Open-source News

Nate Graham and John Veness are out with the latest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting developments taking place in the KDE Plasma desktop space...

Following the release of AMD's ZenDNN 6.0 earlier this month, there is a new feature release of the oneDNN neural network library that used to be developed by Intel as part of oneAPI and is now under the UXL Foundation umbrella. Even so, oneDNN feature releases continue to be heavy on new Intel optimizations and future hardware support...

In addition to Friday night's release of DXVK 3.0.2, debuting separately a short time later was D7VK 2.0 as the latest major feature release for this implementation of Direct3D 7 and earlier built off the Vulkan API...

D7VK 2.0 Released With Some Nice Performance Improvements: Up To 2x Or More  Phoronix

This Linux Trick Makes Network Packets Disappear (eBPF XDP)  YouTube

After nine years, Linux gamers can finally join Minecraft Bedrock servers without the headaches  XDA

In addition to the initial build of Holo Core as AArch64 Arch Linux for the Steam Frame, another software milestone today in Valve's Linux gaming space is the release of DXVK 3.0.2 for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 APIs implemented over the Vulkan API for running Windows games...

DXVK 3.0.2 Released With Improved Hang Debugging, Handful Of Game Fixes  Phoronix

Valve and Collabora Announce Official Arch Linux ARM64 Port for Steam Frame  9to5Linux

Musicians are training AI drum models on old Linux desktops  Northeast Times

DXVK 3.0.2 Brings Fixes for Dying Light: The Beast, Halo CE, Overwatch, and More  9to5Linux

Valve releases its first Arm-based Arch Linux preview for Steam Frame  Neowin

These 5 Unix ideas from the 1970s are why Linux still works so well  How-To Geek

Frame Is a New Linux X11 Server Written Entirely in Assembly  Linuxiac

With reviewing hardware for more than 22 years, when it comes to cooling products there are few brands that can still get me intrigued like Noctua. With their recent launch of the NL-LC1 all-in-one liquid coolers, I decided to try out the Noctua NL-LC1-36 360mm AIO cooler that is working out well for cooling high-end desktop CPUs like the recently launched Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.

Collabora announce a preview of Holo Core, an AArch64 port of Arch Linux for Steam Frame  GamingOnLinux

On top of releasing ROCm 7.14 as the new production release of ROCm now built offTheRock, rolling out the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, and GAIA 0.22, AMD has some more open-source news in the lead up to next week's AMD Advancing AI event...

As part of Valve's upcoming Qualcomm-powered Steam Frame headset, Valve has been collaborating with Collabora on the Arch Linux AArch64 base for their platform. Published today are the initial sources and binaries of this "Holo Core" base of Arch Linux AArch64 to be used by the Steam Frame...

Experimental Build Of Holo Core Published: Arch Linux AArch64 For Valve's Steam Frame  Phoronix

AI OK in Linux development, says Torvalds  Computerworld