Open-source News

PulseAudio 17.0 Released With A Few New Features  Phoronix

Grab some treats in the Awesome Games Done Quick Humble Bundle  GamingOnLinux

While the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates for Linux 6.8 excitingly include the new Intel "Xe" DRM and PowerVR Imagination drivers, AMD color management properties in experimental form, Raspberry Pi 5 graphics support, and more, Linus Torvalds isn't happy with some of the new Intel Xe driver code...

Linus Torvalds On Linux 6.8 DRM: "Testing Is Seriously Lacking"  Phoronix

Linux Mint 21.3 released with Cinnamon 6.0 and experimental Wayland support  GamingOnLinux

Pengutronix a short time ago on the Linux kernel mailing list announced the Open ISOBUS FileServer (FS) and Client Implementation... Piquing my interest, I looked up this ISO 11783-13 standard that this file server aims to implement, but it wasn't quite what I was expecting...

Linux Gains An Open File Server Implementation For Tractors & Agriculture Machinery  Phoronix

Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” (including upgrade) is now available  Neowin

Linux Mint 21.3 Officially Released, This is What’s New  OMG! Ubuntu!

Valve continues to improve the gaming performance of Linux open source drivers for AMD GPUs, as part of the Mesa ...  PC Gamer

If you happen to be impacted by snow storms today or otherwise have extra time on your hands this weekend, GNOME 46 Alpha is now available for testing this latest desktop environment that will be going head-to-head with KDE Plasma 6.0 later this quarter...

Linux Distro Reviews: LMDE  WebProNews

Unleashing the Power of LOKI: Linux, OpenStack and Kubernetes Infrastructure  Cloud Native Now

Linux Mint 21.3 'Virginia' now available for download  BetaNews

GNOME 46 Alpha Desktop Released for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

AYANEO Next Lite with a customized SteamOS-like HoloISO fully revealed  GamingOnLinux

One of the features sadly not having made it in time for the Linux v6.8 kernel merge window is the AMD P-State Preferred Core support. This is about being able to properly communicate to the kernel and scheduler about "preferred cores" such as cases of some CPU cores having higher maximum frequencies or better performance characteristics than others. This is becoming more important with AMD Ryzen processors beginning to see a combination of Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores and other cases like AMD 3D V-Cache enabled processors where some cores would be preferred over others for performance sensitive work...

AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Tried A 13th Time  Phoronix

Linux Mint 21.3 is now available for the latest version of this easy-to-use, beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution that is currently built atop an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS package base...

Linux Mint 21.3 Released With Full SecureBoot Support, Cinnamon 6.0 Desktop  Phoronix