Open-source News

There are some new open-source/Linux details to note when it comes to the AMD accelerators in the Instinct "CDNA" land...

elementary OS 8 Arrives With New Mac-Like Functionality  How-To Geek

The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates were sent out on Monday for Linux 6.13 and include one very interesting new feature for this file-system: device aliasing as a means of being able to temporarily carve out a portion of the partition for other purposes...

F2FS Brings Interesting "Device Aliasing" Feature To Linux 6.13 To Carve Out Partition  Phoronix

VORAGO and Collabora Join Forces to Advance Linux-Based Innovation Beyond Earth's Orbit  Embedded Computing Design

elementary OS 8 “Circe” Officially Released, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

Linux Fu: Audio Network Pipes  Hackaday

FLTK hits 1.4, arrives speaking Wayland and with better HiDPI support  The Register

Granular Power Savings Patches Posted For Common "uvcvideo" Linux Webcam Driver  Phoronix

Google engineer Ricardo Ribalda has proposed a set of patches for the common "uvcvideo" kernel driver that supports UVC-compliant web cameras and the like to provide granular power saving support...

Steam Deck and Linux gamers need this new Valve Proton update  PCGamesN

How to choose between Windows 10 IoT and Linux  TechTarget

Linux provider SUSE rebrands some of its offerings, and goes AI  TechHQ

Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Compute / OpenCL Performance Looking Great  Phoronix

Now that Linux 6.12 has a fix for the Lunar Lake performance with the ASUS Zenbook I have been using for my Core Ultra 200V series Linux testing as well as there recently being an updated Intel Compute Runtime with Lunar Lake fixes, I have been working on some fresh Lunar Lake Xe2 graphics benchmarks using the very latest upstream open-source code. In today's article is exploring how the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics is performing for OpenCL / GPU compute relative to the prior Meteor Lake Arc Graphics that were already a nice step-up over earlier Intel integrated graphics.

Huge new Proton 9.0-4 update for Steam Deck / Linux now in need of testing  GamingOnLinux

Firefox 134 Enters Beta, Promises Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux  9to5Linux

Beyond Upstream First: The Linux Kernel Contribution Maturity Model  The New Stack

Ubuntu 25.04 Begins Preparations For GIMP 3.0  Phoronix

With GIMP 3.0-RC1 out for testing since earlier this month, the hope is that GIMP 3.0 stable will in fact ship in time for the release of Ubuntu 25.04 next April. The current GIMP 3.0 release candidate is working its way to Debian Unstable and in turn soon should be available via the Ubuntu 25.04 archive...