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      ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Steadily Improving x64 Port

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June, 2023

    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...
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      AMD EDAC/RAS Code Adds GPU/Accelerator Support In Linux 6.5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June, 2023

    In addition to yesterday bringing EDAC support for AMD Zen 4 client CPUs, the set of RAS "Reliability, Availability and Serviceability" updates for the Linux 6.5 kernel have separately brought initial GPU/accelerator support...
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      Parallel CPU Bringup Lands For Linux 6.5 To Shorten Boot/Reboot Time On Large Servers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June, 2023

    The work originating in late 2021 for bringing up secondary CPU cores in parallel at boot-time to help shorten boot/reboot times for large core count servers has finally landed with the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel...
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      Valve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Developer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 June, 2023

    If your dream is to work for Valve Software, getting experienced with the open-source Linux graphics driver development niche seems to be a decent pathway. Besides Valve, all the big hardware companies are routinely looking for more Linux graphics driver developers as well...
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      Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 June, 2023

    Capping off an exciting first day of the Linux 6.5 merge window is a pull request seeking to land the long-in-development Bcachefs file-system into this next kernel version...
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      Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 June, 2023

    Upsetting many in the open-source community was Red Hat's announcement last week that they would begin limiting access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources by putting them behind the Red Hat Customer Portal and publicly would be limited to the CentOS Stream sources. In turn this causes problems for free-of-cost derivatives like AlmaLinux moving forward. Red Hat today issued another blog post trying to address some of the criticism...
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      NVK Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Progresses On Running Some Games

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 June, 2023

    Faith Ekstrand today published a blog post outlining recent efforts around NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware developed namely by the Nouveau development community. Some recent highlights include:..
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      Fedora Workstation 39 Eyes Switch To Anaconda WebUI For Installations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 June, 2023

    For the past year and a half Red Hat engineers have been developing a new web-based UI for their Anaconda OS installer and with the Fedora Workstation 39 release later this year they are looking at possibly switching to it by default...
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      RADV Lands Fragment Shader Interlock Support - Useful For Emulators, DXVK & VKD3D

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 June, 2023

    Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan driver has merged support for VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock, which is a highly sought after extension by game emulators and also important for DirectX over Vulkan layering efforts and more...