Open-source News

KDE Developers Continue On Bug Fixing Spree Ahead Of Plasma 6.0

Phoronix - Sat, 12/09/2023 - 19:15
It's a Christmas season of bug fixing in the KDE world as following the late November Plasma 6.0 Beta 1 they've shifted from feature work to fixes and with the new test release has received an influx of bug reports...

W4 Games Raises $15M To Help Push Open-Source Video Game Development With Godot

Phoronix - Sat, 12/09/2023 - 18:48
Last year W4 Games was formed by Godot game engine developers as part of an effort to strengthen the open-source Godot ecosystem as well as work on commercial products and services, such as integrating with the proprietary game console/cloud platforms. They started out with $8.5 million dollars last year while this week announced a series A funding round of $15M...

Wine 9.0-rc1 Released With Upgraded VKD3D, Wine Wayland Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 12/09/2023 - 05:57
The release process has begun for releasing Wine 9.0 as stable early next year...

Vulkan 1.3.273 Released With KHR Calibrated Timestamps Extension

Phoronix - Sat, 12/09/2023 - 01:17
Vulkan 1.3.273 was released today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API...

Intel Striving To Overhaul Their Multiple Ethernet Linux Drivers: "The Great Code Dedup"

Phoronix - Sat, 12/09/2023 - 00:01
Intel engineers maintain multiple Ethernet drivers in the Linux kernel for their wide-range of networking hardware from consumer to high-end data center wares. There's been an ongoing effort to overhaul their Ethernet driver management to reduce code duplication between the different drivers for better code sharing and with an end goal of more unification...

Pages