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2023-07-17 12:52:11

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2023-07-16 15:24:04

Intel Raptor Lake HX, System76 Adder WS 3 Added To Coreboot
System76 has contributed Intel Core Raptor Lake HX support to Coreboot with some minor additions over the existing Raptor Lake "RPL" code as well as adding their new Adder WS 3 laptop to upstream Coreboot...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-RPL-HX-Adder-WS3-Coreboot

2023-07-16 12:39:05

AMD Dynamic Boost Control Feature Set For Introduction In Linux 6.6
Back in April I pointed out some new AMD patches at the time for enabling a new "Dynamic Boost Control" feature that hasn't been widely talked about by AMD yet for allowing more frequency/power controls around Ryzen SoCs. But making this power/performance feature controversial is that it requires authentication with the AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) for activat…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Dynamic-Boost-Control-66

2023-07-16 12:24:05

HP BIOS Management/Configuration Driver Coming For Linux 6.6
Similar to the Dell WMI system management driver and Lenovo's Think-LMI driver, the HP-BIOSCFG driver now poised for introduction in Linux 6.6 allows for managing and configuring BIOS settings on capable HP laptops/desktops from under Linux itself...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-BIOSCFG-For-Linux-6.6

2023-07-16 12:09:05

Linux 6.6 To Add New Input Driver Used By Wearable Fitness Devices
Queued up ahead of the Linux 6.6 cycle later this summer is a new input driver for the Azoteq IQS7210A/7211A/E controllers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Azoteq-IQS721

2023-07-15 21:39:05

Cluster Scheduling For Intel Hybrid CPUs Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.6
For the past few months Intel has been working on a new cluster scheduling implementation for their hybrid CPUs. This rework was due to their earlier cluster scheduling code not working out so well for the likes of Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors while this new patch series can at least help some workloads in the ~1% range...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cluster-Scheduling-Hybrid-6.6

2023-07-15 17:39:05

Btrfs Deprecating Its Integrity Checker Tool
Btrfs has long provided a built-in integrity checker tool into the file-system driver. However, slated for Linux 6.6 is deprecating of this integrity checker...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Deprecate-Integrity-Check

2023-07-15 12:54:05

Linux kCFI/FineIBT Weaknesses Addressed By Rewriting Some Assembly In C
Ahead of the Linux 6.5-rc2 release tomorrow there was a set of x86/x86_64 kernel changes merged overnight to deal with some weaknesses in the kernel's Control Flow Integrity (kCFI) / FineIBT (Indirect Branch Tracking) code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-kCFI-FineIBT-Weaknesses

2023-07-15 12:39:05

CentOS Project Promotes They Are "Open To All"
With all the news in recent weeks following Red Hat's decision to limit access to RHEL sources that in turn lead to changes for AlmaLinux, finding new ways to obtain sources at Rocky Linux, interesting statements from Oracle, and even SUSE forking RHEL. The public RHEL sources now will basically be the upstream CentOS Stream code for which future Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions are ultimately base…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-Open-To-All

2023-07-15 12:24:08

systemd 254-rc2 Brings A Few More Changes
Earlier this month brought the release of systemd 254-rc1 with a new soft-reboot mechanism, officially deprecating System V scripts, a new systemd-battery-check process that runs at boot to check any system battery level status, and various other changes. On Friday systemd 254-rc2 was released with a few more changes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-254-rc2

2023-07-14 22:54:04

uutils 0.0.20 Improves GNU Coreutils Compatibility For This Rust-Written Replacement
The uutils project continues advancing as a modern, drop-in replacement to the GNU Coreutils utilities that is written in the Rust programming language...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/uutils-0.0.20-Rust-Coreutils

2023-07-14 19:54:04

Imagination Tech Rolls Out Latest PowerVR Rogue DRM Kernel Driver Patches
Imagination Technologies today published their fourth iteration of their in-development PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver targeting their Rogue architecture and future graphics IP. This open-source kernel driver ultimately will go along with their PowerVR Vulkan driver they continue developing within the Mesa code-base...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Imagination-PowerVR-DRM-v4

2023-07-14 17:39:05

Linux 6.6 Will Make It Easy To Disable IO_uring System-Wide
While IO_uring has been one of the most interesting kernel innovations of recent years and can allow for great speed-ups to async I/O, there have been some security concerns and with the Linux 6.6 kernel it will be easier for Linux administrators to disable it system-wide if so desired...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-sysctl-IO_uring

2023-07-14 16:24:14

AMD Working To Allow Linux To Handle Up To 128 DRM Devices Per System
AMD Linux engineers are working on extending the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem used by their GPUs/accelerators to allow up to 128 DRM devices per system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-128-DRM-Devices

2023-07-14 16:09:14

COSMIC Desktop Implements Fractional Scaling, Wallpaper Settings
System76 developers working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop have recently been improving a number of areas of this open-source desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-For-July

2023-07-14 15:09:06

GTK Support For macOS Potentially Moving Back To "Best Effort" Approach
The GTK toolkit and GLib support for Apple's macOS may be taking a back-seat to other platforms moving forward and would fall into a "best effort" category...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-macOS-Back-Seat

2023-07-14 12:39:08

New Intel Lunar Lake / Arrow Lake / Arrow Lake S Patches For GCC
Yesterday Intel engineers sent out early compiler patches for Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake with adding the new instructions of AVX-VNNI-INT16, SM3, SHA512, and SM4. Today that new instruction support was complemented by a new patch out of Intel for actually adding the new Lunar Lake, Arrow Lake, and Arrow Lake S targets to GCC...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lunar-Lake-Arrow-Lake-GCC-March

2023-07-14 12:39:06

DIMM Temperature Driver & PECI-CPUTemp Updated For Sapphire Rapids
Consulting firm 9elements sent out a set of patches this week to the peci-cputemp and dimmtemp drivers for supporting Intel Sapphire Rapids platforms, including for the up to eight socket configuration capable this generation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sapphire-Rapids-DIMM-Temp

2023-07-14 12:24:05

Rusticl Capable Of Running Tinygrad For LLaMA Model
Mesa's Rusticl OpenGL implementation written in Rust it turns out can already run the Tinygrad open-source software with its OpenCL back-end for running the LLaMA model...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rusticl-Runs-Tinygrad-LLaMA

2023-07-14 01:09:05

AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL
With Red Hat now restricting access to the RHEL source repositories, AlmaLinux and other downstreams that have long provided "community" rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with 1:1 compatibility to upstream RHEL have been left sorting out what to do...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-No-1-1-RHEL

2023-07-13 16:39:06

AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Shows Great AVX-512 Performance For Laptops / Mobile / Edge
Similar to what I have shown with the Ryzen 9 7950X AVX-512 desktop performance and AMD EPYC 9004 series AVX-512 server performance, the new Ryzen 7040 series mobile processors are exhibiting great AVX-512 performance for laptops. In today's article is a look at the performance impact when toggling AVX-512 capabilities for a Ryzen 7 7840U "Phoenix" SoC compared…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen7040-avx512

2023-07-13 12:54:04

Intel Sends Out Initial Compiler Patches For Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake
Intel's Linux software engineers understand the annual GCC compiler release cadence well and acknowledge the importance of having tuned compiler support available at launch. Intel for years has tended to get their new CPU support and new ISA features upstreamed into GCC as well as LLVM/Clang well ahead of product launch so that by the time their new consumer and se…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-GCC-Lunar-Lake-Arrow-Lake

2023-07-13 12:39:06

Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates Begin Queuing For Linux 6.6
While less than one week has passed since the Linux 6.5 merge window ended and 6.5-rc1 being issued, there is already the first set of drm-misc-next changes submitted to DRM-Next of early open-source graphics/display driver changes geared for Linux 6.6 later this year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Initial-DRM-Misc-Next

2023-07-13 12:24:06

Mesa 23.2 Feature Development Concludes With Numerous New Vulkan Extensions
Mesa 23.2 feature development is now over with the code having been branched and the first release candidate tagged for what will be this quarter's stable release series...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.2-Branched

2023-07-13 12:09:06

Intel Compute Runtime 23.22.26516.18 Is A Big Update With New Level Zero APIs
Intel this morning released their open-source Compute Runtime 23.22.26516.18 as their newest monthly update to this open-source compute stack used on Linux for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero usage...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CR-23.22.26516.18

2023-07-13 02:09:05

Linux 6.5 Adds In Some Next-Gen CPU Enablement For AMD PMF (Zen 5)
Last week we began seeing AMD engineers post Linux patches for "Family 26" (1Ah) CPU enablement that is more than likely for Zen 5 processors. This week the AMD "1Ah" work has carried forward with new patches having been merged into the Linux 6.5 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PMF-Linux-Zen-5-1AH

2023-07-12 17:54:04

Linux 6.5 Features From USB4 v2 To More WiFi 7, Unaccepted Memory, Scope-Based Resource Management
Now that the Linux 6.5 merge window ended this past weekend, here is the usual Phoronix overview that lists all the prominent new features and changes coming for this next version.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-65-features

2023-07-12 16:54:05

AMD Updates FreeSync Panel Replay Support For Linux
Last month AMD Linux kernel driver patches revealed a new feature called FreeSync Panel Replay that is basically an improvement over Panel Self Refresh (PSR) for laptop displays. That code didn't make it for the recently-closed v6.5 merge window but this week AMD engineers did post a second iteration of the patches...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-FreeSync-Panel-Replay-v2

2023-07-12 16:24:04

AMD FidelityFX SDK 1.0 Published On GPUOpen
AMD has made available the FidelityFX SDK solution available via GPUOpen as their easy-to-integrate offering for FidelityFX technologies...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-FidelityFX-SDK-1.0

2023-07-12 12:54:05

Bcachefs File-System Plans To Try Again To Land In Linux 6.6
While the Linux 6.5 kernel merge window just ended days ago and there still is two months to go until that stable release, already the lead developer of the Bcachefs file-system is working to get the code merged for Linux 6.6...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Plans-For-Linux-6.6

2023-07-12 12:24:06

Intel Granite Rapids D Support Merged Into GCC 14
As a follow-up to the news last week when I pointed out that Intel has begun working on Granite Rapids D compiler support for the GNU Compiler Collection, that code has now been merged for next year's GCC 14 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Granite-Rapids-D-GCC-14

2023-07-12 12:24:05

Intel Releases libva 2.19 VA-API Video Acceleration Library For Windows & Linux
Libva 2.19 has been released as the newest feature update for this centralized library used by the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) on Linux and other platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libva-2.19-VA-API

2023-07-12 11:54:05

LibreOffice 7.6 RC1 Available For Testing Out The New Open-Source Office Suite Features
Ahead of the planned LibreOffice 7.6 open-source office suite in one month, LibreOffice 7.6 RC1 is available today for testing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-7.6-RC1

2023-07-12 01:54:05

System76 Begins Publishing "Virgo" Laptop PCB Design Specs, Confirms Intel Raptor Lake
For months Linux hardware vendor System76 has been teasing their in-house designed and manufactured "Virgo" laptop to be built at their facility in Denver. They are hoping to develop the quietest yet most performant Linux laptop. Today they published the initial open-source design files for their custom motherboard PCB in this laptop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Virgo-PCB-Design

2023-07-11 22:24:10

Thunderbird 115 Now Available & It Looks Fantastic
As a devoted Thunderbird mail client user for the past nearly twenty years since its first release, I'm elated today by the release of Thunderbird 115...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Thunderbird-115

2023-07-11 20:24:05

Ubuntu 23.10 Aiming To Ship A GIMP 3.0 Snapshot
While GIMP 3.0 stable likely not set to debut in 2023 but rather at least release candidates are expected, Canonical is looking at shipping a GIMP 3.0 snapshot in Ubuntu 23.10 in hopes of GIMP 3.0 stable by the time of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or at least a near final v3.0 state...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-Snapshot-Ubuntu-23.10

2023-07-11 18:54:06

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme Proves Very Versatile For Power/Performance - Benchmarks Against The Ryzen 7 7840U
With the ASUS ROG Ally being the first device powered by AMD's new Z1 Extreme SoC with Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA3 graphics, it's been very interesting to see its performance advantages over the Steam Deck. But beyond its potential for use in gaming handhelds, it's quite fascinating to see how powerful the Z1 Extreme actually is when removing powe…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-z1-extreme

2023-07-11 18:24:08

Ubuntu 23.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 6.5 Kernel
This shouldn't be particularly surprising for those closely tracking release cycles and the Linux kernel release cadence, but now it's official: Ubuntu 23.10 is aiming to ship with the Linux 6.5 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.10-Targets-Linux-6.5

2023-07-11 15:24:06

Google Posts Experimental Linux Code For "Device Memory TCP" - Network To/From Accelerator RAM
Google engineers have published early code around "Device Memory TCP" (a.k.a. Devmem TCP) as a proposal for transferring data to/from device memory efficiently by avoiding the need to copy the data to a host memory buffer...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Device-Memory-TCP

2023-07-11 14:24:08

GRUB 2.12 RC Delivers Two Years Worth Of Bootloader Improvements
GRUB 2.12 had been talked about for a mid-2022 release while one year later we are finally greeted by the first release candidate for this next major open-source bootloader release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-2.12-RC1

2023-07-11 12:24:05

SUSE Announces Its Forking RHEL, To Maintain A RHEL-Compatible Distro
Yesterday Oracle published an interesting announcement and doubled down on their intentions of keeping Oracle Linux compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux following Red Hat's controversial announcement last month. Today is another very interesting response to Red Hat's recent shift, this time from the SUSE Linux folks...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SUSE-Is-Forking-RHEL

2023-07-11 12:09:05

Fwupd 1.9.3 Adds Linux Firmware Updating Support For A Few New Devices
Richard Hughes of Red Hat and the lead developer behind the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) has released Fwupd 1.9.3 as the newest feature update to this open-source solution for carrying out system and peripheral firmware updates on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-1.9.3

2023-07-10 23:09:04

Radeon RADV Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Achieves 100% Pass Rate
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" supports native hardware ray-tracing with RDNA2 and RDNA3 graphics cards where it's matured quite nicely over the past number of months. With the upcoming Mesa 23.2, RADV RT support is enabled by default for all supported GPUs. RADV also has emulated ray-tracing support for older generations of AMD GPUs and as of today it's finally hit a 100% …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Emulated-RT-100p

2023-07-10 20:54:05

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 To RTX 4060 GPU Compute & Renderer Performance On Linux
Earlier this month I provided some initial GeForce RTX 4060 vs. Radeon RX 7600 Linux gaming benchmarks for this new sub-$300 graphics card. For those considering this latest Ada Lovelace graphics card for 3D rendering or compute purposes, here are some benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 4060 on that front by looking at the generational performance of the x060 series…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-rtx4060-compute

2023-07-10 19:39:04

AMD's Compressonator 4.4 Adds AVX-512 Support
The AMD Compressonator open-source tool suite that is under the GPUOpen umbrella has now added AVX-512 support alongside other enhancements in its v4.4 update...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Compressonator-AVX-512

2023-07-10 18:09:28

Oracle Intends To Keep Trying To Make Oracle Linux Compatible With RHEL
Following the stunning decision last month by IBM that they would begin limiting access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources, AlmaLinux quickly came out working on a path forward and Rocky Linux also shared some ideas how they may continue providing a RHEL-compatible Linux distribution. We've been waiting for Oracle to comment on their plans for the RHEL-compat…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Oracle-Linux-Keep-RHEL-Compat

2023-07-10 17:39:06

Linux 6.5 Bringing Sensor Monitoring To Many More Desktop Motherboards
Among the many interesting changes that landed the past two weeks for the Linux 6.5 merge window, the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates as a whole standout for bringing numerous desktop motherboards and other devices to now enjoy working sensor monitoring support under Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-HWMON

2023-07-10 16:54:05

AMD Revises WiFi RFI Mitigation Feature For Linux
Besides Bcachefs missing out on Linux 6.5, another patch series that didn't get buttoned up in time for the v6.5 merge window was AMD's work on radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation between WiFi 6/6e/7 hardware and AMD's newest SoCs with RDNA3 graphics...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-WiFi-RFI-Linux-v6

2023-07-10 16:24:44

Ubuntu Revisiting Its Initramfs Compression Approach
About a year ago Ubunty changed its default compression level for its initramfs handling down to Zstd level one to deal with slow initramfs creation times on low-end systems / development boards. But since then that has resulted in larger initramfs sizes and yielding other bugs like more quickly filling up the /boot partition on Ubuntu systems. Thus the developers have gone back to…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-2023-Initramfs-Compress

2023-07-10 13:09:05

Google Revises New Driver For Stadia Controller Rumble Support On Linux
While Google shutdown their Stadia game streaming service, with updated firmware there is Bluetooth (BLE) support for the controller as well as USB wired connectivity for those wishing to continue using this gaming controller. Google engineers have also been working on a new Linux driver for enabling force feedback "rumble" support with this controller...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Stadia-Controller-FF-Linux

2023-07-10 12:39:06

Work Continues For Supporting Intel Sapphire Rapids C0.x Idle States On Linux
While Intel's Linux engineers were very timely in enabling much of the Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" support for the upstream Linux kernel well ahead of the processor launch at the beginning of the year, one patch series that has continued on post-launch has been working to get the new C0.x idle states supported...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sapphire-Rapids-C0.X-July

2023-07-09 23:39:04

Linux 6.5-rc1 Released With Initial USB4 v2 Support, Cachestat, AMD RDNA3 Overclocking
Linus Torvalds just declared the first release candidate of Linux 6.5 that also marks the end of new feature code being introduced for this cycle...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-rc1

2023-07-09 23:24:06

GIMP 2.99.16 Released As GIMP 3.0 RCs Near
GIMP 2.99.16 is out this Sunday as the GIMP 3.0 release candidate finally nears...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-2.99.16-Released

2023-07-09 14:54:05

Wine-Based Hangover 8.11 Begins Integrating FEX Emulator Support
The Hangover open-source project has been working on supporting Windows apps and games on other CPU architectures like AArch64 running Linux. RISC-V and POWER9 are other CPU architectures of interest for enabling Hangover support. Besides leveraging the Wine software, Hangover to date has relied on the QEMU emulator as part of the implementation while now they have begun integr…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Hangover-8.11-FEX

2023-07-09 13:09:06

Intel Updates x86 Hybrid CPU Cluster Scheduling For The Linux Kernel
The latest iteration of Intel's cluster scheduling support for x86 hybrid P/E-core CPUs were posted on Friday in seeking to enhance the performance of some workloads under Linux when running on recent Intel Core processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Hybrid-Cluster-Sched-v3

2023-07-09 12:39:05

It's Looking Like Bcachefs Won't Be Merged For Linux 6.5
Today the Linux 6.5 merge window is expected to be closed and one of the lingering issues has been whether the BCacheFS file-system driver will be merged following its pull request having been finally sent in...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-Bcachefs-Unlikely

2023-07-09 12:09:04

HarfBuzz 8.0 Released - Introduces Shaper For WebAssembly Within Font Files
HarfBuzz 8.0 was released on Saturday as the newest feature release for this text shaping library used by many open-source software projects from GUI toolkits to desktop environments and other prominent applications...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HarfBuzz-8.0

2023-07-08 21:54:06

Mesa RADV Driver Re-Enables Ray-Tracing Pipelines For AMD VanGogh APUs / Steam Deck
Last month The RADV ray-tracing pipelines support was enabled by default but then later disabled for VanGogh APUs, notably the Steam Deck. Now though with the latest ray-tracing code in Mesa 23.2-devel the RADV driver is no longer blocking the support for VanGogh...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-RT-Re-Enables-Van-Gogh

2023-07-08 17:54:09

Intel Speed Select Updates, x86 Android Tablet Updates For Linux 6.5
Last week all of the x86 platform driver feature updates were merged for the Linux 6.5 merge window which is wrapping up tomorrow...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-x86-Platform-Drivers

2023-07-08 12:54:05

Mesa's Rusticl Implements OpenCL Subgroups
Red Hat's Karol Herbst who has done a remarkable job on Rusticl as a modern OpenCL implementation written in Rust for Mesa Gallium3D drivers has another achievement under his belt: OpenCL subgroups are now in place for Mesa...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rusticl-OpenCL-Subgroups

2023-07-08 12:39:05

Linux Lands Fix For Intel Hybrid CPU Frequency Scaling When Disabling E-Cores
The Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for the Linux kernel has received a fix to an issue that could lead to inadequate CPU frequency scaling behavior when running on a hybrid processor with E cores disable...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-P-State-Disable-E-Fix

2023-07-08 12:24:05

NTFS Driver For Linux 6.5 Brings Small Optimizations & Fixes
Konstantin Komarov of Paragon Software has submitted the NTFS(3) file-system driver updates for the nearly-closed Linux 6.5 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-NTFS

2023-07-08 12:09:04

KDE Plasma Wayland Fixes "Severe Screen Distortion" For Some Multi-GPU Systems
KDE developers remain quite busy working on the Plasma 6.0 desktop development as well as making other enhancements and fixes to their open-source desktop stack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-Severe-Distortion

2023-07-08 01:54:06

Solus Linux 4.4 Released - Powered By Linux 6.3, Latest Budgie Desktop
While Solus is still working toward its new approach based on Serpent OS and other significant fundamental changes to the Linux distribution, shipping today is Solus 4.4 as the latest incremental update to this Linux distro popular with enthusiasts...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Solus-4.4

2023-07-07 23:09:08

Wine 8.12 Released With Additional Wayland Enablement
Wine 8.12 is available today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.12-Released

2023-07-07 20:39:05

Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library "IGL" Built Atop Vulkan, OpenGL
Meta has published the Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL) as a new cross-platform library to provide a single low-level interface that works atop native graphics APIs from OpenGL and Vulkan to Apple's Metal...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intermediate-Graphics-Lib-IGL

2023-07-07 19:09:05

Linux 6.5 Brings New "cachestat" Syscall For Querying Page Cache Stats Of A File
A new system call found in Linux 6.5 is "cachestat" that allows user-space to query page cache statistics for a file in order to make more informed decisions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-MM-cachestat

2023-07-07 18:54:08

Fedora 39 Aims For A Colored Bash Prompt
In addition to Fedora 39 aiming to use the Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation, shipping the latest and greatest open-source compiler toolchain components, enhance Linux gaming compatibility, eliminate Flathub filtering, and dozens of other improvements, there are also plans for a more mundane change: a colored bash prompt...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-39-Colored-Bash-Prompt

2023-07-07 15:39:06

Intel Xeon Max Performance Delivers A Powerful Combination With AMX + HBM2e
The Intel Xeon Max 9480 flagship Sapphire Rapids CPU with HBM2e memory tops out at 56 cores / 112 threads, so how can that compete with the latest AMD EPYC processors hitting 96 cores for Genoa (or 120 cores with the forthcoming Bergamo)? Besides the on-package HBM2e that is unique to the Xeon Max family, the other ace that Xeon Max holds with the rest of the Sapphire …
https://www.phoronix.com/review/xeon-max-hbm2e-amx

2023-07-07 14:09:09

Ubuntu's NVIDIA "Enterprise Ready" Driver Package Now Enables Open GPU Kernel Driver
Ubuntu's NVIDIA Unified Device Architecture (UDA) driver package intended for GPU compute acceleration has enabled the NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel driver support in their packages since the end of last year. Now with the new NVIDIA Enterprise Ready Driver "ERD" Ubuntu package hitting Ubuntu LTS users, they are also supporting the NVIDIA open GPU kernel drive…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-NVIDIA-ERD-535-Linux

2023-07-07 12:39:06

Unaccepted Memory Merged For Linux 6.5, Helping AMD SEV-SNP + Intel TDX
As was anticipated, UEFI Unaccepted Memory support was successfully merged for Linux 6.5 to support this standard that's important with the likes of Intel Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Page (SEV-SNP) backed virtual machines...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-Unaccepted-Memory

2023-07-07 12:24:05

Linux 6.5 Bringing Improvements To PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard Handling
Hopefully by now all of you have moved off PS/2 mice and keyboards, but should you still have some old systems chugging along with PS/2 hardware, there are some improvements to find with the Linux 6.5 kernel currently under development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-PS2-Improvements

2023-07-07 12:09:07

AMD AMF SDK 1.4.30 Released For Multimedia Processing On Windows & Linux
AMD's GPUOpen team on Thursday released the newest version of their Advanced Media Framework "AMF" SDK for Linux and Windows developers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AMF-1.4.30

2023-07-07 12:09:06

Mediatek Gains Stateless AV1/HEVC Codecs, Intel Atom ISP Driver Getting Fit
The Linux 6.5 media subsystem updates were merged this week for the merge window that is wrapping up this weekend...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-Media

2023-07-07 11:54:04

GCC 10.5 Compiler Released To Close-Out The Series
For those on the three-year-old GCC 10 compiler series, it's really time to move to a newer GNU Compiler Collection release for enjoying the latest language support, new hardware features, various optimizations, enhanced diagnostics, and more. But for those still bound to GCC 10 for whatever reason, GCC 10.5 was released today as one final update in the branch...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-10.5-Released

2023-07-06 23:24:05

systemd 254-rc1 Deprecates SysV Scripts, Adds Soft Reboots & systemd-battery-check
Out today is the first release candidate of systemd 254. This systemd update is another big feature release with new settings, new components, and many additions to existing systemd components. Plus there is some deprecations and breakage ahead for future releases...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-254-rc1

2023-07-06 20:54:05

Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry
If there wasn't enough Red Hat drama happening in recent weeks, the Red Hat Display Systems Team is now considering to implement privacy-preserving telemetry beginning with Fedora Workstation 40...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Considers-Telemetry

2023-07-06 20:09:05

AMD Begins Sending "Family 26" Linux Patches For Apparent Zen 5 CPUs
It looks like the first patches have dropped today for early AMD bring-up around their next-generation "Zen 5" processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Family-26-Linux-Start

2023-07-06 17:39:06

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Performance Benchmarks On Linux: Great Uplift For Zen 4 Laptops
For weeks and weeks I've been eager to see how well the new AMD Zen 4 based "Phoenix" laptop SoCs function and perform under Linux. Recently I finally found an interesting AMD Ryzen 7 7840U laptop to test and today have some initial Linux benchmarks to share from this Acer Swift Edge 16 laptop with Ryzen 7 7840U SoC and a 3.2K 180Hz OLED display, among other intere…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen7-7840u

2023-07-06 16:09:07

Imagination GPUs With PVR Vulkan + Zink Working Well For OpenGL 4.6
We've known since last year when Imagination published their open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver that they'd be focusing on a Vulkan hardware driver only and using the likes of the Zink compatibility layer for OpenGL support. Today Imagination formally announced OpenGL 4.6 for their GPUs via Zink...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PVR-Zink-Imagination-OpenGL-4.6

2023-07-06 14:39:07

Godot 4.1 Released With More Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine
Following the release of Godot 4.0 earlier this year, Godot 4.1 has been released today as an incremental update to this incredibly powerful, open-source game engine...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.1-Released

2023-07-06 12:39:05

Intel Posts Initial Granite Rapids D Support For GCC Compiler, Supports AMX-COMPLEX
Going back to last year Intel added Granite Rapids support to GCC 13 as part of their usual early bring-up of new product families into the GNU Compiler Collection. That initial Granite Rapids target premiered in the since-released GCC 13.1 alongside Emerald Rapids and Sierra Forest too. Hitting the GCC developers' mailing list today is initial support for Inte…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Granite-Rapids-D

2023-07-06 12:24:09

Linux 6.1 To 6.5 Git Quietly Patched For "StackRot" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
It's now more clear why last week Linus Torvalds personally took to improving the Linux kernel's user-mode stack expansion code: it's necessary to address a now disclosed security vulnerability dubbed StackRot...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-StackRot

2023-07-06 12:09:05

Tow-Boot Downstream Of U-Boot Updated After Long Hiatus
Tow-Boot has been a "user-friendly" distribution of U-Boot that was seeing regular updates but for nearly one year has been on hiatus without any new releases. That changed overnight with Tow-Boot 2022.07-006 being released and a call for new developers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tow-Boot-2023-Update

2023-07-06 01:54:05

Wine Begins Preparations For Reorganizing & Cleaning Up Its Direct3D Code
CodeWeavers developer Zebediah Figura opened up the initial merge request yesterday that is the first step of a multi-part effort for reorganizing and cleaning up the Wine Direct3D "WineD3D" code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/WineD3D-Cleanup-MR-1

2023-07-05 22:54:05

F2FS Prepares Some Minor Improvements For Linux 6.5
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is tacking on a few new features for the Linux 6.5 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/F2FS-Linux-6.5

2023-07-05 22:39:05

GNOME 45 Alpha Released With Various Optimizations, Better Built-In Screen Recorder
It's already time for the first alpha release of the in-development GNOME 45 desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-45-Alpha

2023-07-05 19:39:05

AMD-Xilinx Versal Watchdog Driver Coming In Linux 6.5
There's been a lot of AMD-Xilinx code going upstream in the Linux kernel over the past few months to benefit AMD's embedded efforts from the QDMA driver to CDX bus to XDMA and more. The latest hitting the kernel is an AMD-Xilinx Versal watchdog driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Xilinx-Versal-Watchdog

2023-07-05 17:54:08

Steam Deck vs. ASUS ROG Ally Arch Linux Gaming Performance
With the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handheld that began shipping last month I've so far looked at the Linux support for this device as well as looking at the Windows 11 vs. Linux gaming performance as well as the Ryzen Z1 Extreme CPU performance. What many Phoronix readers have been most interested in seeing though are the side-by-side benchmarks for Valve's Steam Deck up against the ASUS R…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/steam-deck-rog-ally

2023-07-05 15:54:07

AMD Improving Xen VirtIO GPU Support For In-Vehicle Infotainment, Using RADV
As I've written about a few times in recent months, AMD has been enhancing GPU support for use under Xen virtualization. Their interests in Xen weren't clear to this point given that KVM virtualization tends to be the dominant solution these days when it comes to open-source Linux virtualization. Now it's been revealed that the AMD GPU interests in Xen stem from an in…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Xen-GPU-For-Cars

2023-07-05 14:38:20

UDisks 2.10 Released With Native NVMe Support, LVM2 RAID
UDisks 2.10 was released last week for this set abstraction layer providing a daemon and tooling around the manipulation of disks and storage devices under Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/UDisks-2.10

2023-07-05 12:39:03

Valve Makes RADV Driver More Robust For Gaming With VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness
Thanks to Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux team, the Mesa RADV driver has added support for the VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness Vulkan extension as an efficiency win and will be beneficial for Steam Play gaming...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Pipeline-Robustness

2023-07-05 12:24:03

Intel Plumbs SoundWire ACE2.x Support, Premiering With Lunar Lake
In addition to Lunar Lake sound driver support in Linux 6.5 and the recent SOF update for Sound Open Firmware for Lunar Lake, Linux 6.5 is also bringing initial SoundWire Intel ACE2.x support that is part of the Lunar Lake audio capabilities...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SoundWire-ACE2.x-Lunar-L

2023-07-05 01:39:03

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD
LXD as the open-source container management extension for Linux Containers (LXC) has long been closely associated with Canonical due to its founding and pushed along by the Ubuntu maker as one of their software offerings. However, it has to this point been part of the Linux Containers project except moving forward Canonical has decided to pull it more into their direct control...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Pulls-In-LXD

2023-07-05 01:24:04

Scope-Based Resource Management Infrastructure Merged For Linux 6.5
Here comes a very exciting addition to the Linux 6.5 kernel: the initial infrastructure has landed for scope-based resource management...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-Scope-Resource-Manage

2023-07-04 22:24:03

Linux 6.5 Brings Improvements To Firewire Support
While it's likely been years since most of you touched any Firewire devices, for those still having any old DV cameras around or professional audio hardware with an IEEE-1394 interface, Linux 6.5 is bringing improvements to its Firewire subsystem that until recently has been rather dormant for years...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-Firewire

2023-07-04 15:39:04

Firefox 115 Now Available With Intel GPU Video Decoding On Linux
Mozilla Firefox 115.0 official builds are now available for this notable update to this open-source web browser while also marking the new Extended Support Release (ESR) series...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-115

2023-07-04 12:39:07

GCC 14 Adds Support For RISC-V Vector Crypto Extensions
The GNU Compiler Collection 14 (GCC 14) will feature support for the new RISC-V processor ISA vector cryptographic extensions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-RISC-V-Vector-Crypto-Exts

2023-07-04 12:24:04

Linux 6.5 Workqueues Add Automatic CPU-Intensive Detection & Monitoring
Tejun Heo ;ast week submitted the workqueue changes for the Linux 6.5 kernel and they include an interesting addition...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-Workqueues

2023-07-04 04:24:03

libjpeg-turbo 3.0 Released But May Be The End Of Feature Work Due To Funding Constraints
The libjpeg-turbo 3.0 open-source release occurred today for this open-source JPEG image codec implementation focused on SIMD instruction usage for optimized efficiency. While libjpeg-turbo has been a great open-source development success and has seen widespread use, its feature development moving forward may be limited due to funding gaps...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libjpeg-turbo-3.0-Released