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2023-03-03T20:52:11Z	**GNOME Shell & Mutter Complete Their Migration Away From GTK3**
The GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor have completed their migration off GTK3... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-No-GTK3)
2023-03-03T22:19:20Z	**Intel Shifts Its Max Series Focus To Falcon Shores In 2025**
Intel announced today it has cancelled Rialto Bridge and Lancaster Sound development while shifting its Max Series focus to their Falcon Shores XPU that is now set to ship in 2025... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Focus-Falcon-Shores-2025)
2023-03-04T05:00:00Z	**Wine 8.3 Released With Low Fragmentation Heap, Smart Card Support**
Wine 8.3 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.3-Released)
2023-03-04T11:25:08Z	**KDE Developers Continue Pushing More Plasma 6.0 Changes**
This week KDE Plasma's development branched to Qt6-only and a lot of other development happenings around Plasma 6.0 occurred... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Qt6-Only-Week)
2023-03-04T12:03:34Z	**GNOME's Mutter Lands Experimental Code For HDR Modes**
Yesterday saw GNOME Shell and Mutter drop the last of their GTK3 dependence while today there is another interesting change to mention on the Mutter compositor side... An experimental option for enabling some HDR modes with supported high dynamic range displays... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mutter-Experimental-HDR-Modes)
2023-03-04T15:48:52Z	**Intel Mesa Vulkan Driver Fixed Up For Very Slow Gen9 GravityMark Performance**
Intel's "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa has landed a set of patches to fix a glaring performance issue affecting Skylake/Gen9 era graphics with the cross-platform GravityMark benchmark... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GravityMark-Faster-Intel-Gen9)
2023-03-04T17:00:00Z	**AMD Unified Inference Frontend 1.1 Released**
AMD in February quietly released version 1.1 of their in-development Unified Inference Front-end "UIF" that aims to be their catch-all solution for AI inference from CPUs to GPUs to FPGAs and other IP from their recent Xilinx acquisition... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Unified-Inference-UIF-1.1)
2023-03-05T05:00:00Z	**GNOME 44 Mutter Adds fractional_scale_v1 Wayland Support**
While GNOME 3.32 saw initial work on fractional scaling support for the GNOME Shell and Mutter compositor, the upcoming GNOME 44 release is bringing support for Wayland's fractional\_scale\_v1 protocol... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-44-fractional_scale_v1)
2023-03-05T11:31:28Z	**Linux Landing Change To Allow STIBP When Using Legacy IBRS**
Ahead of the Linux 6.3-rc1 release later today, a set of "x86/urgent" patches were sent out Sunday morning that include the change to allow Single Threaded Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP) to be used in the presence of legacy Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) for security reasons... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-STIBP-Legacy-IBRS)
2023-03-05T13:46:05Z	**Latest System76 Intel-Powered Laptops Added To Coreboot**
Merged on Saturday to upstream Coreboot was support for some of the latest Intel Alderlake (and signs of Raptor Lake) powered laptops from Linux vendor System76... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Coreboot-March-2023)
2023-03-05T18:48:25Z	**Testing The First PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD On Linux Has Been Disappointing**
This past week saw the first two consumer PCIe 5.0 NVMe solid-state drives released to retail: the Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 10000 and the Inland TD510. I've been testing the Inland TD510 2TB Gen 5 NVMe SSD the past few days. While in simple I/O testing it can hit speeds almost up to 10,000 MB/s reads and writes, for more complex workloads it quickly dropped against popular PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe SSD options. In my testing thus far of this first consum ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/inland-td510-gen5-linux)
2023-03-05T20:23:33Z	**Linux 6.3 Drops Support For The Intel ICC Compiler**
On this last day of the Linux 6.3 kernel merge window, Linus Torvalds merged the patch dropping support for Intel (ICC) compiler support. Specifically this is Intel's long-standing ICC compiler now known as the "Intel C++ Compiler Classic" prior to its transition to being LLVM/Clang-based with the modern Intel DPC++ compiler... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-Drops-Intel-ICC)
2023-03-05T23:29:09Z	**Linux 6.3-rc1 Brings File-System Optimizations, HID-BPF, More Intel & AMD Features**
The merge window for Linux 6.3 is now over and Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.3-rc1... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-rc1-Released)
2023-03-06T11:08:46Z	**LibreELEC 11 Released With GBM/V4L2 HDR Support On x86_64,  More ARM Hardware**
LibreELEC 11 is out today as the newest version of this Linux distribution that is purpose-built for an HTPC-oriented experience powered by the recent Kodi 20 HTPC/PVR software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreELEC-11-Released)
2023-03-06T11:28:20Z	**AMD Continues Linux Upstreaming For Pensando Elba SoC**
Last year AMD acquired Pensando in part for adding DPUs to their portfolio from this young company that only exited its stealth mode in 2019. While sadly it's missed out on the Linux 6.3 cycle, AMD-Pensando engineers continue work on upstreaming support for their "Elba" SoC into the mainline Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Pensando-Elba-Linux-v10)
2023-03-06T11:53:58Z	**Asahi AGX Mesa Driver Prepares For Compute Kernels On Apple Silicon**
The Asahi "AGX" Gallium3D driver providing open-source OpenGL driver support for Apple M1/M2 graphics hardware has seen preliminary work merged into Mesa 23.1 for supporting compute shaders/kernels... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-AGX-Mesa-Compute-Kernels)
2023-03-06T12:21:55Z	**Intel Continues With More Big-Time Optimizations To The Linux Kernel**
I love Linux kernel patches that mention "massively", use exclamation points when talking about performance, and/or simply mention big speed-ups. Quite often such patches come out of Intel and last week they sent out another great performance optimization patch series to improve additional low-level bits of the kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-rcuref-Linux-Speed-Up)
2023-03-06T13:38:32Z	**openSUSE Tumbleweed Sets Great Example With x86-64-v3 HWCAPS**
The rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed recently began rolling out optional x86-64-v3 optimized packages for those on roughly Intel Haswell or newer systems and wanting to squeeze out maximum performance from their hardware. The selection of x86-64-v3 packages built by openSUSE Tumbleweed is currently rather limited, but hopefully this major Linux distribution joining the HWCAPS party will lead other Linux distributions to follow suit... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-TW-x86-64-v3-HWCAPS)
2023-03-06T15:30:00Z	**Debian APT 2.6 Released With Support For Non-Free-Firmware Handling**
Debian developers today released APT 2.6 as the newest version of this package manager that will ship as part of the upcoming Debian 12 "Bookworm" release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-2.6-Released)
2023-03-06T17:00:00Z	**Linux 6.3 Features: AMD Auto IBRS To Steam Deck Controller Interface, IPv4 BIG TCP & More**
Now that the Linux 6.3 merge window is over with Linux 6.3-rc1 having been released last night, here is a look at all of the interesting changes, new features, and hardware support coming with this next major kernel version. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-63-features)
2023-03-06T20:00:29Z	**FEX 2303 Released For Improving Linux x86_64 Gaming On ARM64**
FEX-Emu 2303 was published today as the newest version of this open-source software for enjoying x86 64-bit Linux software to run gracefully on 64-bit ARM (ARM64 / AArch64) including the likes of Linux games and Valve's Steam client with Steam Play (Proton)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emu-2303-Released)
2023-03-06T21:00:00Z	**Intel Preparing Sapphire Rapids C0.2 Idle State Support For Better Energy Efficiency**
Posted today were a set of Linux kernel patches for enabling Sapphire Rapids C0.x idle states support, which can provide a nice bump to the energy efficiency of the latest-generation Xeon Scalable servers while also helping out with possible turbo boost benefits for the busy CPU cores to enhance overall system performance... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SPR-C0.2-Idle-State-Linux)
2023-03-07T11:24:36Z	**Coreboot Adds Support For An ASRock Sandy/Ivy Bridge Era Mini ITX Board**
For those that happen to have an ASRock B75M-ITX in their collection or have just been looking for an old Intel Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge era system that can run the open-source Coreboot firmware, this mini-ITX desktop motherboard can run upstream Coreboot with the latest changes made this week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-ASRock-B75M-ITX)
2023-03-07T11:46:24Z	**AMD's Suballocator Helper Gets Ready To Help Intel's New Xe Linux Graphics Driver**
With the Linux 6.3-rc1 kernel now out and that closing the Linux 6.3 merge window, the open-source Linux graphics driver developers are turning their attention to feature work they want to accomplish for Linux 6.4 this summer. Already the first drm-misc-next pull request has been submitted to DRM-Next with some of those early changes that will target the v6.4 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Suballocator-To-DRM-Core)
2023-03-07T12:00:16Z	**GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes**
The GNOME Shell and Mutter release candidates ahead of this month's GNOME 44 desktop update are now available for testing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-44-RC)
2023-03-07T13:24:11Z	**Intel Preparing IAA Crypto Compression Driver - Kernel Crypto API Use For Accelerators**
In addition to Intel's Linux patches in recent days working on broad performance optimizations that can benefit all hardware there has also been some Intel-specific kernel improvements being worked on like the Sapphire Rapids C0.2 idle state support that was published for review on Monday. Also coming out from the covers on Monday was a new patch series for the "iaa\_crypto" driver to improve the Linux support for Intel's  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IAA-Crypto-Linux-Driver)
2023-03-07T15:45:15Z	**Initial Rust DRM Abstractions, AGX Apple DRM Driver Posted For Review**
After being in development for several months, Asahi Lina with the Asahi Linux project has posted the initial Rust Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem abstractions for review as well as a preview of the experimental state of the AGX DRM driver providing the open-source kernel graphics driver support for Apple M1/M2 hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-DRM-AGX-RFC-Preview)
2023-03-07T19:00:58Z	**AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D Linux Performance**
Following last week's review of the brand new AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and then moving on to looking at the Ryzen 9 7900X3D gaming performance, today's Linux hardware coverage on Phoronix is looking at the Ryzen 9 7900X3D Linux performance in other system/CPU workloads aside from gaming. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen9-7900x3d)
2023-03-07T23:30:00Z	**Intel Releases x86-simd-sort v1.0 Library For High Performance AVX-512 Sorting**
Last month you may recall the news of Intel having an extremely fast AVX-512 sorting library they published as open-source and found adoption already by the popular Numpy Python library. In the case of Numpy it could deliver some 10~17x speed-ups. That header-only library has now reached version 1.0... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-simd-sort-1.0)
2023-03-08T11:12:12Z	**Python 3.12 Alpha 6 Released With More Improvements**
Python 3.12 Alpha 6 was released on Tuesday as the newest development release toward this next major Python release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Python-3.12-Alpha-6)
2023-03-08T11:39:16Z	**Vanilla OS 2.0 Shifting From Ubuntu Base To Debian Sid**
One of the newer Linux distributions that has been making waves is Vanilla OS as an immutable and atomic version of Ubuntu Linux that aims to provide a pleasant Linux desktop experience, close to upstream, and is augmented by the growing selection of Flatpak packages. Now though the project has decided to move from Ubuntu Linux as its base over to Debian Sid... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vanilla-OS-2.0-Debian)
2023-03-08T11:52:39Z	**RADV Enables Variable Rate Shading For RDNA3, RadeonSI Lands More Fixes**
If you are an AMD Radeon RX 7900 series "RDNA3" GPU owner and don't mind running bleeding-edge open-source graphics driver code, you'll want to pull down today's Mesa 23.1-devel Git snapshot... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RDNA3-RADV-Enables-VRS)
2023-03-08T12:05:34Z	**IOCB_NOWAIT For Linux Pipes Yields 10~23x Performance Improvement**
In wanting to avoid waiting for pipes via the IOCB\_NOWAIT option in order to further enhance IO\_uring performance, Jens Axboe has implemented said functionality and in a simple test is seeing 10x to 23x performance improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Pipes-IOCB_NOWAIT)
2023-03-08T13:24:00Z	**Wayland Clients Can Now Survive Qt Wayland Crashes / Compositor Restarts**
A change merged to Qt this week can allow for Wayland clients to survive compositor restarts, such as when the compositor crashes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Wayland-Compositor-Restart)
2023-03-08T13:54:42Z	**Samba 4.18 Released With Performance Optimizations**
Samba 4.18 is out today as the popular open-source implementation of the SMB networking protocol that allows for file and print service interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems in an Active Directory (AD) environment... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samba-4.18-Released)
2023-03-08T15:45:00Z	**Ubuntu Announces Official Support For The PolarFire SoC FPGA Icicle Kit RISC-V Board**
Following work bringing Ubuntu Linux to the RISC-V boards like the StarFive VisionFive 2, LicheeRV, Nezha, and others, Canonical today announced they have published an optimized RISC-V image for the Microchip PolarFire SoC FPGA powered "Icicle Kit" development board... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Icicle-Kit-Optimized)
2023-03-08T18:00:00Z	**Crucial 2 x 16GB DDR5-5200 / DDR5-5600**
Micron recently sent over their latest Crucial 2 x 16GB DDR5-5200 and DDR5-5600 memory kits for testing with these low cost options for running with the latest Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake and AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors. Here's a look at how these affordable DDR5 memory options are performing and a look at the Linux workloads that can benefit from higher frequency memory. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/crucial-ddr5-5200-5600)
2023-03-08T19:30:00Z	**Mesa 22.3.7 Released To End Out The Series**
Mesa 22.3.7 has been released as the last planned point release for that driver Q4'2022 driver series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-22.3.7-Released)
2023-03-08T20:15:37Z	**Tuned AMD Zen 4 Scheduler Model Lands In LLVM 17 Compiler**
Back in December initial AMD Zen 4 "znver4" support was merged for the LLVM/Clang 16 compiler. While the "-march=znver4" targeting at least flips on the newly-added AVX-512 instructions with these AMD processors, it was re-using the existing scheduler model from Zen 3. Finally today a tuned Zen 4 scheduler model has landed for what will be found in the LLVM 17 compiler later this year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Lands-Tuned-Zen-4-Model)
2023-03-08T23:30:00Z	**Open-Source AMD OpenGL Driver Drops Support For Smart Access Memory / ReBAR**
Since late 2020 there had been work by AMD Linux engineers on adding Smart Access Memory (Resizable BAR) support to RadeonSI as the Gallium3D OpenGL driver and improved since that point in the name of performance. However, for this OpenGL driver now they've come to realize the benefits haven't necessarily panned out and the developers went ahead and disabled this SAM/ReBAR support followed by removing the support from this driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-Drops-ReBAR-SAM)
2023-03-09T11:03:25Z	**Ruby Lands New "RJIT" Just-In-Time Compiler**
Back in 2021 Ruby merged the YJIT just-in-time compiler that last year with Ruby 3.2 was deemed production grade. There's also been the MJIT compiler that relies upon an external C compiler. And now landing this week in Ruby is RJIT as the newest just-in-time effort... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ruby-RJIT-Lands)
2023-03-09T11:17:57Z	**Linux Patch Updated For Rumble Support On Latest Microsoft Xbox Controllers**
Last year I wrote about a Google engineer working on rumble support for the latest Microsoft controllers in conjunction with Microsoft's Xbox team. That patch seemed to have fallen through the woodwork but has been updated and sent out in "v2" form this week for allowing Linux gamers to enjoy rumble functionality with these latest Microsoft controllers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xbox-Controller-Rumble-Linux-v2)
2023-03-09T11:35:52Z	**Initial Batch Of Intel Graphics Driver Updates Queued For Linux 6.4**
While less than one week since the Linux 6.3-rc1 release, already the first batch of Intel (i915) kernel graphics driver updates has been sent to DRM-Next for queuing until the Linux 6.4 merge window kicks off in two months... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-Intel-i915-First)
2023-03-09T13:30:52Z	**PipeWire 0.3.67 Fixes Stuttering For Some Bluetooth Devices**
PipeWire 0.3.67 is now available as the latest version of this now widely used server by the Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams as an alternative to PulseAudio and JACK on the audio side... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PipeWire-0.3.67-Released)
2023-03-09T13:50:00Z	**TikTok Owner Bytedance Goes Big On Open-Source Firmware**
TikTok owner Bytedance this week hosted their CloudFW Open System Firmware Symposium in Beijing where they celebrated the launch of CloudFW 2.0 as they implement Coreboot to replace UEFI... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bytedance-CloudFW-Open-Source)
2023-03-09T16:30:00Z	**The Technical Workloads Where AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D/7950X3D CPUs Are Excellent**
While the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Ryzen 9 7950X3D are promoted as great "gaming processors", these new Zen 4 desktop CPUs with 3D V-Cache also have great capabilities for various technical computing workloads thanks to the hefty cache size. In prior articles I've looked at the Ryzen 9 7900X3D/7950X3D in around 400 workloads on Linux while in this article I am looking more closely at these technical computing areas where these AMD Zen 4 3D V ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-7900x3d-7950x3d)
2023-03-09T19:30:16Z	**Hangover 0.8.3 Released For Enjoying Windows x86/x86_64 Apps/Games On Linux ARM64**
Hangover 0.8.3 is now available as the newest version for this open-source project started by several Wine developers to ease the pathway for running Windows x86/x86\_64 games and applications on Linux under AArch64 (64-bit Arm) as well as other possible architectures like POWER9 and RISC-V... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hangover-0.8.3)
2023-03-10T11:25:36Z	**AMD Releases AOMP 17.0-0 For Latest Radeon OpenMP Offloading Compiler**
On Thursday AMD engineers released AOMP 17.0-0 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang downstream compiler that carries their latest development patches around Radeon/Instinct OpenMP GPU/accelerator offloading support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AOMP-17.0-0)
2023-03-10T11:36:06Z	**Chrome 112 Beta Released With CSS Nesting, WebAssembly Tail Call**
Chrome 112 beta is now available for testing as the next step forward for Google's web browser... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-112-Beta)
2023-03-10T11:48:48Z	**Embree 4.0.1 Released With Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series Support**
Embree 4.0.1 is out with a few changes to note for this open-source high performance ray-tracing library for CPUs and GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Embree-4.0.1)
2023-03-10T13:30:12Z	**Lenovo Begins Supporting LinuxBoot Firmware With ByteDance**
This week TikTok-owner ByteDance hosted the CloudFW Open System Firmware Symposium to talk up their open-source firmware work, showcase their industry partnerships, and more. One interesting takeaway is that thanks to the weight of ByteDance, Lenovo is now supporting LinuxBoot in some capacity... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-LinuxBoot-ByteDance)
2023-03-10T13:45:59Z	**OpenBSD Finally Adds Guided Disk Encryption To Its Installer**
Full disk encryption is quite important in today's computing environment while some operating systems still sadly don't provide an easy and streamlined manner of setting up an encrypted disk at install-time. Thankfully with the next release of OpenBSD, they are introducing a guided disk encryption option to their installer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBSD-Guided-Disk-Encryption)
2023-03-10T16:30:00Z	**Box86 v0.3 & Box64 v0.2.2 Released For Running Linux x86/x86_64 Programs On Arm**
In addition to this week seeing new releases of FEX-Emu and Hangover for open-source projects aiming to run x86/x86\_64 binaries on 64-bit Arm, the Box86 and related Box64 projects are out today with their own feature updates for helping to enable x86 and x86\_64 Linux binaries on Arm systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Box86-0.3-Box64-0.2.2)
2023-03-10T18:00:25Z	**Linux 6.4 Slated To Start Removing Old, Unused & Unmaintained PCMCIA Drivers**
Queued up ahead of the Linux 6.4 cycle this spring is removing all of the PCMCIA "char" drivers as part of a broader effort to remove PCMCIA socket and card driver code where there is no apparent users remaining... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-PCMCIA-Char-Dropping)
2023-03-10T19:45:00Z	**Radeon ProRender SDK 3.1 Released - Finishes Transition From OpenCL To HIP**
AMD today published Radeon ProRender SDK 3.1 as the newest version of this cross-platform and open-source physically-based rendering engine... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-ProRender-SDK-3.1)
2023-03-11T11:16:46Z	**KDE's Konsole Now Works On Windows, More Plasma Wayland Fixes Come Too**
It was a busy March week for KDE developers as they have now got the Konsole terminal emulator working on Windows, Qt apps surviving compositor restarts, other Plasma 6.0 development work under their belt, and the continued flow of fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Konsole-On-Windows)
2023-03-11T11:53:03Z	**Linux 6.2.4 & 6.1.17 Released To Fix An Easy-To-Trigger Kernel Oops**
Linux 6.2.4 and 6.1.17 kernels have been released this morning as new emergency releases... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.2.4-6.1.17-Released)
2023-03-11T12:03:59Z	**GNU Octave 8.1 Released For Free Software MATLAB Alternative**
GNU Octave 8.1 is out today as the newest feature release to this free software for scientific computing and numerical computations that remains a leading open-source alternative to MATLAB... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Octave-8.1)
2023-03-11T12:15:41Z	**Linux 6.4 To Enable Sensor Monitoring On More ASUS Z590 Motherboards**
A simple patch queued in "hwmon-next" this week for the Linux 6.4 cycle later this spring gets motherboard sensor monitoring working on three more ASUS motherbards for modern Intel systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-More-ASUS-Z590)
2023-03-11T12:09:03Z	**Linux 6.2.4 & 6.1.17 Released To Fix An Easy-To-Trigger Kernel Oops**
Linux 6.2.4 and 6.1.17 kernels have been released this morning as new emergency releases... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.2.4-6.1.17-Released)
2023-03-11T19:34:50Z	**VirtIO Native Context Being Worked On For AMD Drivers To Enhance VM Performance**
As part of an AMD effort to enhance the performance of the AMD Linux graphics drivers when running in a virtualized environment, a set of initial patches are pending for Mesa that implement native context support for VirtIO... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Mesa-Native-VirtIO-Ctx)
2023-03-12T10:40:12Z	**NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.9 Released With YUV444 Support**
The open-source nvidia-vaapi-driver project is an independent effort implementing the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop of the NVDEC interface supported by NVIDIA's proprietary driver. This VA-API-on-NVDEC implementation allows for video acceleration within Firefox and other software only targeting this open API... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-VA-API-Driver-0.0.9)
2023-03-12T11:03:02Z	**SDL3 Introduces The Concept Of Child Popup Windows**
Development work on SDL3 continues at full-speed for the next version of this hardware/software abstraction library that is commonly used by cross-platform games. The newest feature merged is support for child pop-up windows... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL3-Child-Popup-Windows)
2023-03-12T11:23:03Z	**Linux 6.4 To Remove Old Workaround For Running On Very Outdated Distributions**
Linux 6.4 is set to remove the old CONFIG\_SYSFS\_DEPRECATED and CONFIG\_SYSFS\_DEPRECATED\_V2 options that are used for running newer versions of the Linux kernel with very old Linux distributions and user-space tools. Pre 2007~2008 distributions as a result would likely run into trouble trying to run on Linux 6.4+ kernels... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-Drop-Old-Sysfs-Layout)
2023-03-12T11:45:15Z	**Linux GMUX Support For T2 Macs On The Way For Dual-GPU Graphics Switching**
A set of patches are expected to be merged for the Linux 6.4 cycle in two months enable support for the MMIO-based GMUX found on dual GPU Apple T2 Macs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-GMUX-T2-Macs)
2023-03-12T13:09:46Z	**Linux 5.15.101 LTS Released To Fix Broken Intel Graphics At Boot**
Yesterday saw emergency hot-fix releases in the Linux 6.2 and 6.1 series for addressing an easy-to-trigger kernel oops when mounting and unmounting external storage. This weekend is proving more volatile with today bringing an emergency hot-fix release for the Linux 5.15 LTS series due to a separate issue... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-5.15.101-Hot-Fix)
2023-03-12T16:08:30Z	**Linux Landing XMM Register Rollback Workaround For AMD Zen 1 / Zen 2 CPUs**
Sent in this morning via x86/urgent for integration into Linux 6.3 and also for back-porting to stable kernel series is disabling the XSAVES instruction for AMD Zen 1 and Zen 2 processors to workaround an AMD processor erratum made public last year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AMD-Erratum-1386)
2023-03-12T18:45:24Z	**GNOME 44 Release Candidate Arrives With Many Last Minute Changes**
The GNOME 44 release candidate was officially declared today as the last test version ahead of formally releasing the GNOME 44 desktop later this month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-44-Release-Candidate)
2023-03-13T00:00:00Z	**Linux 6.3-rc2 Introduces Stuttering Workaround For AMD Ryzen PCs Due To fTPM RNG**
Since the Linux 6.1 kernel various users have reported system stuttering issues when using modern AMD Ryzen systems. This has been similar to an "intermittent system stutter" issuye AMD disclosed last year for Windows 10 and Windows 11 while now for today's Linux 6.3-rc2 a workaround is finally being merged that in turn will also be back-ported to the stable kernel series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-Fix-For-AMD-fTPM)
2023-03-13T00:54:01Z	**Linux 6.3-rc2 Released With Two AMD Workarounds, Drops The Useless r8188eu Driver**
The Linux 6.3-rc2 kernel is out today as the second weekly kernel test release since last weekend's closure of the Linux 6.3 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-rc2-Released)
2023-03-13T04:00:00Z	**Linux 6.3-rc2 Released With Two AMD Workarounds, Drops The Useless r8188eu Driver**
The Linux 6.3-rc2 kernel is out today as the second weekly kernel test release since last weekend's closure of the Linux 6.3 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-rc2-Released)
2023-03-13T09:54:48Z	**Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Decoding For VP9**
David Airlie has managed to get some early code in place for handling VP9 video decoding with Vulkan using the Mesa RADV driver. This early Vulkan Video VP9 support also is accompanied by an FFmpeg branch supporting this experimental Mesa extension... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Experimental-VP9-Decode)
2023-03-13T10:14:18Z	**Intel Sends Out Sixteenth Round Of Linux LAM Patches**
Intel's Linux engineers continue working on Linear Address Masking (LAM) for making use of untranslated address bits of 64-bit linear addresses so that it can be used for arbitrary metadata. The hope is that this LAM metadata can lead to more efficient address sanitizers, optimizations for JITs and VMs, and more, but it's been a lengthy journey getting the support upstreamed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-LAM-16)
2023-03-13T10:26:53Z	**AMD Working On VirtIO GPU & Passthroguh GPU Support For Xen Virtualization**
AMD is working to enable VirtIO GPU and pass-through GPU support for the Xen virtualization hypervisor with Radeon graphics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GPU-Better-Xen)
2023-03-13T10:40:55Z	**Linux 6.1.19 LTS & 6.2.6 Released With AMD System Stuttering Workaround**
Following last night's Linux 6.2-rc2 release that brings a workaround for system stuttering on some AMD Ryzen systems, that workaround was quickly back-ported to the Linux 6.1 LTS and 6.2 stable series and spun into new releases for Monday morning... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.1.19-LTS-6.2.6)
2023-03-13T12:36:14Z	**Intel Meteor Lake Graphics IDs Enabled For Mesa 23.1**
The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan support for Intel's next-generation Meteor Lake client processors is taking a step forward with next quarter's Mesa 23.1 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.1-Meteor-Lake-IDs)
2023-03-13T15:30:00Z	**ipmitool Repository Archived, Developer Suspended By GitHub**
The ipmitool utility on Linux systems is widely-used for controlling IPMI-enabled servers and other systems. This tool for interacting with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is extremely common with server administrators while now its development is in a temporary state of limbo due to GitHub... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ipmitool-GitHub-Suspended)
2023-03-13T16:00:00Z	**Intel's Open-Source Linux Compute Stack Maturing Very Well For Arc Graphics**
From early December to late February there was an absence of new Compute-Runtime updates for that open-source stack for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux. It was out of trend as they worked to move from a weekly~biweekly release rhythm to a monthly release cadence while taking extra time for making various other changes too. After that three month lull, they are back to pushing out new co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/arc-graphics-compute-q1)
2023-03-13T19:00:00Z	**Ubuntu 23.04 Preparing To Land Its Linux 6.2 Based Kernel**
The Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" development builds recently transitioned from Linux 5.19 as in use by Ubuntu 22.10/22.04.2 to a Linux 6.1 based kernel. This led some -- including myself -- to wonder if Canonical changed course and shifted to Linux 6.1 LTS instead of the Linux 6.2 kernel that has been out as stable since last month. Fortunately, that's not the case and Ubuntu 23.04 is preparing to soon land Linux 6.2 across all kernel flavors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.04-Linux-6.2-Coming)
2023-03-14T10:02:46Z	**KDE KWin's Move Away From GBM Surfaces**
KDE developer Xaver Hugl has written a blog post how the KWin compositor's DRM back-end has been working to move itself off GBM surfaces (gbm\_surfaces) to instead allocate buffers directly and import them into EGL. This ultimately should be a win for the KWin compositor once everything is complete... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Moves-From-GBM-Surface)
2023-03-14T10:28:59Z	**How Cloudflare Updates The BIOS & Firmware Across Thousands Of Servers**
For those wondering how Cloudflare keeps their thousands of servers around the world up-to-date for the latest BIOS and firmware, Cloudflare's engineering blog has put out an interesting post that outlines their process of handling system BIOS updates as well as various other firmware updates... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloudflare-BIOS-Firmware-Update)
2023-03-14T10:45:44Z	**AMD Launches The EPYC Embedded 9004 Series**
AMD is using Embedded World 2023 in Nürnberg to launch the EPYC Embedded 9004 series as their 4th Gen EPYC processors intended for telecommunications, edge computing, automation, and IoT applications... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-EPYC-Embedded-9004)
2023-03-14T11:00:00Z	**Vulkanised 2023 Vulkan Conference Slides/Videos Available**
Taking place last month in the most wonderful city of Munich, The Khronos Group hosted Vulkanised 2023 as their Vulkan Developers' Conference and Meetup. The slides and videos from the event are now available, including talks on Valve's RADV effort and more... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkanised-2023)
2023-03-14T12:55:46Z	**Fedora 38 Beta Released With Many Exciting Updates**
The beta of Fedora 38 is out and on-time this morning for those wanting to test this latest major update to Fedora Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-38-Beta)
2023-03-14T14:45:12Z	**ASUS Unveils The Tinker V As Their First RISC-V Board**
For over a half-decade ASUS has been selling the Thinker Board devices as their line of Raspberry Pi alternatives. To date the ASUS Tinker Board single board computers have all been Arm-based while now they have launched their first RISC-V board, the Tinker V... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-Tinker-V)
2023-03-14T18:00:00Z	**OpenSSL 3.1 Released With Performance Optimizations, More AVX-512**
OpenSSL 3.1 is out today as the new stable release for this widely-used cryptographic library. There are a number of performance optimizations to enjoy with OpenSSL 3.1, including some additional AVX-512 tuning... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-3.1-Released)
2023-03-14T19:00:00Z	**ASUS Unveils The Tinker V As Their First RISC-V Board**
For over a half-decade ASUS has been selling the Thinker Board devices as their line of Raspberry Pi alternatives. To date the ASUS Tinker Board single board computers have all been Arm-based while now they have launched their first RISC-V board, the Tinker V... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-Tinker-V)
2023-03-14T20:50:00Z	**Intel Adds New Option To Help In Profiling Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver**
A two year old merge request finally made it to mainline today for Mesa 23.1 to enhance in profiling the open-source Mesa Vulkan drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-VLK-Headless-Swapchain)
2023-03-15T09:51:06Z	**The Qt Group Launches Qt Insight**
The Qt Group as the company behind the Qt open-source toolkit has launched Qt Insight as their newest software offering. However, Qt Insight does not appear to be open-source and is marketed as a SaaS product... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Insight-Launches)
2023-03-15T10:10:00Z	**GCC 13 Adds RISC-V T-Head Vendor Extension Collection**
Being merged today into the GCC 13 compiler is the set of T-Head vendor extensions to the RISC-V ISA. This set of vendor extensions is designed to augment the RISC-V ISA and provide faster and more energy efficient capabilities... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-13-Adds-RISC-V-XThead)
2023-03-15T10:19:00Z	**SPECFEM3D 4.0 Released With AMD HIP GPU Support**
The latest notable high performance computing (HPC) open-source project adding mainline support for AMD HIP with ROCm is SPECFEM3D... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SPECFEM3D-4.0-Released)
2023-03-15T10:38:35Z	**Open3D 0.17 Released For Open-Source 3D Data Processing**
Open3D as an open-source library for 3D data processing from 3D machine learning tasks to adaptable viewing of 3D data is out with its newest feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open3D-0.17-Released)
2023-03-15T11:00:00Z	**Linux 6.4 Looking To Drop The SLOB Memory Allocator**
A patch series is proposing that the SLOB memory allocator be removed from the Linux 6.4 kernel this summer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-Looks-To-Drop-SLOB)
2023-03-15T16:00:00Z	**Fedora Workstation 38 Is Shaping Up To Be Another Fantastic Release**
I've been playing around with the current development state of Fedora 38 the past few days on several test boxes. While only reaching Fedora 38 Beta this week, it already feels quite polished and stable. To sum it up quite simply, Fedora Workstation 38 is looking like it will be another fantastic release and continuing the modern Fedora Project trend of putting out a bleeding-edge Linux distribution yet production-ready and with far less blemishes ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-38-Beta-Thoughts)
2023-03-15T16:50:00Z	**Snapdragon-Powered Acer Aspire 1 Laptop Nearing Mainline Linux Support**
While Lenovo's ThinkPad X13s has generated a fair amount of attention for being a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC powered Arm laptop that supports running on the mainline Linux kernel, another option on the way is the Acer Aspire 1 that also makes use of a Qualcomm Soc... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Acer-Asprie-1-Snapdragon-v3)
2023-03-15T17:15:18Z	**DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay Renderer Code Published**
Last summer DreamWorks announced plans to open-source MoonRay, their production renderer used for films like The Bad Guys, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and other animated films. Today they have delivered on that exciting milestone with publishing the open-source code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMoonRay-Published)
2023-03-15T20:40:28Z	**Khronos Developing SYCL SC For Safety-Critical  C++ Heterogeneous Compute**
The SYCL single-source C++ based programming model has begun taking off with Intel investing in it heavily as part of their oneAPI / DPC++ compiler stack and a variety of different open-source projects bringing SYCL to the likes of AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, CPU-based OpenMP implementations, SYCL to Vulkan, and more for heterogeneous compute needs. The Khronos Group announced today they have begun working on SYCL SC as a safety-critical variant of this he ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Khronos-SYCL-SC)
2023-03-15T22:28:59Z	**PyTorch 2.0 Now Shipping With Better CPU & GPU Performance**
Following the PyTorch Foundation talking up PyTorch 2.0 since the end of last year, today marks the PyTorch 2.0 release officially shipping. PyTorch 2.0 has significant optimizations to "supercharge" it with better performance for both CPU and GPU modes of operation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PyTorch-2.0-Released)
2023-03-16T09:43:21Z	**Mold 1.11 High Performance Linker Released With Initial POWER10 Support**
Mold 1.11 is out as the newest version of this open-source high performance linker that rivals the likes of LLVM LLD and GNU Gold for very speedy linking across multiple CPU architectures... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-1.11-Released)
2023-03-16T09:59:42Z	**Qt 6.4.3 Released With 300+ Fixes**
Qt 6.4.3 is out today as the newest point release to this current stable series of the Qt6 tool-kit. This release is another big one with 300+ fixes in tow... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.4.3-Released)
2023-03-16T10:19:24Z	**Qualcomm Publishes Open-Source Compiler & User-Space For Their Cloud AI Accelerator**
Last month Qualcomm published updated patches for their Cloud AI 100 kernel driver to support this inference accelerator. The Qualcomm engineers said at the time that their user-space driver and associated compiler would be published shortly. That panned out and the user-space portion of this open-source AI inference stack was recently published... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-QAIC-User-Space)
2023-03-16T10:51:57Z	**NVIDIA Improving wlroots For Better Dual-GPU Gaming Performance**
A NVIDIA engineer has opened up a merge request to improve the wlroots Wayland library so compositors based on it can enjoy better gaming performance for dual-GPU systems, namely around laptops sporting a discrete NVIDIA GPU but can help other GPU hardware/drivers too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Better-wlroots-Secondary)
2023-03-16T12:30:00Z	**Linux Kernel Networking Driver Development Impacted By Russian Sanctions**
The US and western government sanctions around the Russian government and its defense industry/companies due to their war in Ukraine has caused interesting issues in the open-source world. A few days after ipmitool was archived/suspended on GitHub that turned out to be due to the current maintainer's affiliation with a Russian tech company, separately there is now a blocking of Linux kernel contributions from selected Russian developers ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-STMAC-Russian-Sanctions)
2023-03-16T13:00:00Z	**Linux Kernel Networking Driver Development Impacted By Russian Sanctions**
The US and western government sanctions around the Russian government and its defense industry/companies due to their war in Ukraine has caused interesting issues in the open-source world. A few days after ipmitool was archived/suspended on GitHub that turned out to be due to the current maintainer's affiliation with a Russian tech company, separately there is now a blocking of Linux kernel contributions from selected Russian developers ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-STMAC-Russian-Sanctions)
2023-03-16T12:55:26Z	**AMDVLK 2023.Q1.3 Released With Various Fixes, TMZ For RDNA2 & Newer**
It's been nearly one month since AMDVLK 2023.Q1.2 as AMD's latest open-source Vulkan driver code drop while today it was replaced by AMDVLK 2023.Q1.3 as what will likely be their last Vulkan driver update for the quarter... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2023.Q1.3)
2023-03-16T16:00:22Z	**Linux 6.4 DRM To See New "imx25" Driver, 4K Support For Rockchip Display Driver**
Another set of drm-misc-next patches were submitted today for queuing in DRM-Next until the Linux 6.4 merge window kicks off this spring... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-imx25-Rockchip-4K)
2023-03-16T16:36:07Z	**Amazon Linux 2023 Reaches GA, Built Atop Fedora**
AWS released Amazon Linux 2023 "AL2023" as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution that is available to Amazon EC2 customers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Amazon-Linux-2023)
2023-03-16T17:29:12Z	**Steam Deck Goes On Sale For Steam's Spring Sale**
Valve today started their first-ever Steam Spring Sale that runs through next week. In addition to sales on games, this is the first time Valve has offered the Steam Deck at a discounted price... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-2023-Spring-Sale)
2023-03-16T20:50:36Z	**The First Bits Of Wine's Wayland Driver Were Merged**
The first code has landed into Wine Git as part of the multi-year effort creating a Wayland driver for Wine so that the Windows games/applications running via Wine can enjoy native Wayland support. This isn't yet usable for end-users/gamers but is the early implementation with more parts to follow... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-First-Code-Merged)
2023-03-17T09:27:18Z	**Debian 12 "Bookworm" Enters Its Hard Freeze**
Following last month's soft freeze for Debian 12 "Bookworm", this popular Linux distribution is now in its hard freeze until its release time... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-12-Hard-Freeze)
2023-03-17T09:48:34Z	**Codon Looks Very Promising For Super-Fast Python Code**
While there is Pyston, PyPy, and various other alternative Python implementations being done in the name of performance, Codon is one of the newer ones and is talking up 10~100x faster performance... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Codon-Faster-Python)
2023-03-17T10:18:19Z	**Intel Thunder Bay Is Officially Canceled, Linux Driver Code To Be Removed**
I hadn't heard any mentions of Intel's Thunder Bay in quite a while besides the occasional Linux kernel patch while now it has been officially confirmed as a cancelled Intel product and the Linux driver code being worked on the past 2+ years is on the chopping block... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thunder-Bay-Cancelled)
2023-03-17T10:23:19Z	**Intel Thunder Bay Is Officially Canceled, Linux Driver Code To Be Removed**
I hadn't heard any mentions of Intel's Thunder Bay in quite a while besides the occasional Linux kernel patch while now it has been officially confirmed as a cancelled Intel product and the Linux driver code being worked on the past 2+ years is on the chopping block... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thunder-Bay-Cancelled)
2023-03-17T10:43:28Z	**Intel Prepares More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 6.4**
Last week following the Linux 6.3-rc1 release Intel engineers already began sending new Intel i915 driver feature code to DRM-Next for queuing until the Linux 6.4 merge window in early May. This week another batch of "drm-intel-gt-next" material was submitted... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-6.4-More-GT-Next)
2023-03-17T10:51:19Z	**Intel Thunder Bay Is Officially Canceled, Linux Driver Code To Be Removed**
I hadn't heard any mentions of Intel's Thunder Bay in quite a while besides the occasional Linux kernel patch while now it has been officially confirmed as a cancelled Intel product and the Linux driver code being worked on the past 2+ years is on the chopping block... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thunder-Bay-Cancelled)
2023-03-17T11:00:00Z	**Still Have A Use For Adobe Flash? Ruffle Is Working To Safely Emulate It In Rust**
While Adobe Flash is officially -- and thankfully -- dead, those interested in Adobe Flash Player for nostalgia or archival purposes, Ruffle is working to emulate Adobe Flash support via this open-source project making use of the Rust programming language... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ruffle-Adobe-Flash-Rust)
2023-03-17T14:30:00Z	**Amazon Linux 2023 Is Running Well, Boosting EC2 Performance Over Amazon Linux 2**
For those currently making use of Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) as the operating system for Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, the newly-released Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) is delivering some worthwhile speed-ups for maximizing your performance and value in their public cloud. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amazon-linux-2023)
2023-03-17T17:58:16Z	**Firmware Assisted Shadowing Code Posted For AMD RDNA3 - Needed For SR-IOV**
A new patch series posted today is of interest and is for firmware-assisted shadowing for AMD RDNA3 (GFX11) graphics processors as it's necessary for proper SR-IOV support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-FW-Assisted-Shadow-GFX11)
2023-03-17T22:23:02Z	**Wine 8.4 Released With The Early Wayland Graphics Driver Code, 51 Bug Fixes**
Wine 8.4 is out as the newest version of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.4-Released)
2023-03-18T09:53:38Z	**KDE Delivers More Wayland Fixes & Plasma 6.0 Changes This Week**
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary that highlights all of the interesting desktop changes made over the course of the past seven days. This week he particularly calls out more Wayland fixes -- a common occurrence in the KDE camp... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-More-Wayland-Fixes-March)
2023-03-18T10:24:37Z	**LLVM 16.0 Released With New Intel/AMD CPU Support, More C++20 / C2X Features**
LLVM 16 was released on Friday night as the latest half-year feature release to this open-source compiler stack. From initial AMD Zen 4 support to bringing up new Intel CPU instruction sets and processor targets for their new processors being introduced through 2024, there is a lot of exciting hardware additions in LLVM 16.0. LLVM 16.0 is also notable for faster LLD linking, Zstd compressed debug sections, stabilizing of its LoongArch target,  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-16.0-Released)
2023-03-18T10:52:07Z	**Linux 6.4 AMD Graphics Driver Picking Up New Power Features For The Steam Deck**
A pull request of early AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes was submitted for DRM-Next on Friday as some of the early feature work accumulating for the Linux 6.4 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux-6.4-Steam-Deck-PWR)
2023-03-18T16:12:40Z	**XCP-ng Initating Effort To Rewrite Xen Components In Rust**
The focus of this new effort isn't to immediately rewrite the Xen virtualization hypervisor in Rust but to begin gradually working toward rewriting some of the smaller Xen Project components in the Rust programming language and to see how everything pans out... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xen-Rust-Start)
2023-03-18T17:00:00Z	**AMD P-State Guided Autonomous Mode Coming For Linux 6.4**
While Linux 6.3 adds AMD P-State EPP as the "Energy Performance Preference" mode for enhancing the power/performance on recent Ryzen and EPYC systems on Linux, with Linux 6.4 the P-State Guided Autonomous Mode is coming to round out AMD's current CPU frequency scaling driver efforts... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-GAM-Linux-6.4)
2023-03-19T13:01:57Z	**FreeBSD 13.2-RC3 Released With OpenSSH 9.3, Major Performance Fix For Makefs**
The third and potentially last release candidate of FreeBSD 13.2 is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable 13.2-RELEASE around the end of March... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-13.2-RC3)
2023-03-19T13:20:26Z	**Serpent OS Build Infrastructure Launched**
Serpent OS as the new Linux distribution project by Solus Linux founder Ikey Doherty has made public its build infrastructure as it begins building more packages and opening up packaging work to outside contributors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Serpent-OS-Build-Infrastructure)
2023-03-19T13:42:23Z	**Linux 6.3-rc3 Adding Protection From Malicious Guests Hammering AMD's Secure Processor**
A change sent in this Sunday ahead of the Linux 6.3-rc3 release is a late addition adding a throttling mechanism to protect the hypervisor from potentially malicious AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) guests. The change is to protect the AMD Secure Processor from being potentially overloaded with requests by nefarious guest VMs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-AMD-SEV-Throttling)
2023-03-19T14:20:00Z	**Libreboot 20230319 Released With ThinkPad T530/W530 Support**
Libreboot 20230319 has been released as the downstream of Coreboot focused on providing only pure open-source firmware replacements to proprietary BIOS/UEFI platforms compared to all the blobs permitted in upstream Coreboot... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Libreboot-20230319)
2023-03-19T20:56:17Z	**Linux 6.3-rc3 Released: It's "Fairly Big"**
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.3-rc3 as the latest weekly test candidate for the in-development Linux 6.3 kernel that is slated to debut as stable toward the end of April... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-rc3-Released)
2023-03-20T09:46:14Z	**Dragonfly 1.0 Released For What Claims To Be The World's Fastest In-Memory Data Store**
Dragonfly as what's a high performnace in-memory database compatible with the Memcached and Redis APIs has reached version 1.0... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dragonflydb-1.0-Released)
2023-03-20T10:06:58Z	**curl 8.0 Released To Celebrate Project's 25th Birthday**
The open-source cURL project providing the widely-used curl CLI program for downloading of data across numerous network protoocols along with its associated library is celebrating 25 years of the project. As part of the celebrations, curl 8.0 was released today... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/curl-8.0-Released)
2023-03-20T10:16:11Z	**Intel Compute Runtime Updated With Initial Xe Kernel Driver Support**
Getting back on track for its new release rhythm, Intel today published the Compute-Runtime 23.05.25593.11 version along with the Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.13230.7... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Compute-Runtime-Xe-DRM)
2023-03-20T10:33:18Z	**Apache CloudStack 4.18 LTS Released For Launching Your Own Cloud**
Apache CloudStack 4.18 LTS has been released as the newest version of this open-source cloud computing software that allows building out your own cloud atop various hypervisors and allows easy management for large networks of VMs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apache-CloudStack-4.18-LTS)
2023-03-20T11:00:00Z	**Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids Code Continues Landing For Coreboot**
More Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" code was merged this weekend into Coreboot as part of enabling this latest generation Intel server platform to enjoy this open-source system firmware solution when paired with the necessary Intel FSP binaries... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SPR-More-Coreboot)
2023-03-20T12:14:38Z	**Ubuntu's Mir 2.13 Released With Wayland Updates, Other Enhancements**
Ahead of next month's Ubuntu 23.04 release, Canonical has published Mir 2.13 as the latest version of their software project that in its current incarnation is focused on serving as a Wayland compositor and abstraction layer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Mir-2.13-Released)
2023-03-20T17:00:00Z	**The Current Intel Arc Graphics Linux Gaming Performance On Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.1-dev**
Last week I shared my findings over the great state of Intel's open-source compute stack for Arc Graphics now that the DG2/Alchemist support was promoted to stable in Linux 6.2 and the Compute-Runtime user-space stack for OpenCL and Level Zero is back to seeing regular updates with that code having matured particularly well. Here is a brief look at the current state of the Linux gaming performance for Arc Graphics on Linux 6.2 and mak ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-march23)
2023-03-20T18:00:02Z	**GNU Coreutils 9.2 - Now Avoids cp/mv Allocating Too Much Memory**
GNU Coreutils 9.2 is out today as the newest feature update to this widely relied upon collection of cure utilities commonly found on Linux systems as well as other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.2)
2023-03-20T20:45:00Z	**36+ More ASUS Motherboards Will Enjoy Sensor Monitoring Support With Linux 6.4**
In addition to the ASUS Z590 motherboards seeing sensor monitoring support with patches queued for Linux 6.4 that were talked about earlier this month on Phoronix, the latest nct6775 driver activity now queued in the hardware monitoring subsystem's hwmon-next branch is allowing support for another three dozen ASUS motherboards... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-nct6775-More-ASUS)
2023-03-21T09:35:12Z	**Labwc 0.6.2 Released For Openbox-Inspired Wayland Compositor**
Labwc 0.6.2 was released on Monday as the newest version of this wlroots-based window-stacking Wayland compositor that is inspired by Openbox... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/labwc-0.6.2-Released)
2023-03-21T09:51:41Z	**Trisquel 11 LTS Released As Ubuntu-Based, FSF-Approved Linux Distribution**
Trisquel 11 is now available as the latest major release for this one of a few Free Software Foundation (FSF) approved Linux distributions that is "100% libre" and meets all of the fully free software requirements. Trisquel 11 is re-based against Ubuntu 22.04 LTS while making various other changes in the process... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Trisquel-11-Released)
2023-03-21T10:20:05Z	**Intel's Habana Labs Accelerator Driver Readying More Gaudi2 Code For Linux 6.4**
With the Linux 6.3 kernel the Habana Labs AI driver has moved to the new "accel" accelerator subsystem/framework while for the Linux 6.4 cycle this summer this Intel driver is continuing to speed ahead as it prepares support for the new Gaudi2 AI hardware and making other improvements for this open-source training/inference stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Habana-Labs-Linux-6.4-1)
2023-03-21T10:30:20Z	**Linux VGEM Driver Rewritten In Rust Sent Out For Review**
Besides the ongoing work around the reverse-engineered Apple Silicon graphics driver being brought up in the Rust programming language, the other notable Rust effort within the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel subsystem is a rewrite of the basic VGEM driver in this increasingly-used programming language. That Rust VGEM driver has now been sent out on the mailing list for review as part of a request for comments... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Rust-VGEM-Rewrite-RFC)
2023-03-21T12:26:44Z	**Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress On Apple Silicon Graphics, Promising OpenGL Speed**
Asahi Linux developer Asahi Lina has posted an update on the ongoing work bringing up their Rust-written DRM kernel driver along with the AGX Gallium3D Mesa OpenGL driver as well as progress towards the in-development Vulkan driver too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-Graphics-March-2023)
2023-03-21T12:37:35Z	**Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Begins Running Game While Using GSP Firmware**
Red Hat developer David Airlie has shown off the progress being made on bringing up not only the open-source Mesa NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" but doing so while making use of the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware that ultimately is needed for being able to deliver better open-source driver support and performance... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Running-Talos-13-FPS)
2023-03-21T12:50:35Z	**Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Begins Running Game While Using GSP Firmware**
Red Hat developer David Airlie has shown off the progress being made on bringing up not only the open-source Mesa NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" but doing so while making use of the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware that ultimately is needed for being able to deliver better open-source driver support and performance... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Running-Talos-13-FPS)
2023-03-21T15:23:28Z	**OpenJDK Java 20 Released With Latest Vector API, Scoped Values**
Promoted to general availability (GA) status today is the OpenJDK Java 20 update with a number of new features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenJDK-Java-20-GA)
2023-03-21T17:00:00Z	**Intel CET Shadow Stack Support Set To Be Introduced With Linux 6.4**
After being in development for years, Intel's shadow stack support is set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle. The shadow stack support is part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) security functionality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-Shadow-Stack-Coming)
2023-03-21T18:05:23Z	**Raja Koduri Departing Intel To Start New Software Company**
Prominent Intel leader Raja Koduri who currently serves as the company's Chief Architect is leaving to focus on a new software start-up... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raja-Koduri-Leaving-Intel)
2023-03-21T19:30:00Z	**PCMCIA/CardBus To USB Drivers On The Chopping Block With Linux 6.4**
Earlier this month I wrote about Linux 6.4 planning to start removing old, unused, and unmaintained PCMCIA drivers. That began with the PCMCIA "char" drivers queued for removal in this upcoming kernel cycle and now joining them are removing tow PCMCIA/CardBus to USB adapter drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-CardBus-USB-Dropping)
2023-03-22T07:00:00Z	**Intel, RADV & NVIDIA Jump On Supporting Vulkan's New VK_KHR_map_memory2**
Introduced last week with the Vulkan 1.3.244 spec update was a new extension, VK\_KHR\_map\_memory2, which is seeing fast support from the open-source Intel "ANV" and Mesa Radeon "RADV" drivers as well as NVIDIA's newest Vulkan driver beta... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-VK_KHR_map_memory2)
2023-03-22T10:19:13Z	**AMD Adds Basic RPC Mechanism To LLVM libc For GPUs**
AMD has upstreamed a basic RPC (remote procedure call) mechanism for GPU use to LLVM's libc and wired it up for AMDGPU use... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-LLVM-libc-RPC)
2023-03-22T11:37:30Z	**Linux 6.2 Kernel Begins Rolling Out For Ubuntu 23.04**
Canonical has been preparing to ship a Linux 6.2 based kernel for Ubuntu 23.04 and now it's in the process of rolling out over the coming days... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.2-Ubuntu-23.04-Rolling)
2023-03-22T12:08:57Z	**Canonical Preparing Updated Ubuntu Font For Ubuntu 23.04**
Canonical is preparing to ship an updated set of Ubuntu Font files for the Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" release but is hoping to see more user testing ahead of the official release next month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.04-Updated-Font)
2023-03-22T13:54:36Z	**Mozilla Announces Mozilla.ai For "Trustworthy AI"**
Mozilla announced today they are investing $30 million USD to build Mozilla.ai as a new start-up focused on "building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem.".. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla.ai)
2023-03-22T14:26:13Z	**KDE XWayland Video Bridge Aims To Improve Linux Desktop Screen Sharing**
KDE developers David Edmundson and Alex Poi have begun working on XWaylandVideoBridge as a new project to help improve Linux desktop screen sharing for X11-based applications that may try to share the contents of Wayland screens, such as could be the case for some software like Discord, Microsoft Teams, Skype, and others... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-XWaylandVideoBridge)
2023-03-22T15:01:18Z	**GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements**
GNOME 44 is now officially out as the latest half-year update to this widely-used open-source desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-44-Released)
2023-03-22T16:00:00Z	**XWayland 23.1 Released With High Resolution Scroll Wheel, DMA-BUF v4 Feedback**
Coincidentally landing on GNOME 44 release day is also XWayland 23.1, the newest version of this portion of the X.Org Server code that allows legacy X11 client applications/games to run atop Wayland environments. With XWayland 23.1 comes a number of shiny new features to continue to enhance the X11 experience on Wayland... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-23.1)
2023-03-22T16:50:40Z	**Valve Officially Announces Counter-Strike 2**
Following recent rumors and leaks, Valve today officially announced Counter-Strike 2 that they annoucne as the largest technical leap in Counter-Strike's history... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Counter-Strike-2)
2023-03-22T22:12:48Z	**Google Chrome/Chromium Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support**
On top of today seeing the KDE XWaylandVideoBridge announcement, the debut of GNOME 44 with its many Wayland improvements, and XWayland 23.1 being released with multiple new features/improvements, there is more good news for Wayland fans. Google has merged to the Chrome/Chromium Ozone code support for Wayland fractional scaling via the fractional-scale-v1 protocol... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-fractional-scale-v1)
2023-03-23T09:59:39Z	**X.Org Needs More People To Run For The Board**
The X.Org Board of Directors has delayed their election process by two weeks in hopes of having more candidates nominated to run for the board as currently they do not have enough candidates to start an election... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Board-More-People-2023)
2023-03-23T10:13:25Z	**MoltenVK 1.2.3 Released For Continuing To Enhance Vulkan Atop iOS/macOS**
A new version of MoltenVK has been released, the open-source library that maps the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal API for making use of this industry standard graphics/compute API on modern iOS and macOS devices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MoltenVK-1.2.3-Released)
2023-03-23T10:30:00Z	**Zhaoxin Beginning Work Bringing Up "Yongfeng" CPU Support For The Linux Kernel**
Chinese fabless semiconductor company Zhaoxin, which was started ten years ago as a joint venture between VIA and the Shanghai Municipal Government to create domestic x86 CPUs, is now in the process of working on supporting their newest Yongfeng processors with the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zhaoxin-Yongfeng-Linux-Start)
2023-03-23T12:13:14Z	**Proxmox VE 7.4 Released With Linux 5.15 LTS + Linux 6.2 Support, New Dark Theme**
Out today is a new version of the Proxmox Virtual Environment as the hyper-converged infrastructure software with hosted hypervisor... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proxmox-VE-7.4)
2023-03-23T12:28:26Z	**Intel LAM Will Try Again For Linux 6.4**
Intel's Linear Address Masking (LAM) functionality to make use of untranslated address bits of 64-bit linear addresses for arbitrary metadata is aiming to be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LAM-Trying-For-Linux-6.4)
2023-03-23T12:56:32Z	**Mesa 23.1 RADV Gets Vulkan Mesh/Task Shaders Working For AMD RDNA3 GPUs**
Thanks to the work of Timur Kristóf on Valve's Linux graphics driver team, the RADV driver in Mesa 23.1 this morning received support for Vulkan mesh and task shaders for Radeon RX 7000 series "RDNA3" graphics processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Mesh-Shaders-RDNA3)
2023-03-23T14:10:49Z	**NVIDIA 530.41.03 Linux Driver Released With IBT Kernel Support, Vulkan Video**
One month ago NVIDIA released the 530 series Linux driver beta while today it's been promoted to stable with the NVIDIA 530.41.03 driver release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-530.41.03-Linux-Driver)
2023-03-23T14:39:18Z	**Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS Released With Restored UEFI Secure Boot Support**
Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS is available today as the newest point release for those continuing to employ this older long-term support releases... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-20.04.6-LTS)
2023-03-23T17:00:00Z	**Orange Pi 5 Is A Great & Very Fast Alternative To The Raspberry Pi 4**
With an 8-core Rockchip RK3588S SoC, the Orange Pi 5 is leaps and bounds faster than the aging Raspberry Pi 4. With up to 32GB of RAM, the Orange Pi 5 is also capable of serving for a more diverse user-base and even has enough potential for assembling a budget Arm Linux developer desktop. I've been testing out the Orange Pi 5 the past few weeks and it's quite fast and nice for its low price point. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/orange-pi-5)
2023-03-23T19:30:00Z	**AMD's HIPRT Working Its Way To Blender With ~25% Faster Rendering**
While not part of the upcoming Blender 3.5 release, AMD engineers are working to land their HIP ray-tracing (HIPRT) support within the Blender open-source 3D modeling software that will offer nice rendering speed-ups for AMD RDNA2/RDNA3 GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HIPRT-Blender-Coming)
2023-03-24T04:00:00Z	**OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out GCC 13**
While GCC 13 is working its way toward its official GCC 13.1 stable release in the next few weeks, with this week's openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling-release updates it has already begun switching over to this major annual compiler update... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-GCC-13)
2023-03-24T10:26:56Z	**AMDGPU Linux Driver Gets Ready For eDP 1.5 Panels With 6.75 Gbps/Lane**
Sent out today were the latest AMDGPU Display Core "DC" patches having the latest work done by AMD internally on this display/monitor portion of their driver code. Notable with this round of 19 patches is preparation work for upcoming eDP 1.5 laptop displays... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-eDP-1.5-6.75-Gbps)
2023-03-24T10:37:37Z	**Intel Prepares More Meteor Lake Graphics Code For Linux 6.4**
Intel's open-source engineers continue to be quite busy working on their Meteor Lake enablement ahead of those initial mobile processors shipping later this year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-Meteor-Lake-Linux-6.4)
2023-03-24T12:44:00Z	**Intel Arc Graphics Show Good Potential For Linux Workstation OpenGL Performance**
Recently I provided a fresh look at the Intel Arc Graphics Linux gaming performance with the newest open-source drivers. While it was a letdown with some of the newer Steam Play games still not working due to current limitations of the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver and some Vulkan performance issues in other titles, one area that stood out was the very good Linux OpenGL performance. That made me curious to look at the workstati ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-graphics-ws)
2023-03-24T14:15:21Z	**Wine's VKD3D 1.7 Implements More Direct3D 12 Functionality Atop Vulkan**
Not to be confused with Valve's downstream, VKD3D-Proton, that is used by Steam Play but Wine's VKD3D codebase itself is out today with a new version of this Direct3D 12 on Vulkan implementation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-VKD3D-1.7)
2023-03-24T14:40:00Z	**AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 "FSR 3" Will Be Open-Source**
AMD has been teasing FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) as the latest version of their game upscaling tech that will be released later in the year. AMD began showing off FSR 3 to game developers this week at GDC while also re-affirming their open-source commitment... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-FSR3-Open-Source-MIT)
2023-03-24T14:48:00Z	**AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 "FSR 3" Will Be Open-Source**
AMD has been teasing FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) as the latest version of their game upscaling tech that will be released later in the year. AMD began showing off FSR 3 to game developers this week at GDC while also re-affirming their open-source commitment... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-FSR3-Open-Source-MIT)
2023-03-24T17:28:48Z	**Intel XeSS SDK 1.1 Released**
The Intel XeSS SDK 1.0 release happened last September while now has been succeeded by XeSS SDK 1.1. Though like the prior release, the XeSS SDK isn't fully open-source with just the bits around game integration being public... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XeSS-SDK-1.1-Released)
2023-03-25T10:25:53Z	**AMD Sends Out Patches For Enabling New Graphics IP Blocks (NBIO 7.9, GMC 9.4.3)**
AMD on Friday sent out new patches for enabling some new graphics IP "blocks" as part of their block-by-block enablement strategy they've been using to introduce new GPU support to their Linux graphics stack by focusing on smaller patch series with versioned parts of the GPU rather than big monolithic patch series with colorful fishy codenames... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-NBIO-7.9-GMC-9.4.3)
2023-03-25T10:53:17Z	**MidnightBSD 3.0 Available With Many Software Updates & Fixes**
MidnightBSD as the desktop-focused OS forked from FreeBSD and relying on the Xfce desktop environment by default is out with its big MidnightBSD 3.0 update... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MidnightBSD-3.0-Released)
2023-03-25T11:17:53Z	**Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution Continues Cultivating More Packages**
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution that they make public, CBL-Mariner, began with a very niche focus while over time has continued adding additional packages as it is worked into becoming a more robust Linux platform... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MS-CBL-Mariner-2.0.20230321)
2023-03-25T12:50:46Z	**Lenovo Flex 5G / Qualcomm SC8180x Support Being Worked On For Mainline Linux**
In addition to the mainline Linux kernel seeing recent support for the Arm-powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s and Lenovo Yoga C630, among others, another Lenovo model working toward mainline kernel support is the Lenovo Flex 5G... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Flex-5G-Linux-Mainline)
2023-03-25T17:36:54Z	**FreeBSD 13.2-RC4 Released With Fixed Suspend/Resume For Some Laptops**
FreeBSD 13.2-RC4 is now available with a few more fixes for this BSD operating system update. A FreeBSD 13.2-RC5 release is also inbound as an extra release candidate with one more bug fix, after which the stable release should happen... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-13.2-RC4-Released)