Open-source News

Here's how an exciting message from a NVIDIA engineer that just hit the mailing list begins: "NVIDIA has been exploring ways to better support the effort for an upstream kernel mode driver for GPUs that are capable of running GSP-RM firmware, since the introduction to Nova."..

openSUSE Leap 15.6 arrives with extended support, KDE Plasma 5.27.11, and more  Notebookcheck.net

Fwupd 1.9.21 is now available for this open-source software for facilitating system firmware and device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux and other platforms...

Google further blurs the lines between ChromeOS (Chromebooks will use the Android Linux kernel and Android ...  Liliputing

IPFire Linux Firewall Gets Experimental Btrfs Support, Intel RFDS Mitigations  9to5Linux

This dangerous new form of malware is attacking Windows and Linux systems alike  TechRadar

DC-ROMA Laptop II packs an octa-core RISC-V processor, 16GB of RAM and Ubuntu Linux  Liliputing

Yaskawa robot uses Wind River Linux for AI and autonomy  Control Global

This Linux distro could be the solution for anyone jumping ship from Windows  ZDNet

Deepin Linux V23 RC2 delivers a kung fu kick from China to knock out Windows 11  BetaNews

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