Intel Arc Graphics A580 On Linux: Open-Source Graphics For Under $200
Last week Intel announced the Arc Graphics A580 as a new mid-range DG2/Alchemist graphics card option that comes in between the entry-level Arc Graphics A380 and the higher-end Arc Graphics A750/A770. With the Arc Graphics A580 coming in at under $200, it’s quite an interesting graphics card for those after open-source Linux driver support and/or those wanting to experiment with Intel’s growing oneAPI software ecosystem with excellent open-sou … ⌘ Read more

Blender Alpha Builds Enable Experimental Vulkan Option
The newest Blender alpha builds of the past week have enabled Vulkan API support as an experimental option on Windows and Linux… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations
Hours after the release of Ubuntu 23.10, Canonical has pulled the ISOs and is re-spinning them after user-submitted translations for the Ubuntu installer turned out to contain hate speech… ⌘ Read more

LoongArch “Loong64” Added To Debian Ports
In addition to Debian promoting RISC-V to an official CPU architecture for the newly in development Debian 13 cycle, another CPU architecture/port change is adding LoongArch “Loong64” as a new Debian Port… ⌘ Read more

GnuCOBOL 3.2 Released After 2+ Years In Development
For those fond of the COBOL programming language and continuing to make use of it in new development efforts, GnuCOBOL 3.2 was released on Friday as the latest feature update for this 21+ year old free software effort around being an open-source COBOL implementation… ⌘ Read more

Thunderbird 115 Now Available & It Looks Fantastic
As a devoted Thunderbird mail client user for the past nearly twenty years since its first release, I’m elated today by the release of Thunderbird 115… ⌘ Read more

ReactOS “Open-Source Windows” Steadily Improving x64 Port
ReactOS is the open-source OS that’s striving for Microsoft Windows software and driver binary compatibility that is 25 years in the making. ReactOS has been making steady progress while still considered in alpha form. Most of the ReactOS successes and user tinkering has been with the 32-bit build of the OS while they have been making steady progress recently on the x86_64 (x64) port… ⌘ Read more

Bug Bounties May Sound Great, But Aren’t Always Handled Well
Bug bounty programs setup by large corporations to reward and recognize security researchers for properly reporting new bugs and security vulnerabilities is a great concept, but in practice isn’t always handled well. Security researcher Adam Zabrocki recently shared the troubles he encountered in the bug bounty handling at Google for Chrome OS and in turn for Intel with it having been an i915 Linux kernel graphics driver vulnerability… ⌘ Read more

TornadoVM Continues Adapting Java OpenJDK/GraalVM For Heterogeneous Hardware
A new release of TornadoVM is now available, the open-source plug-in to OpenJDK and GraalVM to allow for Java code to run on heterogeneous hardware with ease – including various GPU models as well as FPGAs… ⌘ Read more

Libreboot 20230413 Released With Build System Improvements
Libreboot is the downstream of Coreboot focused on having fully open-source / free software replacements to proprietary BIOS/firmware on x86 and ARM systems. Out today is Libreboot 20230413 as the latest step forward for the project… ⌘ Read more

Mozilla Announces Mozilla.ai For “Trustworthy AI”
Mozilla announced today they are investing $30 million USD to build Mozilla.ai as a new start-up focused on “building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem.”.. ⌘ Read more

ipmitool Repository Archived, Developer Suspended By GitHub
The ipmitool utility on Linux systems is widely-used for controlling IPMI-enabled servers and other systems. This tool for interacting with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is extremely common with server administrators while now its development is in a temporary state of limbo due to GitHub… ⌘ Read more

The Linux Kernel Has Been Forcing Different Behavior For Processes Starting With “X”
An ugly hack within the Linux kernel that has been in mainline for over three years has been called out. Due to a buggy X.Org Server / xf86-video-modesetting DDX, the Linux kernel has been imposing different behavior on whether a process starts with “X” and in turn disable the atomic mode-setting support… ⌘ Read more

Proton 7.0-5 RC Gets More Windows Games Running On Linux
Valve is preparing to roll-out Proton 7.0-5 as the newest version of this Wine-derived software that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux. For facilitating some testing prior to the formal Proton 7.0-5, a release candidate was published today… ⌘ Read more

libcamera Celebrates Its First Release As Camera Support Library For Linux
Libcamera has been in development for several years now as an open-source camera support library that works across Linux, Android, and Chrome OS platforms. Due to interest from seeing tagged releases, the libcamera crew has published their first official release of this open-source camera stack… ⌘ Read more

Open 3D Engine 22.10 Released With Better Multiplayer Support, Usability Improvements
Ahead of O3DCON kicking off tomorrow in Austin, Texas as a developer event around the Open 3D Engine game engine backed by the Linux Foundation and numerous organizations, O3DE 22.10 has been released… ⌘ Read more

DisplayPort 2.1 Spec Published - All DP 2.0 Devices Compatible
VESA today announced the publishing of the DisplayPort 2.1 specification. As a pleasant change, VESA has been working behind the scenes to see that all DisplayPort 2.0 certified products are actually forward-compatible with this more strict DisplayPort 2.1 specification… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.1 Features Include Initial Rust Code, MGLRU, New AMD CPU Features, More Security
Now that Linux 6.1-rc1 was released, here is my look at all of the interesting kernel changes and new features that landed over the past two weeks. Linux 6.1 is shaping up to be another exciting kernel with many new software features, new hardware enablement work, and other changes for this end-of-year 2022 kernel version that is also likely to be the next Linux LTS release. ⌘ Read more

Firefox 106 Brings Improved WebRTC - Better Screen Sharing On Wayland
Firefox 106.0 web browser release builds are now available ahead of the official Firefox 106 announcement on Tuesday. Firefox 106 does have improvements to its PDF viewer as well as the WebRTC communication support… ⌘ Read more

Prominent KDE Developer Nate Graham Joins The KDE e.V. Board - Pitches More Fundraising
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham who the past several years has focused on fixing many bugs and nuisances with the KDE desktop as well as being well known for his weekly “This Week In KDE” development summaries has been elected to the KDE e.V. Board of Directors. As part of the board, his platform is on fundraising more for KDE and hoping to hire more developers to further accelerate this open-source desktop environment… ⌘ Read more

Intel Meteor Lake “-march=meteorlake” Support Lands In GCC 13
After Intel posted a set of patches last week for the GNU Compiler Collection around Raptor Lake, Meteor Lake, and Sierra Forest, the two more basic patches have already been merged into the GCC 13 code-base while the Sierra Forest Xeon E-core patches and the various new instructions presented there are still undergoing review… ⌘ Read more

Arcan Project Announces The Modern & Radically Different Cat9 Shell
The Arcan project that started out as a display server built atop a game engine and with time has introduced many features and experimenting with original approaches to longstanding Linux desktop/display shortcomings, has announced their Cat9 shell. This modern terminal has been in development for nearly six years while now the developers are finally confident in announcing this initiative… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.1-rc1 Released With Rust Now In The Kernel, MGLRU Added, New Hardware Support
Linus Torvalds just issued the first release candidate of Linux 6.1 and in turn marking the end of the merge window for this feature-packaged kernel release. Linux 6.1 stable in turn should be out in December and will likely serve as this year’s Linux LTS kernel release… ⌘ Read more

AMD Sends Out Basic Zen 4 “Znver4” Enablement For The GCC Compiler
Following last month’s introduction of the Ryzen 7000 series “Zen 4” processors, AMD has finally posted the code providing initial enablement for the Zen 4 CPUs with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)… ⌘ Read more

Google Announces KataOS As Security-Focused OS, Leveraging Rust & seL4 Microkernel
Google this week has announced the release of KataOS as their newest operating system effort focused on embedded devices running ambient machine learning workloads. KataOS is security-minded, exclusively uses the Rust programming language, and is built atop the seL4 microkernel as its foundation… ⌘ Read more