Open-source News

Introducing Fedora Asahi Remix 39  Fedora Magazine

Linux Foundation Connectivity Grows Portfolio with ISP Toolbox and Magma Projects  PR Newswire

Debian preps ground to drop x86-32 as a separate edition  The Register

Microsoft's new Windows AI Studio developer tool... makes you install Linux to use it  Yahoo! Voices

Microsoft's new Windows AI Studio developer tool... makes you install Linux to use it  TechRadar

PoCL 5.0 has been officially released as the latest version of this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that provides OpenCL support for CPU-based execution as well as various other LLVM-based hardware back-ends like for NVIDIA PTX and oneAPI Level Zero. With PoCL 5.0 is also a new experimental back-end for targeting OpenCL support distributed across networked systems...

Firefox 121 Arrives With Windows and Linux Enhancements  How-To Geek

5 Ways You Can Install Ubuntu on External Storage  How-To Geek

Google's Tensor SoC and Pixel 6 Gain Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Upcoming Update  TS2 Space Blog

What the heck happened to ONF?  Silverlinings

As what's likely to be the last Vulkan API spec update before Christmas, Vulkan 1.3.274 was released today with the Vulkan Video encode extensions promoted as well as adding some other new extensions as a nice end-of-year gift...

Firefox 121 released, now defaults to Wayland on Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

Qubes OS 4.2.0 Rolls Out with Dom0 Rebased to Fedora 37  Linuxiac

Mabox Linux proves that old-school Linux is here to stay, and it's free to use  ZDNet

The Google Tensor GS101 SoC launched in 2021 with the Google Pixel 6 smartphone. More than two years later the mainline Linux kernel is finally to see upstream support with the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle...

The Mainline Linux Kernel To Finally Support The Google Tensor GS101 SoC & Pixel 6  Phoronix

Set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle is the IAA crypto compression driver for allowing users of the Linux kernel's compression API to make use of the Intel Analytics Accelerator (IAA) found with Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids Xeon server processors...

Intel IAA Crypto Compression Driver To Be Merged For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

While much of the focus by Linux desktops as we roll into 2024 is polishing off their Wayland support, there does exist a rather innovative display server out there that's been in the works for years: Arcan. Arcan is the open-source project built atop a game engine and provides a display server paired with a real-time multimedia framework for audio and video. Arcan can be used from embedded purposes through full desktop solutions and can also interact with Wayland and X11 as well as embracing VR. Arcan 0.6.3 was released today along with the announcement that they've taken on some funding...

By now you've likely heard how Intel's Gaudi2 accelerator hardware is standing up very well against the NVIDIA competition especially in value. There's nothing new there but an important part to keep in mind -- and where Intel is the hands-down winner -- is the open-source ecosystem with having a fully open-source and upstream Linux kernel accelerator driver as well as their SynapseAI open-source components in user-space. The Gaudi2 open-source kernel driver support is now considered "very stable at this point" with the upstream state fairing well...