Open-source News

LicheeRV Nano: Affordable Thumb-Sized Embedded Computer with Upcoming Linux Support  LinuxGizmos.com

AMD's GPUOpen crew today released HIP RT 2.2 as the newest version of this ray-tracing library for HIP...

For fans of the Ubuntu Touch platform maintained by UBports for enjoying Linux on tablets and smartphones is out with their 4th Over The Air update based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base...

Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Released With Per-Contact Ringtones, Built-In Theme Switching  Phoronix

How to manage Fedora's firewall without using the command line  ZDNet

How to manage Fedora's firewall without using the command line  ZDNet

Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Rolls Out to Linux Phone Users with Various Improvements  9to5Linux

With Ubuntu looking at applying their low-latency optimizations to their generic kernel builds in order to eliminate maintaining their existing "lowlatency" kernel option, I decided to run some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance impact of their low-latency kernel against their "generic" default kernel used on Ubuntu Linux systems...

Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks For HPC & Desktop  Phoronix

New State of eBPF Report Examines eBPF's Impact on Software Application Development  Yahoo Finance

How to Generate an SSH Key on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

The GNOME project has announced the GNOME Project Handbook as a new resource for helping new developers/contributors get involved with this open-source desktop environment...

How to Be More Productive in Linux With KDE Activities  How-To Geek

Linux's x86_energy_perf_policy Utility Being Extended To AMD CPUs  Phoronix

For AMD Zen 2 and newer systems making use of the modern AMD P-State driver on Linux for CPU frequency scaling, ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) interface is being used. For managing the ACPI CPPC energy performance preference (EPP), Intel's x86_energy_perf_policy utility is now being extended to AMD processors...

ChipStar 1.1 was released this past week as one of the open-source projects to help in porting HIP and CUDA applications to support the industry-standard SPIR-V. ChipStar acts to get HIP/CUDA codes working on SPIR-V with OpenCL or Intel's oneAPI Level Zero...

As I wrote about at the start of January, the open-source ATI Radeon R300 Linux graphics driver continues seeing new improvements even all these years later thanks to the open-source community. This wasn't some one-off work either in 2024 for this R300 to R500 GPU OpenGL driver but more work has since landed...

Radeon R300 Open-Source Driver Continues Seeing New Improvements In 2024  Phoronix

Game Boy homebrew scene alive and well thanks to the open source GB Studio  GamingOnLinux

Proton Hotfix gets updated for TEKKEN 8 online play on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux