It happened, Doom was launched on a video card. Without a processor and other
It seems that enthusiasts are tired of playing Doom on vibrators, tractors and bacteria. One of them ran the game on the video card — on the video card alone.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launched on RISC-V processor — FPS is low, but everything works
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was able to run on a RISC-V processor thanks to the Box64 environment for Linux. The frame rate is low, but the game is fully functional.
Linux market share reaches a new record of 4.4%
Analytical company StatCounter claims that Linux’s share of the desktop operating system market has reached a historic high of 4.44%. This is a significant jump compared to July last year (3.12%) and July 2022 (2.76%). While this may seem like a small figure, it’s a huge leap in terms of real numbers, especially since most Linux…
A full 3D game was launched on Raspberry Pi for the first time — thanks to PCIe x4 and AMD Radeon graphics card
Pineboards, a manufacturer of expansion boards for Raspberry Pi, has demonstrated how far PCIe support has come with the Pi 5. With one of their products, the company connected an AMD Radeon graphics card to a Raspberry Pi 5 and played a full-fledged open-source 3D game.
Not just Windows: CrowdStrike antivirus also causes a critical Linux kernel crash
Last week, the world was shaken large-scale computer failure. Due to the “blue screen of death” and cyclic reboots of Windows, computers in many organizations, including banks, transport and financial companies, etc. stopped functioning. Later, it turned out that the culprit was not Windows, but the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor corporate…
The program allows you to enter text in Morse code by opening and closing the laptop lid
Jesse Lee’s open-source Linux program called Open and Shut, which is available on GitHuballows you to enter messages in Morse code by opening and closing the laptop lid. It was demonstrated on a Lenovo Thinkpad laptop. Of course, not every laptop can withstand prolonged input in this way.
From software to hard: the Winamp player plays music and is controlled from the touch screen
Rodmg enthusiast has created a physical implementation of the retro Winamp music player based on Raspberry Pi 4 called Linamp. It can play mp3, m4a, FLAC, and other digital formats from a file system, including SMB networks. There is a playlist management, real-time display of the spectrum analyzer, track information, bitrate and sample rate,…
Linux games get a performance boost with new NVIDIA NVK Vulkan graphics card driver
The NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver for Linux has received a significant update that will significantly improve gaming performance by implementing implicit pipeline caching. This optimization method allows the video card to reuse rendered content and pipeline configurations. This eliminates the need for pipeline reprogramming and improves performance.
«Digital sovereignty». German authorities transferred 30 thousand civil servants to Linux
Authorities in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein have switched 30,000 civil servants from Microsoft Windows to Linux.
Backdoor found in xz Utils of Linux distributions. Urgent call to abandon Fedora
A backdoor has been discovered in the popular xz Utils package for lossless data compression and working with the .xz format Backdoor is a method of bypassing standard authentication procedures, unauthorized remote access to a computer.
Windows subsystem for Linux will get a graphical interface
It should be noted that we are not talking about the Linux GUI in Windows, but about the implementation of some functions of the Windows for Linux (WSL) subsystem in the Microsoft OS interface. The company has created a graphical implementation of some Linux distribution management tools, including selection and launch.
AMD adds Zen 5 support to GCC Linux compiler
AMD has added support for its upcoming Zen 5 microarchitecture-based processors to the GCC compiler. Znver5 is now a target in the GCC Git repository until the stable release of GCC 14.1. This move ensures that developers will have the necessary compiler support for Ryzen and EPYC processors based on Zen 5 before their release later this year.
The share of Linux exceeded 4% for the first time. The percentage of macOS users is decreasing
According to the research company Statcounter, Linux reached 4.03% of the global operating system market in February. Statcounter obtains desktop operating system (OS) usage statistics by tracking the code installed on more than 1.5 million websites that generate more than 5 billion page views each month.
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