Open-source News

We still don't have our hands on the GeForce RTX 3080 yet and remains to be seen when we will get our hands on RTX 30 series hardware for Linux testing, but at least there's a pretty good rhythm for how the NVIDIA Linux support will play out...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Linux Driver/Support Expectations  Phoronix

Microsoft Submits Linux Kernel Patches For a 'Full Virtualization Stack' With Linux and Hyper-V  Editorials 360

Raspberry Pi lookalike showcases i.MX8M Mini  LinuxGizmos.com

Raspberry Pi lookalike showcases i.MX8M Mini  LinuxGizmos.com

Breaking up is hard to do: Chrome separates from Chrome OS  ZDNet

It turns out the Radeon RX 6000 series will have AV1 hardware video decode capabilities...

Yet another new file-system being worked on for the Linux/open-source world is NVFS and has been spearheaded by a Red Hat engineer...

Red Hat Has Been Working On New NVFS File-System  Phoronix

Linux Software Market Innovative Strategy by 2028 | Google, Twitter, Facebook  Daily Research Chronicle

SiFive to demo PC running new RISC-V SoC and unveil next-gen AI SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

SiFive to demo PC running new RISC-V SoC and unveil next-gen AI SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

Putting The Firmware In Your Firmware  Hackaday

Unvanquished was one of the most promising open-source game projects nearly a decade ago with its "Daemon" engine but since abandoning their monthly alpha release regiment and their beta/stable releases never materializing either, it's been relatively quiet the past few years. But their developers have been persisting and today they are announcing that following a three-year cleanup the game is fully free/open-source including all assets under applicable licenses...

Unvanquished Game, Assets Are Now Fully Open-Source Compliant  Phoronix

How to switch from Windows 10 to Linux  IT PRO

OpenJDK 15 is out today as the latest general availability release for this open-source Java implementation...

OpenJDK 15 Reaches GA With Garbage Collector Promotions, Tossing Out Solaris + SPARC  Phoronix

C++ extension for Visual Studio Code ready for prime time, hugs Arm devs • DEVCLASS  DevClass

Cartesi Launches an Incubation Program Rewarding Developers to Build DApps in Linux  newsBTC