Open-source News

AMD PSF Control Support Still Awaiting The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Ubuntu-maker Canonical will support open source Blender on Windows, Mac, and Linux  BetaNews

Now ready for Production: Linux IoT Edge Modules on Windows | Internet of Things Show  Microsoft - Channel 9

PipeWire, The Newest Audio Kid On The Linux Block  Hackaday

Rust Bringing Greater Safety To Linux  iProgrammer

While Valve has been working on Vulkan-based rendering for Source Engine games by making use of DXVK for translating the game engine's native Direct3D calls to the Vulkan API, with some yet-to-be-merged Mesa patches around Gallium Nine there is much better performance to see with Gallium Nine at least for the RadeonSI driver...

Linux Foundation Teams Up with Major Partners to Create the Open Voice Network  EnterpriseTalk

Ubuntu maker Canonical has partnered up with the Blender Foundation to offer paid enterprise support around the long-term support versions of Blender...

WDDM 3.0 to bring support for graphical Linux apps in Windows 11  BetaNews

The Qt Company has announced the debut of Qt 6.2 Alpha as it prepares for its September release with many more modules finally making the transition from Qt5 to Qt6...

Unpatched Linux Marketplace Bugs Allow Wormable Attacks, Drive-By RCE  Threatpost

Windows 11 could seamlessly run graphical Linux apps  Techradar

Windows 11 could seamlessly run graphical Linux apps  TechRadar

Linux 5.14 To Support The OpenPOWER Microwatt Soft CPU Core  Phoronix

Announced two years ago was the OpenPOWER Microwatt as an FPGA-based soft CPU core...

Left 4 Dead 2 Vulkan Performance With Radeon Graphics On Linux  Phoronix

Last week Valve introduced Vulkan rendering support for Left 4 Dead 2. The L4D2 Vulkan support is similar to that of Portal 2 where DXVK is being leveraged for translating the Direct3D calls to Vulkan rather than relying on their OpenGL translations. For those wondering what this means for L4D2 performance on Linux with modern GPUs, here are some benchmarks of Left 4 Dead 2 when testing the OpenGL and Vulkan rendering options.

Linux Foundation unveils new permissive license for open data collaboration  VentureBeat

CentOS replacement Rocky Linux 8.4 arrives, and proves instantly popular  ZDNet

Landing in mainline Mesa 21.2 development code last week was the "Crocus" Gallium3D driver for old Intel hardware spanning from the Intel 965 chipset days "Gen4" up through Crocus supporting Haswell "Gen7" graphics. The i965 to Haswell span has been the focus since the official Intel "Iris" Gallium3D driver already in Mesa supports the Broadwell "Gen8" up through all current Intel UHD/Xe Graphics. But now Crocus with the latest Mesa code has added Gen8 support...