The Intel Media Driver 2023Q1 has been published as the newest feature release for Intel's open-source video acceleration driver providing VA-API support across generations of their integrated graphics as well as newer discrete graphics.

While AMD Zen 4 'Dragon Range' and 'Phoenix' laptops are imminent, for those using an older AMD Picasso laptop design from 2019, there are some new Linux fixes on the way for enhancing that older Zen+ experience.

In time for the upcoming Mesa 23.1 branching and feature freeze, Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has enabled the graphics pipeline library 'GPL' support by default with the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver.

Intel has released oneAPI Level Zero Loader 1.10 today, which implements the Level Zero v1.6 specification.

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Mozilla has published the Firefox 112.0 binaries today ahead of tomorrow's official unveiling.

Just before Christmas Meson 1.0 was released for this widely-used, open-source software build system

Mozilla Firefox 112 open-source web browser is now available for download with the ability to import browser data from the Chromium Snap.

NVIDIA launched their SHIELD 'Thunderstrike' gaming controller back in 2017 and now in 2023 they are working to upstream their HD driver support for it.

GNOME 45, the next major version of the popular desktop environment, has been slated for release on September 20th, 2023.

Alyssa Rosenzweig who has been leading the Panfrost open-source Arm Mali graphics driver reverse engineering effort the past half-decade is stepping down as maintainer of this driver as part of this also being her last day at Collabora.

4MLinux 42 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.1 LTS, new and updated software, as well as other changes.

This post is based on a presentation by Tejas Patel, program manager in the information innovation office at DARPA, given during ONE Summit North America 2022. 

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Following some minor delays due to additional release candidates, FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE is now officially available as this latest FreeBSD operating system update ahead of FreeBSD 14.0 debuting this summer. FreeBSD 13.2 features a variety of improvements for…

The CentOS Project has sent out a reminder of end-of-life dates for CentOS Linux 7 and CentOS Stream 8.

AMD and their partners continue working on bringing up Coreboot for the Ryzen Mobile 7040 Series 'Phoenix' support for those very interesting forthcoming mobile processors with Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA3 graphics.

Going back to 2020 Intel's open-source engineers have been working on Key Locker support for Linux for that hardware feature introduced with Tigerlake CPUs

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