Intel Lied. And Now it's Harming Linux Users.

[Weather-OS]

Intel, On their Intel Arc GPU Announcement live stream, briefly mentioned how Xe Super Sampling™ is going to be a "Open Platform".

We also got official confirmation in Intel's own announcement article which is sadly lost to time mentioning:

• "Intel® Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) is open source. It is implemented using open standards to ensure wide availability on many games and across a broad set of shipping hardware, from both Intel® and other GPU vendors" - Alternate source

Unfortunately, it seems like this was all fabricated inside a phony GitHub repository and Intel has yet to comment on how uploading binary blobs to a GitHub repository is not considered "Open Source Software".

Not only that, Anton Kaplanyan, Intel's VP of Graphics Research, In a now deleted tweet mentioned how XeSS will be "cross platform". Other Sources. We've yet to see any "cross platform" implementations other than Windows.

Unfortunately, as a result of this, pull requests like this are being made to at least get XeSS working on an un-accelerated state on Linux.

[Weather-OS]

XeSS 1.3 got released. Still no signs of any "Open source" or "Cross platform" implementation.

[CuteistFox]

Yeah but, what you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, LiGNUx. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!