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Applications and Porting / Little Snitch for Linux!

« Last post by rjzak on April 10, 2026, 10:00:56 pm »

The creators of Little Snitch, a common application-layer firewall for Mac OS, have created a Linux version which is partially open source: https://github.com/obdev/littlesnitch-linux, https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/download.html.

I have an email thread with one of the devs for PowerPC support, which seems positive!

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Queensland Health, IBM's 12 year ban and the future of POWER

« Last post by MPC7500 on April 02, 2026, 01:58:36 pm »

The future of POWER: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-04-02-ibm-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-arm-to-shape-the-future-of-enterprise-computing

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Applications and Porting / Re: Firefox WebAssembly (WASM) on ppc64le? Jitsi Meet, Zoom, etc not working

« Last post by tle on April 01, 2026, 11:52:32 pm »

I am going to try to make his JIT work run again on the newer version - still in progress. I will NOT touch the WASM in this work

ref: https://github.com/runlevel5/firefox/pull/1

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Applications and Porting / Re: RustiCL on Fedora 39

« Last post by Hasturtium on March 31, 2026, 02:32:41 pm »

Yeah, it's worked for a while, just took some twiddling and manual intervention to prevent it from trying to load Clover.

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Applications and Porting / Re: RustiCL on Fedora 39

« Last post by tle on March 30, 2026, 05:47:25 pm »

It's been awhile, perhaps you should give it another a go

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-Modern-CL-Conformance

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Unvanquished is now fully open-sourced

« Last post by tle on March 30, 2026, 05:29:53 pm »

Another progress with supporting NaCl sandboxing feature

https://github.com/DaemonEngine/Daemon/pull/1946

That is to use box64 emulation

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« Last post by MPC7500 on March 30, 2026, 09:21:52 am »

There is AntiDrv.

* Our patch includes a brand new OpenGL 3.3 / ES 3.0 renderer, AntiDrv. This renderer outperforms the original OpenGLDrv on most platforms, adds new features (e.g., shader-based gamma/color correction), implements/fixes several features that were missing/broken in the original OpenGLDrv (e.g., gradient projectors and weightmap terrain rendering), makes features that were previously nvidia/amd-exclusive available on all platforms (e.g., CO_AlphaBlend_With_Mask combiners), and it can serve as a reference implementation for other new renderers

ReleaseNotes

But there is a Vulkan renderer for Unreal Tournament (UT99) repo.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« Last post by tle on March 29, 2026, 05:15:35 pm »

You are right, the game is indeed not CPU bound. It's not clear to me if OldUnreal team has any plan to add Vulkan renderer for UT2004.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [BUG] Linux 7.0-rc1

« Last post by MauryG5 on March 29, 2026, 08:45:24 am »

Great, I'd like to try compiling and installing it on Debian as soon as the stable one is released, which hasn't worked since version 6.2 or later... I'd also like to see how RDNA 4 support is going because I'd like to upgrade to a Radeon Pro, but unfortunately, it seems like no one knows anything about it yet...

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.

« Last post by MauryG5 on March 28, 2026, 04:50:29 pm »

Any news on where we're at to use RDNA4 on Power? I think it'll take the usual trifecta: appropriate firmware, updated drivers, and, of course, a recent kernel...