Open-source News

Back in February I wrote about Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers working on a new adaptive sharpening filter capability to be found with upcoming Xe2 graphics starting with Lunar Lake. This new adaptive sharpening filter has minimal power and performance impact and at least according to the driver engineers is working out rather well. Besides the Intel Xe kernel driver support around enabling this adaptive sharpening filter, Intel has also been readying the rest of the Linux desktop stack for exposing this capability...

Intel Continues Readying Linux For Lunar Lake's New Adaptive Sharpening Filter  Phoronix

VR game streaming tool ALVR adds PipeWire support on Linux  GamingOnLinux

For those with an ASUS ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI motherboard or thinking of getting one for this high-end AMD Ryzen 7000 series platform, the Linux support is taking another small step forward...

ASUS EC Sensors Linux Driver Adding Support For The ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI  Phoronix

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 7th, 2024  9to5Linux

Both the GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers today saw support for Intel's Branch Hint extension merged today for this feature of Redwood Cove P cores as found with current generation Meteor Lake processors as well as upcoming Intel Granite Rapids server processors...

GCC & LLVM/Clang Compilers Updated For Intel Branch Hint  Phoronix

Valve fixes up the new Riven from Cyan Worlds videos on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

5 Linux commands for managing users  ZDNet

12 Things I Do Right After Installing Linux (And You Should Too)  How-To Geek

Frustrated with Windows? Here's your guide to switching to Linux  NewsBytes

Google announces extension of support for latest Linux kernel releases from 2 to 4 years  gagadget.com

Linux Mint 22 Stable release may take more than two weeks, project lead warns  Neowin

Linux Mint 22 Stable release may take more than two weeks, project lead warns  Neowin

Google extends Linux kernel support to keep Android devices secure for longer  Android Authority

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.10-rc7 as the latest weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 6.10 kernel...

Linux 6.10 Is Shaping Up Well Or It Might Just Be Due To 4th Of July Week  Phoronix

GDB 15.1 was released on Sunday as the first version in the GNU Debugger 15 branch for this widely-used, open-source debugging solution...

Direct3D 8 support by way of the D8VK project has now been merged into DXVK, the widely relied upon open-source software for mapping Direct3D 9/10/11 atop Vulkan that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on Linux...