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📰Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests as a result of new code merged today to Mesa 26.1... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-PanVK-25.7x-16x-MSAA #opensource#arm

📰 GNU Octave 11 Open-Source Scientific Programming Language Officially Released GNU Octave 11 open-source high-level language intended for numerical computations, is now available for download with new features and improvements. Here's what's new! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gnu-octave-11-open-source-scientific-programming-language-officially-released #opensource#gnu

📰 AMD's Modern Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0 It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four million lines of C code and header files. Now with the Linux 7.0 kernel it has surpassed six million lines. Or put another way, by the same calculations Linux 7.0-rc1 is at 39.2 million with the modern AMD kernel graphics driver now making up 15% of the kernel's entire codebase as the single largest driver... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Six-Million-Lines-Linux-7.0 #opensource#linux#kernel#amd

📰 Yet Another Fix Coming For Older AMD GPUs On Linux - Thanks To Valve Developer Timur Kristóf of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has been doing a fantastic job enhancing the older AMD Radeon GPU support under Linux. Last year he made enough improvements to the AMDGPU open-source driver that older Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 dGPUs switched over to AMDGPU by default for nice performance gains, RADV Vulkan driver support out of the box, and all around better experience than using the legacy Radeon driver. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hawaii-Macs-AMDGPU-DC-Fix #opensource#linux#amd

📰 Drgn v0.1 Released For Very Versatile Programmable Debugger Drgn is the programmable debugger developed by Meta engineer Omar Sandoval that has proven quite versatile and popular with Linux kernel developers and others. After nearly two dozen releases already, Drgn v0.1 was released this week as another big step forward for this open-source debugger... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Drgn-0.1-Released #opensource#linux#kernel

📰 Widelands, the open source Settlers-like devs plan to ban all AI generated contributions Widelands is a free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, and their developers appear to be setting a firm stance against an AI generated contributions.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/widelands-the-open-source-settlers-like-devs-plan-to-ban-all-ai-generated-contributions/ #opensource

📰 Olimex ESP32-P4-PC is an open source IoT board with a 400 MHz dual-core RISC-V chip and plenty of I/O for $29 Open hardware maker Olimex has introduced a new development board powered by an ESP32-P4 processor featuring a dual-core 400 MHz RISC-V processor, and a low-power 40 MHz RISC-V microcontroller core. With just 768 KB of internal memory, 32MB of PSRAM, and 16MB of SPI flash storage, the Olimex ESP32-P4-PC is clearly not meant for use . 🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/olimex-esp32-p4-pc-is-an-open-source-iot-board-with-a-400-mhz-dual-core-risc-v-chip-and-plenty-of-i-o-for-29/ #opensource

📰 Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. release 28 "Boiorix" is live The first release of 0 A.D. that doesn't have an "Alpha" label attached, as the free and open source RTS has grown up with their faster release schedule.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/free-and-open-source-rts-0-a-d-release-28-boiorix-is-live/ #opensource

📰 Gigabyte MZ33-AR1: A Uniquely Positioned AMD EPYC 9005 Motherboard For Open-Source Firmware The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a single socket AMD EPYC 9004/9005 E-ATX server motherboard for those wanting up to 24 RDIMMs, dual 10 Gigabit LAN, and plenty of storage potential via six MCIO connectors and four PCIe Gen5 x16 slots. Beyond offering nice capabilities for this modern AMD EPYC server motherboard at a ~$700 USD price point, it's uniquely positioned for an open-source firmware future thanks to ongoing work around AMD openSIL and hopefully... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/gigabyte-mz33-ar1 #opensource#amd

📰This is Probably the Best Video Downloader App (And it is Free and Open Source) If you are looking for a free video downloader that just works on Linux, Windows or macOS, VidBee is the ideal choice here. 🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/vidbee/ #linux#opensource

📰 Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux Unfortunately, the HDMI Forum refused to allow HDMI 2.1+ features in the open source driver, but that hasn't stopped one developer.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/experimental-code-ready-for-testing-to-enable-hdmi-2-1-frl-with-amdgpu-on-linux/ #linux#opensource

📰 I found an open-source Canva alternative, and it handles everything I actually need Finding good free and open-source alternatives to popular design tools like Canva can feel like a scavenger hunt. Many open-source graphics options look outdated, are missing core or advanced features, and often just don’t flow the way modern tools should. I’ve tried dozens of graphics apps, and some gems have their moments, but I don’t stick with most of them for serious work. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/open-source-canva-alternative-graphite/ #opensource