Open-source News

AlmaLinux 9.4 beta is out: 4 reasons to consider it for your desktop  ZDNet

The Audacity open-source digital audio editor is out today with a big feature update in the form of Audacity 3.5...

A patch is undergoing work to add Steam Deck IMU support to the HID-Steam kernel driver for supporting the accelerometer and gyroscope sensors of the Steam Deck controller...

Steam Deck Motion Sensors Being Worked On For Linux's HID-Steam Driver  Phoronix

Veeam expands data platform with Oracle Linux KVM support  IT Brief Australia

Linux Software Market at 15.3% Growth - Value Trap Or Opportunity?  WhaTech

How to Install and Dual Boot Linux on Your Mac  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux creator Linus Torvalds talks about the 'XZ Utils issue,' 'open source development,' 'RISC-V,' 'the rise of AI,' and more  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Understanding Spectre V2: A New Threat to Linux Systems  Security Boulevard

Intel Enabling Linux Driver Display Support For Upcoming "Battlemage" GPUs  Phoronix

Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have been busy working to enable the display support for the upcoming Battlemage graphics cards as the successor to DG2/Alchemist...

AMD: "Additional Parts Of The Radeon Stack To Be Open Sourced Throughout The Year"  Phoronix

After recently announcing they'd be working to get out Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) firmware documentation and open-source code, AMD said they would be working to open-source more of their software stack and hardware documentation. AMD repeated those calls over the weekend...

AMD's upstreaming effort around Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) to the mainline Linux kernel appears to be nearly wrapped up with the latest hypervisor patches now at their fourteenth revision...

AMD SEV-SNP Hypervisor Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Right now for buggy HID hardware or other input devices not exactly aligning to specs or having known hardware workarounds required, a new Linux kernel driver tends to be needed or at least quirks to be added to existing kernel driver code. There's no shortage of wonky HID hardware/drivers out there to deal with such odd cases. Due to the lengthy kernel cycles and other factors involved, leveraging (e)BPF has long been talked about as one of the areas where it may make sense for being able to more quickly send out hardware support fixes in the form of eBPF problems. The Rust-written udev-hid-bpf project is ready to help in that enabling effort...

Sunshine game streaming update has frame timing improvements for Linux  GamingOnLinux

The Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 release is now available that serves as the company's modern Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems. The Intel media driver allows for iGPU/dGPU-based video encode/decode for HEVC, VP9, AV1, and other formats supported by the respective graphics hardware...

Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 Brings Arrow Lake H Support  Phoronix

Parking Garage Rally Circuit coming by dev of JellyCar with Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux