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The past few months open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso has been developing an open-source accelerator driver for Rockchip's NPU. The experimental driver has shown the open-source code can compete with Rockchip's proprietary driver and Vizoso has been working to develop an upstream-minded driver for a kernel driver living within the "accel" subsystem and then leveraging Mesa's Teflon for the user-space component. Yesterday the "Rocket" accel kernel driver was posted for the Rockchip NPU...

"Rocket" Accelerator Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Posted For Rockchip NPU  Phoronix

Basemark Breaking Limit benchmark tests ray traced gaming performance across diverse platforms — Windows, Linux ...  Tom's Hardware

While the upstream X.Org Server development remains slow with most of the large vendors treating it in maintenance mode and not investing in new features, open-source developer Enrico Weigelt has been one of the few still working to improve the X.Org Server. As part of his work besides pushing new patches and testing of the latest X.Org Server Git state, today he announced the release of the X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit v0.0.1 as a means to help in facilitate testing of the latest X.Org Server Git by making it easier to build it...

These 4 Classic Linux Tools Have Better Modern Alternatives  MUO - MakeUseOf

AlmaLinux 9.4, 8.10 Gain Support for the Raspberry Pi 5 Single-Board Computer  Hackster.io

KDE Gear 24.05.1 Improves Elisa, Spectacle, KCalc, and Other KDE Apps  9to5Linux

Simple GOG client for Linux Minigalaxy version 1.3 is out now  GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu maker Canonical put out a news release today around the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II that is an octa-core RISC-V laptop shipping soon with Ubuntu Linux...

Ubuntu Talks Up A RISC-V Octa-Core Laptop  Phoronix

Going back to 2022 we've seen work by Intel engineers on adding Meteor Lake SoC support to Coreboot while to date there hasn't been much in the way of actual Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" laptops with Coreboot as a replacement to the proprietary BIOS/firmware. But to be shown later today is one of the first laptop designs using these latest Intel mobile processors and running the Dasharo downstream of Coreboot...

Kubuntu Focus announce the Focus Ir14 GEN 2 and Ir16 GEN 2 laptops  GamingOnLinux

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'  The Register

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'  The Register

In making the Framework 16 laptop even more appearing to open-source hardware enthusiasts and makers, Framework Computer has published the CAD design files as open-source...

Framework Laptop 16 CAD Design Files Open-Sourced  Phoronix

Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux (nee CBL-Mariner), is out with a new update. In the first new stable release for Azure Linux 2.0 since late April, the Azure Linux 2.0.20240609 update ships with dozens of security fixes to address a wide range of CVEs as well as bringing various bug fixes and other updates...

Microsoft's Azure Linux 2.0 Update Ships Dozens Of Security Patches, Adds Azl-Compliance  Phoronix

FEX is one of the open-source projects working on user-mode x86/x86_64 binary emulation atop ARM64/AArch64 Linux. FEX 2406 is out today as the project's newest monthly feature release...

SteamVR 2.6 released with experimental improvements to async on Linux  GamingOnLinux