NVIDIA's Open-Source PhysX SDK Nearing 5.0 Release
NVIDIA's PhysX SDK physics implementation, which NVIDIA has been providing open-source code drops on, will soon see a 5.0 release...
Life Is Strange 2 Released For Linux With Vulkan Rendering
As expected, Feral Interactive this morning released the complete season of Life Is Strange 2 for Linux and macoS...
Rav1e 0.2 Rust AV1 Encoder Released With 40~70% Improvements Over Previous Release
Compared to the inaugural Rav1e 0.1 release just over one month ago, Rav1e 0.2 was released on Wednesday with 40~70% better performance depending upon the encode settings...
2010 Through 2019 NVIDIA Linux News Topped By Linus Torvald's Criticism + Overclocking
With 2019 quickly drawing to a close, similar to yesterday's look at the most viewed Radeon Linux/open-source stories from 2010 through 2019, here is a similar look at NVIDIA's open-source/Linux news highlights...
GNOME Hopes To Get Most Of GTK4 Squared Away Next Year
GTK 4.0 isn't expected until autumn 2020 but a lot of work remains for that to happen as the next big update to GNOME's toolkit...
CERN Endorsing Microsoft Alternatives Like ownCloud, Kopano, Alt-Office Suite
CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research that is home to the Large Hadron Collider and much more, has been working on alternatives to Microsoft software and recently some of their recommended options for various tasks / application replacements was published...
Mesa 19.3.1 Released With A Few Intel + Radeon Graphics Driver Fixes
While Mesa 19.3 was just released last week, Mesa 19.3.1 is now available rather than on its bi-weekly release cadence in order to avoid the Christmas and New Year's holidays...
MintBox3 Now Shipping As Fan-Less Small Form Factor Linux Desktop
Coinciding with the release of Linux Mint 19.3 is the debut of the MintBox3 Linux Mint pre-loaded small form factor desktop computer that is fan-less...
Canonical Releases Multipass 1.0 As "A Mini-Cloud On Your Workstation"
It was just last week that Canonical released Multipass 0.9 as their means of easily spinning up Ubuntu virtual machines across Linux / Windows / macOS. Today Multipass 1.0.0 made the surprisingly fast debut and marks their first stable release...
GNOME's Mutter Now Batches Clipping Rectangles For Better Performance
After recently taking some time off of work, Canonical's Daniel van Vugt has been back on the GNOME bug hunt in the continuing quest of optimizing its performance. This GNOME 3.36 cycle is particularly important considering the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release...