Open-source News

How to Navigate Your File System Using the Linux Terminal  How-To Geek

Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop to integrate Night Light for improved eye comfort  BetaNews

Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps in  Tom's Hardware

The Redox OS open-source Rust-based operating system project is out with their newest monthly development update...

Sorry Steam Deck Apex Legends players, those Linux cheaters means the battle royale won't be officially supported on the handheld anymore  VG247

Valve Engineer's AMD Linux RADV Vulkan driver fix boosted an FSR2 demo sample app by 228% on RDNA 2 GPUs  Tom's Hardware

Linux Mint is Adding a Native ‘Night Light’ Feature to Cinnamon  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Built-In Tools Are So Powerful, You Build a Database With Them. Here's How  How-To Geek

AMD Heterogeneous CPU Design Topology Patches Coming For Linux 6.13  Phoronix

The latest patches from AMD Linux engineers for working on x86 heterogeneous design identification were queued last week for introduction in the Linux 6.13 kernel...

The Linux Mint crew is out with their newest monthly status update that outlines the activities of this desktop Linux distribution over the course of October...

Linux Mint Working On Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework Computer  Phoronix

Linux Mint Is Getting a Night Light Feature in Cinnamon, Framework Laptop Support  9to5Linux

With this week's release of SVT-AV1 2.3 for open-source AV1 encoding citing significant performance improvements for running on ARM, I was eager to see how well this AV1 encoder would be performing on the new System76 Thelio Astra ARM developer desktop powered by Ampere Altra. Here are some benchmarks showing those big speed-ups for ARM-based AV1 encoding...

Alyssa Rosenzweig has pushed the latest Apple Silicon OpenGL "AGX Gallium3D" and Vulkan "Honeykrisp" code from the Asahi Linux development repository into the Mesa Git codebase ahead of this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release...

Apple Silicon OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Updated This Week For Mesa 24.3  Phoronix

While the mainline Linux kernel has begun seeing initial support for various Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops, various feature limitations are outstanding before these Qualcomm-powered laptops really become usable for daily use. For instance, just a few days ago the audio firmware was finally upstreamed to make setting up X1 Elite laptops easier. Another important feature as an example is CPUFreq driver support for CPU frequency scaling to ensure optimal performance and power efficiency...

Snapdragon X1 Elite CPUFreq Support Revised In Latest Linux Patches  Phoronix

Valve Linux Driver Team Fixes RADV Driver Performance With FSR 2 Through MESA 24.3 Release, Up To 228% Uplift  Wccftech

No Apex Legends 2 Followed by Linux Ban Before Season 23  NoobFeed