their generally very timely open-source hardware enablement under Linux, occasionally there are exceptions to that long-standing tradition of having the support squared away ahead of product launches. One of the areas where Intel has been slow at enabling their open-source Linux support is around their Gaussian and Neural Accelerator (GNA) but that driver is now coming together for being mainlined hopefully in the near future...