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A few days ago with the main RISC-V architecture pull for Linux 6.10 was enabling Rust support within the kernel for this ISA as well as other additions. A secondary set of RISC-V changes have been merged as well ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window closing this weekend... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-RISC-V-Image-Comp) 2024-05-25T13:45:00Z **Linux 6.10 Improves AMD ROCm Compute Support For "Small" Ryzen APUs**
Sneaking in as a "fix" for the Linux 6.10 kernel is an enhancement to the AMDKFD kernel compute driver used by the ROCm compute stack for better supporting small Ryzen APUs like client and embedded SoCs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-AMDKFD-Small-APUs) 2024-05-26T10:01:39Z **Modern NTFS Driver Delivers Bug Fixes For Linux 6.10**
While not as exciting as XFS expanding its online repair support, Bcachefs prepping for online fsck, Btrfs seeing some performance work, or F2FS improving zoned storage support, the modern NTFS driver "NTFS3" saw a set of fixes land for the Linux 6.10 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-NTFS-Fixes) 2024-05-26T10:15:17Z **Nouveau DRM_Panic Being Worked On For Linux "Blue Screen Of Death" Type Situations**
Merged for Linux 6.10 is DRM\_Panic as a kernel panic screen for situations akin to Windows' well known "Blue Screen of Death". This is a kernel-based panic screen as an alternative to systemd's recent systemed-bsod. Patches have been posted by Red Hat for allowing the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Direct Rendering Manager driver to work with DRM Panic... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-DRM-Panic-Patches) 2024-05-26T10:30:29Z **Updated Patches For AMD "Fast CPPC" To Yield Higher Performance At Same Power Level**
One of the patch series that sadly was not ready in time for the Linux 6.10 merge window and thus will need to wait a few months for at least the next kernel is enabling AMD Fast CPPC support for Zen 4 processors. Fast CPPC aims to allow the processor to deliver higher performance at the same power consumption... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Fast-CPPC-v4-Linux) 2024-05-26T10:59:13Z **Linux 6.10 Supports NUMA Balancing For Multi-Size THPs**
With the memory management "MM" updates merged for the Linux 6.10 there is now NUMA balancing support for multi-size transparent hugepages (THPs). This is yielding some nice performance results and there is also other work in this new kernel around multi-size THPs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-MM) 2024-05-26T13:50:19Z **Intel NPU Driver Being Refactored For More Versatile CPU+NPU Handling**
Intel's open-source NPU "iVPU" Linux kernel driver for supporting their Neural Processing Unit beginning with Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors is already seeing a code refactoring. The refactoring of this Intel accelerator driver is intended for allowing more versatile CPU and NPU combinations moving forward... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-iVPU-Refactoring) 2024-05-26T22:38:15Z **Linux 6.10-rc1 Kernel Released With Many New Features**
The Linux 6.10-rc1 kernel was just released to top off the Linux 6.10 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-rc1) 2024-05-27T10:26:31Z **An End-User Has Made It Easier To Build ROCm & AMD GPU Machine Learning Software**
An end-user and Phoronix reader has taken up creating his own AMD ROCm SDK build system to make it easier to setup a machine learning software stack from scratch on AMD Radeon GPUs under Linux. This open-source build system pulls in the AMD ROCm source code as well as AMD GPU-accelerated tools like PyTorch and ONNX and makes it easier to deploy and without having to rely on Docker or other solutions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Making-ROCm-Build-Easier) 2024-05-27T10:55:09Z **Linux Patches Posted For Enabling A 22 x 35 mm RISC-V / ARM Board**
Linux kernel patches were posted today for enabling Linux to boot on the LicheeRV Nano, a mini single board computer that comes in at a mere 22.86 x 35.56 mm. As interesting as the size with this SBC is the Sophgo SG2002 SoC that features a mix of RISC-V and ARM cores... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LicheeRV-Nano-Linux-Patches) 2024-05-27T13:44:01Z **AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.1 Improves Raspberry Pi Support**
AMD by way of their GPUOpen group have released version 3.1 of the open-source Vulkan Memory Allocator... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-Memory-Allocator-3.1) 2024-05-27T14:37:08Z **Intel Releases ISPC 1.24 With New AVX-VNNI & AVX512-VNNI Targets**
The Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) is out with a new version today for this C programming language variant that features SPMD programming extensions. Intel ISPC aims to make it easy to take advantage of SIMD capabilities on their modern processors as well as GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ISPC-1.24-Released) 2024-05-27T17:23:44Z **Intel Performance Limit Reasons For Linux To Report Why Your CPU Is Downclocking**
Intel Performance Limit Reasons (PLR) can indicate why your CPU is downclocking / limited to a lower performance limit for a given core or die. With some Windows utilities this information this Intel CPU feature has been available there while now Intel is bringing PLR support to Linux too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Perf-Limit-Reasons-Linux) 2024-05-27T21:27:40Z **FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 Adds More Packages To The DVD Images - Including The Sway Compositor**
FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 is now available for testing as this incremental update to FreeBSD 14 prepares for its stable release in June... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.1-RC1-Released) 2024-05-28T09:58:54Z **Ubuntu 24.04 Now Available For The Milk-V Mars RISC-V Single Board Computer**
Canonical announced this morning an optimized Ubuntu 24.04 image for the Milk-V Mars, a "credit card sized" RISC-V single board computer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Milk-V-Mars) 2024-05-28T10:38:32Z **ASUS Linux Driver Adding Ability To Toggle CPU Cores, APU Memory Settings & dGPU TGP**
The ASUS WMI platform driver for Linux that is predominantly used by ASUS laptops for enabling more functionality under Linux has a new patch series available that is enabling yet more features for the latest ASUS hardware on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-Linux-Cores-APU-Mem-TGP) 2024-05-28T12:54:17Z **TPM HMAC Encryption Being Pulled Back To x86_64 By Default For Linux 6.10**
One of the new security features coming with Linux 6.10 is TPM bus encryption and integrity protection to fend off a wave of possible attacks against Trusted Platform Module recovery keys, TPM sniffing, etc. This functionality was merged for the Linux 6.10 merge window but is now being pulled back to x86\_64-only by default where it's been sufficiently tested... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/TPM-HMAC-Encrypt-x86_64) 2024-05-28T14:06:35Z **AlmaLinux 8.10 Released With Support Re-Enabled For Some Older Hardware**
For those continuing to rely on the Enterprise Linux 8 series, AlmaLinux 8.10 has made its stable debut this morning as the newest version of this community-oriented operating system derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-8.10-Released) 2024-05-28T16:26:57Z **Linux cpupower Tool Fix Coming For AMD Zen 5 CPUs**
Sent out today as a fix for the Linux kernel's in-tree "cpupower" utility is properly handling P-State frequency reporting for upcoming AMD Zen 5 processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-cpupower-Fix-AMD-Zen-5) 2024-05-28T18:05:57Z **Crucial Pro DDR5-6000 32GB Memory Kit**
Crucial last week announced the launch of their newest Crucial DDR5 Pro Memory: Overclocking (OC) Edition in white heatspreader form. Crucial recently sent over a pair of these 2 x 16GB Crucial Pro DDR5-6000 UDIMM memory kits that we've been putting through the paces with Intel Core i9 14900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X systems. These new Crucial Pro DIMMs have been working out very well and align with the great quality we've long enjoyed from Crucial/Micron. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/crucial-pro-ddr5-6000) 2024-05-28T18:18:27Z **Chrome 127 Should Provide PipeWire Camera Capture Support**
The Google Chrome/Chromium 127 web browser release should finally provide support for PipeWire camera capturing support!.. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-127-PipeWire-Capture) 2024-05-28T18:33:46Z **Microsoft Starts Preparing Its Open-Source DirectX Shader Compiler For "HLSL 202x"**
Microsoft's open-source DirectX Shader Compiler that is open-source and derived from the LLVM/Clang compiler infrastructure is out with a significant new release as it begins preparing for "HLSL 202x" as a big leap for the High-Level Shader Language... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MS-HLSL-202x-Prep-Compiler) 2024-05-28T20:34:29Z **Xe2 Ray-Tracing & More Intel Lunar Lake Enabling Land In Mesa 24.2**
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be quite busy preparing their Xe kernel driver and Mesa user-space ANV Vulkan / Iris Gallium3D driver for upcoming Lunar Lake processors. Merged today for Mesa 24.2-devel is more Lunar Lake platform enablement work plus early support for ray-tracing with the integrated Xe2 graphics. However, more work is still needed before this Lunar Lake / Xe2 support will be ready for end-us ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.2-More-Intel-Lunar-Lake) 2024-05-29T00:34:06Z **SVT-AV1 2.1 Released With Yet More Performance Improvements**
SVT-AV1 that started out as an open-source AV1 video encoder at Intel and more recently an an Alliance of Open Media project quietly released SVT-AV1 v2.1 last week. With this new SVT-AV1 release are yet more performance optimizations and tuning... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SVT-AV1-2.1-Released) 2024-05-29T10:00:08Z **Intel Makes One Line Tweak To GCC To Fix A "Random Performance Penalty"**
Coming up on my radar today is a commit made to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for adjusting the loop alignment with Intel's generic tuning path. In turn this should address "some random performance penalty in benchmarks" with coping better around cache lines... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-GCC-Loop-Alignment) 2024-05-29T10:22:29Z **Intel's Sub-NUMA Clustering Support Linux Patches Spun A 19th Time**
The past year there's been a big Linux kernel patch series in the work by Intel to improve Sub-NUMA Clustering "SNC" support so it behaves well with Intel Resource Director Technology (RDT) on modern Intel hardware. Hopefully that work will soon be ready for mainlining in the Linux kernel while this week brought the 19th revision to those patches... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SNC-With-RDT-Linux-v19) 2024-05-29T10:41:24Z **Valve's AMD Shader Compiler "ACO" Makes More Preparations For Radeon RDNA4**
The AMD shader compiler "ACO" alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM back-end has seen another batch of changes merged in preparations for next-generation Radeon RDNA4 GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-ACO-Changes-GFX12) 2024-05-29T10:30:08Z **Intel Makes One Line Tweak To GCC To Fix A "Random Performance Penalty"**
Coming up on my radar today is a commit made to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for adjusting the loop alignment with Intel's generic tuning path. In turn this should address "some random performance penalty in benchmarks" with coping better around cache lines... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-GCC-Loop-Alignment) 2024-05-29T11:06:34Z **Canonical Developing "Flamenco" For Enhancing .NET Developer Experience On Ubuntu**
One of the newest open-source projects in-development by Ubuntu maker Canonical is a new C# written program called Flamenco... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flamenco-dot-NET-Ubuntu) 2024-05-29T12:58:14Z **KDE Launches "Opt Green" Initiative For Sustainable Software & Hardware**
KDE's Eco group announced today "Opt Green" as a new initiative for sustainable software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Opt-Green) 2024-05-29T14:39:02Z **QuestDB 8.0 Brings Up To 50% Performance Improvement, ZFS Data Compression**
QuestDB 8.0 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source time-series database. QuestDB continues to cater to high throughput ingestion and fast SQL queries so it can handle use-cases from financial data to IoT sensors. With today's QuestDB 8.0 release, it's even faster... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/QuestDB-8.0-Released) 2024-05-29T15:02:18Z **Linux 6.10 Features Include TPM Bus Encryption, More AMD Zen 5 & A Prison Letter Merge Request**
Now that the Linux 6.10 merge window has wrapped up, here's a look at all of the exciting features/changes coming to this summer 2024 kernel. Linux 6.10 brings a lot as usual for the latest/upcoming Intel and AMD platforms, never-ending work on file-systems, a new memory sealing "mseal" system call, TPM bus encryption, and dozens of other exciting changes and new hardware support. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-610-features) 2024-05-29T15:06:18Z **Linux 6.10 Features Include TPM Bus Encryption, More AMD Zen 5 & A Prison Letter Merge Request**
Now that the Linux 6.10 merge window has wrapped up, here's a look at all of the exciting features/changes coming to this summer 2024 kernel. Linux 6.10 brings a lot as usual for the latest/upcoming Intel and AMD platforms, never-ending work on file-systems, a new memory sealing "mseal" system call, TPM bus encryption, and dozens of other exciting changes and new hardware support. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-610-features) 2024-05-29T16:00:56Z **Arm Announces The Cortex-X925 & Cortex-A725**
Arm today announced the latest products in the Armv9 CPU portfolio: the Cortex-X925 as their "ultimate performance" processor and the Cortex-A725 as their processor option for sustained performance... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Cortex-X925-Cortex-A725) 2024-05-29T16:15:00Z **Linux 6.10 Features Include TPM Bus Encryption, More AMD Zen 5 & A Prison Letter Merge Request**
Now that the Linux 6.10 merge window has wrapped up, here's a look at all of the exciting features/changes coming to this summer 2024 kernel. Linux 6.10 brings a lot as usual for the latest/upcoming Intel and AMD platforms, never-ending work on file-systems, a new memory sealing "mseal" system call, TPM bus encryption, and dozens of other exciting changes and new hardware support. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-610-features) 2024-05-29T17:54:51Z **Framework Announces Intel Core Ultra Powered Laptop With 2.8k Display**
Framework is out today with some exciting announcements from lowering the price of the existing Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 series SoC to announcing a new Framework Laptop 13 powered by Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) and having a new 2.8K display with it... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Core-Ultra-Laptop) 2024-05-29T19:49:21Z **Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors**
A massive uptick in traffic to Fedora's package mirrors is causing problems for the Linux distribution. Some five million additional systems have started putting additional strain on Fedora's mirror resources since March and appear to be coming from Amazon's cloud... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AWS-Cloud-Breaks-Fedora-Mirrors) 2024-05-29T20:14:32Z **XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed**
It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin is back at the helm and has been auditing the prior XZ commits and today released XZ 5.6.2 with the backdoor completely removed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XZ-5.6.2-Released) 2024-05-30T00:23:28Z **VKD3D 1.12 Released With Support For Directly Outputting SPIR-V & D3D Shader Assembly**
While VKD3D-Proton that is bundled with Valve's Steam Play (Proton) is the most common source for mapping Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API for Windows games on Linux, Wine's VKD3D upstream continues to be developed. Out today is VKD3D 1.12 as the newest feature release for this open-source D3D12-on-Vulkan implementation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-1.12-Released) 2024-05-30T09:57:38Z **KDGpu v0.5 Vulkan Wrapper Released, KDXr Begins Wrapping OpenXR**
Last year the KDAB consulting firm typically associated with Qt work published KDGpu as a thin Vulkan wrapper to make it easier leveraging this graphics API. Out today is KDGpu v0.5 with many improvements to this Vulkan wrapper... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDGpu-0.5-Released) 2024-05-30T10:24:23Z **Intel Improving NMI Source Reporting On Linux With FRED**
As part of Intel's Flexible Return Event Delivery (FRED), Intel open-source software engineers are now working on improving Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) source reporting for the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-NMI-Source-Report) 2024-05-30T10:33:06Z **Intel Battlemage Platform Support Begins Landing In Mesa 24.2**
The Intel Battlemage discrete graphics support is beginning to come together for the open-source Linux graphics driver stack as the successor to DG2/Alchemist. In addition to all the Xe2 work for what's found with Lunar Lake, more Battlemage Linux kernel and user-space driver work has been appearing recently. The milestone crossed today is the initial Battlemage "BMG" platform support being merged for the Mesa 24.2 OpenGL/Vulkan drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Battlemage-Goes-Mesa-24.2) 2024-05-30T12:00:00Z **AMD & Intel Team Up For UALink As Open Alternative To NVIDIA's NVLink**
It's rare for an advanced media briefing to involve representatives from both AMD and Intel, but that happened yesterday. AMD and Intel along with Broadcom have formed the Ultra Accelerator Link "UALink" as a new open standard they are hoping to use to take on NVIDIA's proprietary NVLink interface... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ultra-Accelerator-Link-UALink) 2024-05-30T14:09:28Z **Yocto 5.0 LTS Released - Now Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Boeing Joins The Project**
Yocto 5.0 LTS has been released as the newest version from the Yocto Project that is popular for organizations assembling their own embedded/IoT-minded custom Linux distributions. The Linux Foundation also announced today that Boeing has become a Platinum Member with Yocto... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Yocto-5.0-Released) 2024-05-30T14:26:58Z **Servo Web Engine Continues Advancing But Seeing Just $1.6k In Monthly Donations**
The Rust-written Servo web engine as a reminder was started as a Mozilla project but then abandoned and now developed by multiple organizations as part of Linux Foundation Europe. The Servo project has put out a new status update that highlights the work accomplished in recent weeks... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Engine-May-2024) 2024-05-30T14:37:39Z **Real-Time Kernel Now Available On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS**
Similar to the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Canonical announced today the availability of their new real-time "RT" kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. But like with the existing Ubuntu RT kernels, this real-time support is limited to Ubuntu Pro subscriptions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-LTS-Real-Time) 2024-05-30T15:10:00Z **Fedora's New Web-Based Installer UI Delayed Yet Again... Now In 2025 With Fedora 42**
It's been more than two years now talking about the Anaconda installer for Fedora/RHEL shifting to a web-based UI. Going back to Fedora 37 have been previews and plans for getting this modern user interface up to parity but it's been a long road. With repeated delays, there's at least one more delay: the Anaconda web UI was just shifted from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Anaconda-Web-UI-Fedora-42) 2024-05-30T16:55:00Z **AMD EPYC 4124P Benchmarks: A Quad-Core $149 Server CPU**
Last week with the AMD EPYC 4004 review and benchmarks I tested nearly the entire product stack for these new AM5-based server processors with the EPYC 4244P (6 cores), EPYC 4344P (8 cores), EPYC 4364P (8 cores), EPYC 4464P (12 cores), EPYC 4484X (12 cores + 3D V-Cache), EPYC 4564P (16 cores), and EPYC 4584PX (16 cores + 3D V-Cache). The only EPYC 4004 class processor I wasn't able to finish testing in time was the entry-level EPYC 4124P as a 4-core processor with $1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-4124p) 2024-05-30T18:43:47Z **Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" Features For 2024**
Given Microsoft's recent BUILD conference, Microsoft has announced a number of sizable updates to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-WSL2-2024-Features) 2024-05-30T19:46:53Z **Wayland 1.23 Released With OpenBSD Support**
Simon Ser today released Wayland 1.23 for this core Wayland code that brings some minor enhancements, bug fixes, and Wayland protocol clarifications... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-1.23-Released) 2024-05-31T10:19:03Z **Kdenlive 24.05 Brings Multi-Format Rendering, Automatic Subtitle Translations**
If the recent release of Flowblade 2.16 video editor wasn't of interest to you due to being GTK-based software, the Qt/KDE-aligned Kdenlive video editor is out this week with its Kdenlive 24.05 feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kdenlive-24.05-Released) 2024-05-31T10:28:00Z **More AMDGPU Linux Firmware Published For RDNA 3+**
Last month we began seeing AMDGPU driver firmware files published for the rumored "RDNA3+" hardware as an RDNA3 refresh (also as "RDNA 3.5") for upcoming APUs. More firmware files have now landed public in linux-firmware.git for these forthcoming RDNA3 refresh products... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Firmware-More-RDNA-3.5) 2024-05-31T10:37:00Z **Bcachefs Preparing For New Features In Linux 6.11**
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet sent in a batch of file-system fixes on Thursday for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel. In that pull request he teased features that are set to arrive with the Linux 6.11 kernel later in the summer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Look-Toward-Linux-6.11) 2024-05-31T11:02:00Z **Linux 6.10 Is Making It Much Easier To Deal With Quirky Touchscreens**
Right now when dealing with quirky/buggy touchscreens a C file needs to be manually manipulated and the Linux kernel recompiled. With a new "i2c\_touchscreen\_props" kernel command line option on its way to the mainline kernel, the process of overriding touchscreen properties is dramatically easier for those dealing with Linux on touchscreen-enabled devices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Easier-Quirky-Touch) 2024-05-31T12:56:10Z **Intel Lands A Nice Memset Performance Optimization In Glibc**
Intel engineer Noah Goldstein has landed another nice performance optimization in the GNU C Library "glibc" for benefiting newer Intel processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Glibc-Memset-Perf) 2024-05-31T13:57:57Z **Dav1d 1.4.2 Provides More AVX2 & AVX-512 Performance Optimizations**
Jean-Baptiste Kempf released Dav1d 1.4.2 as the newest version of this speedy CPU-based AV1 video decoder. With this new dav1d 1.4.2 update are yet more performance optimizations for modern systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/dav1d-1.4.2-AV1-Decoder) 2024-05-31T14:06:10Z **Godot 4.3 Beta 1 Released With Native Wayland Support**
The open-source Godot game engine has worked its way up to the Godot 4.3 Beta 1 milestone with some exciting achievements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.3-Beta-1) 2024-05-31T23:14:46Z **Wine 9.10 Released With Upgrade To VKD3D 1.12, Brings DPI Awareness Improvements**
Wine 9.10 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games/applications on Linux and other operating systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.10-Released) 2024-06-01T00:38:43Z **Vulkan 1.3.286 Released With One New Extension**
Vulkan 1.3.286 was released today with a handful of corrections/clarifications as well as one new extension... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.286-Released) 2024-06-01T01:55:22Z **GNOME Shares Update On Sovereign Tech Fund & Other Development Funding**
Expressed last week was a "major issue" from the GNOME Foundation side with regard to the Sovereign Tech Fund partnership for funding a number of useful improvements to the GNOME software stack just as Germany's STF has been doing to a number of other prominent open-source projects. While there still aren't many clear public details on this "major issue", a Friday night update from the GNOME side seems to indicate all is well and they are also embarki ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-STF-Update) 2024-06-01T09:54:24Z **Debian Has Yet To Establish Firm Stance On The Use Of AI**
While the Gentoo Linux project recently established an AI policy to forbid contributions to the project made using any AI tools/assistance and NetBSD also came out with a similar policy against AI-generated code, the Debian project for now has no project-wide policy regarding AI... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-AI-Undecided) 2024-06-01T10:13:20Z **Intel Releases Updated Celeron & Pentium Silver CPU Microcode**
It's not too common for Intel to publish new CPU microcode updates outside of their "Patch Tuesday" regiment but that happened yesterday with a Friday night release of new CPU microcode although this time is limited to the Celeron and Pentium Silver families... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Celeron-Silver-Microcode) 2024-06-01T10:20:00Z **NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May**
May 2024 is now in the books with 285 original news articles written by your's truly last month along with another 14 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. It was an interesting month with some fun new hardware launches, the Linux 6.10 merge window taking place, and other open-source software progress... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/May-2024-Highlights) 2024-06-01T10:34:04Z **Intel Xe2 Brings Native 64-bit Integer Arithmetic**
As some more exciting news for upcoming Xe2 graphics with Lunar Lake integrated graphics and Battlemage discrete GPUs, the latest open-source driver activity for Linux has confirmed Xe2 supporting native 64-bit integer arithmetic... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe2-Native-64-bit-Int) 2024-06-01T10:50:04Z **Intel Xe2 Brings Native 64-bit Integer Arithmetic**
As some more exciting news for upcoming Xe2 graphics with Lunar Lake integrated graphics and Battlemage discrete GPUs, the latest open-source driver activity for Linux has confirmed Xe2 supporting native 64-bit integer arithmetic... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe2-Native-64-bit-Int) 2024-06-01T10:45:24Z **Debian Has Yet To Establish Firm Stance On The Use Of AI**
While the Gentoo Linux project recently established an AI policy to forbid contributions to the project made using any AI tools/assistance and NetBSD also came out with a similar policy against AI-generated code, the Debian project for now has no project-wide policy regarding AI... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-AI-Undecided) 2024-06-01T14:48:57Z **VCN5 AV1 Encode & More AMD RDNA4 RADV Support Land In Mesa 24.2**
It's been another busy week with the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack with continued preparations around enabling support for next-generation RDNA4 graphics (as well as continued RDNA3+ / RDNA 3.5 tuning)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-GFX12-RDNA4-Mesa-24.2) 2024-06-02T00:37:56Z **Linux Shoots Past The 2% Threshold For The Steam Survey, AMD CPU Use Breaks 75%**
When Steam on Linux debuted a decade ago it maintained around a 2% marketshare before receding and then beginning its long climb back up following the debut of Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux and then with the much anticipated Steam Deck handheld game console and the modern Arch-based SteamOS. Valve just published their May 2024 numbers for the Steam Survey and they indicate the Linux marketshare is finally back above 2% ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Steam-2024-Above-2) 2024-06-02T10:14:48Z **ASUS Announces The ROG Ally X Upgraded Handheld**
ASUS used Computex 2024 for announcing the ROG Ally X, the latest version of their handheld gaming console. The ASUS ROG Ally X continues to be powered by the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC but now having more storage, faster RAM, a larger battery, updated controls, and other refinements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Ally-X) 2024-06-02T10:30:00Z **Linux 6.10-rc2 Will Fix Booting Intel Quark CPUs & Problems With Old AMD CPUs**
Ahead of today's Linux 6.10-rc2 kerne weekly test release a few "x86/urgent" patches were submitted for addressing some fallout on Intel and AMD processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-rc2-x86-urgent) 2024-06-02T12:00:00Z **Linux 6.11 To Bring Nouveau NVreg_RegistryDwords Support, Intel NPU Enhancements**
Now past the Linux 6.10 merge window, this week brought an initial batch of drm-misc-next changes submitted to the Direct Rendering Manager subsystem's DRM-Next for queuing until the Linux 6.11 merge window opens up in July. The changes this week include a notable addition for the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver and some improvements for the Intel iVPU driver for their Neural Processing Unit (NPU)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Misc-6.11-Nouveau-Intel-NPU) 2024-06-02T13:00:00Z **Autodafe 1.0 Released For Freeing Projects Of Autotools**
Controversial free software developer Eric S Raymond has been spending a lot of time recently on the new Autodafe project as a means of free software projects from relying on Autotools. This "De-Autoconfiscation" has now led to the release of Autodafe 1.0 with the tool now being considered production-ready... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Autodafe-1.0-Released) 2024-06-02T23:00:00Z **Linux 6.10-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes**
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.0-rc2 with a busy week's worth of fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-rc2-Released) 2024-06-03T03:00:02Z **AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Announced - Zen 5 Showing Big Generational Uplift**
Arguably most exciting out of AMD's slew of Computex 2024 announcements is finally making official the Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" processors built atop the new Zen 5 cores... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-9000-Series-Zen-5) 2024-06-03T03:00:01Z **AMD Previews 5th Gen EPYC With Up To 192 Cores Per Socket**
In addition to all of the AMD client-side news during Lisa Su's keynote at Computex 2024 (see AMD Ryzen 9000 Series and AMD's Ryzen AI 300 Series Mobile APUs), the AMD CEO also teased the upcoming 5th Gen EPYC processors. AMD 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors are still on the way for releasing in H2'2024... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-5th-Gen-EPYC-Turin-192-Core) 2024-06-03T03:00:01Z **AMD's Ryzen AI 300 Series Mobile APUs Should Be Interesting For Next-Gen Laptops**
In addition to announcing the AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors powered by Zen 5, Lisa Su at Computex 2024 also announced the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series as the next-generation mobile processors powered by Zen 5 CPU cores while sporting RDNA 3.5 (also referred to as RDNA 3+ and RDNA3 refresh) integrated graphics and an XDNA 2 NPU... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI-300-Series-Zen-5) 2024-06-03T03:00:00Z **AMD Roadmaps Instinct MI325X Accelerator For Q4, Instinct MI350 In 2025**
At Computex 2024, AMD confirmed the Instinct MI325X will be released in Q4'2024 as the successor to the MI300X accelerator. Next year will be the AMD Instinct MI350 series based on the new CFNA 4 architecture. AMD is committing to an annual Instinct accelerator roadmap moving forward as they further up their AI game... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Instinct-MI325X-MI350-MI400) 2024-06-03T03:00:00Z **AMD Announces Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot For Workstations & Gen AI**
While the AMD Ryzen 9000 series (Zen 5) details are arguably the most exciting aspect of Lisa Su's keynote at Computex 2024, over on the Radeon side is the announcement of the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot graphics card intended for compact workstations and Gen AI... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Radeon-PRO-W7900-Dual-Slot) 2024-06-03T08:00:00Z **Phoronix Turns 20 Years Old This Week - Celebrate With A Premium Special**
On Wednesday, 5 June, marks 20 years since I started Phoronix.com for covering the Linux hardware ecosystem! It's sure been a long and tough journey with more remarks I'll reserve for Wednesday, but given the two decade mark, there's a Phoronix Premium special for those wishing to mark the special occasion and help ensure the site's healthy continuance into the next decade... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoronix-20th-Birthday-Special) 2024-06-03T09:54:23Z **OpenCV 4.10 Released With Many DNN Improvements, Wayland Backend For Linux**
OpenCV 4.10 is out today as the newest version of the Open Computer Vision Library for this widely-used library with machine learning support, object detection, segmentation and recognition, motion video tracking, gesture recognition, and a variety of other features important for today's diverse workloads... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCV-4.10-Released) 2024-06-03T10:22:43Z **GCC 15 Merges Support For Intel APX NF**
The latest feature work around Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) that is merged for the in-development GCC 15 compiler is supporting APX NF functionality for suppressing the update of status flags on arithmetic operations... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15-APX-NF) 2024-06-03T10:38:22Z **Up To 162% Faster AES-GCM Encryption/Decryption For Intel & AMD CPUs On Linux**
With the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel Eric Biggers of Google landed new AES-XTS implementations for much faster performance for Intel/AMD processors via new AES-NI + AVX, VAES + AVX2, VAES + AVX10/256, and VAES + AVX10/512 code paths. Biggers has since begun tackling even better AES-GCM encryption/decryption performance by leveraging a new code path to utilize AVX-512/AVX10 and/or VAES... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AES-GCM-Faster-AVX-VAES) 2024-06-03T12:43:12Z **Linux Mint Disabling Unverified Flatpaks By Default**
The Linux Mint project is out with its monthly newsletter that highlights recent progress made on this Ubuntu (and Debian) derived, desktop-focused Linux distribution. In May they worked out enhancements to Linux Mint's software manager and also continued working on optimizing their package archive hosting... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-Unverified-Flatpaks) 2024-06-03T15:10:31Z **Debian Seeing Work To Support systemd-boot**
Debian developer Luca Boccassi has begun working on systemd-boot support for using it as an alternative to the GRUB bootloader... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Expert-systemd-boot) 2024-06-03T16:53:57Z **Rust-Written Redox OS Continues Gravitating Toward The COSMIC Desktop**
The Rust-written Redox OS operating system issued their May monthly status report to highlight the various improvements made to this original open-source OS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-May-2024) 2024-06-03T21:05:43Z **AMD Hiring To Improve Their Linux Driver/ROCm Installation Process Across Distributions**
AMD is hiring engineers to work on build and packaging of their "AMD Unified Linux Driver" to enhance the experience of deploying their packaged graphics driver stack -- including ROCm -- across different Linux distributions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Unified-Linux-Jobs) 2024-06-04T03:00:02Z **Intel Xeon 6780E / Xeon 6766E 144-Core Performance Benchmarks**
With Intel's launch today of the Xeon 6700E series processors formerly codenamed Sierra Forest I am now able to share benchmarks of these new E-core server processors. Here is an initial look at the Intel Sierra Forest Linux performance using the Xeon 6766E and Xeon 6780E 144-core server processors in both single and dual socket configurations compared to prior Intel Xeon processors and the AMD EPYC competition. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-6780e-6766e) 2024-06-04T03:00:01Z **Intel Launches Xeon 6700E Sierra Forest CPUs - Initially Up To 144 Cores**
Intel is using Computex 2024 for announcing the first Xeon 6 processors, which are the E-Core Sierra Forest models that initially are available in up to 144 cores per socket. Intel is also using Computex to shed more light on the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator and the upcoming P core Xeon 6 Granite Rapids processors and the later launch of the Xeon 6900E models with up to 288 cores per socket. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-6700e-sierra-forest) 2024-06-04T03:00:00Z **Intel Reveals New Lunar Lake Details At Computex**
24 hours ago AMD was in the limelight in announcing the Ryzen 9000 series, the Ryzen AI 300 series, teasing AMD 5th Gen EPYC, etc. Now the tables have turned to Intel with the embargo lifting concerning new details on the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator and upcoming Lunar Lake mobile processors and the launch of the Intel Xeon 6700E (Sierra Forest) E-core server processors. In this article is a look at some of the new disclosures around Lunar Lake... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Lunar-Lake-Xe2-Details) 2024-06-04T09:52:20Z **FreeBSD 14.1 Released With Performance Improvements, OpenZFS Upgrade & Better Sound**
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE is now available as the newest stable release to this leading BSD operating system. There are a number of package updates, new features, and expanded hardware support to find with FreeBSD 14.1... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.1-Released) 2024-06-04T10:04:13Z **Raspberry Pi AI Kit Launches For $70 For 13 TOPS AI Inference**
Raspberry Pi teamed up with Hailo to develop the Raspberry Pi AI Kit as a $70 add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 that offers a 13 TOPS AI accelerator module... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-AI-Kit) 2024-06-04T10:43:28Z **Updated Printk Rework Patches - Necessary Step For Mainlining Linux Real-Time "RT"**
John Ogness of Linutronix today sent out the second iteration of his patches working on threaded printing support for printk() and related rework of that code that is a necessary step before the real-time (RT) kernel patches can be finally mainlined... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Printk-Rework-v2-Linux) 2024-06-04T14:45:14Z **IBM Ready With POWER11 Support "-mcpu=power11" For GCC**
IBM compiler engineers are ready to flip-on their POWER11 support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) in wiring up the "-mcpu=power11" option... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-GCC-mcpu-power11-Ready) 2024-06-04T15:00:00Z **Fedora Moves Ahead In Replacing Redis With Valkey**
Back in April I noted that Fedora was considering replacing Redis with Valkey given the upstream Redis software licensing changes. At yesterday's Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) they have now signed off on replacing Redis with Valkey... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Replacing-Redis-Valkey) 2024-06-04T18:22:16Z **Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Wires Up Mesh Shader Queries**
Building atop the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver's mesh shader support that's been enabled by default since last year, the newest Mesa 24.2-devel code as of today now adds support for mesh shader queries... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Mesh-Shader-Queries) 2024-06-04T19:00:00Z **Dell "PC Extras" Driver Slated For Linux 6.11 - Initially To Control Fan Modes**
Queued into the x86 platform drivers' "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.11 kernel cycle is the "Dell PC Extras" driver. Initially this new dell-pc driver is used for controlling fan modes via the Platform Profile setting on capable systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-PC-Driver-For-Linux-6.11) 2024-06-05T00:17:24Z **AMD ROCm 6.1.2 Released With Fixes & Optimizations**
ROCm 6.1.2 is out today as the newest update to AMD's open-source GPU compute stack for Linux systems and with growing support for Windows Subsystem for Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.1.2-Released) 2024-06-05T04:00:00Z **Today Marks 20 Years Since Starting Phoronix For Linux Hardware Reviews & News**
Well, it's been a wild ride to say the least... Today marks twenty years since I started Phoronix.com devoted to reviewing Linux hardware and ultimately enriching the Linux hardware experience with more benchmarks, open-source/Linux hardware news, and more over the years... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoronix-20th-Birthday) 2024-06-05T10:02:27Z **AMDVLK 2024.Q2.2 Driver Brings Bug Fixes**
Building off last month's AMDVLK 2024.Q2.1 driver adding Phoenix 2 support, AMD today released AMDVLK 2024.Q2.2 as the newest update to their official open-source Vulkan Linux driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2024.Q2.2) 2024-06-05T10:20:31Z **Intel NPU Library v1.2 Adds Int4 Support & Performance Optimizations**
Intel released a new version of its NPU Acceleration Library, the user-space Python library for leveraging the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found within their Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" laptops and upcoming Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake hardware as well... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Library-v1.2) 2024-06-05T10:32:59Z **Linux 6.11 Device Mapper Will Optimize Flushing**
The latest performance optimization work for the Linux kernel's Device Mapper (DM) comes thanks to Red Hat's Mikulas Patocka... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-DM-Optimize-Flushing) 2024-06-05T13:25:53Z **KDE Is Soliciting Ideas For Their Goals To Pursue Over The Next 2~3 Years**
Back in 2022 the KDE project laid out new goals to improve accessibility, develop more environmentally sustainable software, and automate more processes for easing the development of KDE. These overarching KDE Goals are refined every 2~3 years and they are now soliciting ideas from the community for what they should focus on ahead... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Goals-2024-Request) 2024-06-05T13:51:02Z **NVIDIA 555.52.04 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes**
A few weeks ago NVIDIA introduced their much anticipated R555 beta driver with NVIDIA 555.42.02 for Linux bringing Wayland explicit sync support, the GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware being used by default, and a variety of Wayland improvements. Today the NVIDIA 555.52.04 beta driver is out that offers additional fixes for the R555 series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-555.52.04-Linux-Beta) 2024-06-05T15:22:00Z **Intel Xeon 6766E/6780E Sierra Forest vs. Ampere Altra Performance & Power Efficiency**
With the launch day review of the Intel Xeon 6766E and Xeon 6780E "Sierra Forest" processors the focus was on looking at the performance and power efficiency compared to prior Intel Xeon generations as well as the AMD EPYC competition. For those wondering how Intel's new Xeon 6 Sierra Forest processors compete against Amere Computing's "cloud native" Altra Max processors, here are those benchmarks looking at the performanc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-6700e-ampere-altra) 2024-06-05T16:09:16Z **"Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver**
While the Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver for OpenGL support with Apple Silicon on Linux has been maturing nicely and is quite capable these days, the Vulkan support hasn't been coming together as quick or for as long. But a new Apple Silicon Vulkan driver was recently started by Asahi Linux / Mesa developers and is looking positive for being able to become a compliant Vulkan 1.3 driver for the Apple M1 on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Honeykrisp-Apple-Vulkan-Driver) 2024-06-05T18:24:07Z **Blender 4.2 LTS Beta Brings Open Image Denoise On AMD GPUs, GPU Compositing**
The beta process has begun for the Blender 4.2 open-source 3D modeling software. Making Blender 4.2 all the more significant is that it's a Long Term Support (LTS) release for this widely-used program by 3D artists across platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.2-Beta) 2024-06-06T00:22:53Z **Mesa 24.1.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes**
For those typically waiting until the first point release of a new Mesa3D driver series before upgrading, today it's your chance to upgrade! Mesa 24.1.1 is now available with the first round of Mesa 24.1 fixes to the prominent OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Coincidentally the bi-weekly release times nicely for the Phoronix 20th birthday today as a nice present with our love for the open-source Linux graphics stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1.1-Released) 2024-06-06T10:01:47Z **Libinput 1.26 Rolls Out New Features, gsetwacom Introduced To Replace xsetwacom**
Red Hat's Peter Hutterer is out with two important updates to the Linux input stack: libinput 1.26 has released for this input handling library used both by X.Org and Wayland systems and then secondly he has announced the "gsetwacom" CLI program as a replacement to the "xsetwacom" program... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/libinput-1.26-Released) 2024-06-06T10:13:07Z **Sovereign Tech Fund Providing €300k For GNU libmicrohttpd**
The latest funding for open-source from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is providing €300,000 over the course of the next year for improving GNU libmicrohttpd for building high performance HTTP web servers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/STF-GNU-libmicrohttpd) 2024-06-06T10:39:06Z **Linux 6.10 Fixes AMD Zen 5 CPU Frequency Reporting With cpupower**
This week's pull request of power management fixes for the Linux 6.10 kernel has an important change for the in-tree cpupower utility to fix P-State frequency reporting on upcoming Zen 5 (Family 1Ah) processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-cpupower-Zen-5-Freq) 2024-06-06T10:52:00Z **Updated AMD GPU Firmware Makes Valve's Steam Deck More Robust Against Buggy Apps**
AMD has published a new set of AMDGPU firmware binaries for Linux users. In particular, this should benefit AMD APUs the most and these firmware improvements were focused on Valve's Steam Deck to make the device more robust against buggy applications... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-More-Robust-Steam-Deck) 2024-06-06T12:00:00Z **Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0 Preview**
Microsoft has published its first tagged preview of the upcoming Azure Linux 3.0 operating system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Azure-Linux-3.0-Pre) 2024-06-06T14:40:17Z **Shopping For A Launch-Day AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Laptop For Linux Testing**
With this week's Computex announcement by AMD of the Ryzen AI 300 series laptop processors built atop Zen 5, one of the pleasant aspects has been several laptop models being announced already to be powered by either the Ryzen AI 9 365 or Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 flagship models. Some models are also already available for pre-order ahead of launch day. This is quite nice compared to in the past there was often at times quite a delay between th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ryzen-AI-300-Laptop-Shopping) 2024-06-06T16:15:11Z **AMD EPYC 4364P & 4564P @ DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5200 vs. Intel Xeon E-2488**
With the AMD EPYC 4004 series that was announced in May and we have delivered benchmarks of the entire EPYC 4004 stack from the 4-core SKU up through the 16-core model with 3D V-Cache, there are many advantages over Intel's Xeon E-2400 series competition. In addition to going up to 16 cores versus 8 with the Xeon E-2400 series, the more competitive pricing, the 3D V-Cache SKUs, and 28 PCIe lanes rather than 20, the AMD EPYC 4004 models also sup ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-4004-ddr5-xeon) 2024-06-06T17:02:34Z **New AMD RDNA 3.5 GPU Target "GFX1152" Appears In Open-Source Linux Driver**
When it comes to the RDNA 3.5 / RDNA 3+ integrated graphics found with upcoming AMD products, the graphics driver IP has been referred to as "GFX1150" and "GFX1151" of the AMD GFX 11.5 graphics IP. But now appearing today within the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler is a new GFX1152 variant... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX1152-Appears) 2024-06-06T20:00:53Z **Updated Intel Meteor Lake Tuning For Linux Shows Huge Performance/Power Improvements**
It's like magic with one line of code changed in the Linux kernel that Intel is reporting up to 19% performance improvement for Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" and up to an 11% improvement in performance per Watt. Or in another EPP mode, the power consumption during video playback can be reduced by 52%!.. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-MTL-EPP-Tuning-64) 2024-06-07T10:21:54Z **The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews & Featured Articles Over 20 Years**
With this week marking the 20th birthday of Phoronix, as part of the commemorative articles this week has been looking at the most popular Linux/open-source news over 20 years. In the piece today is looking back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other featured articles on Phoronix since 2004... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Hardware-Reviews-20) 2024-06-07T10:37:42Z **Improved Linux Driver Support Coming For LG Gram 2024 Laptop Models**
Merged to the Linux kernel back in 2018 was an LG Gram laptop driver for supporting various hotkeys and extra functionality of these LG laptops. That driver is now being extended to support the latest LG Gram laptop models... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LG-Gram-2024-Laptops-LInux) 2024-06-07T10:48:33Z **Intel's Xe Driver Preps For SR-IOV Support & More Lunar Lake Code With Linux 6.11**
On Thursday the first set of Intel Xe driver feature updates were submitted to DRM-Next of material intended for merging with the Linux 6.11 kernel in July... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-DRM-Intel-Xe-Next) 2024-06-07T13:29:20Z **Python 3.13 Beta 2 Released For Testing The Experimental JIT & Other New Features**
The second beta is now available for testing of the upcoming Python 3.13 release that is bringing an experimental JIT, a new interactive interpreter, and other big features for this annual Python feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Python-3.13-Beta-2) 2024-06-07T14:12:53Z **AMD Lands Support For Vendor Flavored SPIR-V Within LLVM**
SPIR-V used by the likes of OpenGL, OpenCL, and Vulkan is a common intermediate representation (IR) / intermediate language for consumption by device drivers. With code now merged into LLVM, AMD has introduced the notion of vendor "flavored" SPIR-V for containing extra information pertinent to the GPU device/driver being targeted... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-AMDGCN-Flavored-SPIR-V) 2024-06-07T16:39:26Z **Big Speed Boost For AES-GCM Performance On Intel & AMD CPUs Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.11**
The patches recently covered on Phoronix for up to 162% faster AES-GCM encryption/decryption with modern Intel and AMD processors is now queued for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle!.. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AES-GCM-Intel-AMD-Linux-6.11) 2024-06-07T17:35:33Z **Linux 6.11 To Merge Support For Running AMD SEV-SNP KVM Guests**
The patches have been years in the making around AMD SEV-SNP encrypted virtualization and various elements have been upstreamed in prior kernel versions while for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle are finally the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) bits for launching SEV-SNP protected guest virtual machines... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-611-AMD-SEV-SNP-KVM-Guest) 2024-06-07T20:45:55Z **Google Begins Upstreaming Fuchsia OS Support Into Mesa 3D**
With not hearing much about Fuchsia OS in a while and the Fuchsia OS team being hit hard by layoffs last year, coming as a surprise today is seeing Google beginning to upstream Fuchsia OS support into the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fuchsia-OS-Simple-Mesa-Support) 2024-06-08T10:17:47Z **OBS Studio 30.2 Beta Brings Native NVENC Encoder Support On Linux**
Out for testing this weekend is the OBS Studio 30.2 beta software for those into live-streaming their desktop and other screen recording purposes. With the OBS Studio 30.2 release there are video encode improvements for Linux, support for multi-track video streaming, hybrid MP4 output, and other new features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-30.2-Beta-1) 2024-06-08T10:07:52Z **KDE Plasma 6.1 Is Looking To Be A "Good One"**
The KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop is due for release in a little more than one week. Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham thinks this is going to be a "good one" with a lot of new features, better performance, and more... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.1-Good-One) 2024-06-08T10:26:20Z **Redox OS With COSMIC Apps Is Looking Quite Nice**
Jeremy Soller who is an engineer at System76 and manages a side hustle of leading development on the open-source, Rust-written Redox OS has shared the latest look at this open-source operating system with the System76 COSMIC desktop applications... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-COSMIC-Look) 2024-06-08T10:38:00Z **GNOME OS Continues Seeing New Features, New GNOME App for Viewing 3D Models**
GNOME developers continue to be quite busy this summer from enhancing their desktop with more security and accessibility features to further crafting GNOME OS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-CAD-Exhibit-OS) 2024-06-08T11:14:00Z **AMD's Newest Open-Source Surprise: "Peano" - An LLVM Compiler For Ryzen AI NPUs**
There was a very exciting Friday evening code drop out of AMD... They announced a new project called Peano that serves as an open-source LLVM compiler back-end for AMD/Xilinx AI engine processors with a particular focus on the Ryzen AI SOCs with existing Phoenix and Hawk Point hardware as well as the upcoming XDNA2 found with the forthcoming Ryzen AI 300 series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Peano-LLVM-Ryzen-AI) 2024-06-08T11:56:00Z **AMD's Newest Open-Source Surprise: "Peano" - An LLVM Compiler For Ryzen AI NPUs**
There was a very exciting Friday evening code drop out of AMD... They announced a new project called Peano that serves as an open-source LLVM compiler back-end for AMD/Xilinx AI engine processors with a particular focus on the Ryzen AI SOCs with existing Phoenix and Hawk Point hardware as well as the upcoming XDNA2 found with the forthcoming Ryzen AI 300 series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Peano-LLVM-Ryzen-AI) 2024-06-09T10:07:47Z **Mold 2.32 Released With Increased LLVM LLD Compatibility, Faster Identical Code Folding**
Mold 2.32 is out as the newest feature release for this high speed code linker that rivals LLVM LLD and GNU Gold... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-2.32-Released) 2024-06-09T10:36:35Z **Intel In-Tree Linux Network Drivers Being Adapted To Support Firmware Updates**
Intel's IGB and IXGBE network drivers within the mainline Linux kernel are being adapted to support firmware updates for the underlying driver. To date such functionality was limited to Intel's out-of-tree versions of these drivers for their higher-end network hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IGB-IXGBE-Firmware-Update) 2024-06-09T10:52:20Z **AMD's Linux Kernel Compute Driver For ROCm Begins Preparing For RDNA4 GPUs**
In addition to debuting their "Peano" LLVM compiler back-end for Ryzen AI NPUs on Friday, AMD also submitted a new batch of feature code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver of new feature code aiming for the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDKFD-GFX12-Support) 2024-06-09T16:25:19Z **Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Now Defaults To Btrfs Rather Than XFS**
Arch Linux derivative CachyOS that is optimized for a nice desktop experience and shipping a nice set of performance optimizations/tuning by default is out with its June 2024 refresh... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Btrfs-Default) 2024-06-09T21:37:41Z **Linux 6.10-rc3 Released For A Boring But Good Week**
Linus Torvalds just announced the release of Linux 6.10-rc3 as a rather pleasant week for this stage of the kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-rc3-Released) 2024-06-10T09:57:52Z **A Lot More AMD RDNA4/GFX12 Graphics Driver Code Has Landed In Mesa 24.2**
A lot of AMD GFX12 IP enablement landed in Mesa 24.2-devel over the past week for bringing up the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver and RADV Vulkan driver for the upcoming RDNA4 graphics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Busy-RDNA4-Mesa-24.2-Week) 2024-06-10T10:15:59Z **The Quest For Faster getrandom() Performance Continues Two Years Later**
Going back just under two years was the propsal for adding getrandom() to the vDSO in the quest to achieve faster performance for obtaining random numbers in user-space. That effort while seemingly simple remains an ongoing and contentious matter... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Random-vDSO-2024) 2024-06-10T10:48:38Z **AMD Posts New Linux Patches For Per-Core CPU Energy Counters**
After an attempt in early 2023 didn't pan out, today an AMD Linux engineer posted a new kernel patch series for enabling per-core RAPL energy counter support for AMD processors. With this patch series when using Linux's venerable perf utility it's now possible for reading the power use on a per CPU core basis using a new "power\_per\_core" PMU... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Linux-PMU-Power-Per-Core) 2024-06-10T14:14:15Z **Firefox 127 With 32-bit x86 Linux Pretending To Be "x86_64" To Reduce Fingerprinting**
Mozilla Firefox 127.0 binaries are available for download today ahead of tomorrow's official announcement. Firefox 127 brings a few nice changes for this month's feature update... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-127) 2024-06-10T14:23:03Z **TUXEDO Developing A Snapdragon X Elite Linux Laptop**
Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers is working on bringing a Snapdragon X Elite powered laptop to market... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Snapdragon-X-Elite) 2024-06-10T15:00:00Z **One-Line Patch For Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up To 72% Better Performance, +7% Geo Mean**
Covered last week on Phoronix was a new patch from Intel that with tuning to the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver was showing big wins for Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" performance and power efficiency. I was curious with the Intel claims posted for a couple benchmarks and thus over the weekend set out to run many Intel Meteor Lake benchmarks on this one-line kernel patch... The results are great for boosting the Linux ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-meteorlake-epp-perf) 2024-06-11T00:20:00Z **oneAPI-Focused UXL Foundation Now Collaborating With The Khronos Group**
Last year it was announced that Intel's oneAPI software initiative evolved into the UXL Foundation for making compute accelerators more open as well as opening things up to more cross-vendor collaboration and adoption. Intel started the Unified Acceleration Foundation with the Linux Foundation, Google, Arm, Qualcomm, Samsung, and others. Announced today is that the UXL Foundation has begun collaborating with The Khronos Group... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/UXL-Foundation-Khronos-Collab) 2024-06-11T10:04:59Z **Raspberry Pi Serves Up A Tasty IPO On The London Stock Exchange**
Raspberry Pi carried out a successful IPO today on the London Stock Exchange... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-IPO) 2024-06-11T10:25:45Z **Google Open-Sources GWPSan As A New Sanitizer Framework**
Google is known for their many contributions to open-source compilers and particular many different sanitizer efforts over the years. Their newest project they have made open-source in this area is GWPSan as a sampling-based sanitizer framework... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-GWPSan) 2024-06-11T10:44:02Z **AMD P-State Linux Patches Updated For Heterogeneous CPUs**
Last month AMD Linux engineers posted ap atch series for better handling heterogeneous core type CPUs. This is for enhancing the P-State CPU frequency scaling on CPUs featuring a mix of conventional cores and efficiency cores, e.g. Zen 4 and Zen 4C. A third iteration of these patches were posted today... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Hetero-v3) 2024-06-11T13:45:16Z **Red Hat Developing "eu-stacktrace" For Profiling Without Frame Pointers**
While last year we saw Fedora to no longer omit the frame pointer to help in debugging/profiling Fedora packages and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS also enabled frame pointers for better debugging/profiling, among other distributions, there is the known performance implications of no longer omitting the frame pointer. But now in aiming to make the best of both worlds, it turns out Red Hat has been developing eu-stracktrace as a new means of profiling without ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-eu-stacktrace) 2024-06-11T14:12:21Z **AlmaLinux Now Available For The Raspberry Pi 5**
Coincidentally coming out on the day of Raspberry Pi's IPO is AlmaLinux providing official support for the Raspberry Pi 5... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Raspberry-Pi-5) 2024-06-11T14:57:58Z **Intel's Glibc Non-Temporal Stores Memset Optimization Extended To AMD CPUs**
Merged last month to the GNU C Library (glibc) Git code was a new tunable for non-temporal stores for memset. This optimization for glibc's memset performance was limited to Intel processors given at the time it was only tested/benchmarked on Intel CPUs but now it's proven to be useful too for AMD processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-Non-Temp-Stores-AMD) 2024-06-11T20:51:00Z **SUSE Working To Upstream RP1 Southbridge Linux Driver For The Raspberry Pi 5**
The Raspberry Pi 5 features the "RP1" as the in-house silicon design for the southbridge to this single board computer. The RP1 driver maintained by Raspberry Pi is just found in their downstream kernel while a SUSE engineer is working to rework that driver so that it can be eventually mainlined in the upstream Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-RP1-Linux-RFC) 2024-06-11T23:16:48Z **systemd 256 Released With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & Other New Features**
Systemd 256 is out today as the latest major feature update to this integral component to modern Linux distributions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-256) 2024-06-12T00:40:12Z **Linus Torvalds Throws Down The Hammer: Extensible Scheduler "sched_ext" In Linux 6.11**
The extensible scheduler "sched\_ext" code has proven quite versatile for opening up better Linux gaming performance, more quickly prototyping new scheduler changes, Ubuntu/Canonical has been evaluating it for pursuing a more micro-kernel like design, and many other interesting approaches with it. Yet it's remained out of tree but that is now changing with the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Extensible-Scheduler) 2024-06-12T10:00:00Z **Intel's oneDNN 3.5 Begins Optimizing For Xe2, More Xeon 6 Tuning**
Intel's oneDNN 3.5 has been released as this Deep Neural Network Library for the oneAPI specification and now part of the UXL Foundation. With oneDNN 3.5 comes more performance optimizations for existing and upcoming Intel hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-oneDNN-3.5) 2024-06-12T10:14:07Z **Marek Lands 40 Patch Series To Further Enhance The Open-Source AMD Graphics Driver**
Well known open-source AMD OpenGL/Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák has landed a big patch series into Mesa 24.2 for a universal optimized compute image clear/blit shader and MSAA-resolving pixel shader... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Marek-Universal-Optimized-Comp) 2024-06-12T10:27:16Z **LLVM Clang 19 Lands Support For C23's #embed**
Merged today to LLVM Clang 19 Git is support for the #embed resource inclusion mechanism that is an approved C23 feature. This also makes Clang the first for supporting this pre-processor embed feature... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Clang-19-C23-Embed) 2024-06-12T10:51:41Z **Intel Low Power Mode Daemon v0.0.4 Released To Optimize Hybrid CPUs On Linux**
Intel Low Power Mode Daemon v0.0.4 has been released with "LPMD" being the open-source daemon for optimize active idle power for modern Core hybrid CPUs under Linux that sport a combination of the E and P cores... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LPMD-Low-Power-0.0.4) 2024-06-12T13:21:43Z **openSUSE Leap 15.6 Release - Adds Cockpit, Linux 6.4 & Other Updates**
OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 is now officially available for this community Linux distribution release aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 6. With Leap 15.6 comes the inclusion of the Cockpit web administration software and many software updates... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Leap-15.6-Released) 2024-06-12T13:50:25Z **AMD Fast CPPC To Be Merged For Linux 6.11**
The AMD Fast CPPC feature enablement for the "amd\_pstate" driver has been submitted to the power management subsystem ahead of next month's Linux 6.11 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Fast-CPPC-For-Linux-6.11) 2024-06-12T14:36:57Z **FreeBSD 14.1 vs. FreeBSD 14.0 Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen Threadripper**
Debuting last week was FreeBSD 14.1 with performance improvements and more. Given there being some performance optimizations and other upgrades like a more recent LLVM Clang compiler by default, I've begun running some benchmarks of this newest FreeBSD stable release. In today's article is a quick comparison of FreeBSD 14.1 vs. FreeBSD 14.0 performance using an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-core processor within the System76 Thelio Major worksta ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/freebsd-141-benchmarks) 2024-06-12T16:34:11Z **Safety-Critical Rust Consortium Announced**
In aiming to make the Rust programming language more suitable for safety-critical software like within automobiles, aviation, and other industries, the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium was announced today... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Safety-Critical-Rust-Consortium) 2024-06-12T19:24:24Z **Valve Rolls Out Proton 9.0-2 With Many Fixes For Running More Games On Steam Play**
Proton 9.0-2 is out this afternoon as the Valve/CodeWeavers downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games under Linux within the Steam client... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Proton-9.0-2) 2024-06-12T21:11:30Z **FreeBSD Community Survey Confirms ZFS Is Their Most Valued Server Feature**
The FreeBSD Foundation has published the results of the FreeBSD Community Survey that reveal interesting insights about FreeBSD usage and its users... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Community-Survey-2024) 2024-06-13T09:44:48Z **FEX 2406 Brings JIT Optimizations For Running x86_64 Binaries On AArch64**
FEX is one of the open-source projects working on user-mode x86/x86\_64 binary emulation atop ARM64/AArch64 Linux. FEX 2406 is out today as the project's newest monthly feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2406-Released) 2024-06-13T10:02:55Z **Microsoft's Azure Linux 2.0 Update Ships Dozens Of Security Patches, Adds Azl-Compliance**
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux (nee CBL-Mariner), is out with a new update. In the first new stable release for Azure Linux 2.0 since late April, the Azure Linux 2.0.20240609 update ships with dozens of security fixes to address a wide range of CVEs as well as bringing various bug fixes and other updates... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Azure-Linux-2.0.20240609) 2024-06-13T10:27:59Z **Framework Laptop 16 CAD Design Files Open-Sourced**
In making the Framework 16 laptop even more appearing to open-source hardware enthusiasts and makers, Framework Computer has published the CAD design files as open-source... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-16-CAD-Files) 2024-06-13T10:46:16Z **Coreboot To Be Shown Today With An Intel Meteor Lake Laptop**
Going back to 2022 we've seen work by Intel engineers on adding Meteor Lake SoC support to Coreboot while to date there hasn't been much in the way of actual Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" laptops with Coreboot as a replacement to the proprietary BIOS/firmware. But to be shown later today is one of the first laptop designs using these latest Intel mobile processors and running the Dasharo downstream of Coreboot... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-Dasharo-Meteor-Lake) 2024-06-13T11:02:13Z **Ubuntu Talks Up A RISC-V Octa-Core Laptop**
Ubuntu maker Canonical put out a news release today around the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II that is an octa-core RISC-V laptop shipping soon with Ubuntu Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DC-ROMA-RISC-V-Laptop-II) 2024-06-13T13:51:52Z **X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit: Making It Less Difficult To Compile The X Server In 2024**
While the upstream X.Org Server development remains slow with most of the large vendors treating it in maintenance mode and not investing in new features, open-source developer Enrico Weigelt has been one of the few still working to improve the X.Org Server. As part of his work besides pushing new patches and testing of the latest X.Org Server Git state, today he announced the release of the X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit v0.0 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xorg-Testing-Ground-Toolkit) 2024-06-13T14:35:08Z **"Rocket" Accelerator Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Posted For Rockchip NPU**
The past few months open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso has been developing an open-source accelerator driver for Rockchip's NPU. The experimental driver has shown the open-source code can compete with Rockchip's proprietary driver and Vizoso has been working to develop an upstream-minded driver for a kernel driver living within the "accel" subsystem and then leveraging Mesa's Teflon for the user-space component. Yesterday the "Rocket" ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rocket-Rockchip-NPU-Driver) 2024-06-13T16:51:31Z **Fwupd 1.9.21 Released With Synaptics Carrera & Wacom Movink Support**
Fwupd 1.9.21 is now available for this open-source software for facilitating system firmware and device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-1.9.21-Released) 2024-06-13T17:44:52Z **NVIDIA Exploring Ways To Better Support An Upstream Kernel Driver**
Here's how an exciting message from a NVIDIA engineer that just hit the mailing list begins: "NVIDIA has been exploring ways to better support the effort for an upstream kernel mode driver for GPUs that are capable of running GSP-RM firmware, since the introduction to Nova.".. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Exploring-Upstream-KMD) 2024-06-14T09:38:55Z **Linux 6.10-rc4 To Fix Display For The Ayaneo Kun Gaming Handheld**
For those interested in running Linux on the Ayaneo Kun handheld gaming console alternative to Valve's Steam Deck and the ASUS ROG Ally, among others, a display quirk has been submitted ahead of the Linux 6.10-rc4 release this weekend to fix the display handling... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Display-Ayaneo-Kun) 2024-06-14T10:08:18Z **Qt 6.8 Beta Released With Multi-View Rendering, Better GNOME Wayland Experience**
The first beta release of the Qt 6.8 toolkit is now available for testing with many new features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.8-Beta-1) 2024-06-14T10:26:46Z **Mesa 24.2 Adds Support For Fixed-Rate Compression Extensions For OpenGL & EGL**
Being merged to Mesa 24.2 this week is a set of 12 patches that have been four months in the making for supporting the OpenGL/EGL fixed-rate compression extensions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.2-Fixed-Rate-Compress) 2024-06-14T10:44:29Z **Intel To Upstream Habana Labs Network Drivers Into The Linux Kernel**
While for years there has been the Habana Labs AI accelerator driver within the mainline Linux kernel, this "accel" driver has been focused on just supporting training/inference across their products. Now being worked on for the mainline Linux kernel are upstreaming the Habana Labs network drivers that can be used for scaling out the AI workloads across multiple systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/HabanaLabs-Network-Driver-Linux) 2024-06-14T11:06:15Z **The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support**
Kernel developer and consultant Johan Hovold spent the last two years working on improving ARM Linux laptop support with a particular focus on the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s powered Qualcomm SoC. Arm funded this Linaro effort and as a result the ThinkPad X13s enjoys pleasant upstream kernel support now. This Arm Linux laptop project has now concluded but sets a nice base for further ARM Linux laptop improvements moving forward... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Two-Years-Improving-ARM-Laptops) 2024-06-14T12:31:07Z **Intel Vulkan Driver Halves The Time Required For Startup**
Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver "ANV" has reduced the driver start-up time by about half... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-Faster-vkCreateDev) 2024-06-14T13:04:56Z **Ubuntu 24.10 Seeing More Desktop Installer Improvements, Improving The Steam Snap**
Last month some of the Ubuntu 24.10 desktop plans were laid out such as NVIDIA Wayland by default, a new welcome wizard, and more. Canonical's Oliver Smith has posted an update today around some of the ongoing Ubuntu 24.10 desktop enhancements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Desktop-June) 2024-06-14T16:00:00Z **Linux 6.11 Bringing "Hardware Replay" Feature For Intel Graphics Debugging**
The main set of drm-intel-gt-next patches aiming for the Linux 6.11 kernel were submitted this week to DRM-Next. Most notable with this feature update for the next kernel version is enabling a new hardware replay feature for better reproducing GPU hangs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Intel-HW-Hang-Replay) 2024-06-14T21:16:19Z **KDE Receives New Human Interface Guidelines For 2024**
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has been working with various KDE designers and developers to establish a new set of Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-New-HIG-2024) 2024-06-14T21:12:22Z **LibreOffice 24.8 Beta Now Available For Testing This Free Software Office Suite**
LibreOffice 24.8 is now available in beta form for those wanting to test this open-source, cross-platform office suite alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-24.8-Beta-1) 2024-06-15T04:00:00Z **Wine 9.11 Released With More Monitor DPI Awareness Improvements**
Wine 9.11 is now available as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms. With Wine 9.11 we are now roughly at the half-way point before Wine's typical feature freeze and release candidate start that typically begins around early December and this cycle will lead up to the Wine 10.0 stable release in early 2025... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.11-Released) 2024-06-15T09:47:28Z **KDE Plasma 6.1 Prepares For Release Next Week**
KDE Plasma 6.1 is preparing for release next week on 18 June. KDE developers this week have thus been very busy with last minute finishing touches to this updated desktop while also already beginning feature work on Plasma 6.2... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.1-Next-Week) 2024-06-15T10:06:59Z **Apple M4 Support Added To The LLVM Compiler, Confirming Its ISA Capabilities**
Apple compiler engineers have contributed Apple M4 CPU support to the upstream LLVM/Clang compiler via the new -mcpu=apple-m4 target. Interestingly the Apple M4 is exposed as an ARMv8.7 derived design... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M4-Added-To-LLVM-Clang) 2024-06-15T10:37:42Z **GNOME Papers Document Viewer Making Progress As GTK4-Based Evince Fork**
GNOME's longtime document viewer, Evince, was recently forked as GNOME Papers and saw its first release a few weeks back. This new GNOME document viewer has been ported from GTK3 to GTK4 and also brings an improved user interface and other refinements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Papers-GTK4-Evince-Fork) 2024-06-15T13:50:07Z **New Linux Change Helps Ensure AMD Ryzen With NVMe Works After Resuming From Suspend**
A Linux power management change merged on Friday aims to help ensure AMD Ryzen systems with NVMe solid-state drive storage will work properly when resuming from suspend... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-rc4-PM-Ryzen-NVMe) 2024-06-15T23:09:25Z **Wine Staging 9.11 Released With A Patch For A 17 Year Old Bug Report**
Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.11 as that newest bi-weekly development release, Wine Staging 9.11 has been released with some 428 patches re-based atop this latest upstream Wine code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-9.11-Released) 2024-06-16T10:11:50Z **RKVDEC2 Driver Posted For Accelerated Video Decoding On Newer Rockchip SoCs**
For years there has been the RKVDEC Linux media driver to provide accelerated video decoding on Rockchip SoCs. Being worked on now is RKVDEC2 for providing video decoding on the newer Rockchip SoCs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RKVDEC2-Rockchip-Video-Decode) 2024-06-16T10:23:33Z **Fedora Making Strides On Enabling Greater AI Use, Easier AMD ROCm PyTorch Acceleration**
Christian Schaller of Red Hat shared an update on Friday around the ongoing enhancements to Fedora Workstation. Given the current industry trends, ongoing Fedora Workstation development is seeing a lot of attention around... AI, AI, AI... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Seeing-More-AI-Work) 2024-06-16T10:36:39Z **VMware Hypercall API To Likely Land In Linux 6.11**
For months Broadcom has been working on the VMware Hypercall API for the Linux kernel. This "vmware\_hyperscall" is a new family of functions for use by the VMware guest code and virtual device drivers in an architecture-independent manner... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VMware-Hypercall-API-Linux-6.11) 2024-06-16T10:48:26Z **Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" In Action**
After being talked about for years of DRM panic handling and coming with a "Blue Screen of Death" solution for DRM/KMS drivers, Linux 6.10 is introducing a new DRM panic handler infrastructure for being able to display a message when a panic occurs. This is especially important for those building a kernel without VT/FBCON support where otherwise viewing the kernel panic message isn't otherwise easily available... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Panic-BSoD-Picture) 2024-06-16T13:15:14Z **IceWM 3.6 Released With A Few New Features & Fixes**
IceWM 3.6 is out today as the newest version of this lightweight X11 window manager... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/IceWM-3.6-Released) 2024-06-16T20:56:31Z **Linux 6.10-rc4 Released With Another Week Worth Of Driver Fixes**
Linus Torvalds as the father of the Linux kernel set aside some time this Father's Day to release Linux 6.10-rc4... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-rc4-Released) 2024-06-17T10:09:22Z **NumPy 2.0 Brings Faster Performance Thanks To Intel's x86-simd-sort & Google's Highway**
NumPy 2.0 was released on Sunday that's been in the making for the past year and their first major release since 2006. While it comes with API/ABI breakage, NumPy 2.0 delivers new features and performance improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NumPy-2.0-Released) 2024-06-17T10:18:46Z **Fedora 41 Looks To Offer A KDE Plasma Mobile Spin**
Two new change proposals have been filed for enhancing the KDE offerings with this autumn's Fedora 41 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-KDE-Mobile-Proposal) 2024-06-17T10:55:10Z **Linux To Incorporate Intel CPU Hybrid Topology For Determining Vulnerabilities/Mitigations**
Within the every increasingly complex world of CPU security mitigations, Intel engineers have submitted Linux kernel patches to begin taking into account the CPU core "hybrid" topology when determining relevant CPU security vulnerabilities and in turn the mitigations to apply... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Hybrid-Topology-Mitigate) 2024-06-17T13:15:25Z **Open Image Denoise 2.3 Prepares For Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake & Battlemage**
Intel's Open Image Denoise open-source software that is a denoising library used by Blender and other applications is out with a new feature release as it prepares for the integrated graphics of upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors as well as nearing the launch of Xe2 / Battlemage discrete graphics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Image-Denoise-2.3) 2024-06-17T13:32:43Z **Sovereign Tech Fund Opens Up To Smaller Investments & Updated Criteria**
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making sizable investments into various Linux desktop projects, the Rust-based Coreutils implementation, libmicrohttpd, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and other prominent open-source software that could benefit from greater financial resources. Today they have announced they have opened up for a new round of applications for those open-source projects seeking funding from this German government initiat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Fund-Lower-Limit) 2024-06-17T15:30:02Z **FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks**
After last week looking at how FreeBSD 14.1 has improved performance over FreeBSD 14.0, here is an expanded cross-OS comparison now looking at how the new FreeBSD 14.1 stable release compares to the recently released NetBSD 10.0, the current DragonFlyBSD 6.4 release, and then CentOS Stream 9 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for some Linux comparison data points. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-threadripper-7980x) 2024-06-17T16:00:00Z **GNOME Software To Better Support NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver**
As a planned change for Fedora 41, Red Hat engineers are working on upstream GNOME Software better supporting the NVIDIA proprietary driver installation by allowing the installation to work gracefully with UEFI Secure Boot enabled systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Software-Better-NVIDIA) 2024-06-17T18:28:50Z **Intel Releases OpenVINO 2024.2 With Llama 3 Optimizations, More AVX2 & AVX-512 Optimizations**
Intel today released OpenVINO 2024.2, the newest version of its open-source AI toolkit for optimizing and deploying deep learning (A) inference models across a range of AI frameworks and broad hardware types... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVINO-2024.2-Released) 2024-06-17T20:49:39Z **Fedora 41 Aims To Ship AMD SEV-SNP Confidential Virtualization Host Support**
With the release of Fedora 41 in October, this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution is hoping to have all the software bits aligned that its AMD SEV-SNP virtualization stack will be all squared away for this latest iteration of Secure Encrypted Virtualization... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SEV-SNP-Fedora-41-Plan) 2024-06-18T09:56:23Z **X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit v0.0.2 Adds NetBSD & FreeBSD Support**
Last week marked the inaugural release of the X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit to make it easier to compile the X.Org Server. That v0.0.1 release was limited to supporting Debian/Apt-based Linux distributions while now this helper toolkit has been extended to support FreeBSD and NetBSD too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Testing-Ground-0.0.2) 2024-06-18T10:30:06Z **Patches For AMD GPUs On Loongson Point To "Massive Platform Bug" For These Chinese CPUs**
A set of patches were posted on Monday in aiming to get aging AMD Radeon GFX7/GFX8 era graphics processors working on Loongson LoongArch platforms. These patches for handling old Radeon Hawaii~Polaris GPUs on Loongson point to a "massive platform bug" with these domestic Chinese systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Patches-Loongson-Bug) 2024-06-18T10:44:21Z **Fedora 41 Hopes The GIMP 3.0 Photoshop Alternative Will Be Ready To Shine**
Fedora developers are hoping that the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 will ship before October and be all ready for serving as the default GIMP package with the in-development Fedora 41... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-GIMP-3.0-Plans) 2024-06-18T11:04:41Z **New Linux Patches To Help Ensure Intel Xeon Servers Can Achieve Highest Frequencies**
A set of patches for the Linux kernel's Intel P-State driver aim to ensure Intel Xeon servers can hit their highest clock frequencies following changes in the server's performance profile. It turns out some special handling is needed to update the highest frequencies of a CPU after boot to ensure the performance profile is properly reflected... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Xeon-Top-Frequencies) 2024-06-18T12:23:03Z **Marek Olšák Lands Support In Mesa 24.2 To Vectorize IO In The GLSL Linker**
Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has shown no signs of hitting the end of the road for optimizing OpenGL support within the Mesa/Gallium3D driver stack. More than one decade since joining AMD and more than a decade and a half of being involved with Mesa since beginning as a student developer, Marek still isn't slowing down with his performance optimizations and new features to benefit the open-source Radeon Linux graphics driv ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.2-Vectorize-IO-Linker) 2024-06-18T12:48:06Z **PoCL 6.0 OpenCL Implementation Brings OpenMP For CPU Driver, More Remote Driver Features**
The Portable Computing Language "PoCL" that started off as a CPU-based OpenCL implementation has grown to support multiple hardware targets from NVIDIA PTX to Intel Level Zero to AMD ROCm and other innovations like a recent remote driver for transparent OpenCL across networked systems. PoCL 6.0 was released today for delivering the latest enhancements to this independent OpenCL compute implementation and continuing to enhance ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PoCL-6.0-Released-OpenCL) 2024-06-18T14:35:51Z **More Companies Now Backing Valkey As Leading Redis Fork**
Announced back in March by the Linux Foundation was Valkey as a Redis fork following upstream licensing changes. In the few months since the Valkey in-memory NoSQL data store has put out its first release and has continued attracting more interest from Linux/open-source communities. Today the Linux Foundation announced another handful of organizations now throwing their weight behind Valkey... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valkey-Redis-Fork-More-Backers) 2024-06-18T14:43:28Z **KDE Plasma 6.1 Released With Easier Remote Desktop Support, Wayland Explicit Sync**
Right on schedule today KDE released Plasma 6.1 as the first feature update to the Plasma 6 desktop stack that debuted back in February... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.1-Released) 2024-06-18T15:00:15Z **Framework Laptop 13 To See A RISC-V Motherboard Option**
Framework Computer Inc announced today that they have been working with DeepComputing on a partner-developed RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-RISC-V-Board) 2024-06-18T16:36:26Z **Fedora 41 To Replace Power-Profiles-Daemon With "Tuned"**
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has approved of Fedora 41 switching from power-profiles-daemon to "Tuned" as the default power profile management daemon on Fedora Workstation as well as the KDE Plasma and Budgie desktop spins... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Goes-Tuned-PPD) 2024-06-18T20:00:00Z **Intel Panther Lake Audio Support Coming With Linux 6.11**
While Intel Panther Lake processors aren't expected until mid-2025, with Intel open-source Linux engineers already having much of the Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake support in order (the main Lunar Lake area still being ironed out is the Xe2 graphics), work is slowly beginning on upstreaming Panther Lake support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Panther-Lake-Audio-Linux) 2024-06-19T00:26:01Z **Linus Torvalds Demotes "FORCE_NR_CPUS" Embedded Linux Option To Avoid Confusion**
The Linux kernel "FORCE\_NR\_CPUS" Kconfig option has been around a few years to force the number of CPU cores the kernel expects in order to allow for better compiler optimizations. When building a kernel targeted for a specific device/platform with a given number of CPU cores, the compiler can optimize CPU mask routines and shrink the size of the resulting kernel image rather than having to accommodate up to a dynamic upper-limit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Demote-FORCE_NR_CPUS) 2024-06-19T10:03:57Z **Systemd 256.1 Fixes "systemd-tmpfiles" Unexpectedly Deleting Your /home Directory**
For those running the command "systemd-tmpfiles --purge" and think that this command just deletes your temporary files, think again and watch out. In reality it will delete all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d entry... Including the /home that is created by systemd-tmpfiles' home.conf. With users being bitten in recent days by this behavior when they were just expecting tmp files to be removed, systemd 256.1 is now ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-tmpfiles-purge-drama) 2024-06-19T12:48:58Z **Updated DRM Rust Abstractions For Linux As Part Of Bringing Up The Nova Driver**
Sent out last month were the very preliminary Rust-written Nova GPU kernel driver patches for this in-development Direct Rendering Manager driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support for RTX 20 / Turing GPUs and newer by leveraging the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP). Sent out this week is the second iteration of the stubbed Nova kernel driver and the associated Rust language DRM subsystem abstractions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Rust-Abstractions-v2) 2024-06-19T13:48:22Z **AMD Announces ROCm 6.1.3 With Better Multi-GPU Support, Beta-Level WSL2**
AMD today announced the ROCm 6.1.3 open-source GPU compute stack. While a point release, this new ROCm revision comes with several notable refinements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.1.3-Announced) 2024-06-19T14:18:27Z **Zlib-ng 2.2 Speeds Up Compression By ~12% On x86_64 CPUs**
The first release candidate of Zlib-ng 2.2 for this drop-in replacement to the Zlib data compression library is now available for testing. Zlib-ng continues to ship new performance optimizations and other tuning for providing faster Zlib performance on modern processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/zlib-2.2-RC1) 2024-06-19T16:13:30Z **Linux Patches Posted For Intel Lunar Lake DLVR Support**
While it looked like all of the Intel Lunar Lake support was wrapped up with the first of these next-gen Core Ultra laptops set to debut next quarter and the Panther Lake bring-up for Linux has begun, it looks like there may be some stragglers still around Lunar Lake. Sent out today was the patch series enabling DLVR (Digital Linear Voltage Regulator) support for these upcoming mobile SoCs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Lunar-Lake-DLVR-Linux) 2024-06-19T16:40:50Z **Proposal For Creating A New Mesa Legacy Driver Branch: R300, R600, Lima, NV30 & More**
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's open-source Linux GPU driver team and known for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has issued a proposal for creating a new legacy branch for older/less-maintained Gallium3D drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Amber2-Legacy-Branch-Call) 2024-06-19T18:09:34Z **Linux 6.11 To Enable Intel Battlemage GPU Display Support**
Building off the Xe2 foundation in place for the Lunar Lake integrated graphics, more recently Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have begun pushing out code focused on enabling the Xe2-based Battlemage discrete GPUs as the successor to the DG2/Alchemist hardware. That enablement work remains ongoing and with the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel cycle the important fundamental milestone is being crossed of actually being able to drive a conne ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Battlemage-Linux-6.11) 2024-06-19T20:23:14Z **Radeon Software For Linux 24.10.3 With ROCm 6.1.3**
As written about this morning, AMD announced ROCm 6.1.3 with multi-GPU support, beta support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2), Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot compatibility, and TensorFlow framework qualification support. The upstream ROCm code on GitHub as of writing continues pointing only to the prior ROCm 6.1.2 software but there is now a Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver offering up ROCm 6.1.3... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-Software-ROCm-24.10.3) 2024-06-20T00:25:41Z **Zhaoxin "Shijidadao" x86_64 CPU Support Merged Into The GCC 15 Compiler**
Zhaoxin Shijidadao CPU support was upstreamed today into the GCC 15 compiler codebase. Zhaoxin as a reminder is the joint venture between VIA and the Shanghai Municipal Government for creating x86/x86\_64-compatible processors for the Chinese market... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zhaxoin-Shijidadao-GCC-15) 2024-06-20T09:58:11Z **Monochrome TV Mode Coming To Linux 6.11, Added By Raspberry Pi Developers**
Another weeks worth of random DRM-Misc-Next changes have been queued ahead of next month's Linux 6.11 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-DRM-Monochrome-TV) 2024-06-20T10:18:33Z **GCC 12.4 Compiler Released With 84+ Bugs Fixed**
For those continuing to rely on the GCC 12 series open-source compiler that was introduced as stable in 2022, GCC 12.4 is out today as the newest bug fix release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-12.4-Released) 2024-06-20T10:30:56Z **Intel Introduces New Gaudi "2D" Product Support To Their Linux Driver**
It was just a few months back that Intel introduced a Gaudi "2C" variant of Gaudi2 to their open-source Linux driver. This variant might be for some export model or otherwise a hyperscaler/customer-specific revision or something along those lines. Now appearing within new Habana Labs driver patches for the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel are patches for a new Gaudi 2D variant... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Gaudi2D-Linux-Driver) 2024-06-20T14:11:47Z **GNOME Merges Wayland DRM Lease Protocol For Better VR Handling**
Merged today into GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the Wayland DRM lease protocol to allow for nice virtual reality (VR) headset support for GNOME on Wayland... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Wayland-DRM-Lease) 2024-06-20T14:38:39Z **GNOME Shell Accent Color Support Merged For GNOME 47**
In addition to Mutter seeing Wayland DRM lease protocol support merged, another long-in-development patch series hit GNOME Shell this morning: accent color support!.. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Accent-Color-Merged) 2024-06-20T16:36:45Z **Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Will Hopefully Be Upstreamed Soon**
While the Raspberry Pi 5 debuted last September, the mainline Linux kernel support for this popular single board computer continues to lag behind the state of Raspberry Pi's downstream kernel. SUSE has been working to upstream various Raspberry Pi 5 driver support while now Raspberry Pi engineers have also begun the trek toward upstreaming their kernel graphics driver support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-Kernel-DRM-Soon) 2024-06-20T17:15:30Z **Intel Linux NPU Driver v1.5 Released - Now Validated On Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake**
Intel on Wednesday released version 1.5 of their Linux NPU driver, their user-space driver component for Linux systems in enabling the neural processing unit found with Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors and newer. This goes along with their upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for allowing a full open-source solution for AI workloads with the likes of OpenVINO... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-NPU-Driver-1.5) 2024-06-20T19:57:43Z **Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 "AIC100" Firmware Upstreamed**
While not talked about as much as the likes of the Intel Gaudi accelerators with their upstream Habana Labs kernel driver or the AMD Instinct MI300 series with their open-source upstream support too, back in 2022 Qualcomm did post an open-source kernel driver for their Cloud AI accelerator. That was followed by an open-source compiler and user-space stack and in turn the QAIC driver was upstreamed into the accelerator (accel) subsystem last year with Linux 6.4... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-AIC100-Firmware) 2024-06-21T09:55:32Z **Intel Xe Driver Seeing PMT Support For Alchemist & Battlemage**
The Intel Xe driver is working on supporting PMT functionality with a new set of patches that may be mainlined for Linux v6.11~6.12... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-PMT-DG2-BMG-Patches) 2024-06-21T10:34:50Z **Building Mesa On POWER Now Presents A Default Set Of OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers**
Newly merged patches for Mesa 24.2 slightly enhance the default out-of-the-box build experience for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on POWER/PowerPC platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.2-Default-POWER-PPC) 2024-06-21T11:02:07Z **Intel Lunar Lake Workload Hints & Power Floor Patches Posted For Linux**
Intel software engineers have been upstreaming the Lunar Lake support for Linux a number of months already and the basics appear in good shape, aside from the Xe2 graphics enablement being an ongoing matter. Much of the rest of the core functionality has appeared to be in good shape ahead of Lunar Lake laptops launching in Q3, but it seems there have been a few missing power management related bits... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LunarLake-WLT-Power-Floor) 2024-06-21T14:10:00Z **Mesa Developers Aren't Convinced Over Dropping Old OpenGL Drivers Right Now**
Earlier this week was a proposal for creating a new Mesa legacy driver branch for clearing out older OpenGL drivers like the ATI R300, AMD R600, Lima, Nouveau NV30, and other older GPU drivers. However, other upstream Mesa developers aren't convinced by the proposal... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Devs-On-Keeping-Drivers) 2024-06-21T14:05:00Z **Cloud Hypervisor 40 Released With Better Boot Time Performance**
Cloud Hypervisor 40.0 is out today for this open-source Rust-written VMM that started off as an Intel software project and evolved into a multi-vendor initiative with backing from the likes of Microsoft, Arm, AMD, and others for a cloud-focused, security-critical virtualization hypervisor... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloud-Hypervisor-40-Released) 2024-06-21T14:55:56Z **Linux Can Have A "Black Screen Of Death" For Kernel Panics**
With some Linux users not liking the recently showcased new Linux "Blue Screen of Death" for kernel panics, Red Hat engineer Javier Martinez Canillas who has been one of those involved in the new DRM Panic infrastructure showed that it can also be a "black screen of death" if so desired... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Black-BSoD) 2024-06-21T15:08:48Z **VKD3D-Proton 2.13 Brings OpenVR/OpenXR Interop & Performance Improvements**
VKD3D-Proton 2.13 is now available as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API translation later that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for accelerating D3D12 Windows games on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-Proton-2.13) 2024-06-21T16:56:36Z **Darktable 4.8 Pulls AI Feature After Discovering It Doesn't Work Well**
While more software piles on AI features these days, today's release of the Darktable 4.8 RAW photography software has removed one of its AI features after realizing it only delivers mediocre quality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Darktable-4.8-Released) 2024-06-21T19:44:05Z **Blumenkrantz "Massively Improves" Mesa's glReadPixels Performance With 7 Lines Of Code**
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's open-source/Linux graphics driver team has submitted a merge request to "massively" improve the OpenGL glReadPixels performance within the common Mesa state tracker... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blumenkrantz-glReadPixels-Perf) 2024-06-22T10:05:02Z **KDE's Cube Effect Now Launches More Reliably & Other Post-6.1 Plasma Fixes**
Following this week's great KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop release, developers have been fixing some minor bugs and other issues that were raised by early users of this updated open-source Qt6-powered desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.1-Fixes-Week) 2024-06-22T10:40:43Z **GNOME Seeing Much Work On Their "Setup" OEM Style Installer, Key Rack & oo7**
GNOME developers continue to be very busy with a variety of initiatives thanks to the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) financing as well as other general development efforts as they work their way toward GNOME 47 in September... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Setup-KeyRack-oo7) 2024-06-22T12:40:46Z **AMD AI Compiler Engineer Lands A Generic MLIR To SPIR-V Pass In LLVM 19**
Merged on Friday to LLVM 19 Git is a generic MLIR to SPIR-V pass for lowering the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation down into SPIR-V as the intermediate representation consumed by OpenGL / OpenCL / Vulkan drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-19-MLIR-To-SPIR-V) 2024-06-22T20:09:27Z **Bcachefs Making Tiny Steps Toward Full Self-Healing Capabilities**
Another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Tiny-Step-Self-Healing) 2024-06-23T01:45:37Z **Flathub Has Now Served More Than Two Billion Downloads For Flatpaks**
Flathub as the centralized repository for serving Flatpak sandboxed Linux applications crossed the threshold this weekend of serving more than two billion downloads... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flathub-Two-Billion-Downloads) 2024-06-23T10:31:31Z **Rust Coreutils 0.0.27 Continues The Climb Of Better GNU Coreutils Interoperability**
The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.27 as the newest feature update to this Rust-written, drop-in replacement to the GNU Coreutils as the common set of utilities found on Linux systems and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-0.0.27) 2024-06-23T10:19:30Z **AMD Readies More Kernel Graphics Driver Code For Linux 6.11, Enables DCC For RDNA4**
On Friday more AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver changes were submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle by way of DRM-Next. We're nearing the end of feature work to DRM-Next before the Linux 6.11 merge window begins in mid-July while this latest AMD pull request continues preparing for upcoming RDNA4 graphics hardware among other changes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-GFX12-DCC-Linux-6.11) 2024-06-23T10:41:42Z **Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away**
The Linux kernel community has sadly lost one of its longtime, prolific contributors to the wireless (WiFi) drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Larry-Finger-Linux-Wireless) 2024-06-23T13:42:42Z **Amazon Exploring MM-Local Memory Allocations To Help With Current/Future Speculation Attacks**
Back in 2019 after various speculation-based CPU vulnerabilities began coming to light, Amazon engineers proposed process-local memory allocations for hiding KVM secrets. They were striving for an alternative mitigation for vulnerabilities like L1TF by essentially providing some memory regions for kernel allocations out of view/access from other kernel code. Amazon engineers this week laid out a new proposal after fiv ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MM-Local-Kernel-Allocs) 2024-06-23T21:47:55Z **Linux 6.10-rc5 Released With This Kernel Cycle Looking Good So Far**
Linus Torvalds has just tagged Linux 6.10-rc5 as the newest weekly test release leading up to the Linux 6.10 stable release by mid-July... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-rc5) 2024-06-24T09:55:13Z **ASUS ROG Raikiri Pro Controller Support Being Added To Linux 6.10**
Back during the Linux 6.9 kernel cycle support was added for the ASUS ROG Raikiri as a newer gaming controller. Now on its way for landing in Linux 6.10 is support for the ASUS ROG Raikiri Pro... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Raikiri-Pro-Linux-6.10) 2024-06-24T10:22:56Z **Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11**
Qualcomm engineers on Sunday posted patches for enabling the Adreno X1-85 GPU within the MSM DRM driver. The Adreno X1-85 GPU is what's found within the Snapdragon X Elite SoC powering various new Windows ARM laptops although the Linux support continues maturing too for these platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Adreno-X1-85-GPU-Linux) 2024-06-24T10:37:09Z **CentOS Linux 7 Is End-Of-Life Next Week**
Just a friendly reminder that if you've been procrastinating in migrating past the once-great CentOS Linux 7, there is less than one week to go now until it's officially end-of-life... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-7-EOL-Next-Week) 2024-06-24T10:50:00Z **Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To NVIDIA On Wayland**
With Ubuntu 24.10 due for release in October one of the expressed planned changes has been NVIDIA defaulting to using Wayland rather than X11 for the default desktop session. As of this past week the change is now in place for Ubuntu 24.10 daily users that will find Wayland-by-default when using the official NVIDIA Linux graphics driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-GDM-Wayland-NVIDIA) 2024-06-24T14:00:00Z **Intel P-State Patches Further Tune Linux For Better Scheduling On Hybrid CPUs**
A new set of patches are currently being tested for improving task scheduling and in turn performance for modern Intel Core hybrid processors. With the patch also mentioning systems that are hybrid but without SMT, this looks like it may be some early tuning as well for upcoming Intel Lunar Lake processors that lack Hyper Threading... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-P-State-Asymmetric-Cap) 2024-06-24T15:11:01Z **Llamafile 0.8.7 Brings Fixes, Better ARM Performance & Preps For New Server**
Llamafile has been one of the better new initiatives out of Mozilla in recent years. Llamafile makes it easy to conveniently distribute and run large language models as a single file while supporting both CPU and GPU execution and all-around making AI LLMs much more approachable for end-users. Out today is Llamafile 0.8.7 with more performance optimizations and new features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Llamafile-0.8.7-Released) 2024-06-24T17:59:01Z **RadeonSI Enables Compute PBO Blits: "Massively Improves Perf In A Number Of Cases"**
Related to the work by Mike Blumenkrantz for significantly improving the Mesa glReadPixels performance by more than 100%, the open-source driver developer at Valve has now enabled compute PBO blits within mainline Mesa for the AMD Radeon "RadeonSI" Gallium3D driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-Compute-PBO-Blits) 2024-06-25T09:38:45Z **OpenShot 3.2 Released With Better Performance For This Open-Source Video Editor**
OpenShot 3.2 has been released as the latest feature update to this open-source, non-linear video editor that is popular on Linux systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenShot-3.2-Released) 2024-06-25T10:08:00Z **Fedora 41 Installer Proceeding To Transition From X11 To Wayland App**
With Fedora's new web-based installer UI being delayed to 2025 with Fedora 42, part of Red Hat's justification for that setback was needing to invest resources first in Fedora 41 by transitioning the OS installer to being a native Wayland application. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now signed off on that work as expected to make the Anaconda OS installer a native Wayland application... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Anaconda-Wayland) 2024-06-25T10:33:02Z **Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Fixes To Improve OpenGL-On-Vulkan Zink Compatibility**
The open-source Intel ANV Vulkan driver has recently been seeing improvements around better handling the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Sparse-Zink-Fixes) 2024-06-25T10:49:00Z **More AMD P-State Driver Improvements Queued For Linux 6.11**
Earlier this month AMD Fast CPPC support was queued into the Linux power management subsystem's "-next" codebase ahead of the Linux 6.11 cycle. Additional AMD P-State driver enhancements are now deemed ready and submitted for staging ahead of next month's Linux 6.11 cycle kicking off... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Linux-6.11-Round-2) 2024-06-25T13:31:27Z **Raspberry Pi Connect Adds Remote Shell Access, Support For Older Raspberry Pi SBCs**
Back in May the Raspberry Pi crew announced Raspberry Pi Access as an easy means of remote GUI access to Raspberry Pi single board computers all from a web browser. Today they've announced the latest improvements to Raspberry Pi Connect... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-Connect-Shell) 2024-06-25T13:48:09Z **Intel's Linux Software Optimizations Still Pay Off For Xeon 6700E "Sierra Forest" E-Core CPUs**
When testing Intel's aggressive software Linux optimizations shipped by way of their in-house Clear Linux distribution, I am most often testing it on their high core count Xeon processors with AVX-512... Over the years in dozens of Phoronix articles there have been countless metrics showing off the out-of-the-box performance benefits from leveraging software built for higher x86\_64 micro-architecture feature levels, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-6e-clear-linux) 2024-06-25T15:01:34Z **KDE Plasma 6.1 Performing Much Better On Older Intel Integrated Graphics**
With the recently released KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment, those still relying on old Intel integrated graphics should have a much more pleasant experience thanks to improvements made to the KWin compositor. For very old Intel integrated graphics, it can effectively be a night and day difference upgrading to the new Plasma 6.1 desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.1-Intel-iGPU) 2024-06-25T16:50:00Z **NUMA Emulation Yields "Significant Performance Uplift" To Raspberry Pi 5**
Engineers at consulting firm Igalia are exploring NUMA emulation for ARM64 (AArch64) due to the potential of "significant" performance uplift as observed on the popular Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-NUMA-Emulation-RPi5)