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MythTV 35 Released For This Once Widely-Used Open-Source DVR/PVR Software
The MythTV open-source project is now 22 years old for being this PVR/DVR software for TVs and home theaters. While PVRs/DVRs aren't nearly as popular as they were in the pre Internet streaming era, MythTV continues forging ahead and MythTV 35 is now a...
2025-02-25 05:53
Armbian 25.2 Released With New Boards Supported, Kernel Upgrades
Armbian 25.2 is now available as the newest feature release for this Debian-based Linux distribution focused on providing a great ARM experience as well as a growing number of RISC-V boards...
2025-02-24 17:05
Canonical Rolling Out Improved CLA Process For Ubuntu Contributions
Canonical's Contributor License Agreement (CLA) used for various projects they develop around Ubuntu Linux isn't changing itself, but the process for signing the CLA is being improved upon...
2025-02-24 14:17
Intel Linux Driver Preparing VRSR Support For Battlemage GPUs
To help with idle/suspend scenarios use for Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics processors, a set of patches were posted today for the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver for enabling VRAM Self Refresh "VRSR" support...
2025-02-24 13:18
Jolla Releases Sailfish OS 5.0 With WireGuard VPN, Updated Android Compatibility
For those intrigued by Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish OS mobile phone operating system, Sailfish OS 5.0 is officially out today as the latest iteration of this software stack...
2025-02-24 12:00
Intel Announces Xeon 6500P + Xeon 6700P Processors
After launching the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors last September, today Intel is expanding the family with the launch of the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P server processors.
2025-02-24 11:00
Intel Announces Xeon 6300 Series - Tops Out At 8-Core Xeon 6369P For $545 USD
In addition to announcing the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P processors along with the Xeon 6 SoC (Granite Rapids D), the Xeon 6300 series are also making a quiet debut today. The Xeon 6300 series is in effect the continuation of the Xeon E series but with ...
2025-02-24 11:00
Intel Preps New Performance Optimizations & Features For Linux 6.15 Graphics Driver
In addition to AMD beginning to queue graphics driver improvements for Linux 6.15, Intel open-source engineers are doing the same and this morning sent out their initial feature pull request to DRM-Next of the i915/Xe kernel graphics/display driver imp...
2025-02-24 10:14
MCTP-Over-USB Driver Slated For Linux 6.15
A new driver planned to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle is an implementation of MCTP over USB as defined by the DMTF standard DSP0283...
2025-02-24 08:52
Years In The Making, Intel Timed I/O "TIO" Looks To Finally Land In Linux 6.15
Intel Timed I/O "TIO" has been present on Intel processors going back to 2019 and the Linux driver support has been worked on for several years, but finally this year with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle is this Intel Timed I/O code expected to be merged...
2025-02-24 06:29
Linux's libinput Input Library Finally Supports 3-Finger Dragging
Libinput as the open-source input handling library used by the modern Linux desktop both by Wayland compositors and the X.Org Server now has support for three-finger dragging...
2025-02-24 06:07
Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Now Enables VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64
The newest feature merged this weekend to Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems is support for the VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 extension...
2025-02-24 06:00
KiCad 9.0 Released For Advancing Open-Source EDA
KiCad 9.0 is now available as the newest version of this leading open-source Electronics Design Automation (EDA) suite that can rival some proprietary solutions for designing PCBs and other electronic hardware...
2025-02-24 00:00
Linux 6.14-rc4 Released: The Right Kind Of "Boring"
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.14-rc4 kernel a short time ago as this half-way point to Linux 6.14 stable that should be out before the end of March...
2025-02-23 16:49
GNU Emacs 30.1 Released With Android Support, Emacs Lisp Native Compiler By Default
GNU Emacs 30.1 is out today as the newest version of this extensible text editor...
2025-02-23 13:15
Valve Snuck The Lenovo Legion Go S Controller Support Into The Linux Kernel
Valve is supporting Lenovo with the Legion Go S gaming handheld running their Arch Linux based SteamOS. Beyond the fanfare at CES, Valve has been collaborating with Lenovo on engineering resources for ensuring the Legion Go S is running well with Steam...
2025-02-23 08:53
AMD Preparing New GPU Support For Their Kernel Graphics Driver In Linux 6.15
AMD has sent out their initial pull request of "new stuff" for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of feature additions they want to make for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel. Most notable from this week's submission to DRM-Next...
2025-02-23 06:51
OneXPlayer Linux Driver Catching Up To The Windows Monitoring Driver
OneXPlayer produces a line of handheld gaming consoles powered by AMD or Intel SoCs. These devices ship with Windows out-of-the-box but given they are x86_64 software have worked alright with Linux and there's been a OneXPlayer Linux driver for support...
2025-02-23 06:36
SVT-AV1 3.0 Released With Faster CPU-Based AV1 Encoding
SVT-AV1 as the open-source, CPU-based AV1 encoder that was started by Intel software engineers and now led by the Alliance for Open Media is out this week with the big SVT-AV1 3.0 release. Here's some details on SVT-AV1 3.0 as well as some initial perf...
2025-02-23 04:00
Mesa's Venus Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 Support
The Mesa Venus driver code for use with VirtIO-GPU for exposing accelerated Vulkan API support within virtualized environments (VMs) now is advertising Vulkan 1.4 API support...
2025-02-23 03:00