Open-source News

Intel's having yet another go at fixing Arrow Lake's performance  XDA Developers

The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their December 2024 development recap. The developers involved did a great job ending out 2024 with a lot of exciting improvements for this scratch-based open-source operating system...

Intel software engineers have been working on allowing OpenMP offloading to their Intel GPUs by way of targeting generic SPIR-V, the common intermediate representation used across Vulkan / OpenGL / OpenCL drivers. The initial patches to that work have now landed in upstream LLVM/Clang 20 for OpenMP offloading to SPIR-V...

Steve Langasek, One of Ubuntu Linux’s Leading Lights, Has Died  The New Stack

The Lenovo Legion Go S: A New Steam For Linux Gaming  Gameranx

Examining disk space on Linux  Network World

Linux 6.14 Preps UHBR For Intel Panther Lake, Lower Alchemist GPU Power Use With Whitelisted CPUs  Phoronix

Intel software engineers this week sent out two pull requests landing more of their final kernel graphics driver feature changes destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel...

OrangePi Neo gaming handheld with Manjaro Linux now due out in Q1 2025  GamingOnLinux

Windows 10 Countdown: Make the Switch to Linux for a Fresh Start  TechNewsWorld

Windows 10 Countdown: Make the Switch to Linux for a Fresh Start  LinuxInsider

A set of patches posted this week for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver is beginning to expose additional i2c buses that are used by some OEM/AIB partners for implementing RGB lighting controls and other extra functionality with Radeon graphics cards...

For those with an Intel Core Ultra system bearing the company's Neural Processing Unit (NPU), some nice driver enhancements are on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

Intel Preps Nice NPU Driver Improvements For Linux 6.14  Phoronix

FEX 2501 Brings JIT Performance Improvements, Changes Needed For Denuvo Support  Phoronix

FEX 2501 is now available as the newest feature release to this open-source emulator that allows running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux hosts...

Surprise Google Chrome 131 Update For Windows, Mac, Linux, Android  Forbes

KDE KWin developer Xaver Hugl is out with a new blog post on his quest of providing optimal High Dynamic Range (HDR) display experience with the KDE desktop. The latest focus by Xaver has been on fixing the "night light" mode support under KDE Plasma on HDR displays...

Open3D v0.19 is out as the newest feature release to this open-source library for 3D data processing in C++ and Python. Open3D provides various 3D data structures, processing algorithms, 3D visualizations, physically based GPU rendering, and machine learning integration with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow to offer powerful 3D data processing capabilities...

Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships  The Register