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GNU Boot Drops Some Motherboards & CPU Code After Discovering Non-Free Bits
The GNU Boot project has been in the works as a Coreboot/Libreboot fork focused on "freedom respecting boot firmware" that is free from closed-source and proprietary components. But in working towards its inaugural v0.1 release, they discovered that they had inadvertently been shipping some non-free software around AMD CPU microcode updates and some motherboard ports with non-open-source code...
AMD Ends Out 2023 Still Working To Get The Rest Of SEV-SNP Upstream In Linux
This New Year's weekend brought the latest AMD patches working on plumbing the mainline Linux kernel with the hypervisor support around AMD Secure Nested Paging (SNP) as part of their Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). SEV-SNP has been supported since EPYC 7003 series and while some elements of the support have been upstreamed for securing VMs, some bits remain...
Alacritty 0.13 Released For This OpenGL-Powered Terminal Emulator
With all the talk recently around speedy terminal emulator options for Linux, some of you will be pleased to know Alacritty v0.13 has been released to end out the year for this cross-platform OpenGL-powered terminal emulator...
Rav1e 0.7.0 Released For Xiph.Org's Latest Rust-Based AV1 Encoding
The Xiph.Org project Rav1e to provide the fastest and safest AV1 encoder by leveraging the Rust programming language is ending out 2023 with a new feature release...
Freedreno Now Supports The Qualcomm Adreno 644 GPU
Igalia's Danylo Piliaiev has contributed support to the Freedreno Gallium3D driver in Mesa 24.0 for supporting the Qualcomm Adreno 644 graphics...
Gentoo Introduces Binary Package Support - LinuxGizmos.com
Gentoo Introduces Binary Package Support LinuxGizmos.com
ScummVM 2.8 Gets More Games Running
ScummVM 2.8 is out this New Year's weekend to end out 2023 by getting more games running on this open-source software that started out re-implementing LucasArts adventure games and other game titles...
How to Install Python Packages in Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm - MUO - MakeUseOf
How to Install Python Packages in Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm MUO - MakeUseOf
RAO-INT Instructions Will No Longer Premiere With Intel Grand Ridge
Added last year to the open-source compilers were Intel RAO-INT instructions for upcoming Intel CPUs. RAO-INT as new atomic ADD / AND / OR / XOR instructions were to debut with Intel's Grand Ridge SoC but now that is apparently no longer the case...
Fedora 40 Looks To Provide Optimized x86_64 Binaries For Different HWCAPs
In addition to Ubuntu exploring the possibility of x86_64-v3 builds/packages, a proposal has been raised for Fedora Linux with its current Fedora 40 cycle to provide the ability to offer optimized x86_64 (AMD64) binaries based upon the CPU's x86_64 micro-architecture feature level...