The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire.
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Mesa 22.2 Gaming Performance With Radeon RX 6700/6800 XT Graphics Cards On Linux
With Mesa 22.2 bringing many new features, you may be curious about how the performance of this next Mesa3D release is looking. For your viewing pleasure today are benchmarks of Mesa 22.2 back from the day it was branched against that of the stock Mesa 22.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 if... Read more
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Valheim gets a small teaser as Iron Gate get back to work on Mistlands
Valheim is due to get a huge upgrade at some point, which most players are now waiting on and Iron Gate have given the smallest of teasers on it again.... Read more
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Get loads of Resident Evil in the latest Humble Bundle
Love Resident Evil and want to get a whole lot of it? Humble Bundle have put up the Resident Evil Decades of Horror bundle and it's a pretty full collection.... Read more
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F2FS Low-Memory Mode, Atomic Write Improvements For Linux 6.0
The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) continues showing its a formidable file-system option for flash memory devices, especially SSDs and mobile hardware. With Linux 6.0 there are yet more improvements for this file-system driver...... Read more
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Steam Deck got a few Beta updates recently so here's what's new
While I was briefly away camping, Valve released a few Steam Deck Beta updates so here's a round-up of what's new in case you also missed it.... Read more
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Programming Leftovers
Writing project documentation in HTML | Opensource.com Documentation is an important part of any technical project. Good documentation tells the end user how to run the program, how to use it, or how to compile it. For many projects, plain text documentation is the standard. After all, every system... Read more
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Zink Squeezes Some More Performance Optimizations In Mesa 22.2 For OpenGL On Vulkan
Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz who works on Zink for OpenGL implemented atop Vulkan has managed some more performance optimizations with the upcoming Mesa 22.2 quarterly feature release...... Read more
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PCLinuxOS Updates for Firefox, Thunderbird, and More
Firefox Web Browser » PCLinuxOS Firefox Web Browser has been updated to 103.0.2 and sent to the software repository for PCLinuxOS. Thunderbird Email Client » PCLinuxOS The Thunderbird Email Client has been updated to 102.1.2 and shipped to the software repository. Vivaldi Browser » PCLinuxOS Vivaldi browser has been... Read more
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CPE Weekly Update – Week 32 2022
This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat (https://libera.chat/). Week: 8th – 12th August 2022 Highlights of the week Infrastructure & Release Engineering Goal of this... Read more
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Intel's Clear Linux Taps -O3 For Its Kernel Builds
While Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux rolling-release distribution is known for its aggressive performance optimizations, their kernel build had been going with the default "-O2" optimization but last week did switch over to rolling their kernel with -O3...... Read more