Notices by Phoronix (phoronix@masto.ai)

ReactOS 0.4.15 Released For This "Open-Source Windows" OS With Tons Of Enhancements

It's been over three years since the last ReactOS open-source operating system release for this platform working on API/ABI compatibility with Microsoft Windows. Today ReactOS 0.4.15 was finally published...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-0.4.15-Released

Raspberry Pi Announces rpi-image-gen To Help Craft Custom Software Images

Following a slew of hardware announcements in the past few months like the RP2350 shipping, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, Raspberry Pi Monitor, and Raspberry Pi 500, today they have a new software announcement. Today they formally announced "rpi-image-gen" as a new tool to help customers in crafting customized software OS images...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-rpi-image-gen

Free95 0.2 Alpha Released As Open-Source Windows Compatible OS

While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there's another new one in the field and it's Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-source, Windows-compatible operating system. Version 0.2 Alpha of Free95 was released today for testing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Free95-0.2-Alpha

Unvanquished 0.55 Released With Big Performance Optimizations For Its Engine

The Unvanquished 0.55 open-source game that was recently teased for its OpenGL 4.6 renderer work is out today with its shiny new release. As it's been more than one and a half years since Unvanquished 0.54, this new beta comes with a load of improvements especially around optimizing its Daemon open-source engine that is long derived from id Tech 3...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Unvanquished-0.55-Released

Intel's New "Xe" Kernel Graphics Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.8

As I wrote about last week that Intel's modern Xe kernel graphics driver was nearing submission for the mainline kernel and today it's indeed been submitted to DRM-Next. The Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is the modern alternative to the long-used i915 DRM kernel driver and is fitted to support Tigerlake graphics and newer -- both integrated graphics hardware as wel…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Submission-Linux-6.8

System76 Unveils Latest Improvements To Their Thelio Linux Computers

System76 has announced their latest design improvements to their in-house manufactured, Linux-loaded Thelio desktop computers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Thelio-October-Updates