Open-source News

A code commit that was merged to LLVM's AMDGPU shader compiler back-end on Friday afternoon confirms that GFX11/RDNA3 GPUs can have a lot more vector registers than prior GFX10 (RDNA / RDNA2) GPUs...

Moshe Bar joins AlmaLinux Board of Directors  Help Net Security

Wine 7.18 has been popped this Friday afternoon as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source program to enjoy Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

Linux On The Laptop Works So Damn Well That It's Boring  Medium

Linux On The Laptop Works So Damn Well That It's Boring  Medium

RemotePC Offers High Performance and Affordable Remote Access for Linux Machines  PR Newswire

Linux On The Laptop Works So Damn Well That It's Boring  Medium

How to Read and Execute From a File With the Linux source Command  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux embracing Rust will boost robotics community  Robot Report

What’s the Difference Between .bashrc and .profile on Linux?  How-To Geek

Upstream LLVM has added the compiler CPU targets for the Apple M2, A15, and A16 SoCs...

The NTFS3 kernel driver providing read/write Microsoft NTFS file-system support on Linux, thanks to the code being open-sourced by Paragon Software, continues to see new improvements...

Linux NTFS Driver Preparing "nocase" Case-Insensitive Mount Option  Phoronix

How-to install Visual Studio Code on a Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed

How to install Ubuntu 22.04 Server on VirtualBox  Linux Shout

How to install Ubuntu 22.04 Server on VirtualBox  Linux Shout

Up on the review block today is the Solidigm P41 Plus as a value-focused solid-state drive. Solidigm is the US company formed when SK Hynix acquired Intel's NAND/SSD business. Since forming Solidigm at the end of last year they have continued to sell products from Intel's existing SSD product line-up while last month they announced the P41 Plus as their first consumer solid-state drive of their own design. Recently I've been testing out the Solidigm P41 Plus 1TB and 2TB drives under Linux for seeing how these affordable QLC drives perform.

After the persistent work by developer Gert Wollny with a desire to improve the aging "R600g" driver that provides open-source OpenGL support for Radeon HD 2000 through HD 6000 series graphics cards, this Gallium3D driver in Mesa 22.3 will now use the NIR back-end by default...

Just a friendly reminder that if you wish to show your support for Phoronix this autumn season and help in allowing me to continue Linux hardware testing and the like, the annual Phoronix Premium sale is currently taking place...

Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" has been one of the nice additions to the Linux kernel in recent years and can allow for faster user-space operations on per-CPU data by providing a shared data structure ABI between each user-space thread and the kernel. RSEQ has been in the process of being extended to provide even more performance benefits...