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2024-01-02T16:31:13Z	**NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023**
Following the 2023 highlights for Intel and AMD on Linux, here's a look back at the most popular Linux-related NVIDIA news for the past calendar year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-2023-Highlights)
2024-01-02T17:54:50Z	**Linux Patch Allows For Better HP OMEN 17 Laptop Performance - But With Higher TDP**
A patch for the HP-WMI Linux kernel driver sent out on New Year's Eve aims to allow for better HP OMEN 17 laptop Linux performance by altering the thermal profile behavior so that the OMEN "8BAD" laptop can run at a higher TDP than what's otherwise permitted by the system's embedded controller (EC) without throttling... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-OMEN-8BAD-Linux-TDP)
2024-01-02T20:36:56Z	**Vim 9.1 Released With Smooth Scrolling, Support For Vim9 Classes**
Out today in kicking off the new year is a new release of Vim, the powerful screen-based text editor... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vim-9.1-Released)
2024-01-02T22:00:00Z	**Patches Updated To Tackle vmap/vmalloc Lock Contention That Can Yield ~12x Throughput**
An important Linux kernel patch series has been updated for the new year that in synthetic tests has yielded a ~12x throughput improvement on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vmalloc-vmap-Lock-Contention-v3)
2024-01-03T10:56:20Z	**Intel Media Driver 2023Q4 Improves Video Acceleration For Meteor Lake & Arrow Lake**
Overnight Intel released their newest quarterly updates to their Intel Media Driver providing Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support on Linux systems as well as their updated oneVPL video processing library that is part of their oneAPI software stack and leveraging the Intel Media Driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Media-Driver-2023Q4)
2024-01-03T11:25:23Z	**Wine Developers Working To Get 1997 Era "Nuclear Strike" Game Working On Linux In 2024**
While Wine (and downstreams like Valve's Proton) allow many newer Windows games and applications to run very well on modern Linux systems even when it comes to recent Direct3D 12 games and the like, sometimes it's the older games/apps that can be more of a headache to workaround bugs in the software and other aging relics. One of the latest issues leading to an upstream Linux kernel discussion is over the game Nuclear Strike fi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nuclear-Strike-SGDT-Wine)
2024-01-03T11:48:44Z	**Red Hat Evaluating x86-64-v3 Requirement For RHEL 10**
Not only is Canonical exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 builds for targeting Intel and AMD processors with AVX/AVX2 support, but Red Hat has publicly confirmed now they are exploring a possible x86-64-v3 requirement for next year's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RedHat-RHEL10-x86-64-v3-Explore)
2024-01-03T13:31:00Z	**Fwupd 1.9.11 Released With Support For New Algoltek & Luxshare USB Devices**
Last month LVFS/Fwupd celebrated serving more than 100 million firmware updates to Linux users while today Fwupd 1.9.11 has shipped as the latest update to this open-source firmware updating solution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/fwupd-1.9.11-Released)
2024-01-03T14:03:18Z	**Intel Launches A New Independent Enterprise GenAI Company: Articul8**
Intel along with investment firm DigitalBridge Group announced the formation today of Articul8, an independent company to focus on turn-key Generative AI "GenAI" for enterprise customers and focused on enterprise workflows... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Articul8)
2024-01-03T14:30:00Z	**Red Hat Evaluating x86-64-v3 Requirement For RHEL 10**
Not only is Canonical exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 builds for targeting Intel and AMD processors with AVX/AVX2 support, but Red Hat has publicly confirmed now they are exploring a possible x86-64-v3 requirement for next year's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RedHat-RHEL10-x86-64-v3-Explore)
2024-01-03T15:18:00Z	**NetBSD 10.0-RC2 Released For Testing This Big BSD Release**
When it comes to new BSD milestones to look forward to in 2024, one of the big releases on deck is that of NetBSD 10.0 that has been in development since 2019. Now available for testing is the second release candidate of NetBSD 10... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-10.0-RC2)
2024-01-03T18:26:18Z	**Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE Moving To Linux 6.2 Due To Hardware Issues**
Given the pace of hardware support and improvements these days, it's rather sad Linux Mint 21.3 continues to default to the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel that is the non-HWE default of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for which the operating system is based. But at least Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE ISOs are being rolled out to make Linux 6.2 easily available for those with newer hardware support requirements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-EDGE-To-Linux-6.2)
2024-01-03T18:15:21Z	**Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023**
While years ago it was hard envisioning Microsoft contributing significantly to the Linux kernel or Mesa 3D graphics driver stack, maintaining its own in-house Linux distribution, or publishing so much open-source software, these days it's par for the course thanks to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Linux dominating Azure instances, etc. Over the course of 2023, Microsoft continued investing in various Linux/open-source efforts that benef ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Linux-2023)
2024-01-03T20:00:40Z	**AMD Address Translation Library "ATL" Coming With Linux 6.8**
The AMD Address Translation Library (ATL) is cleaning up and centralizing existing code within the Linux kernel for Zen-based systems. After being reviewed on the kernel mailing list, the AMD ATL is set to be introduced as part of the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Address-Translation-Library)
2024-01-03T22:12:16Z	**Glibc 2.39 Should Be Out On 1 February & Might Drop Itanium IA64 Linux Support**
A release plan has been drafted for the upcoming GNU C Library "glibc" 2.39 release as well as some possible last minute changes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-2.39-February-Plan)
2024-01-04T11:05:43Z	**Newlib 4.4 Released With Long Double Support On i386 / AArch64 / x86_64 & Xtensa Port**
For those making use of the Newlib C standard library for embedded systems, Red Hat kicked off the new year by releasing Newlib 4.4... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Newlib-4.4-Released)
2024-01-04T10:53:28Z	**AMD Proposes An FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface For Linux**
AMD engineers are proposing an FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface to overcome current limitations of the Linux kernel's FPGA manager subsystem... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FPGA-User-Space-Interface-AMD)
2024-01-04T11:47:25Z	**Linux 6.8 To Drop Support For Old ARM11 MPCore CPU Support**
ARM11 MPCore support for the early ARMv6 multi-processor (SMP) support is set to be retired with the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM11-ARMv6K-SMP-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-04T11:36:10Z	**Ubuntu Looking At Discontinuing Its Source ISOs**
Ubuntu's install media (ISO) generation recently broke the assembly of source ISOs. These are the ISOs containing all of the source code packages to Ubuntu Linux with the original motivation of helping GPL license compliance and ensuring the code is easily accessible. But the usefulness in practice is limited and now instead Ubuntu developers are considering the discontinuing of source ISOs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Discontinue-Source-ISOs)
2024-01-04T11:55:25Z	**Linux 6.8 To Drop Old ARM11 MPCore CPU Support**
ARM11 MPCore support for the early ARMv6 multi-processor (SMP) support is set to be retired with the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM11-ARMv6K-SMP-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-04T14:00:00Z	**AMD Announces Automotive-Grade Ryzen Embedded V2000A Series**
Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week in Las Vegas, AMD announced today the Versal AI Edge XA Adaptive SoC and the Ryzen Embedded V2000A Series processor. The Ryzen Embedded V2000A is an x86 automotive-qualified processor family for next-generation automotive digital cockpits. Given the automotive/embedded focus, Linux plays a big role with the forthcoming hardware and its adoption by multiple automotive companies... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-Embedded-V2000A)
2024-01-04T16:00:00Z	**GCC vs. Clang Compiler Performance On Intel Meteor Lake**
Last week I posted a number of fresh GCC vs. LLVM Clang compiler performance benchmarks using an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX (Zen 4) system using the HP Z6 G5 A workstation running Ubuntu Linux. For those wondering about the performance of GCC vs. Clang generated binaries on something much more modest, here are some benchmarks when testing on a Meteor Lake laptop with the Core Ultra 7 155H. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-meteorlake-gcc-clang)
2024-01-04T18:55:15Z	**AMD RDNA3 Refresh Graphics Support May Be In Good Shape With Linux 6.7**
With some last minute fixes sent out today, the upcoming Linux 6.7 kernel's AMDGPU driver will be in good shape for some upcoming AMD Radeon graphics hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RDNA3-Refresh-Linux-6.7)
2024-01-04T20:22:31Z	**Fedora 40 Moving Ahead In Beefing Up Its Security**
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" has signed off on two separate change proposals for further enhancing the system security with the in-development Fedora 40 Linux to be released in April... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Security-Improvements)
2024-01-04T21:01:00Z	**New Linux Patch Officially Confirms AMD Family 26 As Being Zen 5 CPUs**
AMD's open-source Linux software engineers continue preparing the Linux kernel for supporting next-generation Zen 5 processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Is-1Ah-Patch)
2024-01-05T11:45:13Z	**Intel LAM Coming To KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.8**
The upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle will introduce support for Intel's Linear Address Masking (LAM) for use within KVM virtualized guests... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LAM-For-KVM-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-05T11:31:30Z	**Intel Framebuffer Driver Set To Be Retired For Old i8xx/i9xx Graphics**
The Intel frame-buffer driver "IntelFB" has been solicited for removal from the mainline Linux kernel. This FBDEV driver is for supporting very old Intel i8xx/i9xx integrated graphics hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/IntelFB-To-Be-Retired)
2024-01-05T11:23:24Z	**Nouveau Receives Last Minute GSP Fixes For Linux 6.7**
Ahead of the Linux 6.7 kernel set to be released on Sunday, Red Hat's David Airlie has sent in some last minute fixes for the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" DRM kernel driver. These fixes are for addressing fallout from the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware support merged for the v6.7 cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Fixes-Linux-6.7)
2024-01-05T11:57:09Z	**Linux 6.8 To Drop SLAB While Delivering A SLUB Optimization: 34% Micro-Benchmark Win**
Ahead of the Linux 6.7 stable kernel release expected on Sunday, some early pull requests have already begun trickling in for the Linux 6.8 merge window to follow. The SLAB updates were sent to Linus Torvalds on Friday in preparing for this next kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-SLAB-SLUB-Changes)
2024-01-05T14:50:07Z	**Linux 6.8 To Allow Blocking Writes To Mounted Block Devices**
As part of the VFS changes submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.8 merge window, a new "BLK\_DEV\_WRITE\_MOUNTED" Kconfig option is added that allows controlling whether writes are allowed to mounted block devices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Block-Dev-Write-Mount)
2024-01-05T15:35:01Z	**Intel 5th Gen Xeon "Emerald Rapids" AVX-512 Performance**
With Intel's 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" processors that were released last month, in addition to the power efficiency improvements, faster DDR5 memory support, and other enhancements, one of the other notable enhancements talked up by Intel was improved AVX-512 support. Here are some benchmarks using the flagship Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ looking at the performance and thermal/clock/power metrics when toggling AVX-512 support. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-5th-gen-xeon-avx512)
2024-01-05T17:30:00Z	**Canonical To Work On Improving Snap Support Across Linux Distributions**
It looks like 2024 could bring improved support for the Snap app sandboxing/packaging format across Linux distributions to better the overall experience of this Flatpak alternative outside the confines of Ubuntu... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Better-Cross-Distro-Snaps)
2024-01-05T18:35:41Z	**Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvement Scores Huge Ray-Tracing Wins**
A change merged today for Mesa 24.0 is yielding much better Vulkan ray-tracing performance for the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" across a number of games... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-RT-Much-Faster-Mesa-24.0)
2024-01-05T21:15:00Z	**Linux Could Experience Unexpected System Reboots When Pairing AMD Ryzen With Firewire**
In the land of odd hardware bugs and interesting Linux kernel behavior, a fix was merged today for Linux 6.7 and to be back-ported to existing stable kernel series for dealing with a situation where unexpected system reboots could happen primarily on AMD Ryzen systems when using Firewire (IEEE-1394)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-Firefox-Linux-Fix)
2024-01-06T05:00:00Z	**Wine 9.0-rc4 Released With More Wayland Fixes, Additional Game Fixes**
After no release candidate of Wine 9.0 was published last week due to the end-of-year holidays, Wine 9.0-rc4 is out as the newest test candidate for this forthcoming stable version to enjoy Windows games and applications on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.0-rc4-Released)
2024-01-06T11:12:39Z	**GNOME's Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Continues Coming Together**
For the GNOME desktop among the technologies that will hopefully mature into good shape this year are high dynamic range (HDR) display support as well as variable refresh rate (VRR). When it comes to the VRR support there's been more Mutter progress made in this effort... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-VRR-2024)
2024-01-06T11:42:21Z	**OpenJPH v0.10 JPEG2000 Library Adds AVX-512 Support**
OpenJPH as the open-source library implementing JPEG2000 Part-15 (JPH / HTJ2K) support is out with a big feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenJPH-0.10-Released)
2024-01-06T13:53:18Z	**Linux 6.8 To Add Support For The AMD MicroBlaze V Soft-Core RISC-V Processor**
A few months back AMD announced the MicroBlaze V processor as a soft-core RISC-V processor for embedded system use. With Linux 6.8 the necessary DeviceTree support is landing for the AMD MicroBlaze V... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MicroBlaze-V-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-06T18:16:54Z	**GNOME Merges RDP Graphical Remote Login Support**
After the merge request was open since August of 2022, merged today is support within the GNOME Remote Desktop code for handling graphical remote log-ins... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-RDP-Remote-Login)
2024-01-07T11:26:20Z	**GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released**
In preparing for the GNOME 46 Alpha release, this morning the "46.alpha" builds of GNOME Shell and Mutter were published... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-46-Alpha)
2024-01-07T11:49:12Z	**Linux 6.7 Set For Release With Bcachefs File-System, Intel Meteor Lake Graphics In Good Shape**
The Linux 6.7 kernel is expected to be released as stable later today following the one week delay due to the end-of-year holidays. Here's a reminder about some of the best features in Linux 6.7... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Features-Today)
2024-01-07T11:36:41Z	**Mesa RADV Driver Baking Improvements For VKD3D-Proton With AMD FSR3**
Landing in Mesa 24.0-devel this week alongside other exciting changes is some pending work for enhancing VKD3D-Proton and AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) support for the RADV Vulkan driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-RADV-Better-FSR3)
2024-01-07T13:49:51Z	**OpenBLAS 0.3.26 Brings More x86_64 Optimizations, Better LoongArch64 & ARM64**
OpenBLAS 0.3.26 was released this week as the newest feature update to this open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBLAS-0.3.26)
2024-01-07T14:14:50Z	**Memtest86+ 7.0 Released With IMC Polling & Initial ECC Polling**
Debuting in late 2022 was memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used open-source RAM tester. Coming out today is memtest86+ 7.0 as the latest major update to this leading PC memory testing solution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Memtest-86-Plus-7.0)
2024-01-07T15:02:00Z	**Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs**
Linux 6.7 should be released later today as the first stable kernel of 2024. In turn the Linux 6.8 merge window will then open tomorrow and run for the next two weeks. For those curious about the features expected for Linux 6.8, here's an early look at some of the changes expected to land for that next kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Features-Early-Look)
2024-01-07T18:26:06Z	**Intel Core Ultra 7 Meteor Lake vs. AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme Performance**
In recent days there have been leaks about an MSI "CLAW" gaming handheld device set to be announced this coming week at CES in Las Vegas. Making this gaming handheld device interesting is that unlike the Valve Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally or Legion Go, it's expected to be the first handheld featuring an Intel Meteor Lake SoC. In particular, the recently launched Intel Core Ultra 7 155H. For those curious about what the performance is likely to rou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/z1-extreme-meteorlake)
2024-01-07T20:30:51Z	**Linux 6.7 Released With Bcachefs, Intel Meteor Lake In Good Shape & Nouveau GSP Support**
As anticipated Linus Torvalds went ahead and just released the Linux 6.7 kernel as the first new version of 2024... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Released)
2024-01-08T10:18:32Z	**GNU Linux-libre 6.7 Cleans Up Graphics Driver Blobs, Addresses New Drivers**
Following Linus Torvalds' release of the Linux 6.7 kernel last night, the FSFLA folks have released GNU Linux-libre 6.7-gnu as their downstream that strips out non-free microcode/firmware blob support and removes other bits that are not deemed in the interest of free software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-6.7)
2024-01-08T11:09:55Z	**Rust Toolchain Upgrade Submitted For Linux 6.8**
Rust For Linux maintainer Miguel Ojeda was among those submitting early pull requests of code feature changes for the now-open Linux 6.8 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Upgrade-For-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-08T10:55:34Z	**AMD's OpenGL Linux Driver Already Scored A Nice Performance Win For 2024**
While much of the focus by graphics vendors these days is on their Vulkan driver support/performance and less so about OpenGL in 2024, AMD's open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for Linux systems is still showing no signs of slowing down and still scoring more performance victories... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-First-Win-2024)
2024-01-08T11:32:39Z	**GTK Lands Their New Unified GPU Renderer, Vulkan Build Enabled By Default**
There's been much work recently on a new unified renderer for the GTK toolkit. Yesterday a merge request was opened and already merged that enables Vulkan by default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-Unified-Renderer-Progress)
2024-01-08T11:23:00Z	**AMD's OpenGL Linux Driver Already Scored A Nice Performance Win For 2024**
While much of the focus by graphics vendors these days is on their Vulkan driver support/performance and less so about OpenGL in 2024, AMD's open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for Linux systems is still showing no signs of slowing down and still scoring more performance victories... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-First-Win-2024)
2024-01-08T12:00:00Z	**Linux 6.8 EDAC Ready To Deal With Errors On AMD AI Accelerators & Intel Meteor Lake P/PS**
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates for Linux 6.8 have been submitted for dealing with ECC reporting under Linux and the other error detection/recovery driver updates... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-EDAC)
2024-01-08T14:41:36Z	**Linux 6.8 Scheduler Changes Include New EEVDF Fast Path, Additional Scheduler Tuning**
Ingo Molnar sent in all of the scheduler changes this morning for the now-open Linux 6.8 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Scheduler)
2024-01-08T15:30:01Z	**AMD Introduces Ryzen 8000G Series & Even New Ryzen 5000 Series CPUs**
AMD used CES 2024 to announce their new Ryzen 8000G series desktop processors and even introducing some new Ryzen 5000 series SKUs. Here are the key details from today's AMD Ryzen announcements while awaiting hardware for Linux testing. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-8000g-series)
2024-01-08T15:30:00Z	**AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7600 XT For 1080p~1440p Gaming At $329**
In addition to announcing the Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series processors, AMD kicked off CES 2024 in Las Vegas by announcing the Radeon RX 7600 XT as their newest RDNA3 discrete graphics card for gamers. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-radeon-rx-7600-xt)
2024-01-08T17:59:19Z	**Some Intel Arrow Lake CPUs To Feature Revised Xe LPG+ Graphics IP**
The Intel engineers enabling next-generation Arrow Lake processors for Linux have largely been just adding new device IDs and other mostly minor changes over current Meteor Lake processors. It was that way too for Arrow Lake's integrated graphics with largely re-using existing Meteor Lake graphics support, but now it's come to light that select Arrow Lake SKUs will feature updated graphics IP... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arrow-Lake-SKUs-Better-Xe-LPG)
2024-01-08T17:45:33Z	**Linux 6.8 Picks Up AMD CPU Optimization To Avoid Unnecessarily Serializing MSR Accesses**
The x86 CPU pull request is ready for the Linux 6.8 kernel and besides adding new AMD Zen feature flags easily isolating different CPU generations, there is also an AMD CPU optimization to avoid an unnecessary MFENCE+LFENCE barrier... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-AMD-Optimization-CPU)
2024-01-08T19:41:00Z	**Linux 6.8 Landing A Tantalizing Optimization For Common $PATH-Based Searches**
For the execve() system call to execute a program by pathname, the Linux 6.8 kernel is set to land a new optimization to "dramatically" speed-up PATH searches... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Execve-Faster-PATH)
2024-01-08T23:00:00Z	**Intel Announces Core 14th Gen 35/65 Watt Desktop CPUs, 14th Gen HX Mobile CPUs**
Following last month's Meteor Lake announcement, Intel is using CES 2024 this week in Las Vegas for announcing their complete line-up of new Intel Core mobile CPUs as well as completing the line-up of Core 14th Gen desktop processors at 35 and 65 Watt TDPs. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-core-14thgen)
2024-01-09T01:05:00Z	**Solus Linux 4.5 Released With AMD ROCm Support, PipeWire Default & Calamares Installer**
The Solus 4.5 Linux distribution is out today as a big update to this original distro that is known for its Budgie desktop environment and other innovations over the years. Solus 4.5 brings some pretty big changes this time around and a nice step forward over Solus 4.4 from a half-year ago... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Solus-4.5-Released)
2024-01-09T00:44:42Z	**MSI Launches Claw A1M Handheld Gaming Device With Core Ultra 7 CPU, Starts At $699**
Following various leaks / rumors / teases in recent days, MSI today formally unveiled the Claw A1M as their first handheld gaming device and the first handheld gaming console in recent time to use an Intel SoC... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MSI-Claw-A1M)
2024-01-09T09:00:00Z	**A Nifty Way To Access Linux Memory/RAM Information**
Making use of dmidecode is the go-to way of being able to read various DIMM memory information on Linux systems like the model number, speed, and other attributes. But sadly using dmidecode is restricted to root due to needing to access /dev/mem. But it turns out there is another less reported way to receive much the same information... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DIMM-Details-As-Root)
2024-01-09T10:37:32Z	**Linux 6.8 Power Management Prepares For Upcoming Intel Server Processors**
Intel engineer and longtime Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki on Monday sent out all the PM updates for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Power-Management)
2024-01-09T10:55:03Z	**LibreOffice 24.2 RC1 Free Software Office Suite Released**
Ahead of the planned release at the start of February, the release candidate of LibreOffice 24.2 is now available for this leading free software office suite to rival Microsoft Office predominantly on Linux systems as well as other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-24.2-RC1)
2024-01-09T11:26:14Z	**GCC 14 Compiler Lands Initial Support For Targeting AMD RDNA3 "GFX11" GPUs**
AMD makes heavy use of the LLVM compiler infrastructure by their graphics drivers and compute stack while the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has to a lesser extent supported AMD graphics targets too in the context of GPU compute / OpenMP device offloading. That AMD Radeon/Instinct support for GCC has been carried out over the years by Mentor Graphics and other stakeholders. The latest on the AMD GPU expedition for GCC is that the upcoming GCC ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX11-RDNA3-GCC-14)
2024-01-09T15:30:00Z	**System76 Thelio Ramps Up AI & Creator Performance With New AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs**
System76 has opted to offer new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors in their Thelio Major desktop line-up to provide for greater performance from AI and creator workloads to all common code compilation and other tasks leveraging many CPU cores/threads. The new System76 Thelio Major powered by Zen 4 Threadripper is being shown off this week at CES 2024 in Las Vegas at AMD's booth. A review on the new Thelio Major w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Thelio-Zen-4-AMD-TR)
2024-01-09T16:34:57Z	**RADV Driver Lands "Highly Experimental" Transfer Queue Support**
Thanks to Valve's open-source developers, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has landed experimental support for transfer queues for facilitating SDMA image copies... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Experimental-Xfer-Queues)
2024-01-09T17:23:46Z	**Arch Linux Will Now Use Dbus-Broker As Its Default D-Bus Daemon**
Arch Linux is finally going the way of Fedora and others in making Dbus-Broker its default D-Bus daemon implementation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Dbus-Broker)
2024-01-09T19:23:34Z	**Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40%**
Beyond the usual new wired/wireless network hardware support and the other routine churn in the big Linux networking subsystem, the Linux 6.8 kernel is bringing some key improvements to the core networking code that can yield up to a ~40% improvement for TCP performance when encountering many concurrent network connections... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Networking)
2024-01-10T00:51:12Z	**Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache**
The latest notable feature addition for Mesa 24.0 worth mentioning is to NVK, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver that works with the Nouveau DRM kernel driver for providing increasingly robust Vulkan API support on this alternative to NVIDIA's proprietary graphics driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Pipeline-Shader-Cache)
2024-01-10T10:31:59Z	**Vcc Announced As The Vulkan Clang Compiler**
Coming out of Saarland University is Vcc, the Vulkan Clang Compiler. Vcc provides an "honest attempt to bring the entire C/C++ language family to Vulkan" as an interesting new compiler... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vcc-Vulkan-Clang-Compiler)
2024-01-10T11:00:01Z	**Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel Updated With Meteor Lake Support & More DNN Functionality**
Intel engineers have released their FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q4 release, the quarterly set of updates to the FFmpeg multimedia library that they are still working to get upstreamed where appropriate but for now is a convenient home to all of their interesting FFmpeg patches from improved video acceleration for Intel graphics hardware to neural network features still being developed and other patches that aren't yet ready for inclusi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-FFmpeg-Cartwheel-2023Q4)
2024-01-10T10:50:33Z	**Linux 6.8 To Support ACPI-Based Enumeration Of CSI-2 / MIPI Cameras**
Along with the Linux 6.8 power management updates, maintainer Rafael Wysocki at Intel also sent in the ACPI updates for this next kernel version. While the ACPI changes for the kernel are often just routine churn, this cycle it's bringing a new feature: device enumeration for CSI-2 and MIPI DisCo for Imaging support. This will allow MIPI cameras moving forward to be enumerated via the platform firmware on ACPI-based systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-ACPI-Changes)
2024-01-10T11:42:48Z	**A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++**
A six year old Linux kernel mailing list discussion has been reignited over the prospects of converting the Linux kernel to supporting modern C++ code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CPP-Linux-Kernel-2024-Discuss)
2024-01-10T15:06:58Z	**Linux 4.14 LTS Reaches End-Of-Life After Six Years**
Linux 4.14 debuted at the end of 2017 with exciting features at the time like AMD Vega improvements, working on the since-failed Intel Cannonlake graphics, Zstd compression support, and more. The kernel has advanced a heck of a lot since then and Linux 6.7 recently debuted. It's now time that Linux 4.14 LTS has been declared end-of-life... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-4.14-LTS-Reaches-EOL)
2024-01-10T15:50:17Z	**KDE Plasma 6.0 Release Candidate Available For Testing**
In working toward the stable release of Plasma 6.0 at the end of February, today marks the release candidate of Plasma 6.0 along with the updated Qt6-ported KDE Gear apps and KDE Frameworks 6.0 that comprise the "KDE 6th Megarelease" software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0-RC)
2024-01-10T19:00:00Z	**XFS Online Repair Picks Up More Features With Linux 6.8**
Last year the online repair functionality for XFS began to land with the Linux 6.6 kernel. For the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel, more online repair support for the XFS file-system is now ready... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-XFS)
2024-01-10T20:08:25Z	**Bcachefs Boasts Hefty Optimization For Linux 6.8: 4k MT Random Writes Jump ~30%**
Following the Bcachefs file-system having finally been upstreamed in the Linux 6.7 kernel, with the Linux 6.8 merge window now ticking the file-system's lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted a set of feature additions and performance optimizations to this copy-on-write (CoW) file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Updates-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-10T21:40:00Z	**GNU Hurd Has Been Making Progress On Its x86_64 Support**
While GNU Hurd predates the Linux kernel, its hardware support has been woefully behind with very limited and dated hardware support compared to modern PC/server hardware. Not only that, its been largely x86 limited but during Q4'2023 the developers involved have made progress on x86\_64 support and begun tackling AArch64 porting... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-x86_64-2023-Progress)
2024-01-11T01:30:54Z	**Linus Torvalds Hits Nasty Performance Regression With Early Linux 6.8 Code**
It's not too often hearing Linus Torvalds himself raising the alarm bells over performance regressions of the Linux kernel, but that happened this evening with the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window. Torvalds' AMD Ryzen Threadripper system suddenly was suffering from much longer build times at least as a result of new code for this kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Sched-Regression)
2024-01-11T11:16:46Z	**Qt 6.5.4 LTS Released As First Commercial-Only Release In The Series**
With it being nearly one year since the release of Qt 6.5 LTS and Qt 6.6 having debuted in October, The Qt Company has not put Qt 6.5 LTS into its commercial-only phase with today's Qt 6.5.4 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.5.4-LTS-Out)
2024-01-11T10:57:53Z	**Mesa 23.3.3 Released With A Few Fixes For Intel, RADV & Zink**
Eric Engestrom has released Mesa 23.3.3 as the latest stable update to this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers plus being the first update of the new year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3.3-Released)
2024-01-11T11:26:51Z	**Linux 6.8 Continues Work For Clearing The sysctl Sentinel Bloat**
Linux 6.8 is continuing the work toward allowing the sysctl sentinel to be removed, the final empty element on sysctl arrays. This ongoing effort will in turn allow for saving an extra 64 bytes on each sysctl array and will enhance the build time size of the kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-sysctl)
2024-01-11T11:55:40Z	**Mesa 24.0 Feature Development Ends With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Features**
Mesa 24.0 feature development has concluded for this quarterly feature update to this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers most notably for AMD Radeon and Intel graphics on Linux but also an increasing number of smaller drivers, like for Apple Silicon, the NVK / Nouveau drivers, Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan, and more... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Feature-Ends)
2024-01-11T15:12:02Z	**Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver**
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel display/graphics driver changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel. As expected and to much excitement, the experimental new Xe kernel graphics driver is included for introduction in Linux 6.8 as well as the Imagination PowerVR driver for select Rogue GPUs. Plus there's new AMDGPU driver additions and other improvements with this pull, including the initial AMD color management code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-DRM)
2024-01-11T15:29:05Z	**Intel CR 23.39.27427.23 Delivers Latest Open-Source GPU Compute Capabilities**
Intel Compute Runtime 23.39.27427.23 has been released today as the newest version of this open-source GPU compute stack for Windows and Linux systems for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support. The Compute Runtime works from aging Broadwell and Skylake/Gen9 graphics up through the latest DG2 discrete graphics and the recently launched Meteor Lake processors with their much improved integrated graphics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CR-23.39.27427.23)
2024-01-11T15:55:17Z	**XWayland Adds "-Output" Option For Better Rootful Fullscreen Control**
As part of the Red Hat led effort for making XWayland's rootful mode more useful and the ability to run X11 desktop sessions within XWayland as part of RHEL 10 dropping the X.Org Server support besides XWayland, a new "-output" option was added to XWayland for better control over placement of rootful fullscreen windows... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Output-Option)
2024-01-11T18:00:14Z	**Linux 6.8 Adds New Gaming Handhelds, Google Tensor & Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 + X Elite SoCs**
All of the ARM SoC and platform driver changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel that include bringing up the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs, enabling various low-cost gaming handheld console devices, finally upstreaming Google Tensor G1 support, and other hardware additions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-ARM-Changes)
2024-01-11T18:45:00Z	**Fedora 40 Looks At Packaging Its Own PyTorch**
While on Fedora and other Linux distributions it can be as easy as running "pip3 install torch" or similar for deploying the PyTorch machine learning framework, Fedora 40 is looking at packaging PyTorch on its own for enhancing the Fedora Linux user experience... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Own-PyTorch-Proposal)
2024-01-11T20:16:18Z	**System76's COSMIC Desktop Working Toward Its Alpha Release**
The System76 crew has put out a new blog post outlining the work ahead toward their upcoming alpha release of their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment and in turn the Pop!\_OS 24.04 release expected to happen "over the summer"... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Alpha-Roadmap)
2024-01-11T20:49:31Z	**Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0**
This week prior to the Mesa 24.0 feature freeze / code branching, a notable merge request landed that had been worked on the past few months by one of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver developers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ACO-Last-Minute-Mesa-24.0)
2024-01-12T01:24:08Z	**F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support With Linux 6.8**
In addition to the Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.8, the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have also been separately submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/F2FS-For-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-12T11:01:38Z	**Linux 6.8 Upstreams More Intel TDX Bits For Protecting KVM Guests**
Intel has prepared additional Trust Domain Extensions enablement code for the ongoing Linux 6.8 kernel merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-More-TDX-For-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-12T11:31:59Z	**EROFS Adds Sub-Page Compressed Data Support To Help Out Android & ARM64 Servers**
The read-only EROFS open-source file-system continues to prove quite popular for Android mobile devices as well as containerized environments. With the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel EROFS adds initial support for sub-page compressed data support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/EROFS-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-12T11:18:09Z	**Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.42 Released With OpenJDK 21 Java Support**
Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.42 released this week as the high performance Java Virtual Machine spun out from the IBM J9 JVM... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Eclipse-OpenJ9-0.42)
2024-01-12T11:48:55Z	**Linux Mint 21.3 Released With Full SecureBoot Support, Cinnamon 6.0 Desktop**
Linux Mint 21.3 is now available for the latest version of this easy-to-use, beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution that is currently built atop an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS package base... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-21.3-Released)
2024-01-12T14:03:21Z	**GNOME 46 Alpha Released With Many Improvements**
If you happen to be impacted by snow storms today or otherwise have extra time on your hands this weekend, GNOME 46 Alpha is now available for testing this latest desktop environment that will be going head-to-head with KDE Plasma 6.0 later this quarter... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-46-Alpha-Released)
2024-01-12T16:00:27Z	**Linux Gains An Open File Server Implementation For Tractors & Agriculture Machinery**
Pengutronix a short time ago on the Linux kernel mailing list announced the Open ISOBUS FileServer (FS) and Client Implementation... Piquing my interest, I looked up this ISO 11783-13 standard that this file server aims to implement, but it wasn't quite what I was expecting... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-ISOBUS-File-Server)
2024-01-12T19:47:28Z	**Linus Torvalds On Linux 6.8 DRM: "Testing Is Seriously Lacking"**
While the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates for Linux 6.8 excitingly include the new Intel "Xe" DRM and PowerVR Imagination drivers, AMD color management properties in experimental form, Raspberry Pi 5 graphics support, and more, Linus Torvalds isn't happy with some of the new Intel Xe driver code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Unhappy-Linux-6.8-DRM)
2024-01-12T21:53:16Z	**Wine 9.0-rc5 Released With 22 Fixes From Game Crashes To Performance Issues**
The fifth release candidate of Wine 9.0 is now available for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux, Chrome OS, and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.0-rc5-Released)
2024-01-13T11:52:04Z	**KDE Reduces CPU Usage On Wayland When Moving The Pointer & Other Fixes**
After a few weeks hiatus due to the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back in the saddle with his weekly development reports around KDE... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Fixes-Start-2024)
2024-01-13T13:56:34Z	**Intel Submits Latest CXL Feature Code For Linux 6.8**
Intel engineer Dan Williams continues leading the charge around Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement for the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-CXL)
2024-01-13T14:40:00Z	**Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration**
Fedora 40 is looking at shipping the AMD ROCm 6.x GPU compute stack to offer "end-to-end open-source GPU acceleration" with ease for this Red Hat funded Linux distribution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Eyes-AMD-ROCm-6)
2024-01-13T15:41:06Z	**Git Developers Discuss The Possibility Of Beginning To Use Rust Code**
The latest open-source project eyeing the possibility of beginning to allow the Rust programming language to be used within its codebase is the Git project... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Rust-Developer-Discussion)
2024-01-13T15:30:00Z	**KVM With Linux 6.8 Adds Intel LAM For Guests, More Confidential VMs Work**
The KVM virtualization changes for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel is quite heavy on the feature side... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-KVM)
2024-01-13T21:36:19Z	**Lutris 0.5.15 Fixes Crashes When Using Wayland With High DPI Gaming Mice**
Lutris 0.5.15 has been released as the newest version of this open-source game manager that allows managing games from within Steam, GOG, various retro game console / emulator solutions, and other sources... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lutris-0.5.15-Released)
2024-01-14T11:40:55Z	**Asahi Linux Has Been Making Progress On Apple HDMI, EAS & GPU Features**
Following last month's release of Fedora Asahi Remix 39 for the Asahi Linux project's new flagship distribution for running on Apple Silicon hardware, a lengthy blog post was posted this weekend outlining some of the ongoing development efforts for Apple Silicon on Linux and newly-enabled Fedora Asahi capabilities... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-January-2024)
2024-01-14T11:21:39Z	**The Open-Source Community Is Still Maintaining Flash Player Support In 2024**
There seems to be two classes of people when reminiscing over Adobe Flash: those that were fond of Flash-games of the time from many years ago and those that cringe over recalling Flash ads and other content requiring that prior proprietary Macromedia/Adobe tech. For those that have good memories from Adobe Flash, the Ruffle open-source project continues working to this day on an Adobe Flash Player emulator... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Adobe-Flash-Ruffle-2024)
2024-01-14T14:13:28Z	**Limine 7.0 Bootloader Released**
Following the recent release of GRUB 2.12, another prominent open-source bootloader project is also out with a new release: Limine 7.0... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Limine-7.0-Bootloader)
2024-01-14T14:41:03Z	**AMD IOMMU Improvements & Apple M1 USB4/Thunderbolt DART Submitted For Linux 6.8**
All of the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) subsystem updates were sent out this week for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-IOMMU)
2024-01-14T20:45:48Z	**A Fix For The Severe Linux Performance Regression Spotted By Torvalds**
Prior to Linus Torvalds' Internet and electricity being knocked out by a snow storm and thus impacting the Linux 6.8 merge window, his weekend was already in rough shape due to encountering a performance regression with new Linux 6.8 code that was causing his Linux kernel builds to be as twice as long as with previous kernels. An AMD Linux engineer was able to reproduce the regression and with upstream developers there is now a believed fix ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Perf-Regression-Fix)
2024-01-15T00:37:02Z	**KDE Hiring For New Project To Promote Environmentally-Sustainable Software**
KDE e.V. as the German legal organization behind the KDE project is hiring an employee for a new project to promote environmentally-sustainable software and long-term hardware use... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Environmentally-Sustainable)
2024-01-15T11:34:04Z	**"The Finals" Can Run With Intel Graphics On Linux When Hiding The Fact It's An Intel GPU**
Embark Studios' The Finals free-to-play first person shooter has proven quite popular since its release in early December. The Finals is a game powered by Unreal Engine 5 that has been running on Linux thanks to Valve's Steam Play (Proton + VKD3D-Proton). With the latest Mesa driver activity, Intel Arc Graphics on Linux with their open-source driver can now handle this popular game... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/The-Finals-Intel-Arc-Graphics)
2024-01-15T11:19:26Z	**Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce Driver Merged For Linux 6.8**
Merged last week to the mainline kernel were all of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem driver updates for the Linux 6.8 cycle, which includes introducing the Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-HWMON)
2024-01-15T11:06:03Z	**LLVM 18 Planned For Release In Early March**
Tom Stellard announced plans this past week for releasing the LLVM 18 compiler stack in early March... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-18-Release-Schedule)
2024-01-15T11:52:34Z	**openSUSE Prepares For openSUSE Leap 16 Next Year Based On ALP**
It shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but openSUSE today reaffirmed that openSUSE Leap 16 will succeed the current Leap 15 series. OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be based on SUSE's Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) codebase... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Leap-16-ALP-2024)
2024-01-15T14:02:28Z	**libvirt 10.0 Released With QEMU VM Migration Improvements**
Libvirt as the virtualization API/toolkit developed by Red Hat for managing virtualization on Linux is out today with its v10.0 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/libvirt-10.0-Released)
2024-01-15T14:33:35Z	**Btrfs In Linux 6.8 Transitions Metadata Processing To Using Folios**
While not as notable as the Bcachefs additions, more work on XFS online repair, and other file-system updates for Linux 6.8, the Btrfs file-system driver changes for Linux 6.8 were merged last week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Btrfs)
2024-01-15T19:00:00Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Ship With Some Extra GNOME Performance Optimizations**
In addition to the GNOME triple buffering patches that still haven't been merged to Mutter's mainline branch, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and upstream Debian are slated to currently carry a few extra performance optimizations... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-More-GNOME-Perf)
2024-01-15T20:05:54Z	**SQLite 3.45 Released With JSON Functions Adapted To Use JSONB**
SQLite 3.45 was released today with the SQLITE\_DIRECT\_OVERFLOW\_READ optimization being enabled by default that can help for apps relying on SQLite and doing a lot of reads of large BLOBs or strings deliver better read performance. There are also query planner improvements while most interesting with SQLite 3.45 is all JSON functions being rewritten to use the new JSONB format... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SQLite-3.45-Released)
2024-01-15T20:25:19Z	**Microsoft Releases First CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Update Of 2024**
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution CBL-Mariner that is used for a variety of purposes from Azure to WSL has seen its first release of 2024. While the distribution has at times released up to a few new versions per month, there hadn't been a new release since late November given the holidays... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CBL-Mariner-2.0.20240112)
2024-01-15T21:24:21Z	**AMD Releases AOMP 18.0-1 Compiler Based On ROCm 6.0, Defaults To -O2 Optimizations**
As the first new tagged version of AMD's AOMP LLVM-based OpenMP-focused compiler for offloading to their Instinct / Radeon GPUs, AOMP 18.0-1 was released today with many changes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AOMP-18.0-1-Compiler)
2024-01-15T21:07:22Z	**Linux 6.8 Brings More Sound Hardware Support For Intel & AMD, Including The Steam Deck**
Waiting for pulling into the mainline kernel once Linus Torvalds is back online following Portland's winter storms is the sound subsystem updates for Linux 6.8, which include a lot of new sound hardware support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Sound)
2024-01-16T00:16:04Z	**SilverStone RM51 Is A Nice 5U Chassis For Large Servers & Workstations**
If you are looking for a 5U rack-mountable chassis for a high-end server or workstation, the SilverStone RM51 launched a few months ago as their latest offering in the high-end server enclosure space. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/silverstone-rm51)
2024-01-16T10:56:56Z	**X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Another Six Security Vulnerabilities**
It was in 2013 a security researcher called the X.Org Server security state "worse than it looks" and quite a disaster from the security/bug perspective for the aging codebase. A decade later there's still no shortage of security vulnerabilities being uncovered within the X.Org Server... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-2024-Six-More-Security)
2024-01-16T11:38:16Z	**Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance**
A Canonical engineer has been experimenting with implementing a Linux scheduler within the Rust programming language. His early results are interesting and hopeful around the potential of a Rust-based scheduler that works via sched\_ext for implementing a scheduler using eBPF that can be loaded during run-time... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Scheduler-Experiment)
2024-01-16T11:28:05Z	**Linux 6.8 Introduces New Syscalls For More Detailed File-System Mount Information**
Merged back at the start of the Linux 6.8 merge window were the VFS mount API updates that introduce two new system calls: statmount() and listmount() for reading more detailed information about file-system mounts... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-statmount-listmount)
2024-01-16T13:41:10Z	**New AMD & Intel Laptop/Platform Support In Linux 6.8**
Merged last week for the Linux 6.8 kernel were the platform driver x86 updates, which include a lot of new AMD Ryzen and Intel Core platform support and new laptop functionality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Platform-Drivers-x86)
2024-01-16T14:23:15Z	**Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Will Be Able To Clock Higher On Linux 6.8**
Following last week's Linux 6.8 power management updates, Linux PM/ACPI subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel sent out a secondary set of changes this morning. Most notable with this second round of power management material is allowing Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors to clock higher with the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Meteor-Lake-Clocks)
2024-01-16T18:09:18Z	**Ubuntu Linux Working On Installer Support For NVMe-over-TCP**
Ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release that is all important for servers, Canonical engineers are working on extending their installer support to handle NVMe-over-TCP setups... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Installer-NVMe-TCP)
2024-01-16T17:58:45Z	**GFS2 File-System Enables Non-Blocking Lookups With Linux 6.8**
The Global File-System 2 (GFS2) for Linux clusters continues to advance thanks to Red Hat and with Linux 6.8 there is now support for non-blocking lookups... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GFS2-NB-Lookups-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-16T19:08:51Z	**GCC Rust Compiler "gccrs" Sees ~900 New Patches Upstreamed For GCC 14**
Merged this afternoon to GCC Git ahead of the upcoming GCC 14.1 stable release is a big update to the GCC Rust "gccrs" compiler front-end... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCCRS-900-Patches-GCC-14)
2024-01-16T21:43:17Z	**Wine 9.0 Released With Initial Wayland Driver, WoW64 Taking Shape & Better Direct3D**
Wine 9.0 has debuted today for this annual stable release of Wine to allow Windows applications and games to run on Windows, Chrome OS, macOS, and other platforms. With Wine 9.0 it's the culmination of all the bi-weekly wine 8.x(x) development releases over the past year to greatly enhance the Windows app support on Linux and other targets... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.0-Released)
2024-01-17T11:29:12Z	**Mesa Eyes Pulling libdrm Into Its Codebase**
Longtime AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has laid out a proposal to integrate the libdrm code within Mesa rather than being maintained as its own separate project... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-PR-Pulling-In-Libdrm)
2024-01-17T11:18:58Z	**DRM Driver Changes Already Begin Queuing For Linux 6.9**
While the Linux v6.8 kernel merge window isn't even over yet and that kernel not debuting until March, a few days ago the first drm-misc-next pull request was submitted to DRM-Next to begin queuing the open-source graphics/display driver changes that will ultimately be targeting the Linux 6.9 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-DRM-Misc-Next-Start)
2024-01-17T11:47:31Z	**Red Hat Developing AI Tool "Log Detective" To Help Developers**
Jiri Kyjovsky of Red Hat has shared news today of Log Detective, a new tool being developed that will leverage an AI model to help in analyzing build failures for RPM packages... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-AI-Log-Detective)
2024-01-17T14:13:46Z	**Linux 6.8 Will Let You Know When x86 32-bit Support Is Disabled**
Linux 6.7 introduced the "ia32\_emulation=" boot option for enabling/disabling support for x86 32-bit programs and the ability to execute 32-bit system calls. This is part of the effort of some Linux distributions working to restrict x86 32-bit user-space support where not needed in order to reduce the software attack surface while still having a boot-time option for those wanting to enable 32-bit support or to otherwise disable it if your kerne ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Warns-IA32-Disabled)
2024-01-17T15:20:52Z	**Linux Distributions Now Encouraged To Build GTK With Vulkan**
Last week I wrote about GTK landing their new unified GPU renderer and as part of that the Vulkan API support is set to be enabled by default. Linux distribution vendors are being encouraged moving forward to indeed ship with the GTK Vulkan support enabled, so we'll be seeing more Vulkan API use on the Linux desktop with OpenGL slowly fading away... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-Vulkan-Default-Ahead)
2024-01-17T15:46:11Z	**Linux On IBM Z "s390" To See ~11% Higher Syscall Entry Performance On Linux 6.8**
For those interested in Linux on IBM Z / s390, there's a small change yielding measurable benefits to the s390 system call entry performance with the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-s390-Syscall-Perf)
2024-01-17T18:28:07Z	**Gigabyte G242-P36: A Great Ampere Altra Max Platform For AI/GPU Computing**
The past two months I've been using the Gigabyte (Giga Computing) G242-P36 and it's been a refreshing delight for an ARM64 server platform running well with the mature Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors while boasting support for up to two GPUs and up to two DPUs or other PCIe adapters to make for a nice GPU/AI accelerated computing server. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/gigabyte-ampere-g242-p36)
2024-01-17T18:00:53Z	**Many New Features Approved This Week For Fedora 40**
This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off on a large number of change proposals for the Fedora 40 release due out in April... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Mid-Jan-Features)
2024-01-17T20:21:03Z	**Linus Torvalds Gets Back To Merging New Code For Linux 6.8**
Last weekend the Linux 6.8 merge window was thrown into a mess with Linus Torvalds losing Internet access and electricity during some significant winter storms battling the Portland, Oregon area. After nearly five days without being able to manage the Git merges for the Linux 6.8 merge window, a few minutes ago activity was restarted... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Merges-Resume)
2024-01-18T00:21:22Z	**Mesa 24.0-rc2 Released With This Quarter's Release Looking Good**
Mesa 24.0 is shaping up to be a great release for this quarter's set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux and other platforms. Mesa 24.0-rc2 is out today to facilitate the latest weekly test release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-rc2-Released)
2024-01-18T11:07:20Z	**RISC-V With Linux 6.8 Restores XIP Kernel Support**
With Linus Torvalds back to work, merged to mainline on Wednesday were the RISC-V architecture updates for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-18T11:36:02Z	**Autocheck To Check If Your C++ Code Is Safe For Automobiles & Safety Critical Systems**
Being developed the past several years by the SYRMIA embedded software firm is Autocheck, an LLVM/Clang-based project to check C and C++ code to evaluate if it's suitable for running inside automobiles and other safety critical environments. Autocheck is now free and open-source for those wanting to help evaluate the safety of your C/C++ code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Autocheck-LLVM-Safety-Critical)
2024-01-18T15:49:03Z	**Hans Reiser Apologies For Social Mistakes, Comments On ReiserFS Deprecation From Prison**
ReiserFS file-system creator Hans Reiser who is currently remains imprisoned in California for murdering his wife in 2006 has commented on the Linux kernel mailing list by way of a letter exchange from prison... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hans-Reiser-2024)
2024-01-18T16:00:00Z	**System76 Thelio Major Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series**
For those in the market for a high-end Linux workstation for carrying out a lot of code compilation, AI workloads, or other creator or HPC tasks, the new System76 Thelio Major goes on sale today and it's a real winner. I've been trying out the new System76 Thelio Major powered by the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7900 series processors and it delivers excellent Linux performance and all comes nicely working out-of-the-box with their Pop!\ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-thelio-threadripper-2024)
2024-01-18T18:51:04Z	**Hangover Aiming For RISC-V Support This Year, x86_64 Emulation**
Building off this week's release of Wine 9.0 for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms is now Hangover 9.0. Hangover as a reminder is the project based on Wine initially focused on running x86 32-bit Windows apps on AArch64 Linux. Hangover works by running Wine atop various emulators such as QEMU, FEX, or Box64 for handling the processor/ISA translation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hangover-9.0-Released)
2024-01-18T20:18:51Z	**Linux 6.8 Merges Fix For Recent Performance Regression Spotted By Linus Torvalds**
Last week Linux creator Linus Torvalds spotted a bad performance regression with the early Linux 6.8 kernel state that was leading to his kernel build times doubling. Since then kernel developers were working on analyzing the issue and devising a fix. A few minutes ago the fix has worked its way into the mainline kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Regression-Fix)
2024-01-19T05:00:00Z	**Linux 6.8 Default-Disabling 31-bit Enterprise System Architecture ELF Binary Support**
A second batch of s390 architecture changes were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-s390-Disable-ESA-31b)
2024-01-19T11:02:21Z	**FreeRDP 3.2 Fixes Wayland Client Scaling + Wayland Keyboard Handling Fixes**
Following last month's FreeRDP 3.0 release with many improvements for this Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation, FreeRDP 3.2 is out today with a number of fixes -- especially as it pertains to Wayland support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeRDP-3.2-Released)
2024-01-19T11:38:29Z	**AppArmor Switches To SHA256 Policy Hashes In Linux 6.8**
For those making use of the AppArmor Linux kernel security module, there is a notable change coming with the Linux 6.8 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AppArmor-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-19T11:17:38Z	**Genode OS Aiming For Multi-Monitor & Suspend/Resume Support This Year**
The developers behind the Genode open-source operating system framework have shared their 2024 road-map of new features they hope to accomplish this calendar year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Genode-2024-Plans)
2024-01-19T11:52:38Z	**Servo Browser Engine Making Embedded App Progress With Tauri**
The Servo open-source browser engine originally started by Mozilla has seen renewed development in recent time by Linux Foundation Europe and via developers at firms like Igalia. Last year they drafted plans for focusing on making Servo embed-friendly so that this Rust-written code could be easily leveraged by desktop apps and frameworks. Today more light was shed on this embed initiative and their focus on integrating with Tauri... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Engine-Plus-Tauri)
2024-01-19T15:16:31Z	**Wayland Protocols 1.33 Released With DMA-BUF Stable, Adds Transient Seat Protocol**
Wayland Protocols 1.33 was released today by Daniel Stone for this de facto collection of Wayland protocols for implementing by the various Wayland compositors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.33)
2024-01-19T15:31:35Z	**Linux 6.8 Adds Input Driver For Adafruit Seesaw Gamepad**
For those wanting to build/mod their own Linux gaming handheld or craft a controller for other uses, the Adafruit Seesaw gamepad has a driver premiering with Linux 6.8... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Adafruit-Seesaw)
2024-01-19T18:00:00Z	**AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS Linux Performance With The TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3**
When it comes to AMD Zen 4 laptop testing to date I've done a lot of testing with the Ryzen 7 7840U as well as the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U which have proved to be very capable 8-core / 16-thread laptop processors with performant integrated graphics and running great on Linux -- besides the current lack of Ryzen AI. Recently TUXEDO Computer sent over their newly announced Pulse 14 Gen 3 Linux laptop featuring the Ryzen 7 7840HS part, which is the focus  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-7840hs-linux)
2024-01-19T18:49:13Z	**Linux Can Now Engage GFXOFF When Running ROCm Compute Apps On RDNA3 GPUs**
Merged as part of an initial batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD fixes for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel is support for enabling the GFXOFF feature when ROCm compute applications are active on GFX11 (RDNA3) hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-GFXOFF-ROCm-GFX11)
2024-01-19T21:48:44Z	**MQ-Deadline Scheduler Optimized For Much Better Scalability**
Days after delivering a nice boost to Linux I/O performance, Linux storage expert Jens Axboe has tackled another storage-related bottleneck within the kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MQ-Deadline-Scalability)
2024-01-20T00:38:20Z	**Mesa Vulkan Drivers Reach An Inflection Point: Idea Raised To Be More Like Gallium3D**
With Mesa's Gallium3D architecture there are different state trackers like for VA-API and OpenGL that in turn run atop the different Gallium3D hardware drivers with an aim for common code re-use and making the most of capabilities for each of the drivers. With Mesa's Vulkan drivers there isn't quite that level of code sharing/re-use given Vulkan's low-level API approach, but now the idea is raised whether the Mesa Vulkan driver ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Vulkan-Driver-Runtime)
2024-01-20T11:05:52Z	**Linux 6.8-rc1 Should Release On Schedule Tomorrow**
Last weekend the Linux 6.8 merge window paused due to Linus Torvalds losing Internet connectivity and electricity. It lasted for the better part of the week but then managed to get back to work and now thankfully has been back online albeit with intermittent electrical issues following a brutal winter storm... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-rc1-Tomorrow)
2024-01-20T10:51:59Z	**SDL 2.30 Release Candidate Brings Many Fixes, New Additions For The Steam API**
While SDL 3.0 remains under development as the next major release for this hardware/software abstraction library commonly used by games and other software for cross-platform handling, SDL 2.30 RC1 was released today as the newest of the SDL2 series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-2.30-RC1-Released)
2024-01-20T11:17:44Z	**KDE Config File Lookups Now 13~16% Faster, More Fixes Ahead Of KDE Plasma 6.0**
There's just over one month to go until the release of the KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop along with the new KDE Gear apps and KDE Frameworks 6. This week KDE Plasma 6.0 and KDE Gear applications have been branched... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Next-Month)
2024-01-20T11:50:00Z	**Ceph Cluster Hits 1 TiB/s Using AMD EPYC Genoa + NVMe Drives**
While the new PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs may feel fast with pushing 11~12k MB/s sequential reads and writes, a Ceph storage cluster has just broken the 1 TiB/s threshold... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ceph-Cluster-Hits-1-TiBs)
2024-01-20T14:06:04Z	**Serpent OS To Require x86_64-v2 CPUs While Offering x86_64-v3 Packages Too**
Serpent OS as the latest Linux distribution project of well known developer Ikey Doherty is off to a great start for 2024. Following all their Rust infrastructure work last year, that infrastructure work has continued while also taking on new challenges for the new year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Serpent-OS-January-2024)
2024-01-21T02:42:00Z	**The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X Boasts Some Big AI Wins & More With Linux 6.7**
For those on a new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series system at least, the recently released Linux 6.7 stable kernel is looking mighty good at least for the Threadripper 7980X when testing on the newly-launched System76 Thelio Major... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Threadripper-7980X-Perf-Boost)
2024-01-21T13:34:17Z	**Linux 6.8 Brings Intel Lunar Lake Thunderbolt, New Qualcomm USB AltMode Mux Driver**
Merged this week were the USB and Thunderbolt driver changes for the nearly-closed Linux 6.8 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/USB-Thunderbolt-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-21T14:33:28Z	**BFQ I/O Scheduler For Linux Sees Big Scalability Improvement**
Following the work on enhancing the scalability of the MQ-Deadline I/O scheduler, Linux storage expert Jens Axboe has applied similar scalability improvements to the BFQ I/O scheduler... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/BFQ-IO-Better-Scalability)
2024-01-21T19:43:54Z	**StarFive RISC-V SoC's Camera Subsystem Driver Added To Linux 6.8**
Sent in last week were all of the media driver updates for Linux 6.8. Arguably most notable is the introduction of the StarFive Camera Subsystem driver as a new image sensor processor driver initially being treated as a staging driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Media-Drivers)
2024-01-21T19:54:30Z	**Linux 6.8 Crypto Provides Intel IAA Compression Accelerator Driver, QAT 420xx Hardware**
When it comes to the Linux kernel's "crypto" subsystem for various cryptographic and compression algorithms and various hardware drivers, the new additions for Linux 6.8 are particularly interesting on the Intel side... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Crypto-Intel)
2024-01-21T22:50:43Z	**Linux 6.8-rc1 Released Following Torvalds' Bout With Nasty Weather**
While Linux creator Linus Torvalds lost Internet and electricity amid winter storms last weekend and was without them for most of this week, he's still managed to deliver an on-time Linux 6.8-rc1 release following the two week merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-rc1-Released)
2024-01-22T05:00:00Z	**Bcachefs Squeezes Last Minute Feature Work Into Linux 6.8**
More than one week ago was the main Bcachefs feature pull for Linux 6.8 that included further enhancing the performance and other features of this new file-system merged back in Linux 6.7. Yesterday, just prior to the Linux 6.8-rc1 release, a secondary set of Bcachefs updates were merged for this next kernel version... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Round-Two-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-22T08:00:00Z	**Fedora 40 Looks To bpfman For Managing eBPF Programs**
Fedora 40 is looking at bpfman for serving as the default eBPF program manager to simplify the deployment and administration of said eBPF programs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-bpfman-eBPF-Manager)
2024-01-22T11:36:00Z	**GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering Now Latency Optimized For Raspberry Pi & X.Org**
While back in December the GNOME dynamic triple buffering was self-proclaimed to be "ready to merge", so far that hasn't happened yet. With the GNOME 46 feature freeze scheduled for 10 February, it remains to be seen if this long-worked-on dynamic triple/double buffering will be ready in time for this six month release. In any event, this past week saw a new optimization queued for this code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Triple-Buffering-Xorg-RPi)
2024-01-22T11:52:03Z	**Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE ISOs Now Available For Running On Linux 6.5**
Released earlier this month was Linux Mint 21.3 and out-of-the-box it continues to run on the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel... Quite old at this point and was the Ubuntu 22.04 default for which Linunx Mint 21 is based. For those unable to boot Linux Mint 21.3 due to running on newer AMD/Intel hardware or other platform compatibility issues, the Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE ISOs are now published that utilize Linux 6.5 by default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-21.3-EDGE-ISOs)
2024-01-22T13:45:51Z	**Fedora Linux 40 Looks To Replace iotop With iotop-c**
Fedora Linux already ships an iotop-c package for this C alternative the the common iotop program for reporting I/O metrics under Linux, but with the upcoming Fedora 40 release it's looking at having iotop-c replace the original iotop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-iotop-c)
2024-01-22T15:05:13Z	**FreeBSD Considers Making Use Of Rust Within Its Base System**
FreeBSD developers are currently weighing the benefits and costs of allowing the Rust programming language to be used within the FreeBSD base system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Considers-Rust-Base)
2024-01-22T15:52:10Z	**NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.4 Released With Updated DXVK, Performance Improvements & Fixes**
As part of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series launch RTX Remix was announced for helping game modders remaster older game titles for RTX/ray-tracing. RTX Remix 0.1 debuted last April as the initial version of their software to provide path-tracing support for classic games. Out today is the latest work for helping to remaster classic games with the debut of RTX Remix 0.4... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-RTX-Remix-0.4)
2024-01-22T18:28:42Z	**Linux 6.8 Now Enables -Wstringop-overflow To Warn About Buffer Overflows**
A change merged today for the Linux 6.8 kernel intentionally following yesterday's Linux 6.8-rc1 is a move to enable the "-Wstringop-overflow" compiler option by default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Wstringop-overflow)
2024-01-22T21:47:31Z	**Coreboot-Based Dasharo Firmware Updated For MSI Z690/Z790 Motherboards**
For those wanting to use an open-source Coreboot-based firmware on your desktop with modern hardware, a rare and leading option is 3mdeb's Coreboot-based "Dasharo" firmware on select MSI Z690/Z790 motherboards... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dasharo-2024-Update-MSI)
2024-01-23T00:37:09Z	**Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable**
Valve has rolled out Proton 8.0-5 as the newest version of their Wine downstream for powering Steam Play to enjoy mass amounts of Windows games to run rather well on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Proton-8.0-5)
2024-01-23T05:00:00Z	**Firefox 122 Available With Official Debian Package, Many Web Improvements**
Today marks the first Mozilla Firefox feature release of 2024 with quite a number of new features to showcase in the newly-published Firefox 122... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-122-Available)
2024-01-23T11:27:21Z	**Intel Sends Out First Linux Patch For Clearwater Forest**
While Intel's Sierra Forest as their first all-E-core Xeon processor with up to 288 cores per socket isn't launching until around the middle of this calendar year, Intel Linux engineers already sent out their first kernel patch in beginning to target its successor: Clearwater Forest... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Clearwater-Forest-Linux)
2024-01-23T11:15:44Z	**Gentoo Made Progress In 2023 On Binary Packages, Modern C & Reviving DEC Alpha Support**
The Gentoo Linux project published a 2023 retrospective on Monday that outlines their ongoing high level of development, gaining three new developers over the past calendar year, and various initiatives embarked on by the developers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-2023-Progress)
2024-01-23T12:55:59Z	**Linux 6.8 Running Well On The AMD Threadripper 7980X, Maintaining Gains Made With v6.7**
Over the weekend I shared some benchmarks showing some nice performance gains with Linux 6.7 over the 6.6 kernel when running on the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X HEDT processor within the new System76 Thelio. So now you may be wondering about the performance with the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel... Here are some early tests there... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Threadripper-7980X-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-23T15:00:00Z	**Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support & Performance, Excellent Customizability**
The review embargo has now expired on the Framework Laptop 16, the latest innovative and upgradeable laptop from this company that has made quite a name for itself with modular and user-upgradeable laptop designs for both AMD and Intel. The new Framework Laptop 16 offers even more customizability around the keyboard/touchpad and other options including over using a Radeon RX 7700S graphics module and more. Besides the immense c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-16)
2024-01-23T17:38:06Z	**Real-Time Patches Updated Against The Linux 6.8 Kernel**
It's 2024 and sadly the real-time (RT) patches still have yet to be mainlined for the Linux kernel. At least though the out-of-tree patches continue to be quickly re-based and decrease in size over time... Out today is the Linux v6.8-rc1-rt1 patches for bringing the real-time support against the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-rc1-Real-Time)
2024-01-23T17:55:00Z	**Chrome 121 Adds New CSS & WebGPU Features**
In addition to Firefox 122 making it to stable today, Google has also promoted their Chrome 121 web browser to its stable channel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-121-Released)
2024-01-23T20:40:45Z	**Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Wired Up To Support AMD's Radeon Memory Visualizer**
While AMD's GPUOpen team developed the Radeon Memory Visualizer for their own Radeon graphics processors, thanks to the software working out well and being open-source and the profiling/dump format being public, the Intel open-source Vulkan Linux driver has added support for it. With the Intel ANV Mesa driver you can now generate Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV) compatible dumps that can then be loaded into the GPUOpen software for ana ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Vulkan-RMV)
2024-01-23T22:00:00Z	**AMD's Advanced Media Framework Adds Pro Vulkan & Experimental RADV Support**
AMD's GPUOpen team today released version 1.4.33 of the Advanced Media Framework (AMF) SDK. The AMF SDK continues to be focused on delivering optimal access to AMD hardware for multimedia processing under both Windows and Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AMF-1.4.33)
2024-01-24T05:00:01Z	**Windows NT Sync Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel - Better Wine Performance**
Following discussions from last year's Linux Plumbers Conference, a Windows NT synchronization primitive driver has been proposed for the Linux kernel. This driver would expose /dev/ntsync as a new character device for implementing some of the Windows NT synchronization primitives directly within the Linux kernel. In turn this would help the performance of some Windows games/applications running on Linux via Wine and in some cases wou ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Windows-NT-Sync-RFC-Linux)
2024-01-24T05:00:00Z	**OBS Merges FFmpeg VA-API AV1 Support**
The cross-platform OBS software that is popular with game streamers and others live-recording their desktops has finally landed support for AV1 video encoding using Linux's Video Acceleration API (VA-API) interface... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Lands-AV1-VA-API)
2024-01-24T11:50:11Z	**Teflon Merged To Mesa 24.1 As Gallium3D Frontend For TensorFlow Lite**
Teflon has been merged into Mesa 24.1 as a Gallium3D front-end that TensorFlow can load for delegating the execution of operations in a neural network model. Teflon was created initially for the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver for being able to run AI inferencing on Vivante NPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gallium3D-Teflon-Merged)
2024-01-24T11:37:33Z	**Fwupd 1.9.12 Adds Support For More Devices & AMD CPU Checks Updated**
Red Hat's Richard Hughes has released Fwupd 1.9.12 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution that is developed along with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for simplifying system firmware and peripheral/device firmware updates under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-1.9.12)
2024-01-24T14:00:00Z	**AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Linux Performance**
AMD announced back during CES the Radeon RX 7600 XT as a $329 USD graphics card for 1080p/144p gaming. Today that card goes on sale and the review embargo has lifted. Here is an initial look at the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT performance under Linux with AMD's open-source driver stack. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-radeon-rx-7600-xt-linux)
2024-01-24T17:40:26Z	**Zed Code Editor Now Open-Source**
The Zed code editor being led by the creators of the Atom editor and Tree-sitter syntax parsing framework have announced today that the Zed editor is being open-sourced... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zed-Editor-Open-Source)
2024-01-24T19:24:35Z	**GCC 14 Compiler Might Have AMD RDNA3 GPU Support "Working For Most Purposes"**
Earlier this month the GCC 14 compiler landed initial support for AMD RDNA3 "GFX11" graphics processors as part of the GNU Compiler Collection's OpenMP device offloading support for GPU compute. That initial support was rather basic but a follow-up patch has the possibility of making the RDNA3 (GFX11) support "working for most purposes" and will hopefully still be merged in time for the GCC 14.1 stable release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-New-Patch-RDNA3-GFX11)
2024-01-25T01:27:21Z	**Mesa 24.0-rc3 Up For Testing, Mesa 23.3.4 Out As Stable**
Eric Engestrom with Igalia continues doing a stellar job maintaining the Mesa 23.3 stable series while also leading the Mesa 24.0 release candidates for that upcoming Q1'2024 stable series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-rc3-Released)
2024-01-25T11:51:45Z	**GNOME Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols**
GNOME Network Displays is the software that allows streaming your GNOME desktop to WiFi Display devices using PipeWire. Last week GNOME Network Displays 0.91 was released with some big improvements to this software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Network-Displays-0.91)
2024-01-25T11:41:32Z	**Steam Beta Adds VA-API DRM Video Acceleration For Remote Play**
In addition to OBS adding AV1 VA-API support, some more good Linux video acceleration news this week is Valve enabling VA-API DRM hardware-accelerated video decoding when using Remote Play with the newest Steam beta... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Remote-Play-VA-API-DRM)
2024-01-25T11:28:20Z	**OpenVINO 2023.3 Brings Full Support For Intel Emerald Rapids, Broader GenAI & LLMs**
Intel engineers on Wednesday released OpenVINO 2023.3 as the latest major update to this leading open-source AI toolkit. The OpenVINO 2023.3 brings "full support" for new Emerald Rapids and Meteor Lake processors, other Intel hardware support improvements, and continuing to expand support around generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVINO-2023.3-AI)
2024-01-25T14:00:00Z	**Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Brings Shader Quad Control, Shader Maximal Reconvergence & More**
The Khronos Group today announced their Vulkan Roadmap 2024 milestone as a specification for their latest API features and meeting the needs of 2024 graphics processors and other hardware. Vulkan Roadmap 2024 builds upon Vulkan 1.3 and the Vulkan Roadmap 2022 specifications to deliver next-generation capabilities... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-Roadmap-2024)
2024-01-25T17:50:00Z	**The Incredible Performance & Power Efficiency Of AMD Zen 1 vs. Zen 4C**
While we are beginning to see AMD Zen 4C cores in client systems, these smaller cores have already proven themselves very interesting and capable with the AMD EPYC Bergamo high core count server processors and the extremely power efficient EPYC 8004 "Siena" processors. For showing how far Zen has come in power efficiency, I thought it would be fun to show how the original flagship EPYC 7601 "Zen 1" processor with 32-cores / 64-threads compared to Zen 4 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-zen1-zen4c)
2024-01-25T19:28:29Z	**Intel's FRED Looks Like It Could Be Ready For Linux 6.9**
For the better part of two years we've seen Intel open-source software engineers working on preparing the Linux kernel for FRED, the Flexible Return and Event Delivery for defining new transitions for changing privilege levels. Intel's been working hard on the FRED kernel plumbing for better performance, lower response times, and improved robustness and it's looking like FRED could be set to land come Linux 6.9... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-FRED-Hits-Linux-TIP-6.9)
2024-01-25T20:08:12Z	**Open-Source Intel & AMD Drivers Make Quick Progress On Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Extensions**
Following this morning's embargo lift on the Vulkan Roadmap 2024 specification, Mesa merge requests were opened by Intel and RADV stakeholders in beginning to implement the new extensions for these Mesa Vulkan drivers and promoting existing extensions to their newly-minted state... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Vulkan-Roadmap-2024)
2024-01-25T23:09:16Z	**AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support For Ryzen AI On Linux!**
With the AMD Ryzen 7040 series "Ryzen AI" was introduced as leveraging Xilinx IP onboard the new Zen 4 mobile processors. Ryzen AI is beginning to work its way out to more processors while it hasn't been supported on Linux. Then in October was AMD wanting to hear from customer requests around Ryzen AI Linux support. Well, today they did their first public code drop of the XDNA Linux driver for providing open-source support for Ryzen AI... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-XDNA-Linux-Driver-Ryzen-AI)
2024-01-26T11:36:27Z	**AMDVLK 2024.Q1.1 Brings Gang Submit, Faster Ray-Tracing Pipeline Compilation**
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.1 has dropped as AMD's first open-source Vulkan API driver release of the new year for Radeon graphics on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2024.Q1.1)
2024-01-26T13:46:15Z	**Uutils 0.0.24 Advances Rust-Written Coreutils Implementation**
The uutils project providing a Rust-written Coreutils re-implementation has released v0.0.24 and it passes another 29 GNU test cases as the project nears its 1.0 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/uutils-0.0.24-Rust-Coreutils)
2024-01-26T15:27:39Z	**Red Hat Updates RHEL Pricing For The Cloud - Now Scales With vCPU Count**
Red Hat announced today that beginning April they will be rolling out a new pricing model for Red Hat Enterprise Linux use in the public cloud... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RHEL-New-Cloud-Pricing)
2024-01-26T15:13:19Z	**Servo Engine Updates Bring CSS Tables & Its Browser Gets Back/Forward Buttons**
As part of the renewed efforts around the Servo open-source web engine and making it usable for embedded purposes, the Servo engine has been tacking on a number of new features in recent weeks... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Updates-2024-Start)
2024-01-26T15:03:00Z	**Sway 1.9-rc1 Supports New Wayland Extensions & Better Rendering Performance**
Simon Ser just released Sway 1.9-rc1 as the newest test release for this i3-inspired Wayland compositor... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sway-1.9-rc1-Wayland-Compositor)
2024-01-26T17:28:28Z	**AMD Core Performance Boost Patches Posted For P-State Linux Driver**
While not quite as exciting as yesterday's AMD XDNA driver publishing for Ryzen AI on Linux, a notable patch series out of AMD today on the Linux front is enabling AMD Core Performance Boost controls within their P-State CPU frequency scaling driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Core-Perf-Boost-Linux)
2024-01-26T18:12:08Z	**It's Becoming Possible To Use The Webcam On Newer Intel Laptops With Open-Source Linux**
While Intel typically does a great job with their open-source Linux hardware support with enabling all features under Linux and doing so in a timely manner -- often well in advance of the client and server hardware availability -- an exception in recent years has been around the web cam support for many newer Intel laptops. Since Alder Lake an increasing number of Intel-powered laptops have been relying on a raw MIPI camera ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Webcam-IPU6-2024-State)
2024-01-27T05:00:00Z	**Wine 9.1 Released With Better Dvorak Keyboard Detection, Input Method Improvements**
Following the recent Wine 9.0 stable release earlier this month, Wine 9.1 is now available as the first bi-weekly development release in the new series that will ultimately culminate with the Wine 10.0 stable release in early 2025... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.1-Released)
2024-01-27T11:19:46Z	**KDE Lands More Performance Improvements & Fixes Ahead Of Plasma 6.0 Next Month**
We're nearly one month to the day until the release of the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release alongside the new KDE Gear apps and KDE Frameworks 6.0. Developers aren't letting up at all with more performance optimizations and fixes continuing to hit the codebase... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-6.0-End-Of-January)
2024-01-27T11:51:16Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Will Aim To Ship With The Linux 6.8 Kernel**
As some terrific news, Canonical laid out their kernel plans for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and they are being ambitious with plans to ship the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel as their default kernel on this next long-term support Ubuntu desktop/server distribution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Will-Use-Linux-6.8)
2024-01-27T11:41:53Z	**The Budgie Desktop Hopes To Do A Wayland-Only Release This Year**
The Budgie desktop that started off as the desktop project within the Solus Linux space has written a lengthy blog post outlining their highlights for 2023 as well as providing a glimpse ahead for 2024. The Budgie desktop is working eagerly on Wayland and XWayland support and hope to advance enough this year to deliver a Wayland-only release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-Wayland-2024)
2024-01-27T11:30:00Z	**Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support**
The NVK driver within Mesa for open-source NVIDIA GPU support for the Vulkan API that works with the Nouveau DRM kernel driver is now capable of advertising Vulkan 1.3 API support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Vulkan-1.3-Mesa-24.1)
2024-01-27T13:56:40Z	**Arch-Based Endeavour OS Updates ISO With Linux 6.7 Kernel, Mesa 23.3.3**
Endeavour OS as the popular desktop rolling-release Linux distribution built upon Arch Linux has published updated ISOs that bundle in the stable Linux 6.7 kernel as well as other package updates... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Endeavour-OS-Linux-6.7)
2024-01-27T20:27:12Z	**Niri Debuts As A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM**
The newest Wayland compositor on the scene with its first stable release is Niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the PaperWM GNOME Shell extesnsion... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-0.1-Wayland-Compositor)
2024-01-28T13:55:57Z	**TuxClocker 1.5 Released With Radeon RX 7000 Series Fan Control Support**
TuxClocker as the open-source, hardware/driver vendor independent overclocking and power management control utility for Linux systems is out with a new feature release. This Qt-based utility for enthusiasts continues adding new controls primarily around greater power/performance tunables for CPUs and GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/TuxClocker-1.5-Released)
2024-01-28T14:22:08Z	**GNOME Sees Progress On Variable Refresh Rate Setting, Adding Battery Charge Control**
There's been some new work pending for further enhancing the GNOME desktop when it comes around Variable Rate Refresh (VRR). Separately, there's new merge requests pending for adding laptop battery charge threshold controls from the GNOME UI... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-VRR-Setting-Battery-Con)
2024-01-28T14:54:12Z	**Linux 6.8-rc2 Adds More Zen 5 IDs, AMD PMF Will Know If You're In Front Of Your Laptop**
New code submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.8 cycle are some AMD additions now set for premiering in today's Linux 6.8-rc2 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-More-Zen-5-And-PMF)
2024-01-28T15:08:16Z	**Wine Wayland Driver Prepares Display Mode Change Emulation**
Now being past the Wine 9.0 code freeze and the bi-weekly development releases back underway with eyes now set on Wine 10.0 next year, the 12th part of the Wine Wayland driver has been published for review. This latest set of Wine Wayland work is on implementing display mode change emulation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Display-Emulation)
2024-01-28T17:38:44Z	**Budgie 10.9 Desktop Brings Early Wayland Porting Work**
With a goal of delivering a Wayland-only Budgie 10 desktop release later in 2024, Budgie 10.9 debuted today with the early-stage porting work to Wayland... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.9-Released)
2024-01-29T01:25:28Z	**Linux 6.8-rc2 Released & Is Now More Stable**
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.8-rc2 as the newest weekly test release of this kernel set to debut as stable in March... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-rc2)
2024-01-29T05:00:00Z	**Ubuntu Looking At Applying Low-Latency Optimizations To Its Generic Kernel**
Ubuntu has long provided a "low-latency" kernel build intended for industrial embedded systems and other latency sensitive environments. Ahead of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Canonical is looking at applying those low-latency optimizations to their generic kernel build... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Low-Lat-Generic-Kernel)
2024-01-29T11:42:54Z	**CachyOS Experimenting With x86-64-v4 Repository For AVX-512 Optimized Packages**
While a number of Linux distributions are experimenting with x86-64-v2 baselines or offering x86-64-v3 optimized packages for assuming AVX/AVX2 support by default for their packages, the CachyOS Linux distribution has been experimenting with offering x86-64-v4 packages for those running on Intel or AMD systems with AVX-512 support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-x86-64-v4-Experiment)
2024-01-29T11:33:42Z	**The Current State & Future Of GTK's New Unified Renderers**
GTK recently merged their new "unified" rendering code with a focus on Vulkan API support and where Linux distributions are now encouraged to build with the Vulkan renderer. Prominent GTK developer Mathias Clasen at Red Hat has written more over the weekend about the state and future of the new Vulkan and NGL renderers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-State-Of-New-Renderers)
2024-01-29T12:00:00Z	**New Linux Driver Posted For Latest NZXT AIO CPU Coolers**
Thanks to the reverse-engineering, open-source community there is already a NZXT Kraken Linux driver for supporting hardware monitoring and controls for various NZXT all-in-one CPU liquid cooler products. A new Linux driver was posted today for supporting the latest generation of the NZXT AIO CPU coolers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NZXT-Kraken-3-Linux-HWMON)
2024-01-29T13:12:44Z	**SDL 3.0 Adds Colorspace Concept, More Code Coming From Valve Around HDR**
Development on SDL 3 continues as the next major update to the Simple DirectMedia Layer for this hardware/software abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games and other software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL3-Adds-Colorspace-HDR)
2024-01-29T14:00:16Z	**AMD Ryzen 7 8700G Linux Performance**
Today the review embargo lifts on the new AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G desktop APUs. Announced back during CES, the Ryzen 8000G series pairs Zen 4 CPU cores with RDNA3 graphics and now also boasting Ryzen AI support too. Today's launch article is focusing on the AMD Ryzen 7 8700G Linux performance. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen7-8700g-linux)
2024-01-29T16:18:31Z	**GNU Binutils 2.42 Brings Support For New Intel CPU Extensions: APX, AVX10.1 & More**
Nick Clifton with Red Hat announced today the release of GNU Binutils 2.42, the newest feature release to this collection of binary utilities widely relied upon by Linux and Unix-like systems as part of the compiler toolchain... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Binutils-2.42)
2024-01-29T19:17:26Z	**RHEL's Source Code Access Change Is Causing Issues For CentOS SIGs**
It looks like the Red Hat change restricting access to RHEL sources that was announced last year is having the unintended consequence of causing some headaches for CentOS special interest group (SIG) projects... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-RHEL-Kernel-Headaches)
2024-01-29T19:53:42Z	**A Linux Hardware Vendor Is Valuing Itself At $75,000,000 USD**
Linux hardware vendor Purism that is known for their crowd-funded Librem 5 smartphone effort, Linux-loaded laptops, and other privacy-minded wares announced a first public offering of Purism stock on the StartEngine platform... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Purism-75M)
2024-01-29T21:27:04Z	**GCC 14 Lands Working Support For AMD RDNA2 & RDNA3 GPU Offloading**
As a follow-up to last week's article around the GCC compiler seeing patches for AMD RDNA3 GPU support so that it's "working for most purposes", that code has now been merged and it's also been confirmed to also bring the RDNA2 support up to a working state... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-14-RDNA2-RDNA3-Offload)
2024-01-30T00:30:26Z	**RHEL's Source Code Access Change Is Causing Issues For CentOS SIGs**
It looks like the Red Hat change restricting access to RHEL sources that was announced last year is having the unintended consequence of causing some headaches for CentOS special interest group (SIG) projects... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-RHEL-Kernel-Headaches)
2024-01-30T01:30:00Z	**LLVM 18.1-rc1 Released For Enabling New Intel CPU Features, More C23 & C++23**
Following the recent branching of LLVM 18, LLVM 18.1-rc1 was released today as the first test candidate for this half-year update of this widely-used open-source compiler stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-18.1-rc1-Released)
2024-01-30T11:38:10Z	**ChipStar 1.1 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V**
ChipStar 1.1 was released this past week as one of the open-source projects to help in porting HIP and CUDA applications to support the industry-standard SPIR-V. ChipStar acts to get HIP/CUDA codes working on SPIR-V with OpenCL or Intel's oneAPI Level Zero... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ChipStar-1.1-HIP-CUDA-SPIR-V)
2024-01-30T11:23:43Z	**Radeon R300 Open-Source Driver Continues Seeing New Improvements In 2024**
As I wrote about at the start of January, the open-source ATI Radeon R300 Linux graphics driver continues seeing new improvements even all these years later thanks to the open-source community. This wasn't some one-off work either in 2024 for this R300 to R500 GPU OpenGL driver but more work has since landed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-R300g-Comp-Lowering)
2024-01-30T11:55:00Z	**Linux's x86_energy_perf_policy Utility Being Extended To AMD CPUs**
For AMD Zen 2 and newer systems making use of the modern AMD P-State driver on Linux for CPU frequency scaling, ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) interface is being used. For managing the ACPI CPPC energy performance preference (EPP), Intel's x86\_energy\_perf\_policy utility is now being extended to AMD processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-x86_energy_perf_policy)
2024-01-30T13:48:05Z	**GNOME Project Handbook Launches To Help New Contributors**
The GNOME project has announced the GNOME Project Handbook as a new resource for helping new developers/contributors get involved with this open-source desktop environment... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Project-Handbook)
2024-01-30T14:35:53Z	**Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks For HPC & Desktop**
With Ubuntu looking at applying their low-latency optimizations to their generic kernel builds in order to eliminate maintaining their existing "lowlatency" kernel option, I decided to run some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance impact of their low-latency kernel against their "generic" default kernel used on Ubuntu Linux systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Generic-LL-Kernel)
2024-01-30T16:50:28Z	**Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Released With Per-Contact Ringtones, Built-In Theme Switching**
For fans of the Ubuntu Touch platform maintained by UBports for enjoying Linux on tablets and smartphones is out with their 4th Over The Air update based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-OTA-4)
2024-01-30T18:33:42Z	**AMD Releases HIP RT 2.2 With Multi-Level Instancing**
AMD's GPUOpen crew today released HIP RT 2.2 as the newest version of this ray-tracing library for HIP... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GPUOpen-HIP-RT-2.2)
2024-01-30T20:03:26Z	**Wine On Wayland This Year Aims For OpenGL Support, Window Minimization**
While there is the initial Wine Wayland driver found in the recently minted Wine 9.0 stable release, the driver isn't yet complete for offering a native Wayland experience for Windows games and applications running on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-2024-Plans)
2024-01-30T21:39:31Z	**XDG Top-Level Drag Protocol Approved For Wayland**
Merged today to Wayland-Protocols is xdg-toplevel-drag, the protocol that's been under discussion for the past nine months for handling applications that request a window is moved at the same time as a drag operation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-xdg-toplevel-drag)
2024-01-31T11:18:40Z	**Godot 4.3 Game Engine To Feature Native Wayland Support**
The newest feature tacked onto the Godot 4.3 open-source game engine is featuring native support for Wayland on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.3-Wayland-Support)
2024-01-31T11:55:16Z	**EROFS Lands Big Optimization In Linux 6.8 For Low-Memory Scenarios**
Merged overnight for Linux 6.8 is enhancing the EROFS read-only open-source file-system to perform better in low-memory scenarios. Not just better, but significantly better performance... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/EROFS-Linux-6.8-Low-RAM)
2024-01-31T12:48:07Z	**LibreOffice 24.2 Released For This Leading Free Software Office Suite**
LibreOffice 24.2 is now available as the latest major update to this leading cross-platform, free software office suite to compete with the likes of Microsoft Office... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-24.2-Released)
2024-01-31T14:00:00Z	**35-Way Linux GPU Graphics Comparison, Initial NVIDIA RTX 40 SUPER Linux Benchmarks**
Here's a fresh look at the AMD Radeon versus NVIDIA GeForce Linux graphics/gaming performance across a variety of workloads as well as our first look at the GeForce RTX 4070 series and RTX 4080 SUPER performance. With recently receiving the rest of the GeForce RTX 40 series line-up currently released, we're now able to share a comprehensive look at how the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series versus AMD Radeon RX 7000 series performance ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-rtx-40-super-linux)
2024-01-31T13:51:26Z	**KDE Megarelease 6 RC2 Available For Testing**
Releasing at the end of February is the much anticipated Plasma 6.0 desktop where the Wayland session is the default. Plasma 6.0 will be joined by KDE Frameworks 6.0 and the Qt6-ported KDE Gear apps too. Out today for closing out January is the second release candidate of these packages... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-RC2)
2024-01-31T15:22:51Z	**Fast Kernel Headers Work Restarted For Linux To Ultimately Speed Up Build Times**
Posted at the start of 2022 was a set of 2.3k patches dubbed "fast kernel headers" to massively speed-up build times for compiling the kernel and to address dependency hell situations. While it was quick to iterate at first and some bits got upstreamed, it's been months since hearing anything new on the fast kernel headers topic. But today a new patch series was posted that's restarting the effort in working towards massively speeding ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fast-Kernel-Headers-2024)
2024-01-31T17:28:49Z	**Linux Foundation Gets Involved With Lottie To Develop Formal File Format Specification**
The newest frontier by the Linux Foundation is getting involved with coming up with a formal file format specification for Lottie, the vector graphics animation format based on JSON... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-Lottie-Format)
2024-01-31T21:31:10Z	**AMD's Brotli-G 1.0 Released With CPU & GPU Decompression**
Back in November 2022 AMD announced Brotli-G for GPU-accelerated Brotli compression. Brotli has proven very worthwhile for compressing web assets and other material while AMD's Brotli-G modifies the bitstream format to be more optimal for handling by GPUs rather than just relying on CPU (de)compression. Today Brotli-G 1.0 was finally released... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Brotli-G-1.0-SDK)
2024-02-01T00:55:22Z	**GNU C Library 2.39 Released With New Tunables, stdbit.h For ISO C2X**
In addition to this week's release of GNU Binutils 2.42, ending out January is the release of the GNU C Library 2.39. This C library "libc" update comes with several new features, security fixes, and other enhancements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-C-Library-glibc-2.39)
2024-02-01T01:09:15Z	**Mesa 24.0 Released With Faster Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing & Initial PowerVR Vulkan Driver**
Mesa 24.0 made its very punctual debut today as the Q1'2024 feature update to this set of open-source OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenCL, and video acceleration drivers most notably used by Linux systems. From upstreaming of the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver to lots of Intel and AMD Radeon improvements as always, Mesa 24.0 is another great update that benefits most Linux desktop users from basic video acceleration and 3D to the most devoted  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Released)
2024-02-01T05:00:00Z	**AMD Releases ROCm 6.0.2 With Improved Stability For Instinct MI300 Series**
AMD on Wednesday evening released ROCm 6.0.2 as the newest point release to their open-source compute stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.0.2-MI300)
2024-02-01T11:23:24Z	**Windows NT Synchronization Primitive Driver For The Linux Kernel Revised**
Last week CodeWeavers engineer Elizabeth Figura posted the initial patches for a Windows NT synchronization primitive driver for Linux for exposing /dev/ntsync for exposing some synchronization primitives available under Windows directly within the Linux kernel. This has the potential of sharply speeding up some Windows games and applications running under Wine on Linux or the likes of Valve's Steam Play (Proton). This week a second itera ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NT-Sync-Primitive-Driver-v2)
2024-02-01T11:50:21Z	**AMD P-State Preferred Core Support Coming With Linux 6.9**
Since last August AMD Linux engineers have been working on P-State Preferred Core support for the "amd\_pstate" driver so that this functionality can be leveraged under Linux for improved task placement... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-AMD-P-State-Preferred)
2024-02-01T15:19:49Z	**IPU6 Firmware Binaries Upstreamed For Recent Intel Laptops**
Webcameras on newer Intel laptops have been challenging for Linux use without resorting to an out-of-tree driver and proprietary user-space components, but that's been thankfully changing with progress being made on an open-source stack. There's still proprietary firmware necessary for enabling the IPU6 image processing unit, but at least that too is now in linux-firmware.git for easy distribution and packaging by Linux distributions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IPU6-Firmware-Git)
2024-02-01T16:08:44Z	**More AMD SEV-SNP Support To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.9**
More of AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) support for memory encrypted VMs is set to make it upstream for the Linux 6.9 kernel coming out toward the middle of the year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-More-AMD-SEV-SNP)
2024-02-01T17:42:50Z	**GNU libmicrohttpd version 1.0 Released For Embed-Friendly Web Server**
GNU libmicrohttpd version 1.0.0 is out today as the first major release of this C library implementing an easy-to-run HTTP web server that is embed-friendly for use by other applications... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-libmicrohttpd-1.0)
2024-02-01T19:51:00Z	**Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension**
Introduced in April 2021 was the initial Vulkan Video support for a new video encode/decode API built around Vulkan. That initial Vulkan Video support was catered to H.264 and H.265 while finally with today's Vulkan 1.3.277 release there is a new extension introduced for AV1 video decoding... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-Video-AV1-Decode)
2024-02-02T00:44:43Z	**Steam On Linux Falls Short Of 2% For January, AMD CPU Adoption On Linux Hits 70.5%**
With the start of a new month comes the Steam Survey results for the month prior. For January 2024, the reported Steam on Linux marketshare continued falling just short of the 2% threshold... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-January-2024)
2024-02-02T05:00:00Z	**SDL 2.30 Released With New API Additions For Steam Use**
While all major feature development for the Simple DirectMedia Layer "SDL" is currently focused on SDL 3.0 for this library commonly used by cross-platform games for various hardware/software abstractions, SDL 2.30 released on Thursday as a new point release in the SDL2 series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-2.30-Released)
2024-02-02T08:00:00Z	**Torvalds Has It With "-Wstringop-overflow" On GCC Due To Kernel Breakage**
One of the new features for Linux 6.8 that was merged late was enabling the -Wstringop-overflow compiler option to warn about possible buffer overflows in cases where the compiler can detect such possible overflows at compile-time. While it's nice in theory, issues on GCC has led Linus Torvalds to disabling this compiler option as of now Linux 6.8... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drop-GCC--Wstringop-of)
2024-02-02T11:25:05Z	**OBS Studio 30.1 Beta Released With AV1 For VA-API & AV1 For WebRTC/WHIP Output**
Following the release of OBS Studio 30.0 last November, OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 was released today as what will be the next feature release for this open-source software that is popular with livestreamers and other game streaming / desktop recording purposes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-30.1-Beta)
2024-02-02T11:53:21Z	**Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1**
Following yesterday's release of VK\_KHR\_video\_decode\_av1 in Vulkan 1.3.277 for AV1 video decoding, a Mesa merge request has already been opened for adding the VK\_KHR\_video\_decode\_av1 extension to the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-AV1-Decode-Mesa-MR)
2024-02-02T15:04:57Z	**Redox OS Porting More Linux Software Over, Including The COSMIC Desktop**
The Rust-based Redox OS open-source project has published a new blog post outlining some of their recent accomplishments as well as a look ahead to other technical adventures planned for this year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Starts-2024)
2024-02-02T14:47:57Z	**Intel Open Image Denoise Rolls Out Metal Support, Expanded AArch64 Support**
Intel's open-source oneAPI components continue to not only embrace Intel's diverse range of CPUs / GPUs / accelerators but continues to better support competing platforms too. Today's Open Image Denoise release candidate brings more for Apple hardware, AArch64 processors, and NVIDIA CUDA... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-OIDn-Metal-More-ARM64)
2024-02-02T17:33:09Z	**Debian 64-bit time_t Transition Underway For Addressing Y2038 Problem On 32-bit Systems**
Debian Experimental has begun its package rebuilds for its 64-bit time\_t transition for ensuring 32-bit architectures running Debian Trixie will be able to operate past the Year 2038... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Experimental-64bit-Time)
2024-02-02T18:00:04Z	**Intel Arc Graphics A580 / A750 / A770 Linux Performance For Early 2024**
Earlier this week I posted a 35-way Linux graphics card comparison featuring the new NVIDIA RTX 40 SUPER graphics cards and other recent AMD and NVIDIA hardware I had available while using the latest Linux drivers. Intel Arc Graphics desktop graphics cards weren't part of that comparison for simply running out of time prior to the RTX 4080 SUPER embargo lift to facilitate that re-testing. But for those interested, here is a fresh look at the Int ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-early-2024)
2024-02-02T21:45:32Z	**Initial Support For The Lenovo Legion Go Controllers Added To Linux 6.8**
Being merged today as part of the input subsystem "fixes" for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel is supporting the controllers of the Lenovo Legion Go handheld game console... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Legion-Go-Controllers-68)
2024-02-03T10:54:22Z	**KDE Plasma 6.0 Getting More Fixes & UI Refinements Ahead Of Release This Month**
KDE Plasma 6.0 is due to be released at the end of this month! KDE Megarelease 6 RC2 released this week in facilitating more testing ahead of this big KDE desktop milestone and there's been no let-up in the amount of bug fixes and last minute work being prepped for this milestone... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0-This-Month)
2024-02-03T11:10:34Z	**Niri 0.1.1 Wayland Compositor Adds Support For Taskbars, Output Rotation & More**
In case you missed it debuting last week was Niri v0.1 as a new, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the GNOME extension PaperWM. Out today is a follow-on release with more fixes and a few additional features for this new Wayland compositor... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-0.1.1-Wayland-Compositor)
2024-02-03T13:49:32Z	**ASUS ROG RYUJIN II 360 AIO Cooler Gets A Linux Driver**
The latest all-in-one liquid cooler receiving a Linux driver to monitor pump speeds and coolant temperatures as well as managing radiator fan speeds under Linux is the ASUS ROG RYUJIN II 360... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-RYUJIN-II-360-Linux)
2024-02-03T20:08:29Z	**Linux 6.9 To Support The Power Profile Key On New Lenovo ThinkPads**
On newer Lenovo ThinkPad laptops (2024+ models) there is a new key combination appearing to make it easy to switch between ACPI Platform Profiles for toggling your power/performance preference of the system. With the Linux 6.9 kernel coming in a few months this key will now work under Linux too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-ThinkPad-Profile-Key)
2024-02-04T11:46:08Z	**AMD's Work On Upstreaming AMDGPU/ROCm Debugging Support Into GDB**
The AMD ROCm Debugger "ROCgdb" is maintained as a fork of the GNU Debugger (GDB) with support added for the heterogeneous debugging of the ROCm compute platform. ROCgdb works well and is distributed as part of the ROCM stack. The good news is that AMD is also working on getting this AMDGPU/ROCm debug support added into the upstream GDB debugger... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-ROCm-Debugging-GDB)
2024-02-04T11:36:36Z	**FreeBSD 13.3 Beta Released With Various Fixes & Minor Updates**
FreeBSD 14 has been out as stable since last November, but for those still on the FreeBSD 13 stable series, FreeBSD 13.3 beta was released this weekend ahead of its planned stable release in March... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-13.3-Beta-1)
2024-02-04T13:45:03Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Aims For A Nice Desktop Provisioning Experience**
In addition to exploring low-latency changes for the "generic" kernel image, frame pointers by default, and possible x86-64-v3 optimizations, another area being invested into feature work for this next long-term support release is on the desktop provisioning side. Building off work of their new Ubuntu desktop installer and unifying the installation tech that has already been used by Ubuntu Server, Canonical is hoping for a nice desktop provisioning ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Provisioning)
2024-02-04T14:09:37Z	**Linux 6.8-rc3 Released - Slightly Larger But Not Too Worrying**
Linus Torvalds is up early today and already issued Linux 6.8-rc3 as the newest weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-rc3-Released)
2024-02-04T18:40:05Z	**Gentoo Linux Begins Offering x86-64-v3 Binary Packages**
Gentoo ended out last year by beginning to optionally provide binary packages for direct installation. This lowers the barrier for using Gentoo Linux and also works out well for low-end/embedded systems rather than always compiling source packages locally. They've now taken their binary position a step further by also offering up x86-64-v3 packages... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-x86-64-v3-Binaries)
2024-02-05T05:00:00Z	**LXD Fork Incus Looking At Bcachefs Storage Driver & Upcoming LTS Release**
It's been just shy of four months since the Incus 0.1 release as a fork of the LXD project after Canonical re-asserted control over LXD last summer. Incus though is showing great potential and should be an interesting 2024... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Incus-FOSDEM-2024)
2024-02-05T11:43:31Z	**PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters**
With PipeWire 1.0 having been released toward the end of last year and is now commonly used by Linux distributions out-of-the-box for managing audio/video streams, you may be wondering about the future plans for this open-source software from Red Hat. Well, Wim Taymans was at FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels and shared some of the plans ahead for PipeWire... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PipeWire-Plans-2024)
2024-02-05T11:34:18Z	**VOPD Scheduler For Valve's ACO Compiler Merged Into Mesa 24.1**
A pull request open for the past eight months for implementing a VOPD scheduler for the Valve-developed ACO "AMD Compiler" back-end has now been merged for Mesa 24.1-devel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-ACO-VOPD-Scheduler)
2024-02-05T14:52:29Z	**Intel Begins Rolling Out APX & AV10 Binaries For Their Linux Distribution**
Ahead of any processors being released with support for Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and Advanced Vector Extensions 10 (AVX10), Intel's in-house Clear Linux distribution is already beginning to roll-out binaries compiled for APX+AVX10 use... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-APX-AVX10-Clear-Linux)
2024-02-05T16:30:00Z	**AMD Ryzen 5 8600G Linux Performance**
Last week the new AMD Ryzen 8000G series processors with Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA3 graphics became available in retail channels. The initial launch-day Linux testing was focused on the Ryzen 7 8700G processor, which showed great uplift for the integrated graphics over the Ryzen 5000G series with Vega/GFX9 graphics and the Ryzen 7000 series with their cut-down RDNA2 integrated graphics. In today's article the AMD Ryzen 5 8600G is the focus of the Linux testing along with an expanded s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen5-8600g)
2024-02-05T17:00:00Z	**Google Making $1M USD Investment To Improve Rust & C++ Interoperability**
Google is announcing today they are contributing $1M USD to the Rust Foundation to focus on enhancing interoperability between the C++ and Rust programming languages... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Rust-Better-CPP-Interop)
2024-02-05T21:27:59Z	**GRUB2 Working On TPM2 Automatic Disk Unlock, TrenchBoot & More**
Daniel Kiper with Oracle has provided a status update on current GRUB bootloader development activities, a look ahead, and plans for hopefully having out the next release in November... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-2024-Plans)
2024-02-05T21:08:41Z	**Orange Pi Neo Coming As A Ryzen 7 + Linux Powered Handheld Device**
When hearing of "Orange Pi Neo" this weekend from sources at FOSDEM 2024, I just assumed it was yet another Orange Pi single board computer... But then to hear it's a handheld game console from Orange Pi again gives off the impression of some low-power ARM device. It turns out though that the Orange Pi Neo is a forthcoming AMD Ryzen powered handheld gaming console... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Orange-Pi-Neo-Console)
2024-02-05T22:07:22Z	**Another Optimization Comes For Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing In Mesa 24.1**
Valve contractor Friedrich Vock who is part of the team working on the open-source Linux graphics drivers has merged another RADV ray-tracing optimization for this open-source AMD Vulkan driver with this improvement in next quarter's Mesa 24.1 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-RT-VGPR-Optimize)
2024-02-06T11:23:30Z	**Linux Pulls In Two Serious Bug Fixes For Bcachefs**
Overnight the latest fixes to the Linux 6.8 kernel were merged including two that are "serious" and will be back-ported to the existing stable Linux 6.7 kernel as well... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Two-Serious-Fixes)
2024-02-06T11:44:31Z	**Amazon Proposes Pkernfs For Better Handling Hypervisor Live Updates**
Stemming from work done at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for better handling hypervisor live updates, a "request for comments" patch series was sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list for Pkernfs. The Pkernfs proposal was first detailed publicly by AWS last year and is for persisting guest memory and kernel/device state safely across Kexec... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Amazon-AWS-RFC-Pkernfs)
2024-02-06T12:02:52Z	**Eclipse OpenJ9 0.43 Released With New Options, Updated Compilers For Release Binaries**
A new release of Eclipse OpenJ9 is now available, the high-performance Java Virtual Machine formerly developed by IBM as the J9 VM... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Eclipse-OpenJ9-0.43)
2024-02-06T13:40:03Z	**The 2024 State Of Open-Source AMD Firmware**
Last year at FOSDEM 2023 there was a presentation on the state of AMD open-source firmware and since then a lot has changed from the AMD openSIL announcement to new platforms being in the process of being enabled. At FOSDEM 2024 this past weekend in Brussels was a fresh look at the current state of AMD open-source firmware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/2024-AMD-OSS-Firmware-State)
2024-02-06T15:30:00Z	**Mozilla's Latest Plan To Make Money Is Mozilla Monitor Plus**
Mozilla's latest non-browser foray and attempt at generating additional revenue is Mozilla Monitor Plus, what formerly was known as the free service Firefox Monitor for monitoring of exposed personal information such as email addresses as part of security breaches to various web services... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Monitor-Plus)
2024-02-06T16:21:34Z	**The Greenfield In-Browser Wayland Compositor Is Fast Enough For Gaming**
While there are a lot of Wayland compositors out there that aren't too different from each other in terms of features, one of the more unique ones is Greenfield. The Greenfield Wayland compositor has been out there for a few years now as an in-browser HTML5-based solution that is continuing to prove itself capable and even fast enough for handling Linux gaming... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Greenfield-Compositor-2024)
2024-02-06T18:00:00Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Leaning Toward Low-Latency Kernel Optimizations By Default**
Last month it was noted on Phoronix that Canonical's kernel team is looking at folding their low-latency kernel optimizations into their generic kernel builds. Right now Ubuntu maintains a separate "lowlatency" kernel flavor with Kconfig tweaks in the name of low-latency responsiveness as an alternative to their "generic" kernel default, but for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS it continues looking like they'll move forward with this change of inc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-2404-Low-Latency-Generic)
2024-02-07T00:46:40Z	**Intel Arrow Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Support Merged For Mesa 24.1**
Intel Arrow Lake platform support has been merged to Mesa 24.1 for providing the ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) open-source drivers with support for the next-generation Intel Core integrated graphics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Arrow-Lake-Mesa-24.1)
2024-02-07T05:00:00Z	**AMD Posts Linux Graphics Driver Patches For New IP Blocks - Presumably For RDNA4**
AMD engineers on Monday posted a few new patch series for enabling some updated IP (intellectual property) blocks within their open-source AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver. This new IP is presumably part of the ongoing hardware enablement work for their next-generation RDNA4 graphics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-New-IP-RDNA4-February)
2024-02-07T08:00:00Z	**The Mold Linker Is Great & Set To Become Even Better**
When it comes to open-source compiler toolchain components and more broadly often unsung heroes in the low-level open-source space, one of the most interesting successes in recent years has been the Mold linker that has proven itself a viable alternative to GNU ld and Gold or LLVM's lld linkers. Mold is already in great shape and typically proving itself well while moving ahead they are working toward kernel/embedded programming support as one of the last ground ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-Linker-FOSDEM-2024)
2024-02-07T11:19:20Z	**Snaps & Ubuntu Core Desktop Talked Up At FOSDEM 2024**
Canonical engineer Till Kamppeter was at FOSDEM 2024 last weekend in Belgium to talk up the Snap packaging format spearheaded for Ubuntu Linux as well as their ongoing work around Ubuntu Core Desktop for providing an all-Snap based operating system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FOSDEM-2024-Snaps)
2024-02-07T11:45:06Z	**New Linux Kernel Patches Begin Plumbing Rust Support Into Bcachefs Driver**
There's been much excitement around the Bcachefs file-system since it was mainlined in the Linux kernel at the end of last year. Looking ahead to Linux 6.9 it's looking like it may be one of the first file-system drivers to begin making use of the Rust programming language... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Bcachefs-RFC-Patches)
2024-02-07T15:20:55Z	**AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A Surprisingly Fascinating Sub-$200 CPU**
After reviewing the Ryzen 7 8700G and the Ryzen 5 8600G as these new Zen 4 processors with RDNA3 integrated graphics, the latest AMD 8000G series CPU in the Linux benchmarking lab at Phoronix is the Ryzen 5 8500G. The Ryzen 5 8500G is a 6-core / 12-thread processor with RDNA3 graphics that retails for just $179 USD. Here's a look at how it's performing against other AMD and Intel processors on Ubuntu Linux. The Ryzen 5 8500G ends up being decent on the GPU sid ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-5-8500g)
2024-02-08T00:04:25Z	**Microsoft Confirms Bringing Sudo For Windows, Is Open-Source Too**
There's been recent reports that Microsoft is bringing sudo to Windows as discovered in recent Windows 11 Insider previews. This was briefly confirmed today by Microsoft in a since-removed blog post as well as noting that it's open-source... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Windows-sudo)
2024-02-08T11:44:04Z	**WireGuard Driver Merged To DragonFlyBSD Kernel**
Merged today to DragonFlyBSD Git is the WireGuard protocol driver for leveraging this popular tech... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DragonFlyBSD-WireGuard-Merge)
2024-02-08T11:33:32Z	**Blender 4.1 Will Further Expand Linux's CPU Rendering Performance Lead Over Windows**
When running Windows vs. Linux performance benchmarks one of the real-world areas where Linux consistently dominates across both AMD and Intel platforms is for the Blender 3D modeling software's rendering performance. For CPU-based rendering in Blender as well as other 3D modeling software, Linux typically dominates by wide margins. With the upcoming Blender 4.1 release, it looks like Linux's lead will only further expand... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.1-Faster-CPU-Linux)
2024-02-08T12:08:15Z	**Canonical Improving The Thunderbird Snap For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS**
Canonical is continuing the emphasis on Snaps for the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Better-Thunderbird-Snap)
2024-02-08T13:42:40Z	**Arm Lands Mali Gen10 "Panthor" Firmware Blob In Linux-Firmware.Git**
As the first of Arm Mali firmware to be added to the linux-firmware.git repository, the Gen10 Mali "Panthor" firmware has been added as part of the effort on the new open-source Panthor DRM kernel driver currently working its way upstream... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Mali-Panthor-Firmware-Git)
2024-02-08T15:17:10Z	**Fwupd 1.9.13 Adds Support For Newer Acer USB Docks**
Fwupd 1.9.13 was released today by Red Hat's Richard Hughes as the newest feature update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems and more... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-1.9.13-Released)
2024-02-08T15:40:00Z	**Mozilla Has A New CEO To Focus On The Future**
Mitchell Baker announced today she is stepping down as CEO of Mozilla Corporation but will retain the position of Mozilla Corporation Executive Chairwoman... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-2024)
2024-02-08T18:00:00Z	**NVIDIA GH200 CPU Performance Benchmarks Against EPYC Zen 4 & Xeon Emerald Rapids**
Kicking off our NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper benchmarking at Phoronix is an initial look at the 72-core Grace CPU performance with 96GB of HBM3 memory. Here are some initial benchmarks of the Grace CPU performance while the Hopper GPU benchmarks will be coming in a follow-up article. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-gh200-gptshop-benchmark)
2024-02-08T20:41:54Z	**AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For Video Core Next 5 "VCN 5.0"**
It looks like next-generation RDNA4 graphics will feature a new iteration of the Video Core Next (VCN) for accelerated video encode/decode. VCN 5.0 patches were posted today for the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-VCN5-AMDGPU-Linux-Driver)
2024-02-09T11:23:16Z	**2024 Vulkan Developer Conference Slides Posted**
Vulkanised 2024 took place this week in Sunnyvale, California as the 6th go at this Vulkan Developer Conference. The slides from this conference are now available for those wishing to learn more about this open industry standard cxompute/graphics API... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkanised-2024-Slides)
2024-02-09T11:45:45Z	**Building An AMD HIP Stack From Upstream Open-Source Code**
While AMD ships pre-built ROCm/HIP stacks for the major enterprise Linux distributions, if you are using not one of them or just want to be advantageous and compile your own stack for building HIP programs for running on AMD GPUs, one of the AMD Linux developers has written a how-to guide... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Building-Upstream-HIP-Stack)
2024-02-09T11:31:34Z	**Etnaviv NPU Driver Further Boosts Performance, Striking Closer To The Proprietary Driver**
Merged for Mesa 24.1 is Teflon for Etnaviv NPU driver support in enabling reverse-engineered, open-source driver support for VeriSilicon NPU IP similar to the long-standing Etnaviv Gallium3D graphics support for Vivante graphics. Tomeu Vizoso who has been leading the work on the Etnaviv NPU support has managed to achieve another performance victory and taking the open-source driver performance closer to the proprietary dri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Etnaviv-NPU-Weight-Compress)
2024-02-09T14:57:50Z	**Fedora Atomic Desktops Born Out Of Fedora Silverblue Success**
Born out of the success of Fedora Silverblue and the other Fedora immutable variants relying on RPM-OSTree, Fedora has announced Fedora Atomic Desktops as the new branding for these spins... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Atomic-Desktops)
2024-02-09T15:34:34Z	**Intel Arrow Lake Graphics Support Ready For Linux 6.9**
Along with the recently merged Intel OpenGL and Vulkan driver support for Arrow Lake next-generation Core processors with Mesa 24.1, it looks like the i915 kernel graphics driver support for Arrow Lake will be all-set with the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Arrow-Lake-Linux-6.9-Gfx)
2024-02-09T16:17:57Z	**The Ongoing Open-Source Work To Enable Webcam Support On Recent Intel Laptops**
Webcamera support on recent generations of Intel laptops have tended to be a mess due to the Intel IPU6 requiring an out-of-tree kernel driver and a proprietary user-space component. But fortunately thanks to the work of Linar and Red Hat on a "SoftISP" implementation within libcamera, it's becoming possible to leverage these recent MIPI-based webcameras on an open-source software stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ongoing-OSS-Intel-IPU6-Soft-ISP)
2024-02-09T17:21:44Z	**Linux Patch Pending To Fix Support For The Transmeta Crusoe CPU**
While the Linux kernel has seen increased activity around dropping old/unused hardware drivers and other support, for old hardware that is still proven to be used on upstream Linux kernel releases does stick around and even will see the occasional fix... The latest example of that is a fix on the way for restoring Linux kernel support for the Transmeta Crusoe, the x86-compatible processor released back in 2000... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2024-Transmeta-Crusoe)
2024-02-09T21:19:51Z	**MythTV 34 Released For Open-Source DVR/PVR**
In an era of Internet streaming digital video recorders (DVR) / personal video recorder (PVR) software isn't nearly as popular as it was in the past, but the long-used open-source MythTV software is out with its first major update in one year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MythTV-34-Released)
2024-02-09T22:53:45Z	**Wine 9.2 Released With System Tray Fixes, Better ARM Exception Handling**
Wine 9.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.2-Released)
2024-02-09T22:45:57Z	**Targeted Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler Optimization Rules Out 2k+ SPEC CPU Submissions**
SPEC has effectively invalidated more than two thousand SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark submissions after it was discovered the Intel oneAPI DPC++ compiler was effectively "cheating" per their standards with a targeted optimization... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/oneAPI-DPC-Compiler-Cheat-SPEC)
2024-02-10T00:10:00Z	**helloSystem Publishes New Experimental Build Based On FreeBSD 14.0**
The macOS-inspired, FreeBSD-based helloSystem open-source operating system has published a new experimental build based on the fresh FreeBSD 14.0... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/helloSystem-New-14.0-Experiment)
2024-02-10T01:11:45Z	**LLVM Adds Support For New "Ampere1B" Third-Gen Cores From Ampere Computing**
While we are still waiting to get our hands on AmpereOne hardware for Ampere Computing's in-house design Arm cores with up to 192 cores, Friday night Git activity to LLVM has revealed an "Ampere1B" core... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Ampere1B)
2024-02-10T10:36:33Z	**Three Weeks To Go Until The KDE Plasma 6.0 Release**
There is just under three weeks to go until the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6 debut... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Three-Weeks)
2024-02-10T11:07:34Z	**Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Comes Down To The Wire For GNOME 46**
Today marks the UI, feature, and API/ABI freezes for the GNOME 46 desktop ahead of its stable release on 16 March. One feature coming down to the wire that looks like it may not make it -- unfortunately -- is the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) integration... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-VRR-February)
2024-02-10T11:36:54Z	**Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility**
Xfce developers have updated their Wayland roadmap this week to reflect their latest plans around the Xfce 4.20 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-4.20-Wayland-Roadmap)
2024-02-10T14:41:58Z	**AMD Zen 5 Compiler Support Posted For GCC - Confirms New AVX Features & More**
Making for a very exciting Saturday morning, AMD just posted their initial enablement patch for plumbing Zen 5 processor support "znver5" into the GNU Compiler Collection! With GCC 14 due to be released as stable in March~April as usual for the annual compiler release, it's been frustrating to see no Zen 5 support even while Intel has already been working on Clear Water Forest and Panther Lake support with already having upstreamed Sierra F ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Znver-5-GCC)
2024-02-11T05:00:00Z	**Debian 12.5 Released To Provide The Latest Security & Bug Fixes**
Debian 12.5 is out this weekend as the newest stable point release for this widely-used Linux distribution in order to ship the latest security fixes and various bug fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-12.5-Released)
2024-02-11T11:49:59Z	**TrenchBoot Progress For Adding More Security & Integrity To The Boot Process**
TrenchBoot has been in development for several years now by Oracle, 3mdeb, and other stakeholders for providing greater security and integrity to the Linux boot process via measured launch of the OS using a Dynamic Root of Trust Measurement (DRTM) backed by Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and AMD Secure Startup. Much progress was made over 2023 while more work is ahead in 2024 for furthering the TrenchBoot efforts... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrenchBoot-Status-2024)
2024-02-11T14:06:52Z	**AMDGPU Driver Changes Begin For Linux 6.9: RAS ACA Framework, SEQ64 Infrastructure & Fixes**
AMD has begun queuing AMDGPU Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver updates in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window kicking off next month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux-6.9-First)
2024-02-11T20:48:54Z	**Linux 6.8-rc4 Released With Bcachefs & NTFS3 File-System Fixes, Transmeta Crusoe Fix**
As more exciting than the Super Bowl (at least for some of us) is the new Linux 6.8-rc4 kernel available for testing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-rc4-Released)
2024-02-12T01:35:38Z	**GNOME Mutter 46 Beta A Win For Gamers & VM Users, Other Last Minute Changes Too**
GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor today issued their GNOME 46 Beta releases with some notable changes ahead of the API/ABI and feature freezes for the GNOME 46 desktop due for release in March... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-46-Beta)
2024-02-12T11:19:02Z	**Rust Kernel Support On AArch64 Ready To Go For Linux 6.9**
The 64-bit Arm (AArch64) little-endian kernel will be ready to support the Rust kernel code with the upcoming Linux 6.9 cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-AArch64-Rust-Support)
2024-02-12T11:28:07Z	**AMDGPU LLVM Adding GFX 9/10/11 "Generic Targets" To Build Once & Run On Multiple GPUs**
Code merged today to mainline LLVM is preparing for the notion of generic targets across the GFX9, GFX10, and GFX11 GPU families. With follow-on work these generic targets are aiming to allow compiling code once and then running across multiple GPUs in the given hardware family... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-AMDGPU-Generic-GFX)
2024-02-12T11:52:30Z	**OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns**
At the end of last year OpenZFS 2.2.2 was released to fix a rare but nasty data corruption issue but it turns out there are other data corruption bug(s) still lurking in the OpenZFS file-system codebase... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Encrypt-Corrupt)
2024-02-12T11:41:00Z	**Linux 6.9 To Support Samsung Wireless Gamepad, Keyboards & Action Mouse**
Samsung engineers have been extending their "samsung" HID driver to support more of their wireless input devices by the mainline Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Samsung-Better-HID)
2024-02-12T14:00:00Z	**AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source**
While there have been efforts by AMD over the years to make it easier to port codebases targeting NVIDIA's CUDA API to run atop HIP/ROCm, it still requires work on the part of developers. The tooling has improved such as with HIPIFY to help in auto-generating but it isn't any simple, instant, and guaranteed solution -- especially if striving for optimal performance. Over the past two years AMD has quietly been funding an effort though ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-cuda-zluda)
2024-02-12T21:03:18Z	**Intel Releases x86-simd-sort 5.0 With 4~5x Faster C++ Object Sorting Using AVX-512**
It's been nearly one year to the day since outlining intel's AVX-512 powered sorting library to offer blazing fast sort speeds. Over the past year has brought the 1.0 release, new algorithms in v2.0, AVX2 support and more AVX-512 optimizations in v4.0, and now today Intel is out with x86-simd-sort 5.0 with yet more performance improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-simd-sort-5.0)
2024-02-13T05:00:00Z	**FreeBSD Continues Push Toward Deprecating 32-bit Platforms**
As noted in prior Phoronix articles for months, FreeBSD 14 is likely to be the last for supporting prominent 32-bit systems. On the FreeBSD mailing list more details on the FreeBSD 32-bit deprecation process was posted this week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-32-bit-Deprecation-Plan)
2024-02-13T06:00:00Z	**FEX 2402 Brings More Performance Improvements For x86_64 Binaries On AArch64**
The FEX emulator 2402 release is now available for this open-source project allowing x86\_64 binaries to run on AArch64 (ARM64) platforms, including games and the likes of Valve's Steam Play software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emulator-2402-Released)
2024-02-13T11:33:42Z	**Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Sees "Massive Boost" With Indirect Draw Generation**
Intel's Iris Gallium3D driver for providing open-source OpenGL support on Linux systems has implemented indirect draw generation. For software relying heavily on indirect draws will see a "massive boost" in performance... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Iris-Indirect-Draw-Gen)
2024-02-13T11:56:15Z	**Fedora 40 Cleared To Ship AMD ROCm 6, Packages May Reintroduce KDE X11 Support**
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) on Monday approved some last-minute features ahead of the Fedora Linux 40 release quickly coming up in February... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Approves-ROCm6-KDEX11)
2024-02-13T14:16:33Z	**New WiFi Authentication Vulnerabilities For Linux's IWD & WPA_Supplicant**
Kicking off what may end up being a fairly busy Patch Tuesday are two WiFi authentication vulnerabilities being made public that affect Intel's IWD daemon as well as the WPA\_Supplicant software -- between the two they are the most common solutions for wireless daemons on Linux systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/IWD-WPA-WiFi-Auth-Vulns)
2024-02-13T14:03:25Z	**The Current State & Plans For Porting Linux/BSD Software To Redox OS**
A new blog post was posted by the Redox OS team that is working on their Rust-written micro-kernel designed open-source operating system. Their latest post lays out their porting strategy for getting more Linux and BSD user-space software running on this Rust-based OS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Porting-Plans)
2024-02-13T16:28:52Z	**Linux 6.9 To Allow RISC-V Kernel Builds With Clang Link-Time Optimizations**
Adding to the list of features slated for the upcoming Linux 6.9 cycle is allowing RISC-V kernel builds to be compiled with Clang Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) enabled... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-With-Clang-LTO-Linux-6.9)
2024-02-14T00:55:51Z	**HITMAN 3 Will Now Launch On Intel GPUs Under Linux After Hiding The GPU Vendor**
While Intel is the company behind XeSS - Xe Super Sampling, under Linux it's an ongoing story of having to hide the fact that Intel graphics are in use when trying to enjoy Windows games running on Steam Play that are XeSS-enabled. The latest example is the HITMAN 3 game that can work on modern Arc Graphics as long as you conceal the fact under Linux that Intel graphics are being used... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/HITMAN-3-Intel-XeSS-Linux-Again)
2024-02-14T01:24:21Z	**LZ4 Compression For Hibernation Images Queued For Linux 6.9: Faster Restore Times**
In development the past several months has been patches to allow changing the compression algorithm used by the hibernation images of the Linux kernel while preserving the system memory contents. With using LZ4 yields faster system restore times from hibernation than the current de facto compression algorithm used of LZO. This work is now queued for introduction in Linux 6.9... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LZ4-Hibernate-Queued-6.9)
2024-02-14T11:16:34Z	**Intel's oneDNN Preps For Sierra Forest & Granite Rapids, Lands More Optimizations**
Intel's oneDNN Deep Neural Network Library used for building deep learning applications is preparing another release that continues going heavy on performance optimizations and preparing for future Intel hardware generations... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-oneDNN-3.4-RC)
2024-02-14T11:55:39Z	**"SandBox Mode" Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Improve Memory Safety**
While there is already the work underway on allowing the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel in part to leverage its memory safety potential, a proposal was sent out this morning for a new "SandBox Mode" for the Linux kernel to also increase the memory safety of C code within the kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-SandBox-Mode-RFC)
2024-02-14T11:42:25Z	**Intel Prepares For New Adaptive Sharpening Filter Coming With Lunar Lake's Xe2 Graphics**
A new feature coming with the display engine on Intel Lunar Lake's Xe2 graphics is an adaptive sharpening filter that has minimal power and performance impact... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LNL-Adaptive-Sharpening)
2024-02-14T13:50:00Z	**The Importance Of The TUXEDO Driver Package On Their Newer Ryzen Laptops**
As an important notice to those with new TUXEDO laptops such as the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 powered by the Ryzen 7 7840HS, installing their DKMS-based driver package can be very important if aiming to achieve maximum performance. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/tuxedo-performance-profile)
2024-02-14T15:22:37Z	**Thunderbird Making Progress With Adopting Rust Code**
Earlier this month at FOSDEM in Brussels was a presentation by developers Brendan Abolivier, Ikey Doherty, and Sean Burke on the Thunderbird mail client beginning to make use of the Rust programming language within its codebase... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Thunderbird-Rust-2024)
2024-02-14T16:47:28Z	**OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver**
The Asahi Linux project working on the AGX Gallium3D driver for Mesa has now managed to achieve OpenGL 4.6 conformance as well as OpenGL ES 3.2. This is a big upgrade for the Linux OpenGL support on the Apple M1 as previously only OpenGL 4.1 was exposed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenGL-4.1-Asahi-Apple-M1)
2024-02-14T17:40:29Z	**System76's COSMIC Desktop Nearing Alpha Release**
In a Valentine's Day blog post, System76 has outlined how they are nearing the release of their alpha build of the COSMIC desktop environment that they have been developing as part of their Pop!\_OS Linux distribution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Alpha-Is-Close)
2024-02-14T19:54:21Z	**Core NGINX Developer Forks Web Server Into Freenginx**
Maxim Dounin as one of the longtime core developers of the Nginx web server announced the creation today of a new fork of the project called Freenginx... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-Forked-To-Freenginx)
2024-02-15T00:17:00Z	**PSP 14.0 & Other New AMD Graphics IP Enablement Continues For Linux Ahead Of RDNA4**
In recent weeks there have been a lot of open-source AMD Radeon graphics driver patches flying around for the GFX12 graphics engine, Video Core Next 5, and other new graphics intellectual property (IP) blocks that appear to be for next-generation "RDNA4" Radeon graphics. This week yet more patches have been posted publicly... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Enabling-PSP-14.0)
2024-02-15T11:44:43Z	**Mesa 24.0.1 Released With Various Graphics Driver Fixes**
For those that prefer to wait for the first Mesa point release in a new series before upgrading, Mesa 24.0.1 was released on Wednesday evening with the first batch of fixes for the feature-packed Mesa 24.0... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0.1-Released)
2024-02-15T11:57:43Z	**UPower Power-Profiles-Daemon 0.20 Brings AMDGPU Display Panel Power Savings**
Power-Profiles-Daemon 0.20 has been released as the newest version of this project now living under the UPower umbrella. The Power-Profiles-Daemon allows for exposing power profiles over D-Bus and in turn integrates nicely with the likes of the GNOME Settings... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Power-Profiles-Daemon-0.20)
2024-02-15T13:58:22Z	**Qt Creator 13 Beta Brings Improved Docking UI, Qt App Manager Support**
The Qt Creator 13 Beta is now available for testing for this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE) that also supports a growing number of other programming languages too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Creator-13-Beta)
2024-02-15T15:26:48Z	**AMD Certifies PRO W7800 & RX 7900 GRE For ROCm, Officially Adds ONNX Runtime**
AMD made a Valentine's Day announcement of expanding the graphics cards they are officially supporting with ROCm 6.0 as well as adding ONNX Runtime alongside PyTorch to the AI/ML frameworks they are supporting with their open-source software stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-RX-7900-GRE-ONNX)
2024-02-15T15:11:00Z	**Fast Dedup Coming To OpenZFS For Overhauling Deduplication Capability**
The folks at iXsystems and Klara are contributing Fast Dedup support to upstream OpenZFS and beginning to roll out this improved deduplication support within TrueNAS SCALE starting next month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Fast-Dedup)
2024-02-15T17:22:29Z	**Intel Posts Patches For Plane Color Pipeline Support On Linux - Jiving With AMD's Design**
As part of the AMD color management and HDR efforts worked on by AMD Linux engineers along with Valve and other stakeholders like Igalia developers, Intel engineers have posted their plane color pipeline implementation that follows the cross-vendor API proposal... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Plane-Color-Pipeline)
2024-02-15T18:30:00Z	**AMD Ryzen 8500G / 8600G / 8700G Performance @ 35 Watt & 45 Watt cTDP**
Following the Linux reviews of the Ryzen 7 8700G, Ryzen 5 8600G, and Ryzen 5 8500G Zen 4 + RDNA3 desktop APUs, here is another look at these parts when making use of the lower configurable TDP options for these AM5 chips. All three of these new parts were re-tested at both 35 and 45 Watt cTDPs for seeing the impact on performance and power efficiency. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-8000g-35w-45w)
2024-02-15T21:48:53Z	**GhostBSD 24.01.1 Released: Based On FreeBSD 14, Many Improvements**
GhostBSD as one of the few actively maintained desktop-focused BSD distributions is out with a new release this week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-24.01.1-Released)
2024-02-16T01:09:43Z	**Radeon Software for Linux 23.40.2 Adds Support For Dual RX 7900 / W7800 / W7900 GPUs**
AMD on Valentine's Day released an updated Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver stack for enterprise Linux operating systems that targets the Radeon RX 7900 series and Radeon PRO W6800 / W7800 / W7900 graphics cards... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Radeon-Linux-23.40.2)
2024-02-16T11:13:00Z	**Vulkan 1.3.278 Released With Two New Extensions - One Will Help Wine / Steam Play**
Vulkan 1.3.278 was published this morning and in addition to the usual documentation corrections/clarifications, there are also two new Vulkan extensions in tow... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.278-Released)
2024-02-16T11:43:26Z	**RADV Driver Fixes Mesh Shader Support For Phoenix APUs**
Valve's Linux graphics driver team has fixed the Vulkan mesh shader support for those using RDNA3 integrated graphics with Phoenix APUs on the latest Mesa RADV driver code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Fixes-Phoenix-Mesh-Shaders)
2024-02-16T11:52:56Z	**Iced Toolkit For Rust GUIs Reaches v0.12 With New Features**
Iced is the Rust GUI library that's been gaining quite a lot of interest by Rust developers for creating cross-platform user interfaces. Iced is also what's being used by the Pop!\_OS COSMIC desktop environment. Iced v0.12 released yesterday as the first new release for this GUI toolkit since last July... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Iced-Rust-GUI-Toolkit-v0.12)
2024-02-16T13:45:13Z	**Intel Making It Easier To Reproduce Linux GPU Hangs On Real Hardware**
Intel engineers working on their open-source Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan driver code currently replay captured error state / GPU hangs using a simulator, but a new patch proposal allows for replaying GPU hangs on the actual hardware. In turn this will hopefully help Intel driver developers better address some real-world issues... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-Replay-GPU-Hangs)
2024-02-16T15:16:58Z	**Meta Continues Working On BOLT'ing The Linux Kernel For Greater Performance**
Merged to the LLVM compiler stack two years ago was the BOLT tool for optimizing the layout of generated binaries for offering even greater performance than the likes of Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) alone. BOLT had been in development for years by Facebook/Meta engineers and has continued to be improved upon for enhancing the code layout of binaries to yield enhanced performance. Recently there's been renewed work on using BOLT t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-BOLT-Linux-Kernel-2024)
2024-02-16T15:00:00Z	**openSUSE's "Agama" Next-Gen Linux Installer Plans For A Busy 2024**
Ahead of the SUSE/openSUSE Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) their engineers have been working on a new web-based OS installer. Originally known as the "D-Installer" and now going by the "Agama" name, this new installer architecture has plans for many architectural improvements this calendar year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Agama-Installer-2024)
2024-02-16T16:01:59Z	**FreeBSD Has Been Working On AMD64 SIMD libc Optimizations - Coming For FreeBSD 14.1**
The FreeBSD project today issued their Q4'2023 status report that highlights all of their interesting work accomplished last quarter on this open-source platform. Among the interesting achievements were the FreeBSD Foundation sponsoring AMD64 SIMD improvements for FreeBSD 15 that will also be back-ported to FreeBSD 14.1... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q4-2023-Improvements)
2024-02-16T17:38:02Z	**Cleaning Up A Mess: Linux 6.9 Likely To Land Rework Of x86 CPU Topology Code**
Longtime Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner with Intel-owned Linutronix has been spending much time over the past several months reworking the Linux kernel's x86 CPU topology evaluation code. This is to clean-up a mess of aging kernel code as well as some areas of the code being incorrect in today's era of hybrid Intel Core processors with a mix of P / E cores with the E cores lacking SMT/HT and thus throwing off prior kernel  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-x86-CPU-Topology-Code)
2024-02-16T21:08:48Z	**New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland**
A merge request was opened this week for plumbing fractional scaling support for XWayland clients running on the GNOME Mutter compositor... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-XWayland-Frac-Scaling)
2024-02-17T11:09:45Z	**Intel's OIDn 2.2 Released With Meteor Lake GPU Support, Better CPU Performance**
Intel on Friday released Open Image Denoise 2.2 as the newest version of this open-source denoising library used by Blender and other software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Open-Image-Denoise-2.2)
2024-02-17T11:48:36Z	**dav1d 1.4 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations, RISC-V & LoongArch CPU Support**
While recent graphics cards support GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding, for those still relying on dav1d for CPU-based AV1 decode there is now version 1.4 "Road Runner" available that adds support for LoongArch and RISC-V architectures while continuing to further enhance the performance of this open-source AV1 decoder on x86\_64 Intel/AMD processors too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/dav1d-1.4-AV1-Decoder)
2024-02-17T13:55:43Z	**Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Being Considered**
System76 has been developing the Rust-based COSMIC desktop for their Pop!\_OS Linux distribution but its usage won't be artificially limited to that in-house distro. Among other distributions that have been looking toward packaging it, interest is currently being evaluated in creating a Fedora special interest group (SIG) for the COSMIC desktop environment... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-COSMIC-SIG-Interest)
2024-02-17T13:47:45Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop Installer Adds New Accessibility Options**
The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS desktop installer has rolled out accessibility options built into the initial GUI for helping enable additional features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Installer-Access)
2024-02-17T22:24:14Z	**GNOME 46 Beta Released - Mutter Supporting Direct Scanout For Cropped/Scaled Surfaces**
The GNOME 46 beta is out today for featuring the latest fixes and last-minute enhancements to this open-source desktop environment update due out in March... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-46-Beta-Released)
2024-02-18T11:48:43Z	**Linux Developers To Meet Again To Work On HDR, Color Management & VRR**
Last April was a display/HDR hackfest hosted in the Czech Republic by Red Hat. Another Linux display hackfest has been announced for this year so upstream stakeholders can collaborate around high dynamic range (HDR) monitor support, color management, variable refresh rate (VRR), and other topics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/2024-Linux-Display-Hackfest-May)
2024-02-18T11:34:54Z	**The Linux Kernel Prepares For Rust 1.77 Upgrade**
With Linux 6.8 the kernel's Rust code was brought up to Rust 1.75 while new patches posted this weekend port the code over to Rust 1.76 and then the upcoming Rust 1.77... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-To-Rust-1.77)
2024-02-18T13:47:13Z	**Linux 6.9 Adding AMD MI300 Row Retirement Support For Problematic HBM Memory**
For the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle there are a number of AMD Instinct MI300 additions to the EDAC (Error Detection And Correction) and RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-AMD-MI300-EDAC)
2024-02-18T21:22:38Z	**Linux 6.8-rc5 Released With Documented Process For CVE Security Vulnerabilities**
Linux 6.8-rc5 is out as the latest weekly test release of Linux 6.8 ahead of its stable debut in March... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-rc5)
2024-02-19T11:08:35Z	**Intel Linux Graphics Driver Wrapping Up Adaptive Sync SDP Support**
The Intel "i915" LInux kernel graphics driver has been working to wrap-up support for enabling Adaptive Sync SDP for DisplayPort (DP) for their graphics cards... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Adaptive-Sync-SDP-DP)
2024-02-19T11:35:46Z	**Linux Still Working To Disable RNDIS Drivers In 2024**
Back in January 2023 was an attempt to disable kernel drivers for Microsoft's RNDIS protocol. The Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) is home to security concerns for this protocol built atop USB for virtual Ethernet functionality. Later in the year the effort to disable RNDIS on Linux was tried again without going mainline. In recent days it looks like there will be a fresh attempt at getting the RNDIS driver support disabled... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Disabling-RNDIS-Attempt)
2024-02-19T14:03:10Z	**Mozilla Firefox 123.0 Available With Improved Translation Support, New Developer Features**
Firefox 123.0 binaries are available today ahead of the official announcement tomorrow for this newest monthly web browser update... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-123-Released)
2024-02-19T14:32:15Z	**Miracle-WM Announced As A Wayland Compositor Built On Mir**
Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek announced the first-ever release of Miracle-WM as a Wayland compositor built on top of Mir... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM)
2024-02-19T14:17:01Z	**Intel Lunar Lake "Xe2" Graphics Firmware Upstreamed For Xe Linux Driver**
Intel is upstreaming the necessary Lunar Lake "LNL" graphics firmware nice and early to linux-firmware.git for their "Xe2" integrated graphics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Lunar-Lake-Graphics-FW)
2024-02-19T22:09:55Z	**AMD Graphics Driver Gets "More New Stuff" For Linux 6.9: Continued RDNA4 Enablement**
Following the initial AMDGPU driver updates targeting Linux 6.9 that were submitted to DRM-Next one week ago, another batch of AMDGPU feature updates were sent out today ahead of this next kernel cycle kicking off in March... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-AMDGPU-More-New-Stuff)
2024-02-19T22:50:01Z	**Fedora Workstation's Anaconda Web UI Installer Delayed To Fedora 41**
For over two years Red Hat's engineers working on the Anaconda installer have been working on a modern web-based installer UI that integrates with Cockpit and is a modern alternative to their GTK-based installer interface for deploying Fedora Linux and eventually RHEL too. The hope was to offer this web UI installer option for Fedora Workstation 40 but that's now been delayed to Fedora 41... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Web-Installer-F41-Delay)
2024-02-20T00:54:03Z	**Windows NT Synchronization Primitive Driver Updated For The Linux Kernel**
For years Wine developers have been after a better synchronization API for the Linux kernel to better match the semantics of Microsoft Windows. Posted back in January was a request for comments on an "NTSYNC" Linux kernel driver to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives for the Linux kernel. At the start of the month a post-RFC version was posted of this open-source driver and today the latest iteration of that work has been pub ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTSYNC-Linux-Update-February)
2024-02-20T02:40:53Z	**Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License**
With Valve's release today of the Steam Audio SDK 4.5.2 they have made the software development kit fully open-source under an Apache 2.0 license... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Audio-SDK-Fully-Open)
2024-02-20T11:27:02Z	**X.Org Server Clears Out Remnants For Supporting Old Compilers**
There are still no signs of a new X.Org Server feature release coming in the near-term with most of the major stakeholders divesting from the xorg-server besides the XWayland portion of the code-base. But for those interested in the past few days there have been some NetBSD/OpenBSD build fixes to the X.Org Server as well as clearing out some remnants of old compiler support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XServer-Clear-Out-Old-Compilers)
2024-02-20T11:40:00Z	**New Linux Patches Aim To Help Improve Intel Meteor Lake Performance & Power Efficiency**
There are some new Linux kernel patches that were posted by Intel on Monday that aim to help enhance the overall performance and power efficiency of new Meteor Lake laptop processors under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Meteor-Lake-EPP-Linux-Tuning)
2024-02-20T15:24:12Z	**Red Hat Changing How They Handle Their Minor Release Betas**
Red Hat announced today some changes to how they handle their beta releases for minor updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Changes-Beta-Timing)
2024-02-20T15:55:30Z	**NVIDIA GH200 72 Core Grace CPU Performance vs. AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstations**
Earlier this month I posted some initial CPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper up against AMD EPYC Zen 4 and Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids processors. That was a very interesting battle and showed the interesting capabilities of the 72 Arm Neoverse-V2 cores paired with HBM3 memory. With this GPTshop.ai GH200 system actually being in workstation form, I also ran some additional benchmarks looking at the CPU capabilities ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-gh200-amd-threadripper)
2024-02-20T18:23:43Z	**Bcachefs Receives Funding By NLNet With NGI Zero Grant**
The Bcachefs file-system that was mainlined to the Linux kernel last year has received a grant from the NLNet Foundation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-NLNet-Grant)
2024-02-20T19:35:33Z	**Intel Survey Finds Maintainer Burnout & Documentation Top Open-Source Challenges**
At the end of last year Intel hosted a survey of open-source developers to collect their feeback on various open-source software issues. Intel’s 2023 Open Source Community Survey is all wrapped up, the data tallied up, and the results emailed out today to participants... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-2023-Survey-Results)
2024-02-21T00:40:47Z	**AMD's Latest ROCm Effort: More Blogging With A New Blog Platform**
As many enthusiasts wait to hear from AMD more broadly supporting ROCm in an official capacity across consumer Radeon GPUs and/or hearing about better supporting more Linux distributions outside of the major enterprise Linux distributions, today AMD announced a new medium for their communications with the community: the "New AMD ROCm Software Blog Platform" will be rolling out... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-Blog-Platform)
2024-02-21T11:54:01Z	**Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Moving To NVK + Zink For OpenGL On Newer GPUs**
Mesa 24.1 Git has landed the initial infrastructure for allowing drivers to choose to using Zink instead for OpenGL via this OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation. The motivating factor for this latest Mesa work is for using Zink atop the NVK Vulkan driver for newer NVIDIA GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zink-NVK-For-NVIDIA-OpenGL)
2024-02-21T11:39:47Z	**A Linux Kernel API For Today's Complex RGB Devices Is Being Devised**
When it comes to today's complex RGB lighting for PC peripherals and the like it's mostly been left up to user-space. With most RGB devices interfacing via USB, it's been up to Linux user-space projects like OpenRGB, OpenRazer, etc, to implement their RGB lighting controls as needed. But as RGB lighting use continues to grow in the PC space for better or worse, there's an increasing need for a kernel API to handle complex RGB devices. Such an  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-API-Modern-RGB)
2024-02-21T13:49:48Z	**VVenC 1.11 Brings More Performance Improvements For H.266/VVC Encoding**
Fraunhofer on Tuesday released their latest feature update to the Versatile Video Encoder for open-source H.266/VVC encoding... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VVenC-1.11-VVC-H266-Encode)
2024-02-21T15:06:09Z	**WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance**
WebKitGTK as the port of the WebKit rendering engine used by GNOME Web (Epipahny) and other software for displaying web content is transitioning to using Skia for its 2D rendering... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/WebKitGTK-To-Use-Skia-2D)
2024-02-21T16:00:52Z	**Intel Mesa Driver Code Working To Split Off Old Broadwell "Gen8" Graphics Code**
Intel's Iris Gallium3D driver for modern OpenGL support works on hardware going back to old Broadwell processors with "Gen8" integrated graphics as does the HasVK Vulkan driver for Haswell/Broadwell. But in allowing to focus on the common Skylake "Gen9" graphics and newer/future Intel graphics architectures, pending Mesa code is working to split-off that old Broadwell/Gen8 code. The Gen8 support will continue to be in-tree but separat ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-Splitting-Gen8)
2024-02-21T17:48:05Z	**Intel QATlib 24.02 Brings Support For GEN 5 QAT Devices**
Intel has released a new version of QATlib, their user-space support library for the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) via add-in hardware and recent Xeon Scalable processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QATlib-24.02)
2024-02-21T19:08:59Z	**IBM Begins Work On Power11 Enablement For Upcoming Linux 6.9**
The first "Power11" patches were queued today into the PowerPC's "next" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-Power11-Linux-Enable-Start)
2024-02-21T20:00:40Z	**GIMP Releases Last Development Version For GIMP 3.0**
GIMP 2.99.18 was released today as the last planned development version prior in the long road to GIMP 3.0 that has been a decade in the making for this free software Adobe Photoshop alternative... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-Coming-Soon)
2024-02-22T11:18:09Z	**DreamWorks Releases OpenMoonRay 1.5 Open-Source Renderer**
Back in August 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced plans to open-source MoonRay as their production-grade renderer used on films like Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and other animated films. Nearly one year ago in March 2023 MoonRay was open-sourced as OpenMoonRay while this week brings the latest iteration of it: OpenMoonRay 1.5... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMoonRay-1.5-Released)
2024-02-22T10:58:50Z	**KDE Slimbook V Announced: The First KDE Plasma 6 Laptop With AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS CPU**
The KDE Plasma 6 open-source desktop environment is launching next week and ahead of that the Slimbook V has been announced, the latest laptop crafted in partnership between the KDE project and Slimbook. This KDE-catered Linux laptop will feature the Plasma 6.0 desktop experience out-of-the-box and is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS Zen 4 processor... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Slimbook-V)
2024-02-22T11:48:09Z	**Mesa Looks At Making The Zink Driver Build By Default**
With the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation continuing to prove itself robust and as performant as native hardware OpenGL drivers, the Mesa developers continue exploring new opportunities for it. Given its successes, a merge request has been opened so Zink would become part of the default drivers built by Mesa out-of-the-box without needing to manually enable it for compilation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-MR-Zink-Default-Drivers)
2024-02-22T11:25:07Z	**Ardour 8.4 Digital Audio Workstation: Still Relying On GTK2, Adds AAF Import**
Ardour 8.4 was released this week as the newest update to this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) for Linux / macOS / Windows platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ardour-8.4-DAW)
2024-02-22T15:45:59Z	**CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 24 Built Atop Wine 9.0**
Building atop Wine 9.0 stable that released last month, CodeWeavers today released their commercial CrossOver 24 software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and macOS systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CrossOver-24-Released)
2024-02-22T17:16:56Z	**Intel Core i3 14100 / i5 14500 vs. AMD Ryzen 5 8500G / 8600G In 500+ Benchmarks**
As part of the recent AMD Ryzen 5 8500G and 8600G Linux reviews I ended up picking up the Core i3 14100 and Core i5 14500 Raptor Lake Refresh processors for the similarly-priced Intel competition. It's not too often receiving review samples from Intel of the lower-end processor SKUs, so I'm back around today with even more benchmarks of these lower-tier AMD and Intel processors. In this article are 500+ benchmarks looking at the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-14100-14500-amd-ryzen)
2024-02-22T17:46:37Z	**Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Released With Linux 6.5 HWE Kernel**
Canonical has released the Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS images today as the latest point release for this ongoing Long-Term Support series ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS debut in April... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-22.04.4-LTS-Released)
2024-02-22T21:10:57Z	**Rosebush Proposed As A New Data Structure For The Linux Kernel**
Matthew Wilcox with Oracle who previously worked on the Maple Tree data structure for the Linux kernel along with memory folios has now proposed "Rosebush" as a new hash table data structure for the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rosebush-Linux-Proposal)
2024-02-22T21:40:00Z	**OpenZFS 2.2.3 Released With Numerous Fixes, Support For Linux 6.7~6.8 Kernels**
OpenZFS 2.2.3 is out today as the first update to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation since OpenZFS 2.2.2 from early December when it was released for dealing with a data corruption issue... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2.3-Released)
2024-02-23T10:54:21Z	**AMDVLK 2024.Q1.2 Brings Several New Vulkan Extensions**
It's been almost exactly one month since the release of AMDVLK 2024.Q1.1 and today that's been succeded by AMDVLK 2024.Q1.2 that brings a number of new Vulkan extensions plus some performance tuning... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2024.Q1.2)
2024-02-23T11:33:54Z	**Mesa 24.1 Now Builds Zink By Default, Also Building D3D12 Driver By Default On Windows**
As a follow-up to the news of Mesa looking at enabling Zink by default as part of the drivers to build out-of-the-box, that change has now been merged. Additionally, the D3D12 Mesa driver that sees regular contributions by Microsoft engineers is also now being compiled by default when running on Windows... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-Zink-D3D12-Default)
2024-02-23T11:25:44Z	**NetworkManager 1.46 Can Now Manage Ethtool EEE Settings, IPv4 DAD Default & 2FA VPNs**
NetworkManager 1.46 was released on Thursday as the newest stable update to this software commonly used for managing Linux wired and wireless network connections from the Linux desktop as well as from command-line environments via the nmcli utility... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetworkManager-1.46)
2024-02-23T11:48:17Z	**SDL3 Introduces A Vulkan Renderer**
The Simple DirectMedia Library that is commonly used as an abstraction layer by cross-platform games and other software is now introducing a Vulkan renderer with SDL3... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL3-Vulkan-Renderer)
2024-02-23T15:13:37Z	**Nouveau Driver Squeezes In Some Last Minute Minor Additions For Linux 6.8**
Sent in overnight was this week's batch of DRM "fixes" for Linux 6.8 that included some mostly minor fixes plus a few notable but small patches to Nouveau, the upstream open-source NVIDIA DRM/KMS kernel driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Changes-Linux-6.8-rc6)
2024-02-23T16:11:03Z	**Linux 6.8 Features Excite With New Intel Xe Driver, Performance Optimizations & New Hardware**
While the Linux 6.8 kernel merge window has been over for several weeks now, due to a busy February of new hardware releases and lots of Linux hardware reviews/benchmarking, I've been behind in writing up my Linux 6.8 feature recap. For those wanting a concise look at the many great changes coming with Linux 6.8 that will debut as stable in March, here's an overview of the interesting Linux 6.8 changes. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-68-features)
2024-02-23T17:12:33Z	**NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable**
NVIDIA today released their 550.54.14 driver, which is their first production-ready/stable driver version in the R550 series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-550.54.14-Linux-Driver)
2024-02-23T17:52:13Z	**Intel Extension For PyTorch Now Officially Supports Arc A-Series Graphics**
Intel's latest release of their Intel Extension for PyTorch "IPEX" now officially supports their consumer Arc A-Series Graphics hardware across Linux, Windows, and also WSL2... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IPEX-Arc-A-Series-Gfx)
2024-02-23T18:27:52Z	**Micron Engineer Sends Out Linux Patches For New FAMFS File-System**
A request for comments patch series was posted today for FAMFS, a new special purpose file-system proposal out of Micron for dealing with Fabric-Attached Memory (FAM) devices such as will become more common within the Compute Express Link (CXL) server space... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-RFC-FAMFS-File-System)
2024-02-24T00:02:22Z	**Wine 9.3 Brings New HID Pointer Driver & Better Internet Proxy Support**
Wine 9.3 is out this Friday as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and apps on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.3-Released)
2024-02-24T00:24:49Z	**Proton 9.0 Beta Makes More Games Playable Under Steam Play, Updates VKD3D-Proton & DXVK**
In time for weekend Linux gamers, Valve and their CodeWeavers partners today rolled out their first public beta of Proton 9.0 as their Wine-based software that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux with ease under the Steam client... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-9.0-Beta-Steam-Play)
2024-02-24T11:48:23Z	**XZ 5.6 Released: Sandboxing Improvements, Prefers -O2 Instead Of -O3**
XZ Utils 5.6 was released today for this general purpose data compression library that also provides the common XZ command-line utilities for .xz format handling... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XZ-5.6-Released)
2024-02-24T11:39:22Z	**Intel Releases OSPRay Studio 1.0 As Its Awesome Interactive Visualization & Ray-Tracing App**
Back in 2020 Intel announced OSPRay Studio as its new oneAPI app for ray-tracing and photorealistic rendering built atop its OSPRay ray-tracing engine. Since then we've continued to watch OSPRay Studio pickup new features, add GPU rendering support, and more. On Friday night the OSPRay Studio 1.0 release was finally christened... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OSPray-Studio-1.0-Released)
2024-02-24T11:23:59Z	**KDE Plasma 6.0 Ready For Release Next Week, Plasma 6.1 Seeing Early Feature Work**
It's hard to believe we are already just down to a few days left before the release of Plasma 6.0 next week alongside KDE Frameworks 6 and KDE Gear apps ported over to the Qt6 toolkit. KDE Plasma 6.0 is pretty much primed for release while already fixes are beginning for Plasma 6.0.1 as well as early feature work underway for Plasma 6.1... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0-Next-Week)
2024-02-24T11:59:17Z	**Git 2.44 Released - Can Yield Faster Pack Generation & Faster Rebases**
Git maintainer Junio Hamano on Friday released Git 2.44 as the newest update to this leading open-source distributed revision control system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.44-Released)
2024-02-24T14:08:08Z	**Sway 1.9 Released - Using New wlroots Rendering API For Better Performance**
Sway 1.9 has been released as the newest feature release of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor built atop the closely-aligned wlroots Wayland compositor library... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sway-1.9-Released)
2024-02-24T19:09:01Z	**CachyOS Moves To Glibc 2.39 & Other Package Upgrades For February**
CachyOS 240224 was released today for this Arch Linux derived desktop distribution that focuses on being a "blazingly fast and customizable Linux distribution" with a variety of desktop options, employing LTO and other optimizations for packages, optional x86-64-v3 binaries, and other tuning to make for a speedy out-of-the-box Linux experience... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-240224-Linux)
2024-02-25T00:57:37Z	**GLFW 3.4 Brings Better Support For Wayland & Run-Time Platform Selection**
GLFW 3.4 has been released as this open-source, multi-platform library used for OpenGL / OpenGL ES / Vulkan development via a platform-independent API. GLFW 3.4 continues supporting Linux, macOS, Windows, and other platforms for offering this nice abstracted solution around graphics and input... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GLFW-3.4-Released)
2024-02-25T11:41:13Z	**Linux 6.8 x86/urgent Update Beefs Up Protection Against Side Channel CPU Bugs**
Sent in this morning via the "x86/urgent" pull request ahead of the Linux 6.8-rc6 kernel later today is a set of patches from Intel to ensure clearing of CPU buffers using the VERW instruction happens at the latest possible point in the return-to-userspace code path. This is being done to better protect against CPU bugs like Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-x86-Delay-VERW)
2024-02-25T11:26:56Z	**Bcachefs Publishes Patches For Disk Accounting Rewrite**
Kent Overstreet on Saturday evening posted a set of 21 patches to overhaul the disk accounting code for the Bcachefs file-system. This change does break compatibility with the existing disk accounting on-disk format and thus will require an upgrade when moving to the new version, which may land for Linux v6.9... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Disk-Account-Rewrite)
2024-02-25T10:46:13Z	**Microsoft Pushes Out Big February Update For CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro**
Microsoft's in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution has routinely seen weekly-ish updates to this open-source code used within Azure, WSL, and other areas of the Redmond company. But it's been one month since the prior CBL-Mariner 2.0 release... That changed Saturday night with a shiny new release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CBL-Mariner-2.0-Linux-Big-Feb)
2024-02-25T15:53:16Z	**GNOME Makes Progress On GPU-Accelerated Screencasting, systemd-homed Home Encryption**
GNOME developers remain quite busy with various new initiatives thanks to their funding from their Sovereign Tech Fund. There's some screencasting enhancements still on deck for GNOME 46, various GNOME accessibility improvements forthcoming, and also ongoing work around systemd-homed home directory encryption support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-46-Screencast-Pending)
2024-02-25T16:49:06Z	**Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Lands Improvements For ReBAR**
The open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver within Mesa 24.1-devel has seen improvements made for systems capable of Resizable BAR "ReBAR" support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-NVK-Vulkan-NVIDIA-ReBAR)
2024-02-26T00:20:17Z	**Linux 6.8-rc6 Released: This Kernel May Need An Extra Week For Testing**
The Linux 6.8 kernel continues coming together well and the v6.8-rc6 milestone is now available for testing. If all goes well Linux 6.8 will debut as stable in two weeks but with how things are currently pacing could end up being three weeks... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-rc6)
2024-02-26T05:00:00Z	**WayVNC 0.8 Adds Auto Server-Side Resizing Of Headless Outputs, Detached Mode**
WayVNC 0.8 was released this weekend as the VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC attaches to wlroots-using compositors and creators virtual input devices and exposes the display via the RFB protocol for the lack of Wayland having any standardized VNC-type support for remote/network computing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/WayVNC-0.8-Released)
2024-02-26T09:00:00Z	**Reverse-Engineered NPU Driver Tantalizingly Close To Proprietary Driver Performance**
When it comes to neural processing unit NPU/AI accelerators for Linux there is open-source options with the likes most notably of Intel-owned Habana Labs leading the way, Intel's iVPU driver for the NPU found within Meteor Lake SoCs, AMD recently posting a Ryzen AI Linux driver, etc. When it comes to reverse-engineered efforts, the Etnaviv project has expanded its scopes from just Vivante graphics IP to also embracing the Vivante ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vivante-Etnaviv-NPU-Close)
2024-02-26T11:00:00Z	**Mesa OpenGL Threading Work Sees Much Reduced Memory Footprint For OpenGL Calls**
Longtime AMD open-source Mesa developer Marek Olšák after more than one decade working officially for AMD and years before that as an independent open-source contributor going back to the R300g days still has not run out of new performance optimizations to pursue. The most recent accomplishment for this leading Mesa contributor are some refinements to the OpenGL threading "glthread" code for lowering the memory footprint... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-GL-Thread-Lower-Footprint)
2024-02-26T11:00:00Z	**Intel Xeon D "Granite Rapids-D" Processors Coming In 2025**
Intel confirmed at their MWC 2024 briefings that Granite Rapids D will debut in 2025 as the successor to Ice Lake D for Xeon D edge processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Granite-Rapids-D-2025)
2024-02-26T11:55:23Z	**SDDM 0.21 Display Manager Released With Better Wayland Support, Qt6 Fixes**
Released last June was the SDDM 0.20 display manager with experimental Wayland support and other enhancements after being in development for three years. Out this morning is SDDM 0.21 as another step toward SDDM 1.0 with improved Wayland support and other enhancements to this Qt-tooled display manager... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDDM-0.21-Display-Manager)
2024-02-26T14:00:00Z	**AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE Linux Performance**
Last July AMD launched the Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics card in China with a reduced Navi 31 GPU. Beginning tomorrow, 27 February, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE is being made available worldwide. Today the review embargo expires on the Radeon RX 7900 GRE for the worldwide scope and within the US will be priced around $549 USD. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-radeon-rx7900-gre)
2024-02-26T16:19:00Z	**PVM Virtualization Framework Proposed For Linux - Built Atop The KVM Hypervisor**
Ant Group and Alibaba have proposed PVM, the Pagetable Virtual Machine, as a new virtualization framework built upon the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. PVM does not require hardware-assisted virtualization while working with KVM-enabled software like Kata Containers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PVM-Hypervisor-Linux-RFC)
2024-02-26T21:25:42Z	**KiCad 8.0 Released For Leading Open-Source EDA Software**
KiCad 8.0 has been released as the latest major feature release for this open-source Electronics Design Automation (EDA) software suite. KiCad supports designing PCB layouts, provides a 3D viewer for inspecting PCBs, and other functionality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KiCad-8.0-Released)
2024-02-27T01:27:45Z	**Ubuntu Blog Talks Up Rust Schedulers, Potential For Micro-Kernel Design Future**
Ubuntu/Canonical has for a while now promoted the prospects of Rust programming within the Linux kernel and one of their kernel engineers, Andrea Righi, wrote a Rust-written Linux scheduler with promising results that leverages eBPF for dynamically loading it at run-time. While Ubuntu isn't yet committing to using it as part of their distribution, appearing on the Ubuntu blog today was more praise for the work and even talking about ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Scheduler-Micro)
2024-02-27T11:11:55Z	**FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Improves WiFi Stability, Takes Care Of Some Kernel Panics**
The first release candidate of FreeBSD 13.3 is now available for testing. While FreeBSD 14 stable has been out now for months, FreeBSD 13.3 is the latest in the prior series for those continuing to rely on FreeBSD 13 in production... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-13.3-RC1)
2024-02-27T11:42:37Z	**Intel HFI Driver Can "Save Tons Of CPU Cycles" By Only Enabling Itself When Needed**
The Linux kernel has supported the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" via the "intel\_hfi" driver since 2022 for bettering supporting Core hybrid processors. The Intel HFI can be used for communicating performance and energy efficiency capabilities of individual CPU cores of the system. In turn the Linux kernel can leverage Intel HFI details for better task placement among the available CPU cores/threads. With a new patch seri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-HFI-Enable-Disable)
2024-02-27T11:26:03Z	**AMD Preparing ROCm 6.1 For Release With New Features**
It looks like AMD will soon be announcing the ROCm 6.1 update to its open-source GPU compute stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ROCm-6.1-Release-Coming)
2024-02-27T14:40:48Z	**Libre-SoC Open-Source GPU/VPU Project Loses Key Funding**
Longtime Phoronix readers may recall the Libre-SoC project that for the past 5+ years has been wanting to build a libre/open-source SoC for graphics acceleration and other uses... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Libre-SoC-NLNet-Funding-Lost)
2024-02-27T14:29:17Z	**Mold Linker Performance Remains Very Compelling In 2024 Over GNU Gold/ld, LLVM lld**
The Mold high performance linker has long been known for offering excellent performance over GNU Gold/ld and LLVM lld while some fresh benchmark numbers reinforce the competitive advantage that persists today for this open-source project... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-Linker-2024-Performance)
2024-02-27T16:17:28Z	**KWinFT Compositor Now Known As Theseus' Ship**
Ahead of this week's big KDE Plasma 6.0 release, the KWinFT project forked from the KDE KWin compositor code is re-branding as Theseus' Ship... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KWinFT-Rebrand-Theseus-Ship)
2024-02-27T17:00:00Z	**64K Kernel Page Size Performance Benefits For HPC Shown With NVIDIA's GH200 Grace CPU**
By default the AArch64 kernel on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions tend to default to a standard 4K page size but for newer AArch64 hardware especially in the server/HPC space, there can be great benefits to using a 64K page size. As it's been a while since I last ran any 64-bit ARM 4K vs. 64K kernel page size benchmarks, while having remote access to the NVIDIA GH200 I ran a fresh comparison for looking at the performance a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/aarch64-64k-kernel-perf)
2024-02-28T00:56:46Z	**Wine Wayland Driver Patches Enable Basic OpenGL Support**
Continuing to bring-up the Wine Wayland driver for offering native Wayland support without X11/XWayland, Alexandros Frantzis opened the pull request today for enabling basic OpenGL support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Basic-OpenGL)
2024-02-28T01:12:06Z	**Linux's V4L2 VP9 Codec Kernel Code Rewritten In Rust For Better Memory Safety**
Daniel Almeida with Collabora has posted a rewritten of the VP9 codec library code within the Linux kernel's Video 4 Linux 2 (V4L2) subsystem. In using Rust rather than the existing C code, this should yield better memory safety and better fend off potential issues within the existing code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VP9-Linux-Kernel-Rust-V4L2-RFC)
2024-02-28T11:25:00Z	**Servo Improves Its Experimental Support For HTML Tables, More CSS Features**
The Servo web engine project has put out a new blog post that outlines all of their accomplishments made during the course of February... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-February-2024)
2024-02-28T10:56:18Z	**KDE MegaRelease 6 Debuts For Plasma 6.0, KF6 & Gear 24.02**
Today's the day! KDE MegaRelease 6 is out for shipping Plasma 6.0, KDE Frameworks 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 apps... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-MegaRelease-6)
2024-02-28T11:38:08Z	**NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library**
The open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver within the Mesa codebase has merged support for the important VK\_EXT\_shader\_object and VK\_EXT\_graphics\_pipeline\_library extensions. Additionally, as part of supporting these new extensions, this introduces the code for a common Vulkan runtime to Mesa... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-ESO-GPL-Support)
2024-02-28T14:36:22Z	**FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance**
Being worked on and off for several years has been FUSE read/write passthrough support for improving the performance of File-Systems in User-Space by avoiding the daemon overhead on a per-file basis where read/write operations are forwarded by the kernel directly to the lower file-system rather than the FUSE daemon. FUSE passthrough mode has shown to be a big performance win and it looks like it could be finally mainlined come Linux ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUSE-Passthrough-In-6.9-Next)
2024-02-28T15:55:27Z	**Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source**
Back in 2022 Cloudflare announced they were ditching Nginx for an in-house, Rust-written software called Pingora. Today Cloudflare is open-sourcing the Pingora framework... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloudflare-Pingora-Open-Source)
2024-02-28T19:22:13Z	**AMD Zen 4 vs. Zen 4C Performance, Zen 4C Core Scaling With Ryzen 5 8500G**
Besides the integrated RDNA3 graphics making the Ryzen 8000G series desktop APUs interesting, making the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G a fun benchmarking target besides its sub-$200 price tag is having a mix of Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores. Here are some benchmarks looking at the Zen 4 vs. Zen 4C performance and power efficiency when offlining various core combinations on the Ryzen 5 8500G desktop processor. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-zen4-zen4c-scaling)
2024-02-28T20:37:29Z	**HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD**
One of the limitations of AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver has been the inability to implement HDMI 2.1+ functionality on the basis of legal requirements by the HDMI Forum. AMD engineers had been working to come up with a solution in conjunction with the HDMI Forum for being able to provide HDMI 2.1+ capabilities with their open-source Linux kernel driver, but it looks like those efforts for now have concluded and failed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected)
2024-02-29T05:00:01Z	**Mesa 24.0.2 Brings Many Zink Fixes, More Intel Alder Lake N IDs**
Mesa 24.0 series release manager Eric Engestrom is out with another on-time bi-weekly point release for this set of open-source GPU user-space driver components. There are many fixes, new Intel ADL-N PCI IDs, and other backported updates for this latest stable release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0.2-Released)
2024-02-29T05:00:00Z	**Steam On Linux Should Stop Crashing If No OpenGL Drivers Are Found**
Wednesday's small Steam client beta update should fix a crash when starting the Steam client when no OpenGL drivers are found... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-No-Crash-WO-GL)
2024-02-29T11:27:20Z	**NetBSD 10.0 Should Be Released Soon - Likely Last RC Debuts**
NetBSD 10.0-RC5 was released on Wednesday as what is hopefully the last release candidate... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-10.0-RC5-Released)
2024-02-29T11:50:26Z	**GNOME Prompt Becomes Ptyxis**
The GNOME Prompt terminal emulator in-development by Christian Hergert with a focus on GPU-acceleration and being a very speedy and beautiful terminal option has been renamed to Ptyxis... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Prompt-Terminal-Ptyxis)
2024-02-29T15:30:55Z	**Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling**
Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz is back at it working on some exciting improvements to Mesa and in particular for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zink-Partial-Updates-Damage)
2024-02-29T15:10:44Z	**Mesa 24.1 Enables AV1 LTR Encode Support For RDNA3 GPUs With VCN4**
Building upon the existing AV1 encode support for RDNA3 GPUs within the Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, AV1 Long-Term Reference "LTR" support is now enabled within Mesa 24.1... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-AV1-Encode-LTR-AMD)
2024-02-29T16:30:00Z	**Arch Linux CachyOS Benchmarks Of x86-64-v3 & x86-64-v4 Repositories**
The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution aims to be a "blazingly fast and customizable Linux distribution" that is aggressive with its performance optimizations. CachyOS takes to leveraging compiler optimizations like Link-Time Optimizations (LTO), the BORE scheduler, and also offering package archives compiled for x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v4 in allowing the distribution's packages to be catered toward newer Intel and AMD processors. In this art ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-x86-64-v3-v4)
2024-03-01T01:16:34Z	**Serpent OS Makes Progress On Packaging The GNOME 45 Desktop**
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux distribution continues being raised and over the past month made progress on packaging up various GNOME 45 desktop components, working on stateless system support with systemd, and other features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Serpent-OS-February-2024)
2024-03-01T11:24:36Z	**Musl libc 1.2.5 Released With RISC-V 32-bit & LoongArch 64-bit Ports**
Musl libc 1.2.5 released on Thursday as the newest version of this lightweight, speedy, and free software C library implementation that is popular for embedded use, containers, and elsewhere... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/musl-libc-1.2.5)
2024-03-01T11:10:34Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Enters Its Feature Freeze**
Now rolling into March, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" has entered its feature freeze period ahead of its official release in April... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Feature-Freeze)
2024-03-01T11:53:57Z	**Intel Enables Fastboot Across The Board With Their Graphics Driver In Linux 6.9**
A last set of drm-intel-next feature patches were submitted this week for DRM-Next to stage ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-i915-Last-Batch-Linux-6.9)
2024-03-01T11:40:48Z	**CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February**
February was an exciting month in the hardware and Linux/open-source space with 224 original news articles written by your's truly over the past month along with 15 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark featured articles. There was a lot of exciting open-source accomplishments, the launch of the AMD Ryzen 8000G series APUs with RDNA3 graphics, breaking the news about ZLUDA providing CUDA atop AMD ROCm as a formerly stealth proj ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/February-2024-Highlights)
2024-03-01T12:00:58Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Won't Support JPEG-XL Out-Of-The-Box**
There had been some hope that the Ubuntu 24.04 desktop would support the JPEG-XL image format out-of-the-box, but that isn't going to happen as a default change... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-No-JPEG-XL)
2024-03-01T14:00:28Z	**The X.Org Foundation Needs More Candidates To Hold An Election**
The X.Org Foundation's elections for the Board of Directors have been delayed as there weren't enough participants nominated for the available seats to hold an election... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Board-2024-Needs-More)
2024-03-01T14:49:59Z	**Intel's oneDNN Neural Network Library Prepares For Lunar Lake Xe2, Sierra Forest & GNR**
Intel has published oneDNN 3.4 as the newest version of this Deep Neural Network Library that is part of their oneAPI software collection. The oneDNN library provides deep learning primitives for software like PyTorch, MXNet, ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, MATLAB Deep Learning Toolbox, and other sotware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-oneDNN-3.4-Released)
2024-03-01T15:24:58Z	**Experimental VRR Support Might Still Land For GNOME 46**
The long in-development work for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support plumbed into GNOME's Mutter compositor might still make it for the GNOME 46 desktop release due out this month. It's still being treated as an experimental feature at this point but a feature freeze exception is being sought to allow its inclusion this release rather than waiting for GNOME 47 in the autumn... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-46-VRR-Exception)
2024-03-01T16:20:28Z	**Panthor DRM Driver Set For Linux 6.9, Arm Mali Gen10 Merged To Panfrost Gallium3D**
It looks like the new Panthor DRM driver will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel now that it made it into drm-misc-next today. In turn the Mesa 24.1-devel code has landed support for this newer Arm Mali graphics into the Panfrost Gallium3D driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Mali-Panthor-DRM-Coming)
2024-03-01T16:45:00Z	**Intel Makes Open-Source Its Python NPU Acceleration Library**
Intel has made open-source its NPU Acceleration Library (intel-npu-acceleration-library) as a user-space library for Windows and Linux systems for interfacing with the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found initially on their new Meteor Lake laptops... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Acceleration-Library)
2024-03-02T00:37:42Z	**Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers**
With Steam on Linux use for January clocking in at 1.95%, I was very eager to see if the February results would once again surpass the 2.0% threshold... Unfortunately, it moved in the opposite direction... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-February-2024)
2024-03-02T05:00:00Z	**Mesa 24.1 To Raise Limit Supporting More Than Eight Vulkan GPUs Per System**
Should you be running nine or more GPUs per system, the Mesa 24.1 release next quarter will raise the limit of 8 DRM devices for the Vulkan API per system to now allow a theoretical 256 GPUs per system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-More-Than-8-Vulkan)
2024-03-02T08:00:00Z	**WavPack Lossless Audio Compression Format Adds Multi-Threaded Encode/Decode**
The WavPack open-source lossless wavefile compressor is up to version 5.7 after more than one year in development. Making this new release quite notable is adding multi-threaded encode and decode support to the WavPack library and its CLI tools... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Multi-Threaded-WavPack-5.7)
2024-03-02T10:00:00Z	**AMD FreeSync Video Facing Retirement In Linux 6.9**
Back in 2020 AMD rolled out a video mode optimization for FreeSync on Linux, continued being revised in 2021, FreeSync Video mode then attempted by default in 2022 but then was reverted and then only last year FreeSync Video enabled by default. But now come Linux 6.9, the feature appears to be effectively retired... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-FreeSync-Video-RIP)
2024-03-02T11:24:45Z	**Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve**
Vulkan 1.3.279 debuted on Friday with many fixes/clarifications to the specifications plus one new extension... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.279-Released)
2024-03-02T11:40:36Z	**UWP'ed Mesa Running On Microsoft Xbox, Allowing For New Game Ports With OpenGL**
Recently there has been out-of-tree successes on adapting Mesa to work on Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP). UWP is also used by the Microsoft Xbox Series X/S game consoles and in turn paired with the Microsoft D3D12 driver work within Mesa for allowing OpenGL and other APIs atop D3D12, is allowing new games/software to be ported to the Xbox... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/UWP-Mesa-Xbox-Port)
2024-03-02T13:53:03Z	**Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46**
It's happened! After three years in the making, the GNOME desktop Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" support has been merged after obtaining a feature freeze exception for GNOME 46 due out later in March... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mutter-VRR-Merged-GNOME-46)
2024-03-03T11:14:21Z	**KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Proving To Be Unlike The Rocky KDE 4 Launch**
Nate Graham is out with his belated weekend update to highlight all of the interesting KDE development activity for the week. This week, of course, saw the release of KDE MegaRelease 6 with Plasma 6.0, KDE Gear 24.02, and KDE Frameworks 6.0 in tow. Post-launch Graham characterizes Plasma 6.0 as being in good shape and the extra QA paying off. He commented, "Hopefully this should help banish those now 16-year-old painful memories of KDE 4. It’s a new KD ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0-Post-Week)
2024-03-03T11:52:40Z	**Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty**
Merged this week ahead of the Wine 9.4 development release due out next Friday is support for using the new Vulkan VK\_EXT\_map\_memory\_placed extension to overcome a performance penalty with Windows on Windows 64-bit (WOW64) for games/apps... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Vulkan-Map-Memory-Placed)
2024-03-03T11:32:51Z	**GDB 14.2 Brings A Few Fixes For The GNU Debugger**
GDB 14.2 has been released to provide a few fixes for the GNU Debugger over its state found in last year's GDB 14.1... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Debugger-GDB-14.2)
2024-03-03T11:58:40Z	**Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty**
Merged this week ahead of the Wine 9.4 development release due out next Friday is support for using the new Vulkan VK\_EXT\_map\_memory\_placed extension to overcome a performance penalty with Windows on Windows 64-bit (WOW64) for games/apps... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Vulkan-Map-Memory-Placed)
2024-03-03T14:06:53Z	**Redox OS Scores A Massive Performance Boost For I/O**
The Rust-written Redox OS is out with a new monthly status report to outline the enhancements made to this open-source operating system during the month of February... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Faster-IO)
2024-03-03T14:42:29Z	**OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released For Debian 12 Powered NAS Platform**
OpenMediaVault 7.0 was released today as a major update to this open-source Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution built around Debian Linux. This plug-based NAS platform with web UI allows supporting a variety of services/protocols is now even more capable with the OpenMediaVault 7.0 availability... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMediaVault-7.0)
2024-03-03T15:25:15Z	**GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 RC Brings Modifier-Aware Screencasting, VRR & X.Org Sync Fix**
In preparation for the GNOME 46 release candidate, the "46.rc" versions of GNOME Shell and Mutter were published this morning. The release candidate work is mostly about fixing outstanding issues but there are also some lingering fixes that made it into these releases... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-46-RC)
2024-03-03T21:20:23Z	**Linux 6.8-rc7 Released With The Stable Kernel Potentially Coming Next Week**
Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.8-rc7 as we close in on the Linux 6.8 stable release in the next week or two... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-rc7-Released)
2024-03-04T11:04:04Z	**Updated AMDGPU VCN Firmware Fixes VP9 Decoding Issues**
For those that have experienced glitches while playing back VP9 video content using AMD's Video Core Next (VCN) for GPU acceleration, updated firmware should fix those VP9 decode problems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Firmware-Fixes-VP9)
2024-03-04T11:32:12Z	**Arch Linux's Pacman 6.1 Released With Cache Server Support**
It was two years since the release of Pacman 6.0 as Arch Linux's package manager software while overnight Pacman 6.1 was released with a tag line "it's been a while..." With Pacman 6.1 comes a few new features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Pacman-6.1)
2024-03-04T11:18:42Z	**LACT 0.5.3 Released For Managing AMD Graphics Cards Under Linux**
With the absence of any official AMD Radeon graphics control panel / settings GUI for Linux enthusiasts/gamers, there are several open-source projects striving to be a viable Radeon GUI control area for Linux gamers/enthusiasts. LACT 0.5.3 was released this weekend as the newest version of this option for AMD Radeon information reporting, GPU overclocking, fan control, power/thermal monitoring, and additional power state configurations... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Graphics-LACT-0.5.3)
2024-03-04T11:57:45Z	**Mesa 24.1 Lands Support For GFX11.5.1 "RDNA3 Refresh" Variant**
When it comes to the AMD "RDNA3 Refresh" GFX11.5 open-source driver support, to date it's mostly been focused on the GFX 11.5.0 (GFX1150) IP while now being enabled within Mesa 24.1 for the open-source RadeonSI/RADV drivers is support for a GFX 11.5.1 (GFX1151) variant... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-Enable-GFX11.5.1)
2024-03-04T13:45:22Z	**Nouveau Supporting HDMI 2.1 Won't Hopefully Be Too Challenging Thanks To NVIDIA Firmware**
While there is a lot of frustration from the news last week of the HDMI Forum rejecting AMD's open-source HDMI 2.1 driver support plans, the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver won't hopefully have too challenging of an experience in enabling HDMI 2.1 functionality since much of the display handling there is left up to NVIDIA's (closed-source) firmware binaries... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Firmware-Blobs-HDMI-2.1)
2024-03-04T16:15:00Z	**The Compositor Modules "COMO" To Build Wayland Compositors Have Arrived**
Open-source developer Roman Gilg who is known for his work on KWinFT prior to its rebranding as Theseus' Ship has some more important news to share today by way of Phoronix. Here's his guest post announcing The Compositor Modules. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/the-compositor-modules-como)
2024-03-04T18:19:53Z	**Opus 1.5 Audio Codec Able To Make Extensive Use Of Machine Learning**
Xiph.Org's Opus open-source audio format for lossy audio coding has rolled out Opus 1.5 as a big update that is now making greater use of machine learning... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Opus-1.5-Released)
2024-03-04T21:39:16Z	**AMDGPU Linux Driver No Longer Lets You Have Unlimited Control To Lower Your Power Limit**
The AMDGPU Linux driver up until the recent Linux 6.7 kernel release has let you lower the power limit of your graphics card with, well, no limits... This has allowed AMD Radeon Linux users to limit their GPU power draw when desiring for power/efficiency reasons. But since Linux 6.7 they've begun enforcing a lower-power limit set by the respective graphics card BIOS. Users petitioned to have this change reverted but in the nam ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Lower-Power-Limit)
2024-03-05T02:30:34Z	**GStreamer 1.24 Released With Vulkan H.264/H.265 Decode & Many Enhancements**
GStreamer 1.24 is out today as a major enhancement to this open-source multimedia framework... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GStreamer-1.24-Released)
2024-03-05T11:39:00Z	**openSUSE Tumbleweed Is Finding Success Moving From GRUB To systemd-boot**
While still an experimental option, the rolling-release systemd Tumbleweed Linux distribution is finding great results in using systemd-boot rather than the GRUB bootloader... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tumbleweed-systemd-boot-Success)
2024-03-05T11:29:02Z	**FreeBSD 13.3 Released With Better WiFi Support, LLVM objdump Added**
For those still on the FreeBSD 13 series with not having migrated yet to FreeBSD 14, FreeBSD 13.3 was released overnight as the newest incremental update to this mature BSD platform... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-13.3-Released)
2024-03-05T11:59:17Z	**FEX 2403 Fixes Steam Support, Introduces More CPU Optimizations**
FEX as the open-source emulator for running x86/x86\_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux systems continues making good progress not for only enjoying Linux x86 binaries on ARM but also Windows games by way of Steam Play / Wine... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2403-Released)
2024-03-05T14:00:00Z	**AMD Announces Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA Family**
For those interested in FPGAs, AMD today unveiled the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA product family with hardware coming in 2025... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Spartan-UltraScale-Plus)
2024-03-05T14:58:49Z	**Linux DM-VDO "Virtual Data Optimizer" Preparing To Land In The Upstream Kernel**
The Linux DeviceMapper code is preparing to introduce DM-VDO as the Virtual Data Optimizer that can provide inline deduplication, compression, zero-block elimination, thin provisioning, and other features. DM-VDO has long existed out-of-tree and should be a very useful addition to mainline... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DM-Virtual-Data-Optimizer-VDO)
2024-03-05T16:00:00Z	**CentOS Stream ISA Optimized Packages Show Great Results On Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids**
As part of Red Hat evaluating x86-64-v3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, there is the CentOS ISA SIG that's been experimenting with ISA Optimized builds for the x86-64-v3 target. Via the CentOS ISA SIG there is the easy ability to transition an existing CentOS Stream 9 system/server over to using the x86\_64-v3 optimized packages. In this article are some benchmarks on a modern Intel Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" server showing th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/centos-isa-optimized)
2024-03-05T17:49:16Z	**Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android**
Microsoft announced today they will be winding down their support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), which is similar to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) but was designed to run Android apps from the Amazon Appstore atop Windows 11... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Dropping-WSA)
2024-03-05T19:18:42Z	**AMD Updates FreeSync Certification Requirements For New Monitors & TVs**
AMD's FreeSync adaptive synchronization technology for displays has come a long way since its 2015 debut and enjoying robust industry adoption. Given the increasing refresh rates of today's TVs and monitors, AMD has rolled out new tier requirements for FreeSync, FreeSync Premium, and FreeSync Premium Pro moving forward... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ups-FreeSync-Requirements)
2024-03-05T20:39:25Z	**Microsoft Rebranding CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution To "Azure Linux"**
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution used for a variety of purposes had been known as CBL-Mariner for "Common Base Linux" while now it appears to be in the process of transitioning to Azure Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Azure-Linux)
2024-03-05T20:28:26Z	**VKD3D 1.11 Allows Compiling Legacy Direct3D Bytecode To SPIR-V**
While not as fast-moving as Valve's VKD3D-Proton downstream used by Proton / Steam Play, Wine's VKD3D is out today with a new feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-1.11-Released)
2024-03-06T01:25:15Z	**KDE Plasma 6.0.1 Released With First Batch Of Bug Fixes**
It's been just six days since the release of KDE MegaRelease 6 with Plasma 6.0 and while it's popular with users and smoother than prior major KDE releases, out today is Plasma 6.0.1 for the first round of bug-fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0.1-Released)
2024-03-06T11:41:57Z	**RADV Now Supports Experimental VK_EXT_shader_object For RDNA3 GPUs Using NGG**
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team recently wrapped up experimental support for the RADV Vulkan driver for EXT\_shader\_object support using Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) on RDNA3/GFX11 graphics processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-NGG-RDNA3-ESO-Option)
2024-03-06T11:26:48Z	**UWSM Aims To Be A Universal Wayland Session Manager**
UWSM is short for the Universal Wayland Session Manager and it incorporates systemd's help in managing the Wayland compositors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/UWSM-Wayland-Session-Manager)
2024-03-06T12:00:13Z	**LLVM/Clang 18.1 Released With Intel AVX10.1 Work, Adds Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake**
Out today is the big LLVM/Clang 18.1 release. Due to shifting to a new versioning scheme like GCC, today's LLVM 18.1 release is the first major stable release in the new series for what previously would have been called LLVM 18.0... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Clang-18.1-Released)
2024-03-06T14:00:59Z	**Lisa Su Says The "Team Is On It" After Tweet About Open-Source AMD GPU Firmware**
George Hotz with Tiny Corp that is working on Tinygrad and TinyBox for interesting developments in the open-source AI space has previously called out AMD over ROCm issues. Yesterday yielded new tweets by "the tiny corp" over AI training runs crashing with MES errors and then called for AMD open-sourcing the firmware to which AMD CEO Lisa Su has responded... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lisa-Su-Tweet-OSS-Firmware)
2024-03-06T14:57:16Z	**AMD Introducing FRU Memory Poison Manager In Linux 6.9**
Queued for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle is an FRU Memory Poison Manager "FMPM" developed by AMD that may later be adapted for other non-AMD platforms. The FRU Memory Poison Manager is working to persist information around known bad/faulty memory across reboots... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-FRU-Memory-Poison-Manager)
2024-03-06T16:15:00Z	**NVIDIA R550 Linux Driver's Open Kernel Modules Performing Well On GeForce GPUs**
With the recent NVIDIA 550.54.14 Linux driver release the R550 series is now out as stable. One of the prominent changes with the NVIDIA R550 Linux driver is bringing the GeForce and workstation GPU support up to "CERTIFIED" quality when using NVIDIA's open kernel modules that are distributed as part of their driver package. Previously the open-source (out-of-tree) kernel modules were just certified for their data center GPUs while now they  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-r550-open)
2024-03-06T17:28:11Z	**OpenVINO 2024.0 Brings More GenAI Features, New JavaScript API**
Intel today released their open-source OpenVINO 2024.0 toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference across a range of hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVINO-2024.0-Released)
2024-03-06T19:18:46Z	**Tiny Corp At "70%" Confidence For AMD To Open-Source Some Relevant GPU Firmware**
Following the news from earlier around George Hotz' Tiny Corp raising new AMD GPU issues and calling for the MES firmware to be open-sourced followed by a positive message from AMD CEO Lisa Su, there's a new update on the matter following a meeting today between Tiny Corp and AMD... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tiny-Corp-70p-MES-Firmware)
2024-03-07T00:39:02Z	**Basic OpenGL Support Merged For Wine's Wayland Driver**
The merge request enabling basic OpenGL support for the Wine Wayland driver has been merged to Wine Git this evening as another important step forward for native Wayland support for enjoying Windows games/apps on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-OpenGL-Merged)
2024-03-07T05:00:18Z	**Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default**
Fedora Workstation has long defaulted to using GNOME's Wayland session by default, but it has continued to install the GNOME X.Org session for fallback purposes or those opting to use it instead. But for the Fedora Workstation 41 release later in the year, there is a newly-approved plan to no longer have that GNOME X.Org session installed by default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-No-GNOME-Xorg-Install)
2024-03-07T11:13:02Z	**Experimental Linux Patches Allow Kernel Tracing To Work Past Reboots/Crashes**
Steven Rostedt this week posted some interesting albeit experimental patches for the Linux kernel to support persistent traces that work across a reboot or crash... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Tracing-Post-Reboots)
2024-03-07T11:46:49Z	**Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing**
The performance is likely to be atrocious, but the Mesa Lavapipe driver implementing the Vulkan API for CPU-based execution has rolled out support for Vulkan ray-tracing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Lavapipe-Vulkan-RayTracing)
2024-03-07T11:38:13Z	**Etnaviv Preps For Vivante PCI Device Support, Changes For Mesa's Teflon NPU Handling**
The Etnaviv DRM kernel driver providing reverse-engineered support for Vivante graphics and NPU IP has sent out their latest feature changes to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Etnaviv)
2024-03-07T13:27:38Z	**GTK 4.14 To Provide Crisper Font Rendering, Better Fractional Scaling**
The upcoming GTK 4.14 toolkit release with the new renderers should yield crisper font rendering... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.14-Crisper-Font-Rendering)
2024-03-07T16:00:59Z	**GNUnet 0.21 Rolls Out New Transport Layer For Building Decentralized, Distributed Apps**
GNUnet 0.21 has been released as a major update to this GNU project building a network stack for secure, decentralized, and privacy-preserving distributed applications. GNUnet continues striving for a "GNU internet" and with the v0.21 release has rolled out a new transport layer and working to address prior design shortcomings... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNUnet-0.21-Released)
2024-03-07T17:41:02Z	**Mesa's VDPAU State Tracker Adds Support For AV1 Decoding**
While Mesa Gallium3D drivers with capable GPUs have already supported accelerated AV1 video deocding, to date it's been limited to the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). With newly-merged code for Mesa 24.1, the VDPAU state tracker can now also handle AV1 decoding with supported drivers/GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-VDPAU-AV1-Decode)
2024-03-07T21:45:17Z	**Canonical Looking At Including Performance Tools In Ubuntu 24.04 By Default**
A proposal has been laid out by Canonical engineers to include various performance tooling in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by default to help in those trying to squeeze out greater performance gains out of their hardware/software and/or debugging/profiling issues. The proposal wants to "make Ubuntu absolutely great for performance engineers" but would mean somewhat significant size increases to the Ubuntu desktop and server ISOs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Perf-Tools-Propose)
2024-03-08T11:42:44Z	**Linux 6.9 Set To Drop The Old NTFS File-System Driver**
Merged two years ago with Linux 5.15 with the "NTFS3" driver developed by Paragon Software with working read-write support and other improvements for supporting Microsoft's NTFS file-system driver. This driver was a big improvement over the original NTFS read-only driver found in the mainline kernel and faster than using the NTFS-3G FUSE file-system driver. Now with enough time having passed and the NTFS3 driver working out well, the older NTFS driver is se ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Dropping-Old-NTFS)
2024-03-08T11:56:38Z	**Linux 6.8 Squeezing In Support For A Few Newer HP HyperX Controllers**
Sent in today as part of the input subsystem fixes for the current Linux 6.8 kernel cycle are adding support for several more HP HyperX gaming controllers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Input-HyperX-Devices)
2024-03-08T13:26:33Z	**Improved Case-Insensitive File Handling Coming To Linux 6.9**
The optional case-insensitive file/folder handling under Linux that's hooked up for various file-systems like EXT4 and F2FS will benefit from improved performance on the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Case-Insensitive)
2024-03-08T14:53:14Z	**VirtualBox KVM Backend Adds Support For SR-IOV Graphics**
Announced one month ago by Cyberus Technology was an open-source KVM back-end for VirtualBox. This work by Cyberus allows for using the KVM hypervisor with VirtualBox as opposed to its custom kernel module maintained by Oracle. That KVM back-end has now been extended to support SR-IOV graphics virtualization... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VirtualBox-KVM-SR-IOV-Support)
2024-03-08T14:43:39Z	**Improved Debugging Of Suspend/Resume For AMD Ryzen Laptops On Linux Coming With MP2 STB**
AMD engineers and those debugging s2idle suspend/resume issues for Ryzen laptops under Linux will soon have more information at disposal for newer SoCs supporting MP2 STB functionality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MP2-STB-Suspend-Resume)
2024-03-08T15:30:00Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 Helping Achieve Greater Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Emerald Rapids**
While Ubuntu 24.04 LTS won't be officially out until the back-half of April, here is an early look at how the Intel Xeon Scable "Emerald Rapids" performance is looking right now compared to Ubuntu 23.10 and the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS series in a variety of benchmarks. As largely expected with the software updates, the new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will help achieve greater server/HPC performance on recent Intel processors. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2404-xeon)
2024-03-08T15:55:00Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 Helping Achieve Greater Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Emerald Rapids**
While Ubuntu 24.04 LTS won't be officially out until the back-half of April, here is an early look at how the Intel Xeon Scable "Emerald Rapids" performance is looking right now compared to Ubuntu 23.10 and the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS series in a variety of benchmarks. As largely expected with the software updates, the new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will help achieve greater server/HPC performance on recent Intel processors. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2404-xeon)
2024-03-08T18:00:23Z	**Vulkan 1.3.280 Released With NVIDIA Ray-Tracing Validation Extension**
Vulkan 1.3.280 is out today as the newest spec update for this high performance graphics, compute, and video API... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.280)
2024-03-08T19:29:19Z	**AMD Squeezes In Additional GPU Enablement Code For Linux 6.9**
While the Linux v6.8 kernel may debut as stable as soon as this weekend, a last-minute pull request of some new AMD graphics IP was submitted today to DRM-Next in aiming to make it for the imminent Linux 6.9 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-More-IPs-Linux-6.9)
2024-03-09T00:08:49Z	**Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver**
Wine 9.4 is out today as a rather notable bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.4-Released)
2024-03-09T11:24:40Z	**KDE Developers Are Currently Seeing 150~200 Bug Reports Per Day**
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary outlining the interesting feature work and bug fixes to land in the KDE space. Being fresh off the recent Plasma 6.0 release, a lot of bug reports are still coming in while developers are already busy tackling new features for Plasma 6.1... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-Post-6.0-Bug-Count)
2024-03-09T12:00:00Z	**NVK Lands Sparse Memory Support - Enabling More Games To Run On This Open-Source Driver**
Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver for open-source NVIDIA support has merged sparse memory support. This is a big milestone as it's needed for running a number of newer games under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Sparse-Memory-Support)
2024-03-09T11:53:51Z	**LXQt Desktop Now "100%" Ready For Wayland**
The lightweight LXQt desktop environment is fully ready to take on the Wayland world... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-Fully-Ready-Wayland)
2024-03-09T14:13:36Z	**GNOME Developers Continue Tweaking The Shell, Tuning For Performance**
Not only have KDE developers been very busy this week but so has the GNOME crew working toward the GNOME 46 release later this month as well as working on various other improvements to land past the 46 cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-This-Week-VRR-VTE)
2024-03-09T14:43:46Z	**Linux 6.8 Is Very Exciting With Intel Xe Driver, Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics & New Hardware**
Linux 6.8 could debut as stable as soon as tomorrow if all goes well... Linus Torvalds last week was unsure whether an extra release candidate would be needed after the quiet 6.8-rc7 release. This week's seen a continued flow of fixes land, so we'll see what Linus decides on Sunday but in any event there are already a number of early 6.9 pull requests... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Features)
2024-03-10T00:37:22Z	**GNOME 46 Release Candidate Rolls Out Last Minute Fixes, VRR & Other Refinements**
The GNOME 46 release candidate was officially rolled out today as the last chance to test the GNOME 46 desktop software ahead of its stable release later this month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-46-RC)
2024-03-10T10:46:03Z	**Linux 6.9 To Upgrade Rust Toolchain - Making More Features Stable**
All of the Rust feature patches have already been submitted in a pull request to Linus Torvalds ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Rust-Upgrade)
2024-03-10T11:20:46Z	**Radeon Memory Visualizer Hooks Up With Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver**
Thanks to the nature of open-source and AMD making their Radeon Memory Visualizer "RMV" open-source under the GPUOpen umbrella, outside of AMD graphics drivers it's found usage elsewhere. Back in January I wrote how Intel's open-source Vulkan driver was adapted for being able to interface with the Radeon Memory Visualizer. Now this week the Qualcomm Adreno "TURNIP" Vulkan driver has also been wired up for enabling RMV integration... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Adreno-RMV)
2024-03-10T11:08:20Z	**Niri 0.1.3 Wayland Compositor Brings Touch Support, New Animations**
Niri is an interesting scrollable tiling Wayland compositor inspired by PaperWM that has been gaining user interest in recent months. This weekend marked the v0.1.3 release of this Wayland compositor... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-0.1.3-Wayland-Compositor)
2024-03-10T13:39:30Z	**Linux 6.9 To Allow AMD P-State With ACPI CPPC V2 For Threadripper 3000 Series CPUs**
The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver works with Zen 2 and newer processors supporting ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Controls (CPPC) but to date this hasn't worked for Threadripper 3000 series processors with the TRX40 chipset. That though is finally being fixed up with Linux 6.9 thanks to a one-line code change... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-TRX40-Linux-6.9)
2024-03-10T14:20:00Z	**Awesome Changes Coming With Linux 6.9: Lots From Intel/AMD, FUSE Passthrough & More Rust**
Depending upon how Linus Torvalds is feeling today, Linux 6.8 could debut today as stable and in turn mark the opening of the Linux 6.9 merge window... Otherwise it will be punted off by one week. In any event, there's a lot of interesting work queuing for Linux 6.9 as shared in today's preview... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Awesome-Changes)
2024-03-10T16:10:00Z	**Awesome Changes Coming With Linux 6.9: Lots From Intel/AMD, FUSE Passthrough & More Rust**
Depending upon how Linus Torvalds is feeling today, Linux 6.8 could debut today as stable and in turn mark the opening of the Linux 6.9 merge window... Otherwise it will be punted off by one week. In any event, there's a lot of interesting work queuing for Linux 6.9 as shared in today's preview... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Awesome-Changes)
2024-03-10T21:23:36Z	**Linux 6.8 Released As Stable With New Intel Xe Graphics Driver**
Linus Torvalds has gone ahead and released Linux 6.8 as stable today rather than drawing this cycle into overtime... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Released)
2024-03-11T10:44:32Z	**x86/cpu Change For Linux 6.9 Slightly Eases Future AMD Zen CPU Enablement**
A number of x86-related pull requests were already submitted today for kicking off the new Linux 6.9 merge window. With the x86/cpu pull for this new kernel cycle there is just one patch and it's for slightly easing future AMD Zen processor enablement under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-x86-CPU)
2024-03-11T13:50:09Z	**AMD Posts Performance Monitoring Patches For Zen 5 CPUs**
While Linux 6.8 carries some elements of Zen 5 CPU support, more upstream Linux enablement for the next-generation AMD processors remains ongoing. Sent out this morning were the initial patches around AMD Zen 5 performance monitoring and events for the perf subsystem... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Perf-Monitoring-Patch)
2024-03-11T14:49:16Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Support Installs With NVMe-Over-TCP Drives**
The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release next month will roll out initial support in its server installer for being able to handle root file-system setups on NVMe-over-TCP scenarios for remote drives... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Install-NVMe-Over-TCP)
2024-03-11T14:32:53Z	**Linux 6.9 Making It Easier Managing Security Mitigation Options**
The x86/core changes were submitted today for the now-open Linux 6.9 merge window. Among other changes, the x86 CPU security mitigation options within the Linux kernel Kconfig have been adjusted where appropriate to make more clear the options/features are for security mitigations... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-CONFIG-MITIGATIONS)
2024-03-11T15:05:41Z	**GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu Dealing With Blobs From New Intel Drivers**
GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu is out as the newest downstream kernel variety endorsed by the Free Software Foundation that takes the upstream Linux kernel but does away with proprietary module support and stripping out drivers/functionality contingent upon binary-only microcode/firmware and other elements not deemed up to their free software standards... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-libre-6.8-gnu)
2024-03-11T15:48:43Z	**Intel Makes Continuous Profiler Open-Source To Help Improve CPU Performance**
Intel this morning released Continuous Profiler as open-source, a software solution developed by Intel Granulate for aiming to help boost CPU performance... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Continuous-Profiler-OSS)
2024-03-11T16:43:20Z	**AMD P-State Preferred Core Submitted For Linux 6.9 While Intel Meteor Lake Gets Tuned**
The in-development Linux 6.9 kernel is finally landing support for AMD Preferred Core as part of the power management updates for this mid-2024 kernel release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Preferred-Core-69)
2024-03-11T20:23:39Z	**Btrfs Enjoys Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.9**
SUSE's David Sterba sent out the Btrfs updates today for the Linux 6.9 merge window. Besides stabilization and bug fixes there are also some minor performance optimizations to see with this next kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Linux-6.9)
2024-03-12T00:20:41Z	**Intel FRED Merged For Linux 6.9 As An Important Improvement With Future CPUs**
After two years of talking about Intel FRED as Flexible Return and Event Delivery for overhauling how transitions are done between privilege levels (CPU rings), the support code was finally in good shape for merging now with the Linux 6.9 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-FRED-Merged-Linux-6.9)
2024-03-11T23:56:37Z	**Microsoft's DirectX Shader Compiler Sees Improved Linux Build Support**
This is their LLVM/Clang-based shader compiler for compiling HLSL programs into the DirectX Intermediate Language (DXIL) that can then be fed to DirectX GPU drivers from the different vendors. While Microsoft Windows is obviously the main focus, today's update does improve the Linux build support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MS-March-2024-DX-Compiler)
2024-03-12T00:33:41Z	**Intel FRED Merged For Linux 6.9 As An Important Improvement With Future CPUs**
After two years of talking about Intel FRED as Flexible Return and Event Delivery for overhauling how transitions are done between privilege levels (CPU rings), the support code was finally in good shape for merging now with the Linux 6.9 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-FRED-Merged-Linux-6.9)
2024-03-12T04:00:00Z	**Dynamic Kernel Stacks Proposed For Linux With Big Memory Savings**
A "request for comments" patch series was posted on Monday for a new dynamic kernel stacks feature for Linux. Early testing has shown the potential for significant memory savings... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dynamic-Kernel-Stacks-RFC)
2024-03-12T10:19:36Z	**Intel Continues Prepping The Linux Kernel For X86S**
Nearly one year ago Intel published the X86S specification (formerly stylized as "X86-S") for simplifying the Intel architecture by removing support for 16-bit and 32-bit operating systems. X86S is a big step forward with dropping legacy mode, 5-level paging improvements, and other modernization improvements for x86\_64. With the Linux 6.9 kernel more x86S bits are in place for this ongoing effort... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-More-X86S)
2024-03-12T10:46:56Z	**Too Many Debug Messages Were Reportedly Slowing Down Some AMD Linux Systems**
An interesting anecdote was mentioned as part of the x86/misc changes queued for the Linux 6.9 kernel: on some unnamed AMD systems, NMI debug messages were too excessive that they actually slowed down the systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Linux-Too-Much-NMI)
2024-03-12T12:37:53Z	**AdaptiveCpp 24.02 Released: "One Of The Best SYCL Compilers" For Performance**
AdaptiveCpp 24.02 is out this week as the newest version of this SYCL compiler formerly known as hypSYCL and Open SYCL. AdaptiveCpp supports C++-based heterogeneous programming models targeting all major CPU and GPU vendors thanks to SYCL and C++ standard parallelism... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AdaptiveCpp-24.02-Released)
2024-03-12T13:00:00Z	**Many Networking Improvements & New Wired/Wireless Devices For Linux 6.9**
The big set of networking subsystem updates have been sent in for the Linux 6.9 merge window including a number of new wired and wireless devices being supported as well as a number of core networking improvements and optimizations... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Networking)
2024-03-12T15:37:25Z	**Linux 6.9 Lands Reworked Topology Code For Better Hybrid CPU Support**
The recently covered overhaul of the x86 CPU topology code to clean-up quite a code mess has been merged for Linux 6.9. Among other benefits, this improved topology code properly accounts for modern Intel Core hybrid systems with a mix of P and HT-less E cores... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-APIC-x86-CPU-Topology)
2024-03-12T16:22:05Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Help Further Boost AMD EPYC 9004 Series Performance**
With the upgraded Linux kernel, compiler, and other software upgrades with next month's Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, those using recent AMD EPYC server processors like the 4th Gen EPYC Genoa(X) / Bergamo / Siena processors stand to benefit from greater performance over the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-AMD-EPYC-9004)
2024-03-12T17:50:36Z	**New Intel CPU Microcode & "RFDS" Linux Kernel Patch For New Security Vulnerabilities**
Intel has released new CPU microcode for addressing five security issues and additionally there is newly-merged Linux kernel code for mitigating the new Register File Data Sampling "RFDS" micro-architectural vulnerability affecting Atom / E cores... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-March-2024-Security)
2024-03-12T19:00:00Z	**GhostRace Detailed - Speculative Race Conditions Affecting All Major CPUs / ISAs**
VUSec and IBM Research Europe today announced Speculative Race Conditions (SRCs) as a as a new class of vulnerabilities where thread synchronization primitives using conditional branches can be microarchitecturally bypassed on speculative paths using a Spectre-V1 attack. The researchers have dubbed CVE-2024-2193 as GhostRace and is said to affect all major CPU vendors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CPU-Speculative-GhostRace)
2024-03-12T19:20:39Z	**KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Delivers Another Week Worth Of Bug Fixes**
Last week saw Plasma 6.0.1 for an initial batch of bug fixes for this major desktop environment that debuted the week prior. Out today is Plasma 6.0.2 with another round of bug fixes that have been addressed over the past week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0.2)
2024-03-12T23:32:36Z	**OBS Studio 30.1 Released With AV1 Support For VA-API & PipeWire Video Capture**
Building off last November's release of the big OBS Studio 30.0 release, OBS Studio 30.1 debuted today as the newest feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-30.1)
2024-03-13T10:21:04Z	**Linux 6.9 Graphics Drivers Prepare For RDNA3 Refresh & RDNA4, More Intel Xe Driver Work**
David Airlie has submitted all of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates today for Linux 6.9... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-DRM)
2024-03-13T10:52:03Z	**Blumenkrantz Picks His Next Battle: Mesa's DRI Interfaces**
Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz has been known for many great Mesa improvements the past several years, especially around Zink for the OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation within Mesa. Over the past four years he has taken on many great performance optimizations and other significant code undertakings to improve Mesa. Blumenkrantz has picked his latest battle and appears to be around Mesa's Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) interfaces... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-DRI-Battle-Blumenkrantz)
2024-03-13T11:47:47Z	**Mesa 24.1 Enables Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support By Default**
While the new Intel Xe kernel graphics driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.8 as this modern DRM driver that is opt-in for current generation hardware and aims to be the default for Lunar Lake / Xe2, currently with Mesa you must build the Intel ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D driver code with the "intel-xe-kmd" option to enable compatibility for this alternative kernel driver to i915. With Mesa 24.1 coming next quarter, that Intel Xe kernel driver suppor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-KMD-Mesa-24.1-Default)
2024-03-13T12:52:02Z	**Linux 6.9 Cleans Up Printk Code While Preparing For Atomic Consoles**
The Linux work around atomic consoles and threaded printing remains ongoing. This work is particularly interesting as it's the last major blocker before real-time "RT" kernel support can land. This work sadly isn't ready for the new Linux 6.9 cycle but at least some printk clean-ups are landing for issues discovered during the atomic consoles effort... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Printk-Cleanup)
2024-03-13T13:37:49Z	**LVFS/Fwupd Ponders 2025 Plans: Servers, Desktop Motherboards & More**
Richard Hughes of Red Hat who leads development of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) and Fwupd firmware updating utility is currently pondering plans for 2025. Among the ideas he's seeking input from the community is on whether the main focus should be on servers, desktop motherboards, laptops, or other removable hardware/peripherals... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LVFS-Fwupd-Possible-2025-Plans)
2024-03-13T14:40:45Z	**System76 Now Planning For COSMIC Desktop Alpha Release In Late May**
System76 had been planning an initial alpha release of their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment to debut at the end of Q1 (March), but now they are delaying the first alpha to May for allowing time to wrap up feature work on their new desktop apps... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-COSMIC-Alpha-May)
2024-03-13T15:06:01Z	**New ARM SoCs & Various Smartphones/Devices Now Supported By Linux 6.9**
All of the ARM SoC updates and new machine/platform additions were submitted and merged on Tuesday for the ongoing Linux 6.9 kernel merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-SoC-Updates)
2024-03-13T19:27:41Z	**DM VDO "Virtual Data Optimizer" Merged For Linux 6.9**
As a follow-up to the article earlier this month around DeviceMapper's Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) preparing to be upstreamed, it was successfully merged today by Linus Torvalds as the newest shiny feature of Linux 6.9... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DM-VDO-Merged-Linux-6.9)
2024-03-14T00:02:02Z	**Linux 6.9 Makes A Change To Satisfy Microsoft For EFI x86 Shim Loader Signing**
The EFI updates were merged today for the ongoing Linux 6.9 merge window. This cycle the EFI kernel code is seeing enhancements for confidential computing as well as for satisfy Microsoft's requirements for getting them to sign the x86 shim loader again for UEFI Secure Boot handling... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-EFI-Updates)
2024-03-14T10:05:43Z	**Mesa 24.0.3 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes**
Eric Engestrom has released Mesa 24.0.3 as the newest bi-weekly bug-fix release to the current Mesa 24.0 stable series graphics drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0.3-Released)
2024-03-14T10:43:15Z	**Mesa 24.1 Adds Support For The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170G**
The current Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series products that were announced in 2022 built off Arctic Sound M are the Data Center GPU Flex 140 and Data Center GPU Flex 170 while now a new "170G" variant was added for Intel's open-source Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Data-Center-GPU-Flex-170G)
2024-03-14T10:54:26Z	**Krita Looking More At GPU Acceleration & AI In 2024**
The Krita open-source graphics editor and digital art program is looking at possibly adding some AI features to its arsenal as well as possible GPU acceleration and other new features in 2024... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Krita-2024-GPUs-AI)
2024-03-14T12:45:50Z	**Rust-Tailored Slint GUI Toolkit Adding Python API**
Some Phoronix readers have been interested in Slint as a Rust-focused graphical toolkit that offers a royalty-free license and in addition to desktop ambitions has also been porting to Android. Slint 1.5 was released today and in addition to the Rust programming language support has begun offering a Python API... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Slint-1.5-Adds-Python-API)
2024-03-14T12:30:54Z	**openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet**
The openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release Linux distribution has begun rolling out the KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Gear 24.02 apps, and Frameworks 6.0 packages. Plasma 5 is being replaced within the Tumbleweed repository but openSUSE Tumbleweed isn't yet transitioning to the Wayland session by default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Plasma-6)
2024-03-14T15:00:00Z	**Intel Launches Core i9 14900KS, Clocking Up To 6.2GHz**
Intel today is introducing the Core i9 14900KS as their newest "world's fastest desktop processor" with up to 6.2GHz clock frequencies... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Core-i9-14900KS)
2024-03-14T16:50:29Z	**Intel & AMD Enjoy SoundWire Updates With Linux 6.9**
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai with SUSE has submitted all of the core sound updates and driver changes for the ongoing Linux 6.9 kernel merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Sound-Updates)
2024-03-14T18:29:24Z	**AMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Source**
AMD's HIP Ray-Tracing library "HIP RT" has been one of the few projects under the GPUOpen umbrella that starts off as closed-source software but then is eventually open-sourced... That happened now with the HIP ray-tracing code becoming publicly available... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HIP-Ray-Tracing-RT-Open)
2024-03-14T19:00:00Z	**Harnessing Incredible AI Compute Power Atop Open-Source Software: 8 x AMD MI300X Accelerators On Linux**
A few days ago I had the chance to indulge on an incredible compute nirvana: eight AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators at my disposal for some albeit brief testing. Not only was it fantastic from the shear compute performance, but for Phoronix fans, all the more exciting knowing it's atop a fully open-source software stack from the kernel driver up through the various user-space libraries (well, sans the GPU mic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-instinct-mi300x-rocm6)
2024-03-15T00:33:19Z	**Linux 6.9 VFIO Updates Bring A New Driver For NVIDIA's Grace-Hopper Superchip**
The Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) updates for the Linux 6.9 merge window bring a mostly mundane assortment of driver patches and other routine changes. But there is a new driver for NVIDIA's Grace-Hopper superchip... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-VFIO)
2024-03-15T10:16:57Z	**Mobileye EyeQ5 SoC Support Upstreamed In Linux 6.9**
While Mobileye has already announced EyeQ6 and EyeQ7, being upstreamed in the Linux 6.9 kernel is finally support for the EyeQ5 SoC used for advanced driver-assistance systems in various automobiles. The EyeQ5 is a MIPS-based platform now capable of running an upstream kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mobileye-EyeQ5-Linux-6.9)
2024-03-15T10:45:27Z	**ARM64 Rust Support & dpISA 2023 Extensions Merged For Linux 6.9**
All of the ARM64 (AArch64) feature updates have been merged for the Linux 6.9 kernel. Besides the new SoC and platform hardware support, there are a few ARM64 architecture updates worth pointing out... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-ARM64-AArch64)
2024-03-15T10:26:07Z	**Intel Releases SVT-AV1 2.0 For Even Faster AV1 Encoding**
Intel has published SVT-AV1 2.0 as the newest major feature release to this leading open-source CPU-based AV1 video encoder. Along with various API changes, SVT-AV1 2.0 has yet more encode performance optimizations... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SVT-AV1-2.0)
2024-03-15T12:48:21Z	**LXD 5.21 LTS Released With UI By Default, AMD SEV Memory Encryption For VMs**
Ahead of next month's Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release, Canonical has released LXD 5.21 as the newest feature update to this container and VM manager. LXD 5.21 now ships with a production-grade graphical user interface by default, brings AMD SEV support for memory encryption of VMs on EPYC CPUs, object storage support, and other features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXD-5.12-LTS-Released)
2024-03-15T14:07:40Z	**The Performance Impact Of Intel's Register File Data Sampling "RFDS" Mitigation**
Earlier this week on Patch Tuesday was the disclosure by Intel of the Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability and mitigation via updated CPU microcode and a kernel patch. RFDS is around malicious user-space software potentially being able to infer stale register values from kernel space. Register File Data Sampling affects recent Intel Atom / E-core bearing processors including the latest Raptor Lake Refresh processors. In th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-rfds-performance)
2024-03-15T17:04:13Z	**VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex**
VKD3D-Proton 2.12 is out today as the newest version of this software used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for implementing Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API. With VKD3D-proton 2.12 is initial support for NVIDIA Reflex technology along with various other features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-Proton-2.12)
2024-03-15T18:00:52Z	**Bcachefs Sees Improved Journal Pipelining & More Efficient Discard With Linux 6.9**
Earlier this week with the original Bcachefs pull request for Linux 6.9 Linus Torvalds wasn't happy with some of the code pertaining to spinning out a new library code so that it could be re-used by at least the XFS file-system. A revised pull request was since submitted without that library spin-out and Torvalds today went ahead and merged that updated file-system driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Linux-6.9-Pulled)
2024-03-15T19:13:30Z	**FUSE Passthrough Mode Merged For Linux 6.9**
The FUSE passthrough mode that's been years in the making for better performance was merged upstream today for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel!.. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-FUSE-Passthrough)
2024-03-15T19:00:00Z	**The Performance Impact Of Intel's Register File Data Sampling "RFDS" Mitigation**
Earlier this week on Patch Tuesday was the disclosure by Intel of the Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability and mitigation via updated CPU microcode and a kernel patch. RFDS is around malicious user-space software potentially being able to infer stale register values from kernel space. Register File Data Sampling affects recent Intel Atom / E-core bearing processors including the latest Raptor Lake Refresh processors. In th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-rfds-performance)
2024-03-16T00:27:50Z	**Linux 6.8.1 & Other Stable Kernels Released With Intel RFDS Mitigation**
A slew of new Linux stable kernel point releases were issued today, driven in part for getting out the Intel Register File Data Sampling "RFDS" mitigations for the kernel code as part of this week's disclosure and microcode updates and kernel patches... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8.1-Plus-RFDS)
2024-03-16T10:34:48Z	**KDE Continuing To Land More Fixes, Eye More Features For Plasma 6.1**
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his latest weekly development summary to outline all of the new KDE features and bug fixes that have come about for the KDE desktop and apps over the past week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-More-6.0-Fixes)
2024-03-16T13:12:07Z	**An Open-Source Driver Effort Has Begun For Rockchip's NPU**
Tomeu Vizoso who recently has been working on extending the Etnaviv open-source graphics driver to also support the Vivante NPU IP has made great progress on that with competitive performance to the proprietary NPU driver and upstreaming the Teflon framework into Mesa for handling the Neural Processing Unit. Tomeu Vizoso has now shifted his attention to working on an open-source, reverse-engineered NPU driver for the AI hardware found in various Roc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Source-NPU-Rockchip-Starts)
2024-03-16T13:58:19Z	**RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1**
Open-source AMD Linux graphics driver engineer Marek Olšák who is known for his focus on the Gallium3D code has shown no signs of slowing down when it comes to discovering new areas to further enhance the performance and tune the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-OpenGL-CTS-30p)
2024-03-16T13:35:15Z	**Initial IBM Power11 Enablement Begins With Linux 6.9**
As noted a month ago that IBM was starting on Power11 CPU/platform enablement for the mainline Linux kernel, indeed the first batch of Power11 code has now been merged for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-Power11-Enablement-Linux-69)
2024-03-16T17:06:18Z	**Mold Linker Jumps From v2.4.1 To v2.30 To Resolve GNU libtool Compatibility**
Mold 2.30 is out this weekend as the newest version of this open-source high speed linker alternative to GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-Linker-2.30-Released)
2024-03-16T17:23:49Z	**New Gestures Code Squeezes Into GNOME 46**
While the GNOME 46 desktop is being released next week, one of the very last minute feature items being merged hit the Mutter codebase on Friday... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gestures-Part-Two-GNOME-46)
2024-03-16T23:35:23Z	**SDL Storage API Merged For SDL 3.0**
Going back years but documented in 2022 has been a desire for the SDL hardware/software abstraction layer popular with cross-platform games to offer an abstracted file-system API. That's finally come to reality with the new SDL\_Storage interface added for SDL 3.0... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL3-SDL_Storage-API-Merged)
2024-03-17T10:48:48Z	**Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release**
The Hyprland customizable Wayland compositor with dynamic tiling is celebrating its two year milestone by issuing v0.37 (and a v0.37.1 paper bag release)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.37)
2024-03-17T10:38:36Z	**Linux 6.9 Change Allows Old Macs Using Firewire To Enjoy Virtualization Support**
The PCI subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 6.9 kernel. Among the changes are the usual code churn around device-specific quirks and tuning of the power management code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-PCI)
2024-03-17T12:21:33Z	**XFS With Linux 6.9 Brings Online Repair Improvements**
Joining the other file-systems seeing notable updates for Linux 6.9, the XFS file-system is seeing continued work around online repair support and other improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XFS-Linux-6.9)
2024-03-17T13:15:56Z	**CXL For Linux 6.9 Adds Error Injection, Native Memory Performance Enumeration**
Intel continues leading the development of the Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem for the Linux kernel while at least for the Linux 6.9 cycle are a few feature patch contributions from AMD... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-CXL)
2024-03-17T13:52:54Z	**Many Laptop Improvements In Linux 6.9, Much Faster HP Performance At Higher TDP**
All of the x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.9 merge window. As usual, most of the x86 platform driver work is around better supporting various Intel Core and AMD Ryzen laptops under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-x86-Platform-Drivers)
2024-03-17T23:52:18Z	**LibreELEC 12 Beta Moves More Devices To 64-bit - Including The Raspberry Pi 5 & 4**
LibreELEC as the Linux distribution that aims to be just enough of an operating system for bringing up Kodi for HTPC / multimedia needs, the LibreELEC 12 "Omega" Beta 1 release is available today for further improving this media center focused Linux OS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreELEC-12-Beta)
2024-03-18T04:00:00Z	**Linux 6.9 Adds Support For Snakebyte Gamepads**
The input subsystem updates were merged on Sunday for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel merge window, among various other input changes is adding support for Snakebyte GAMEPADs to the XPad driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Input-Updates)
2024-03-18T10:50:12Z	**Linux 6.9 Adds Support For Several Samsung Bluetooth HID Devices**
Along with the input subsystem updates for the Linux 6.9 kernel, the HID subsystem updates were also merged in recent days for this next Linux kernel release. Notable of this pull is enabling support for some newer Samsung Wireless input devices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-HID)
2024-03-18T10:42:17Z	**Linux 6.9 Continues Clearing Out Code For Intel's Defunct "Carillo Ranch" Platform**
Last year Linux kernel developers began clearing out code for Intel's nearly two decade old "Carillo Ranch" platform that was a 90nm 32-bit single core processor for embedded devices in the sub 20 Watt space. It was a ~2007 product that never shipped but the Linux kernel code was left in the upstream tree until beginning to see it removed last year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MTD-Clears-Carillo-Ranch)
2024-03-18T10:23:25Z	**AMD Posts Updated Linux Patches For P-State Core Performance Boost**
While AMD P-State driver's Preferred Core support was merged for Linux 6.9, another notable addition to this driver is still undergoing the patch review process: Core Performance Boost... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Core-Performance-Boost-6)
2024-03-18T10:58:11Z	**AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" CPU Enablement Merged For GCC 14**
Back in February AMD posted GCC compiler enablement support for Zen 5 with the new "znver5" target ahead of launch. Since then it's been rather quiet and nervous not seeing this support merged ahead of the upcoming GCC 14 stable release, but this morning it's finally happened: the AMD Zen 5 processor enablement has been merged to GCC Git in time for the GCC 14.1 stable release that will be out in the coming weeks... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Znver5-Merged-GCC14)
2024-03-18T13:43:55Z	**Rust Coreutils & Reproducible Builds Receives Funding From The Sovereign Tech Fund**
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund continues investing significant sums of money for important open-source projects. Among the latest projects receiving funding from the STF are the Rust-written Coreutils implementation and Reproducible Builds... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Fund-Rust-uutils)
2024-03-18T14:12:09Z	**CoreCtrl 1.4 Brings Radeon RX 7000 Series Fan Curve Controls, Intel CPU Temperatures**
CoreCtrl 1.4 was released this weekend as the newest version of this open-source, independently-developed GUI utility for managing CPU and GPU performance characteristics and power/thermal monitoring under Linux, among other capabilities. CoreCtrl does a good job at offering basic GUI-driven controls and monitoring for CPUs and GPUs in the absence of any official GUI solutions by the likes of AMD and Intel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CoreCtrl-1.4-Released)
2024-03-18T15:20:00Z	**LLVM Clang Shows Off Great Performance Advantage On NVIDIA GH200's Neoverse-V2 Cores**
With my recent NVIDIA GH200 Grace CPU benchmarks carried out remotely via GPTshop.ai, besides looking at areas like the 64K kernel page size performance benefits I also ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance difference when the binaries were generated by LLVM Clang rather than the default GCC compiler on Ubuntu Linux. This article shows off the performance difference for the 72-core Neoverse-V2 server/HPC processor  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-gh200-compilers)
2024-03-18T16:17:08Z	**Firefox 124 Now Available With Screen Wake Lock API**
The Firefox 124.0 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement tomorrow... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-124-Released)
2024-03-18T20:05:16Z	**XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend**
XWayland had targeted both the Generic Buffer Management (GBM) and EGLStream APIs due to NVIDIA not supporting GBM like all of the other Linux drivers. But now that the NVIDIA proprietary Linux graphics driver has been boasting GBM support and advancing with their Wayland platform support in general, XWayland is letting go of the EGLStream mess... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Drops-EGLStream)
2024-03-19T00:29:03Z	**F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support & Per-File Compression For Linux 6.9**
Merged today were all the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-F2FS)
2024-03-19T10:29:30Z	**Linux 6.9 Has A Big Rework To CPU Timers - Some Power/Performance Benefits**
The Linux 6.9 kernel has a big rework to the CPU timer code that has been years in the making and has some power and performance benefits... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Timers-Rework)
2024-03-19T12:05:50Z	**Improved Memory Bandwidth Throttling Behavior For Linux 6.9**
The x86 cache updates for Linux 6.9 offer an improved memory bandwidth throttling heuristic such as used by Intel Resource Director Technology (RDT) and also AMD EPYC CPUs with the resctrl code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-69-RAM-Bandwidth-Throttle)
2024-03-19T14:33:15Z	**More Organizations Join The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, v1.0 Spec In Q3**
Announced last summer was the Ultra Ethernet Consortium started by the Linux Foundation along with AMD, Intel, Cisco, Meta, Microsoft, Broadcom, and other organizations. Ultra Ethernet aims for high performance networking for the likes of AI and HPC. The group announced today they've courted an additional 45 organizations to become members of this consortium and they are on track for their v1.0 specification in Q3... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ultra-Ethernet-45-More-Members)
2024-03-19T14:20:59Z	**ARM SCMI CPUFreq Driver Enabling Boost Support By Default With Linux 6.9**
Following last week's main set of power management updates for Linux 6.9 that saw AMD P-State Preferred Core support and tuning for Intel Meteor Lake, a secondary set of power management subsystem changes were sent out today for this new kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM-SCMI-CPUFreq-Boost-Linux-69)
2024-03-19T15:30:00Z	**Ampere Altra Max Performance For Ubuntu Linux 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04**
Following recent benchmarks looking at how the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release is looking on Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids as well as the performance gains for AMD EPYC 9004 series on Ubuntu 24.04, I next turned to the Ampere Altra ARM64 server processor for seeing what the performance is looking like there with this Long Term Support Linux distribution release due out in just over one month. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ampere-altra-ubuntu-2404)
2024-03-19T15:23:42Z	**OpenJDK Java 22 Rolls Into GA With New Features**
Oracle has announced the general availability of OpenJDK Java 22... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenJDK-Java-22-Released)
2024-03-19T19:00:17Z	**AMD With Upstream Linux Nears "The Ultimate Goal Of Confidential Computing"**
More AMD SEV-SNP bits are upstreamed now for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel that is putting the EPYC processor support on the mainline kernel trajectory for "the ultimate goal of the AMD confidential computing side" to hopefully be in great shape come Linux 6.10 later in the year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-EPYC-SEV-SNP-CoCo)
2024-03-20T00:06:37Z	**The Significant Corporate Importance & Pressure Around Mesa Open-Source Linux 3D Drivers**
It has taken many years but the Mesa 3D open-source graphics drivers have proven very successful from the open-source AMD Vulkan and OpenGL drivers proving they can be capable of competing with the closed-source drivers not only for gaming but also workstation tasks, the Windows vs. Linux graphics driver performance gap largely closed, Microsoft even leveraging Mesa for their translations to the D3D12 API, vendors like Im ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Revert-For-SPECViewPerf)
2024-03-20T10:43:59Z	**Bcachefs Fixes Deadlock In Recovery, More Fixes Coming**
Following the revised Bcachefs code making it into Linux 6.9 and a warning for Bcachefs multi-device users to move past Linux 6.7, a batch of fixes was merged overnight for Linux 6.9 while further fixes to this file-system are expected soon... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Fixes-For-Linux-6.9)
2024-03-20T10:30:12Z	**XWayland Rootful Lands HiDPI / Fractional Scaling Support**
Running XWayland in rootful mode now allows for working HiDPI and fractional scaling support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Rootful-HiDPI-Merged)
2024-03-20T10:54:23Z	**Tiny Corp Puts Their AMD-Powered Compute Boxes "On Hold"**
Tony Corp has been frustrated before with AMD / ROCm and planned to drop AMD graphics cards in their planned compute boxes over it only to go back to AMD GPUs with their open-source driver stack later. It's now happened again following frustrations over firmware binaries. After recently lobbying AMD to at least open-source some relevant pieces of their firmware and at ~70% confidence over their plans, Tiny Corp announced on Tuesday they are dropping AMD GP ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tiny-Corp-Drops-AMD-Again)
2024-03-20T12:45:39Z	**IBM Posts GCC Patches For -mcpu=power11 Support**
In-step with early Power11 patches in Linux 6.9, IBM engineers have posted the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patches for enabling -mcpu=power11 targeting within this open-source compiler... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-IBM-Power11-MCPU-Patches)
2024-03-20T13:26:54Z	**DXVK 2.3.1 Allows For More Efficient Shader Code Generation On NVIDIA GPUs**
DXVK 2.3.1 has been released for this Steam Play compknent that implements the Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop Vulkan. Notable with DXVK 2.3.1 is VK\_NV\_raw\_access\_chains support for more efficient shader code generation on NVIDIA GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-2.3.1-Released)
2024-03-20T15:14:56Z	**A Game Is Finally Announced For The Open 3D Engine**
Announced back in 2021 by the Linux Foundation was Amazon Lumberyard becoming the Open 3D Engine and the Linux Foundation fostering the Open 3D Foundation for evolving this new open-source game engine. Three years later there is now a commercial game announced for the Open 3D Engine (O3DE)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-3D-Engine-First-Game)
2024-03-20T15:37:34Z	**GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish**
The GNOME project has announced the much anticipated release of the GNOME 46 desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-46-Released)
2024-03-20T18:00:34Z	**Linux 6.9 Lowering The Overhead Of CR3 Writes**
The x86/entry pull request last week for the Linux 6.9 kernel contained just a single patch but it was a significant one at that in that it helps lower the overhead for CR3 writes and the benefits can be visible for workloads like Linux's perf functionality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Lower-Overhead-CR3)
2024-03-20T20:25:39Z	**Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor**
Red Hat's display driver team has recently been devising plans for Nova, a new to-be-developed Linux DRM kernel driver written in Rust for open-source NVIDIA graphics support as the successor/replacement to Nouveau for newer NVIDIA GPU generations supporting the GPU System Processor (GSP). Making this effort all the more involved is being written in Rust at a time when various kernel abstractions are still being devised and not yet upst ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Nova-Rust-Abstractions)
2024-03-20T23:13:50Z	**AMD FSR 3.1 Announced With Vulkan Support**
AMD used the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2024) this week to announce FSR 3.1, the latest iteration of their FidelityFX Super Resolution tech for game upscaling... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-FSR-3.1-Announced)
2024-03-21T04:00:00Z	**Wayland Protocols 1.34 Introduces Better Drag & Drop, Explicit DRM Sync Objects**
Wayland Protocols 1.34 was released on Wednesday with three new staging protocols for further enhancing Wayland's capabilities... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.34)
2024-03-21T10:45:51Z	**exFAT Driver Boasts Much Faster "dirsync" Performance With Linux 6.9**
The latest file-system driver with notable mentions for Linux 6.9 is that for Microsoft's exFAT file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Faster-exFAT-dirsync)
2024-03-21T10:30:22Z	**Microsoft Better Seeds The RNG For Hyper-V VMs In Linux 6.9**
Microsoft has submitted their various Hyper-V updates to the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Hyper-V-Linux-6.9)
2024-03-21T14:02:38Z	**Linux 6.9 Adds New Build-Time Control Whether To Authorize Attached USB Devices**
The in-development Linux 6.9 kernel is introducing a new USB\_DEFAULT\_AUTHORIZATION\_MODE Kconfig build-time switch to change the default authorization mode for how Linux should deal with attached USB devices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-USB-Authorized-Mode)
2024-03-21T14:22:13Z	**Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Now Supports Dynamic Rendering**
Merged this week into Mesa 24.1 for the Broadcom VideoCore V3DV Vulkan driver that is most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi boards is support for VK\_KHR\_dynamic\_rendering... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/V3DV-VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering)
2024-03-21T15:30:55Z	**Intel's Linux Software Optimizations Continue Paying Off Big Time For Xeon Emerald Rapids**
Intel 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors already offer some nice generational improvements with improved AVX-512, faster DDR5 memory support, and also the new Optimized Power Mode option. But if wanting to maximize the performance capabilities even further, Intel's Clear Linux distribution continues working out well for maximizing the performance capabilities of Intel x86\_64 hardware. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-linux-emerald-rapids)
2024-03-21T20:39:27Z	**Fedora Linux 40 Beta Cleared For Release Next Week**
After not making its early beta target for 12 March and then failing to make its intended release date of 19 March, Fedora Linux 40 Beta is now cleared for releasing next week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Beta-Next-Week)
2024-03-22T00:15:17Z	**Linux 6.9 To Allow Larger Frame-Buffer Console Font Size For Today's 4K Displays**
With the frame-buffer device "FBDEV" subsystem changes sent out today for the Linux 6.9 kernel, there is support for larger console fonts to better handle today's ~4K displays... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Larger-FBCON-Fonts)
2024-03-22T10:43:24Z	**LLVM BOLT Optimizations Net ~6% Improvement For GNOME's Pango**
BOLT that was upstreamed into LLVM in 2022 by Facebook/Meta allows for optimizing the layout of binaries as a post-linking step to yield increased performance. BOLT like Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) first requires the profiling step to generate perf recordings to feedback in for the optimization process, but the gains can be significant... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-BOLT-Faster-Pango)
2024-03-22T10:30:36Z	**AOMP 19.0-0 Released For AMD's OpenMP Offloading Compiler**
AMD on Thursday published AOMP 19.0-0 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang downstream compiler focused on delivering the latest OpenMP device offloading support for their Radeon GPUs and Instinct accelerators... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AOMP-19.0-0-AMD-OpenMP)
2024-03-22T04:30:17Z	**Linux 6.9 To Allow Larger Frame-Buffer Console Font Size For Today's 4K Displays**
With the frame-buffer device "FBDEV" subsystem changes sent out today for the Linux 6.9 kernel, there is support for larger console fonts to better handle today's ~4K displays... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Larger-FBCON-Fonts)
2024-03-22T13:35:06Z	**NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver**
Due to some games checking the graphics card's vendor ID and matching to NVIDIA then just assuming it's NVIDIA's official (proprietary) driver in use, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver has added a workaround to allow concealing the vendor ID in order to bypass NVIDIA-specific checks such as for the driver version in use... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Vendor-ID-Workaround)
2024-03-22T14:30:08Z	**LoongArch Enables More Kernel Functionality With Linux 6.9**
Loongson continues enabling more kernel functionality for their LoongArch processor port for the upstream Linux kernel. With Linux 6.9 they sent out today a set of patches enabling more features for this Chinese CPU architecture... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-LoongArch)
2024-03-22T14:12:59Z	**LibreOffice Enables Multi-Threaded 3D Rendering**
The latest LibreOffice drawing code has enabled support for making use of multi-threaded 3D rendering... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-MT-3D-Rendering)
2024-03-22T15:16:05Z	**GCC Compiler Adds Support For Device Offloading With AMD RDNA3 APUs (GFX1103)**
While there is AOMP for OpenMP device offloading based on the LLVM/Clang compiler, less talked about and not as feature-rich is the AMDGCN back-end within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) that is also worked on for OpenMP device offloading capabilities to Radeon GPUs. Squeezing in for the upcoming GCC 14.1 stable release is GFX1103 support for AMD APUs with RDNA3 integrated graphics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-AMDGCN-GFX1103-RDNA3-APUs)
2024-03-22T16:53:22Z	**Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines**
The RISC-V architecture updates were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel ahead of the v6.9-rc1 release this Sunday... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-RISC-V)
2024-03-22T18:00:00Z	**Microsoft Enables DNS Tunneling By Default For WSL - More Reliable Networking**
Microsoft is rolling out WSL 2.2.1 to WIndows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) users with more reliable networking support, hang fixes, and other improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/WSL-Defaults-DNS-Tunneling)
2024-03-22T23:39:20Z	**Wine 9.5 Released With More Feature Work, 27 Bug Fixes**
Wine 9.5 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.5-Released)
2024-03-23T10:41:41Z	**KDE Sees A Number Of Regression Fixes & Some Crash Fixes This Week**
KDE developers continue to be quite busy fixing a variety of regressions -- including some crashes -- with the new KDE Plasma 6 desktop stack. Plasma 6.0.3 will ship next week with yet more fixes while some feature work toward Plasma 6.1 is also underway... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0.3-Prep)
2024-03-23T10:57:48Z	**Rust Bindings Posted For KMS Drivers, VKMS Ported To Rust**
So far when it comes to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) / Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) display drivers for Linux, there are Rust efforts underway for the Apple Silicon kernel graphics driver with the Asahi Linux project as well as the new Nova effort for a modern open-source NVIDIA kernel driver from Red Hat. Also now out from Red Hat is posting the Rust bindings for KMS to review plus porting the existing Virtual KMS driver over to Rust as the "RVKMS" driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Rust-KMS-RVKMS)
2024-03-23T19:05:25Z	**Linux 6.9 Expands Hardware Monitoring Support For More AIO CPU Coolers**
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged at the start of the Linux 6.9 merge window and include the recent trend of more all-in-one liquid/water cooling systems seeing Linux driver support to enable convenient monitoring and controls... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Hardware-Monitoring)
2024-03-23T20:12:31Z	**AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager Makes It In For Linux 6.9**
The Linux 6.9 changes for the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem are heavy on the AMD changes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-EDAC)
2024-03-23T20:30:00Z	**Linux 6.9 Sees Invasive & Significant Changes To Workqueues**
Workqueues are commonly used within the Linux kernel for asynchronous process execution contexts. With Linux 6.9 the workqueue (WQ) code has seen "significant and invasive" changes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Workqueue)
2024-03-24T10:58:50Z	**Linux 6.9 Sees Further Security Hardening**
With security concerns at all-time highs in the industry, Linux 6.9 is seeing yet more work to beef up its security hardening with various additional safety checks and other compile-time defenses for ensuring security best practices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Hardening)
2024-03-24T10:43:36Z	**IO_uring With Linux 6.9 Gains Truncate Support, Per-Ring NAPI**
The IO\_uring changes were merged early during the nearly-over Linux 6.9 merge window. This round brought yet a few more features to this wonderful and innovative kernel feature... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-IO_uring)
2024-03-24T13:25:25Z	**Rust-Written Coreutils 0.0.25 With Improved GNU Compatibility**
Out this weekend is a new version of uutils' Coreutils 0.0.25 as the Rust-written drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils for common utilities found on Linux platforms and other systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-0.0.25)
2024-03-24T13:51:51Z	**Linux 6.9 Delivers More Improvements To The SLUB Allocator**
Linux 6.8 dropped the SLAB allocator after its deprecation in v6.5 and now just leaving SLUB for all allocation duties. For Linux 6.9 there is continued cleaning from that SLAB removal as well as making more SLUB improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-SLUB-Improvements)
2024-03-24T14:10:59Z	**Linux 6.9 Improves Speakup - Its In-Kernel Speech Synthesizer**
The speakup driver that's long existed within the Linux kernel is a speech synthesizer that can interface with various synthesizer hardware and from user-space software can interface with /dev/synth for submitting data to the synthesizer. With Linux 6.9 the speakup driver is seeing two useful improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Speakup-Driver)
2024-03-24T15:00:39Z	**KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.9 Brings More Optimizations For Intel & AMD**
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes for Linux 6.9 continue to enhance the capabilities of the open-source Linux virtualization software stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-KVM)
2024-03-24T22:03:14Z	**Linux 6.9-rc1 Released With AMD P-State Preferred Core, Larger FB Console Fonts**
Linus Torvalds just released the first release candidate for Linux 6.9 that now marks the formal end of the two-week merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-rc1-Released)
2024-03-25T10:43:13Z	**XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin**
Since last year Red Hat engineers have been developing xwayland-run and wlheadless-run for spawning X11 clients within its own dedicated XWayland rootful instance and for running a Wayland client on a set of supported Wayland headless compositors, respectively. The intent is on improving the Wayland headless experience as well as being able to get classic X11 sessions up and running via rootful XWayland. Out today is the XWayland-Run v0.0.3 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Run-0.0.3)
2024-03-25T10:26:49Z	**SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware**
While most Linux distributions have long since moved on from SysVinit in favor of systemd for init duties, this weekend SysVinit 3.09 was released for any legacy users and holdouts still enjoying the System V-init style experience... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SysVinit-3.09)
2024-03-25T12:46:29Z	**Tiny Corp Changes Course Yet Again With Plans To Offer AMD Radeon GPUs**
It was just last week that Tiny Corp put their AMD Radeon graphics powered compute boxes "on hold" after being frustrated with the lack of select firmware source code and ultimately hitting various bugs. This wasn't the first time they had put their AMD Radeon graphics plans on-hold or dismissed it outright. With the start of the new week now comes plans to re-introduce an AMD Radeon graphics option for their compute boxes alongside their rece ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tinybox-Radeon-Again-UMR)
2024-03-25T14:21:57Z	**Linux 6.9 Will Boot Much Faster For Systems With Large Amounts Of RAM**
The Linux 6.9 kernel will be able to boot systems with large amounts of memory -- and in particular making use of HugeTLB pages -- much faster than with previous kernels, netting a noticeable reduction in boot times... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-RAM-HugeTLB-Boot-Fast)
2024-03-25T14:07:59Z	**Mesa 24.1 Merges AMD Radeon VPE 1.1 Engine Support**
AMD open-source Linux driver patches posted last summer enabled the new "VPE" IP block as a general purpose copy engine for future AMD GPUs. This VPE block might premiere in the upcoming AMD RDNA3.5 refresh (RDNA3+) integrated graphics but in any event AMD is already working on the incrementally improved VPE 1.1 IP with that now being supported by the Mesa 24.1 RadeonSI driver code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-Radeon-VPE-1.1)
2024-03-25T15:04:21Z	**Inkscape Development Version Switches To Using GTK4**
The latest upstream development code for the Inkscape vector graphics program has transitioned to using the GTK4 toolkit... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Inkscape-Switches-To-GTK4)
2024-03-25T16:42:00Z	**Linux 6.9 Features: DM VDO, AMD Preferred Core, Intel FRED & Larger Console Fonts**
Now that Linux 6.9-rc1 was released on Sunday to mark the end of the merge window, here is a look at all of the new features that have been merged for the Linux 6.9 kernel cycle. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-69-features)
2024-03-25T17:00:00Z	**Linux 6.9 Features: DM VDO, AMD Preferred Core, Intel FRED & Larger Console Fonts**
Now that Linux 6.9-rc1 was released on Sunday to mark the end of the merge window, here is a look at all of the new features that have been merged for the Linux 6.9 kernel cycle. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-69-features)
2024-03-25T16:53:03Z	**Canonical Extends Ubuntu LTS Support To 12 Years For Ubuntu Pro Customers**
Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) releases have been support for 10 years of updates by Canonical while now that has been extended to 12 years but only for Ubuntu Pro customers going for their legacy support add-on. This 12 year support is extended retroactively going back to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-LTS-Pro-12-Years)
2024-03-26T10:20:05Z	**Panthor DRM Driver Queued For Linux 6.10 To Support Newer Arm Mali GPUs**
The open-source Panthor DRM driver for supporting newer Arm Mali GPUs was queued in drm-misc-next at the start of March ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window. It ultimately though didn't see a drm-misc-next pull to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window and thus being held off until the Linux 6.10 cycle. This week though that drm-misc-next submission to DRM-Next took place as that driver and other changes begin queuing for Linux 6.10... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Panthor-Driver-Linux-6.10)
2024-03-26T10:43:41Z	**Linux Enabling Shadow Stack Support For x32**
Back in Linux 6.6 the Shadow Stack support was finally merged as part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET). This years-in-the-making effort allows for better defending against ROP attacks for newer generations of Intel processors. For Linux 6.10, Shadow Stack support is being extended to x32... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-x32-Shadow-Stacks)
2024-03-26T10:33:05Z	**Intel VA-API 2.21 Library Adds Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support, AV1 & Windows Fixes**
Intel engineers that maintain the common VA-API library "libva" today released version 2.21 with several fixes and additions for this Video Acceleration API support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VA-API-libva-2.21)
2024-03-26T11:03:32Z	**Intel Adds Linux Driver PCI IDs For Arc Graphics A750E & A580E**
Intel has sent out driver patches today for adding two additional PCI IDs to the DG2/Alchemist family for their Xe and i915 Linux kernel graphics drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DG2-Two-More-PCI-IDs-2024)
2024-03-26T12:57:03Z	**AMDVLK 2024.Q1.3 Released With Fixes**
AMD today released its third and last open-source Vulkan driver update of the quarter... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2024.Q1.3-Released)
2024-03-26T13:20:28Z	**Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver**
While Linux 6.9 brings many great changes and new features / hardware support, on the deprecation side it's deprecating the classic EXT2 file-system driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Deprecates-EXT2)
2024-03-26T14:30:00Z	**Fedora 40 Beta Released With GNOME 46 & KDE Plasma 6.0 On Wayland Desktops**
The beta release of Fedora 40 is now available for testing ahead of the planned official release next month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Beta-Released)
2024-03-26T15:27:47Z	**SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0**
With the SDL library that's widely-used by cross-platform games with the current SDL 3.0 development code it prefers Wayland over X11, but a new pull request would temporarily revert that on the basis of the Wayland ecosystem still not being up to par... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-3.0-Wayland-Possible-Revert)
2024-03-26T16:38:01Z	**Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support**
Blender 4.1 is officially out today as the newest version of this wildly popular, open-source and cross-platform 3D modeling software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.1-Released)
2024-03-27T00:35:01Z	**Zstd 1.5.6 Released - Celebrating Google Chrome Support For Zstandard Encoding**
Meta's Yann Collet just released Zstd 1.5.6 as the newest version of this Zstandard compression implementation. This release is driven in part by Google Chrome 123 adding support for Zstd encoding for web traffic. Chrome now allows Zstandard (zstd) for the content-encoding to speed-up page load speeds and bandwidth savings... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zstd-1.5.6-Zstandard)
2024-03-27T09:57:52Z	**TornadoVM v1.0.3 OpenJDK/GraalVM Plug-In For Java Heterogeneous Hardware Support**
TornadoVM is the OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that opens up the Java programming language to heterogeneous hardware support by allowing the easy targeting of Java code to TornadoVM targets including OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and SPIR-V -- in addition to CPUs. With the SPIR-V and OpenCL support in turn this means Java can run not only on GPUs but also some FPGAs and other devices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/TornadoVM-1.0.3-Released)
2024-03-27T10:22:34Z	**Intel Xe Developers Begin Looking At Cross-Device & Cross-Driver HMM**
The Intel open-source engineers working on the modern Xe DRM kernel graphics driver have begun looking at Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) support for cross-device and cross-driver scenarios as the latest exciting feature work for this still-experimental driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Eyes-Cross-Device-HMM)
2024-03-27T10:52:22Z	**Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches For In-Place Module Initialization**
What a time we live in where Microsoft not only continues contributing significantly to the Linux kernel but doing so to further flesh out the design of the Linux kernel's Rust programming language support. A previously unimaginable combination of Microsoft, the Rust programming language, and the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Rust-In-Place-Module-Init)
2024-03-27T14:38:27Z	**Blender 4.1 Benchmarks Confirm Even Faster CPU Render Times Under Linux**
Blender has long enjoyed faster CPU rendering under Linux compared to using Microsoft Windows. Across many different processors over the years consistently we see faster Linux CPU render performance than under Windows, though that's typically the case for most renderers. With yesterday's release of Blender 4.1, there is even faster Linux CPU render speeds. Here are some initial Blender 4.0 vs. 4.1 benchmarks... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.1-CPU-Linux-Perf)
2024-03-27T14:14:51Z	**RHEL 9.4 Beta Brings Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers**
Red Hat has made the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Beta available to their customers this week for those wanting to test the next iteration of RHEL9... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RHEL-9.4-Beta)
2024-03-27T15:29:00Z	**Canonical Continues Exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Images - Now In Microsoft's Cloud**
Ubuntu maker Canonical has spent the past several months exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 based images for leveraging the x86\_64 micro-architecture feature level capabilities to target the level embracing AVX/AVX2, FMA, BMI2, and other instructions supported largely since Intel Haswell and AMD Excavator era processors. As shown in benchmarks Ubuntu x86-64-v3 builds can deliver better performance for the AMD/Intel systems of the past  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-x86-64-v3-Images-Azure)
2024-03-27T16:13:15Z	**SDL3 Will Keep Wayland Default At Least For The Time Being**
Following several days of discussions from both sides of the table over whether SDL 3.0 should revert its Wayland over X11 preference in light of some aspects of the Wayland ecosystem support not being in good shape, for now at least SDL 3.0 is sticking to the Wayland support by default. It may be revisited though closer to release to see how the upstream support is for users of this hardware/software abstraction library widely used by cross-platfo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-3.0-Wayland-Default-For-Now)
2024-03-27T21:00:00Z	**Pop!_OS Upgrades To The Linux 6.8 Kernel**
Besides its desktop-level customizations, further differentiating System76's Pop!\_OS Linux distribution from its Ubuntu LTS package base is the tendency to roll down newer versions of the upstream Linux kernel once validated across System76's portfolio of laptops and desktops. The latest on that front is Pop!\_OS now shipping with the fresh Linux 6.8 stable series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Pop_OS-Goes-Linux-6.8)
2024-03-28T04:00:00Z	**Samba 4.20 Released With WSP Search Client, Service Witness Protocol**
Samba 4.20 is out as the newest feature update to this free software implementation for SMB networking protocol support and others to enhance file/print interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samba-4.20-Released)
2024-03-28T09:00:00Z	**Google Cloud's C3D Instances Provide Strong Performance Value For PingCAP's TiDB**
Some time ago I ran through a number of benchmarks of Google Cloud's C3D VMs powered by AMD EPYC Genoa processors. The AMD EPYC 9004 series showed terrific performance with strong generational improvements over the Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Following that a request came in to examine the PingCAP TiDB database performance given its growing popularity. In this article we'll review those benchmarks showing how GCE C3D delivers stro ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/google-cloud-c3d-tidb)
2024-03-28T10:47:22Z	**More Efficient VirtIO DRM Driver To Import Scanout Buffers From Other Devices**
Patches posted today by an Intel engineer allow for importing scanout buffers from other devices with the VirtIO DRM driver that is used in the virtualization space. The importing of scanout buffers from other devices/drivers can allow for more efficient use by avoiding excess copies... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Efficient-VirtIO-DRM-Import-Buf)
2024-03-28T10:36:44Z	**EROFS Drops "Experimental" Warning For FSDAX With Linux 6.9**
Adding to the Linux 6.9 features is a minor post merge window change: the read-only EROFS file-system is no longer treading its FSDAX support as experimental... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/EROFS-FSDAX-Not-Experimental)
2024-03-28T10:16:40Z	**Reverse-Engineered Rockchip NPU Driver Hitting Same Performance As Proprietary Driver**
Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso recently began the effort of creating an open-source, reverse-engineered driver for the Rockchip NPU found in some of the latest Rockchip SoCs. After succeeding at open-source NPU driver support for the VeriSilicon NPU IP, Vizoso took up the challenge of working on Rockchip NPU support. With his open-source user-space driver he's already got his first model running. Not only is it running but ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rockchip-NPU-Early-Success)
2024-03-28T13:54:00Z	**Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions**
Simon McVittie issued the Flatpak 1.15.7 pre-release on Wednesday with a few notable changes for this widely-used open-source app sandboxing and distribution framework... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-1.15.7-Released)
2024-03-28T14:34:49Z	**Arm China Looking At Upstreaming Their "Zhouyi" NPU Driver Into The Linux Kernel**
Arm China is looking at upstreaming their "Zhouyi" NPU driver into the Linux kernel via the recently-created accelerator "accel" subsystem. The Arm China Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver in its current form has both an open-source kernel and user-space stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-China-Zhouyi-NPU-Linux-RFC)
2024-03-28T15:10:00Z	**Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Yields Faster Performance With Linux 6.9**
While Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" has been working out well under Linux already -- especially with regards to the enticing integrated Arc Graphics -- with the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel it's looking even better for the CPU performance. Here are some initial benchmarks looking at the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H Meteor Lake performance with Linux 6.8 vs. 6.9 Git. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-meteorlake-linux-69)
2024-03-28T16:35:33Z	**GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv & cat Commands**
While the uutils Rust-written Coreutils effort has been chugging along, the upstream GNU Coreutils effort is showing no signs of slowing down. Out today is GNU Coreutils 9.5 with yet more feature work and bug fixes including a security fix for a chmod issue that's been around since the beginning... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.5-Released)
2024-03-28T17:25:36Z	**Intel "Family 6" CPU Era Coming To An End Soon: Code Suggests Cooper Forest & Adams Lake**
Since the mid-90's with the P6 micro-architecture for the Pentium Pro as the sixth-generation x86 microarchitecture, Intel has relied on the "Family 6" CPU ID. From there Intel has just revved the Model number within Family 6 for each new microarchitecture/core. For example, Meteor Lake is Family 6 Model 170 and Emerald Rapids is Family 6 Model 207. This CPU ID identification is used within the Linux kernel and other operati ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CPU-Family-6-Ending)
2024-03-29T10:22:00Z	**Updated Windows NT Sync Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel**
CodeWeavers' Elizabeth Figura has been working on the NTSYNC driver to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives for the Linux kernel in order to help the performance of various Windows games running on Linux by the likes of Wine / Valve's Proton (Steam Play). The third iteration of that driver was posted overnight as it seeks to go into the mainline Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTSYNC-Linux-v3)
2024-03-29T10:53:41Z	**GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland**
Merged on Thursday to GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the linux-drm-syncobj-v1 Wayland protocol that is used to handle the global migration to explicit synchronization... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Linux-DRM-Sync-Obj-v1)
2024-03-29T10:43:15Z	**Intel Releases Its March 2024 Open-Source Linux GPU Compute Stack Update**
Intel is ending out the month and quarter with the latest update to its open-source Compute Runtime and Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) code that enables OpenCL and Level Zero support on Linux systems and is also used by their Windows driver too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CR-24.09.28717.12)
2024-03-29T12:47:07Z	**Fedora 41 Will Try Again To Switch To DNF5 Package Manager**
Fedora 39 had hoped to use the DNF5 package manager by default as the next iteration of this package management solution for RPM-based distributions. But DNF5 wasn't ready and then delayed to Fedora 41 -- skipping over the Fedora 40 series due to the RHEL 10 branching from it and not wanting the very new DNF5 to be part of that marge. Now the change proposal has been re-filed for introducing DNF5 by default in Fedora 41... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Tries-Again-DNF5)
2024-03-29T14:18:00Z	**Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher For Some Workloads**
Now that the Linux 6.9 merge window is past I've begun testing out this in-development kernel on more hardware platforms in the lab. While some performance boosts like Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" running faster on Linux 6.9 was to be expected given EPP tuning in the new kernel specific to those SoCs, one of the unexpected delights has been seeing AMD 4th Gen EPYC performance with some nice performance gains over Linux 6.8 stable. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-69-amd-epyc)
2024-03-29T16:28:32Z	**XZ Struck By Malicious Code That Could Allow Unauthorized Remote System Access**
Red Hat today issued an "urgent security alert" for Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide users over XZ. Yes, the XZ tools and libraries for this compression format. Some malicious code was added to XZ 5.6.0/5.6.1 that could allow unauthorized remote system access... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XZ-CVE-2024-3094)
2024-03-29T18:02:55Z	**AMD Releases Orochi 2.0 With More CUDA/HIP Functions Implemented For Better Portability**
AMD GPUOpen's Orochi project as a remidner is the effort for allowing dynamic runtime switching between the Radeon HIP and NVIDIA CUDA APIs to allow better cross-GPU portability. Today marks the availability of Orochi 2.0 for enhancing this API to target NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Orochi-2.0-HIP-CUDA)
2024-03-30T01:53:54Z	**GitHub Disables The XZ Repository Following Today's Malicious Disclosure**
Today's disclosure of XZ upstream release packages containing malicious code to compromise remote SSH access has certainly been an Easter weekend surprise... The situation only looks more bleak over time with how the upstream project was compromised while now the latest twist is GitHub disabling the XZ repository in its entirety... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GitHub-Disables-XZ-Repo)
2024-03-30T10:54:52Z	**Linux Fixes Botched SRSO Mitigation For AMD Zen 3 / Zen 4**
Disclosed last August was the AMD Inception vulnerability also known as SRSO for the Speculative Return Stack Overflow. The kernel-side patches for the AMD SRSO mitigation were quickly merged. Following that were more clean-ups and fixes to the SRSO mitigation code. It's been a quiet few months since while merged on Friday was fixing some of the mitigation code due to being ineffective... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SRSO-Inception-Fixes-2024)
2024-03-30T10:45:44Z	**Asahi AGX Gallium3D Driver Sees Big Sync For Mesa 24.1 To Improve Apple Silicon Graphics**
Lead Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver developer Alyssa Rosenzweig has carried out a big sync to upstream Mesa 24.1 for this open-source Apple Silicon OpenGL graphics driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Driver-Sync-Mesa-24.1)
2024-03-30T10:37:38Z	**KDE Plasma 6 Refinements Continue, Fixes 3+ Important Crashes This Week**
For the weekly "This Week In KDE" development summary, developer Nate Graham highlighted the opt-in DrKonqi crash reporting wizard. Thanks in part to that opt-in automatic crash reporting, details were gathered for fixing at least three important crashes within Plasma 6 this week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6-Fixing-3-Crashes-Week)
2024-03-30T12:56:38Z	**KDE Introduces New Marknote App**
KDE developers have announced the first release of Marknote, a new note-taking application for the KDE Plasma desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Marknote-App)
2024-03-30T13:14:23Z	**Flax Engine 1.8 Brings ASTC Textures, New UI Editor & New Vehicle Features**
A new version of Flax Engine 1.8 has been released, the open-source game engine that's available for free for non-commercial and education use but with a 4% royalty for commercial games... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flax-Engine-1.8-Released)
2024-03-30T17:07:32Z	**Microsoft Helping Out In Making The Linux Kernel Language More Inclusive**
With time Microsoft's Linux kernel contributions have extended beyond just the initial business focus on Hyper-V support and other needs for Azure as well as around Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to more general contributions. Microsoft has also hired more key Linux contributors along with stakes in other projects like systemd. Earlier this week were patches from a Microsoft engineer working out Rust language improvements for the Li ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Linux-More-Inclusive)
2024-03-30T18:00:00Z	**Servo Web Engine Adds WOFF2 Web Fonts, HTML Tables By Default**
The Servo Web Engine under the stewardship of Linux Foundation Europe and with ongoing contributions by the likes of Igalia and other developers continues having a very vibrant year. The open-source developers involved remain very busy getting this Rust-written web layout engine into good shape for possible use as an embed-friendly solution for other software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Web-Engine-March-2023)
2024-03-30T18:22:00Z	**Servo Web Engine Adds WOFF2 Web Fonts, HTML Tables By Default**
The Servo Web Engine under the stewardship of Linux Foundation Europe and with ongoing contributions by the likes of Igalia and other developers continues having a very vibrant year. The open-source developers involved remain very busy getting this Rust-written web layout engine into good shape for possible use as an embed-friendly solution for other software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Web-Engine-March-2023)
2024-03-30T20:37:45Z	**NetBSD 10.0 Released With Much Improved Hardware Support & Faster Performance**
After being in development since 2019, the huge NetBSD 10.0 is out today as a wonderful Easter surprise... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-10.0-Released)
2024-03-31T10:37:01Z	**Flowblade 2.14 Video Editor Released, GTK4 Port Hopefully Ready Next Year**
Released this weekend is a new version of Flowblade, an open-source video editor for Linux systems. Flowblade brings some new features while the work to upgrade against the GTK4 toolkit remains ongoing and will hopefully be ready in 2025... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flowblade-2.14-Released)
2024-03-31T13:20:38Z	**Rust-Written Redox OS Enjoys Significant Performance Improvements**
The open-source Rust-written Redox OS has enjoyed "significant" performance and corectness improvements to its kernel recently as it further shows off the capability of this from-scratch OS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Performance-March-2024)
2024-03-31T13:38:30Z	**Intel Continued Upstreaming A Lot Of Great Linux/Open-Source Code This Quarter**
Along with AMD's upcoming hardware enablement and other Q1 code contributions, Intel's open-source engineers remained very busy this quarter as well. Intel continues upstreaming a lot of new code not only for upcoming hardware but also a lot of exciting Linux kernel features in general, various optimizations and improvements to countless open-source user-space software projects, and their other great open-source efforts in general... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-2024-Q1-Highlights)
2024-03-31T22:24:20Z	**Linux 6.9-rc2 Released As An Easter Test Kernel**
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.9-rc2 as the newest test release of Linux 6.9 that will be out as stable in mid-May... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-rc2-Released)
2024-04-01T04:00:00Z	**Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights**
With Q1'2024 in the books, here is a look back at the most popular Linux/open-source content on Phoronix for the past quarter. During Q1 were 754 original news articles written by your's truly along with another 43 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here's what attracted the most interest from those nearly 800 articles for the past three months... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/2024-Q1-Highlights)
2024-04-01T10:30:41Z	**Linux 6.9 To Allow Building s390 Kernel With The Full LLVM/Clang Compiler**
Adding to the Linux 6.9 features one of the changes that went under my radar is that the s390 kernel builds can now be carried out using the full LLVM compiler stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-s390-LLVM-Clang-Build)
2024-04-01T10:17:36Z	**Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs In The Coming Weeks**
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux distribution project is hoping to be able to ship their pre-Alpha ISOs in a matter of weeks as they continue bringing up the initial desktop experience and getting more of their operating system's build tools into good shape... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Serpent-OS-Pre-Alpha-Soon)
2024-04-01T10:48:45Z	**Linux 6.10 To Correct The CCD/CCX Topology Information For Some AMD CPUs**
A patch queued in TIP.git's "x86/cpu" branch for collecting ahead of the Linux 6.10 kernel cycle adds support for handling the AMD 0x80000026 leaf to correct CPU topology information reporting for some newer AMD processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AMD-0x80000026-Leaf)
2024-04-01T12:51:55Z	**Linux Mint 22 Will Use The PipeWire Sound Server, Support JPEG-XL Images**
In their March status update, the Linux Mint team shares more details on their forthcoming Linux Mint 22 release that will be based off Ubuntu 24.04 LTS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-22-March-2024)
2024-04-01T14:26:07Z	**CachyOS Making Use Of Plymouth For Better Boot Experience, Mitigates For XZ Fiasco**
CachyOS as a reminder is the Arch Linux based distribution focused on providing a very performant out-of-the-box experience and supports x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v4 packages along with other default changes compared to upstream Arch Linux. The April 2024 ISO release of CachyOS is now available for those wanting to enjoy a fresh spin of this rolling-release, performance-tuned platform... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-April-2024-Released)
2024-04-01T16:55:00Z	**Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March**
In addition to looking at the open-source/Linux highlights for Q1, here is a look back at the most popular content on Phoronix during the month of March. During the past month were 262 original news articles on Phoronix and another 13 featured benchmark articles / Linux hardware reviews. There's always a lot happening from new kernel developments to exciting open-source GPU driver developments, new compiler initiatives, and a bit of a mailing list drama.. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/March-2024-Highlights)
2024-04-01T17:27:54Z	**Intel HFI Driver Will Quit Wasting CPU Cycles With Linux 6.10**
Intel's Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI) driver will act more efficiently come the Linux 6.10 kernel this summer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-HFI-Efficient-Linux-6.10)
2024-04-01T23:49:17Z	**Bcachefs Submits Lots Of Fixes For "Extreme Filesystem Damage" With Linux 6.9**
A new round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted today for the Linux 6.9 kernel. This round consists of lots of fixes for dealing with "extreme file-system damage" on this experimental open-source file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Extreme-FS-Damage-Fix)
2024-04-02T00:22:07Z	**Steam On Linux Use Increases - Moves Closer To 2%, AMD CPU Linux Use Hits 72%**
No, nothing to do with April Fools' Day, but the Steam Survey results are out for March 2024 and they put the Steam on Linux use inching up -- back closer to the Linux gaming highs of around 2%... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-March-2024)
2024-04-02T09:58:25Z	**SDL 2.30.2 Released Along WIth New SDL3 Preview**
The Simple DirectMedia Layer software/hardware abstraction layer commonly used by games and other cross-platform software is out with a new SDL 2.30.2 stable release as well as a new SDL3 preview release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-2.30.2-SDL3-Preview-2)
2024-04-02T10:19:36Z	**Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME**
A change proposal filed for fedora 42 seeks to make KDE Plasma the default desktop of Fedora Workstation while GNOME would move to its own separate spin/edition. The proposal has yet to be voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) but given Red Hat's deep roots with GNOME, I have a hard time seeing this pass at least in the near-term... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Change-KDE-Default-Prop)
2024-04-02T10:35:00Z	**Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit**
Qt 6.7 is out as the newest feature update to this cross-platform, commercial-focused toolkit... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.7-Released)
2024-04-02T10:57:52Z	**ASUS WMI Driver For Linux Preps New Features For Recent ASUS Laptops**
Open-source developer Luke Junes continues doing a great job near single-handedly improving ASUS laptop support for Linux users. His many improvements over time to the ASUS-WMI kernel driver has enabled new features and functionality for ASUS laptops on Linux. Sent out on Monday was the newest patch series with additional feature work to this driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-WMI-Better-Linux-Laptops)
2024-04-02T13:40:10Z	**The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing For Rust 1.78 Upgrade**
Following the recent upgrade to Rust 1.77, the Linux kernel Rust code is preparing to move to Rust 1.78 that will be released as stable in about one month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Rust-1.78-Patches)
2024-04-02T15:00:00Z	**TUXEDO TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 Continues Running Well As A Powerful AMD Ryzen 7 Linux Laptop**
The past two months I've been testing out the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 laptop as a new AMD Ryzen laptop from this Bavarian Linux PC retailer. It's been working out very well under Linux (as would be expected of TUXEDO Computers) and quite adaptable for power and performance. For those needing a capable Linux laptop the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 has proven quite stable and reliable under both their in-house TUXEDO OS distribution as w ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/tuxedo-pulse14-gen3)
2024-04-02T15:26:53Z	**Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync**
Mesa 24.1's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code now has support for the Wayland linux-drm-syncobj-v1 protocol for explicit synchronization support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-Vulkan-Wayland-Exp)
2024-04-02T16:05:15Z	**PCIe 7.0 Specification v0.5 Published - Full Spec Next Year**
The PCI-SIG announced today that they have published their newest revision "version 0.5" of the forthcoming PCI Express 7.0 specification... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PCIe-7.0-Version-0.5-Spec)
2024-04-02T18:38:00Z	**AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires**
After working at ATI/AMD for more than a quarter century and being the open-source graphics driver manager during the early days, John Bridgman has retired... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Bridgman-Retires)
2024-04-02T21:10:00Z	**AMD Says They'll Be Open-Sourcing More Of Their GPU Software Stack & Hardware Docs**
AMD Radeon posted to Twitter/X that "coming soon" they will be open-sourcing additional portions of their software stack as well as putting out more hardware documentation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-OSS-Hardware-Docs)
2024-04-03T10:21:17Z	**Sound Open Firmware 2.9 Released With Major Performance Optimizations**
Sound Open Firmware 2.9 has been released for this open-source project providing audio DSP firmware infrastructure and an adjoining SDK. This effort that started out by Intel for opening up more of their audio hardware firmware has expanded into a multi-vendor project with the likes of AMD and Mediatek also participating around this sound firmware infrastructure, audio driuvers, etc... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sound-Open-Firmware-2.9)
2024-04-03T10:40:54Z	**Fwupd Switches From XZ To Zstd Compression: More Trust & Slightly Better Performance**
Driven by the XZ security fiasco with malicious code aimed at remote code execution, more open-source projects are re-evaluating their dependence on XZ out of an abundance of caution. The latest to take action is the Fwupd Linux firmware updating utility with LVFS that will now prefer Zstd compression instead of XZ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-Switches-To-Zstd)
2024-04-03T10:58:18Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due To XZ Nightmare**
The Ubuntu 24.04 beta won't be happening tomorrow as planned but has been pushed back by one week due to the XZ security nightmare and wanting to rebuild packages out of an abundance of caution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Beta-Delayed)
2024-04-03T13:32:42Z	**Redict 7.3 Released As Fork Of Open-Source Redis**
In addition to the Linux Foundation and others starting Valkey as a fork of the open-source Redis following the upstream move to dual source-available licensing, Redict is another new fork getting established... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redict-7.3-Redis-Fork)
2024-04-03T14:20:45Z	**Crucial T705 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD On Linux**
In February was the announcement of the Crucial T705 PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSD while reaching retail channels in March. This is a very speedy PCIe 5.0 solid-state drive that Crucial recently sent over for our Linux testing and review. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/crucial-t705-linux)
2024-04-03T14:44:22Z	**GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art For Visualizing Buffer Overflows**
David Malcolm of Red Hat's compiler team is out with his annual blog post summarizing the static analysis improvements to find with the upcoming GCC 14 stable compiler release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-14-fanalyzer-Enhancements)
2024-04-03T18:56:43Z	**X.Org Server & XWayland Hit By Four More Security Issues**
Last year the X.Org Server disabled byte-swapped clients by default over being a large and known attack surface within the X.Org/XWayland codebase. That's proven itself to further be the case with 3 of 4 new CVEs made public today being around the byte-swapped code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Security-Byte-Swapped)
2024-04-03T19:10:18Z	**NovaCustom Announces "Fastest Coreboot Laptops In The World" Built On Intel Core Ultra**
The Netherlands-based PC vendor NovaCustom that specializes in privacy/security minded hardware and user freedoms has announced their V54 and V56 laptops. These new laptops powered by Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" SoCs are self-proclaimed as the fastest Coreboot laptops in the world... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NovaCustom-V54-V56-Laptops)
2024-04-03T19:33:53Z	**Google's Jpegli Offers ~35% Compression Improvement For High Quality JPEGs**
The Google Open-Source Blog today announced Jpegli, a JPEG coding library for encode/decode that maintains backwards compatibility with JPEG while offering around a 35% compression ratio improvement for high quality JPEG compression... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Jpegli-Library)
2024-04-04T00:08:51Z	**Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery**
Just two days after a Linux 6.9 pull request was submitted for Bcachefs to better cope with "extreme file-system damage", another pull request for this current cycle was submitted that aims to improve the recovery capabilities of this newer copy-on-write open-source file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Repair-Looking-Good)
2024-04-04T10:47:09Z	**Qt Creator 13 Released For Enhancing Qt/C++ Development**
Following the release of the Qt 6.7 toolkit earlier this week, released today is the Qt Creator 13 integrated development environment. Qt Creator is the Qt/C++ tailored IDE aimed to help accelerate developer productivity with tight Qt integration and supporting a variety of features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Creator-13-IDE)
2024-04-04T10:31:46Z	**LLVM's BOLT Being Adapted To Analyze Security Hardening Of Binaries**
LLVM's BOLT is an amazing tool for optimizing the layout of binaries and in turn can lead to some mighty useful performance improvements. But now an Arm compiler engineer has taken to leveraging BOLT for creating a binary analysis tool to vet the correctness of security hardening options... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-BOLT-Security-Hardening)
2024-04-04T10:13:48Z	**Intel QAT Driver Preps Live Migration Support For Linux 6.10**
Queued up recently into the crypto subsystem's development branch ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window is support for VFIO live migration with Intel's QuickAssist Technology (QAT) driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-Live-Migration-Linux)
2024-04-04T12:43:08Z	**UPower Power Profiles Daemon v0.21 Automatically Adapts For Linux Laptop Battery Use**
The Power Profiles Daemon software under the UPower project has released version 0.21 which now is automatically battery-state aware for adjusting the CPU power/performance behavior depending upon whether your Linux laptop is connected to AC or battery power... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Power-Profiles-Daemon-0.21)
2024-04-04T13:48:51Z	**PostgreSQL Merges JSON_TABLE(), Incremental JSON Parser**
For years the PostgreSQL database server has been adding various JSON features while now the latest addition for dealing with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) structured data is the JSON\_TABLE() SQL function... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PostgreSQL-Adds-JSON_TABLE)
2024-04-04T14:30:00Z	**Intel Xeon Max Sees Some Performance Gains For OpenVINO & ONNX With Linux 6.9**
Last week being surprised to see a number of AMD EPYC performance gains with Linux 6.9 using that in-development kernel, I was curious about what other platforms may be benefiting from better performance on this kernel that will debut as stable in May. This week I turned to running some fresh benchmarks of Intel Xeon Max using the Supermicro Hyper SuperServer SYS-221H-TNR. More than 230 benchmarks were carried out of Linux 6.8 stable v ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-69-intel-xeon-max)
2024-04-04T15:25:35Z	**Wine Project's April Fools' Gag With Merit: Leveraging AI For Faster Code Review**
Earlier this week Wine developer Gabriel Ivăncescu with CodeWeavers laid out a great proposal: leveraging AI for assisting with the code review process for more punctual review and upstreaming of patches into the Wine codebase for this software that allows Windows games and apps to run on Linux and other platforms. While great in theory, at this stage just amounted to an April Fools' gag for Wine... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-AI-Code-Review)
2024-04-04T18:27:44Z	**Netplan 1.0 Is Ready To Go For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS**
After years being used by Ubuntu Server/Cloud, Ubuntu 23.10 began making use of Canonical's Netplan declarative network configuration software and now Netplan is fully ready to take on all duties with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. After seven years of development, Netplan 1.0 is ready for primetime use from servers to desktops... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Netplan-1.0-Ready-For-Ubuntu-24)
2024-04-05T00:18:02Z	**AMD Working To Release MES Documentation & Source Code**
Following up on their tweet earlier this week that they would be working to open-source more of their GPU software stack and hardware documentation, AMD now says they will be releasing documentation followed by the source code for their Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) IP block found within Radeon GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MES-Docs-And-Source-Code)
2024-04-05T10:37:14Z	**OpenBSD 7.5 Released - Faster Performance For Many-Core ARM Servers**
Theo de Raadt has released OpenBSD 7.5 as the newest version of this security-focused BSD operating system. With OpenBSD 7.5 there is a number of improvements for ARM (AArch64) hardware, never-ending kernel optimizations and other tuning work, countless package updates, and other adjustments to this popular BSD platform... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBSD-7.5-Released)
2024-04-05T10:23:38Z	**OpenCL 3.0.16 Released With One New Extension, Semaphores & External Memory Finalized**
OpenCL 3.0 debuted back in 2020 and while we haven't heard talks of any major revision on the horizon, it does continue to see new point releases. Released on Thursday was OpenCL 3.0.16 that adds one new extension while finalizing eight formerly provisional extensions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCL-3.0.16-Released)
2024-04-05T10:57:53Z	**FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI**
The very exciting FFmpeg 7.0 multimedia library has been released! FFmpeg 7.0 rolls out most notably the new native VVC decoder that is currently experimental for supporting Versatile Video Coding as well as introducing the multi-threaded FFmpeg CLI tool... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-7.0-Released)
2024-04-05T10:50:11Z	**Mesa Adds PCI IDs For Intel Arc Graphics A580E & A750E**
Following the Intel Linux kernel graphics driver patches last month adding two new DG2/Alchemist PCI IDs that when digging through the Intel Compute Runtime sources were confirmed as the Arc Graphics A580E and A750E, the Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan drivers have now added support for these new graphics processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-Intel-Arc-A580E-A750E)
2024-04-05T12:57:21Z	**Fwupd 1.9.16 Adds Support For More USB Docks & Qualcomm Devices**
Richard Hughes of Red Hat has published Fwupd 1.9.16 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for easy firmware redistribution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-1.9.16-Released)
2024-04-05T14:17:04Z	**OpenBLAS 0.3.27 Adds C-SKY Arch, Improved GEMM For AMD Zen & Sapphire Rapids Fixes**
OpenBLAS 0.3.27 is out as the newest version of this prominent open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBLAS-0.3.27-Released)
2024-04-05T14:49:55Z	**OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance**
The OpenZFS file-system has merged support for using multiple task queues (TaskQs) to enhance performance for multi-core systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Lands-Multi-Taskqs)
2024-04-05T16:21:57Z	**New EEVDF Linux Scheduler Patches Make It Functionally "Complete"**
Veteran Linux kernel developer Peter Zijlstra is working to wrap-up feature work around the EEVDF kernel scheduler code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Completing-EEVDF-Sched)
2024-04-05T17:39:06Z	**Wine 9.6 Adds Support For Advanced AVX Features In Register Contexts**
Wine 9.6 has just been issued as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.6-Released)
2024-04-05T18:45:00Z	**Pingora 0.1 Released As Cloudflare's Rust Code For Reliable & Fast Networked Systems**
Back in 2022 Cloudflare began talking about replacing Nginx with their own in-house, Rust-written code called Pingora, talked about Pingora more in 2023, and then this past February made this Pingora framework open-source for creating reliable and fast networked systems. Today marks the first official release of Pingora with the v0.1 tag... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloudflare-Pingora-0.1)
2024-04-06T10:53:04Z	**GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer**
In addition to KDE's busy week of development work, GNOME developers have also been busy working on features like improving the systemd-homed integration and beginning to work on mock-ups for an OS installer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Better-Homed)
2024-04-06T10:29:18Z	**KDE Plasma 6 Can Now Sync Your RGB-Backlit Keyboard With Your Desktop's Accent Color**
KDE developers have had another busy week working on fixes for Plasma 6.0 while simultaneously preparing new features for Plasma 6.1... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-RGB-Backlit-Accent)
2024-04-06T12:45:59Z	**KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync**
With the recent Mesa 24.1 support for Wayland explicit sync with Vulkan drivers, GNOME merging explicit sync support, Wayland-Protocols 1.34 introducing linux-drm-syncobj, and XWayland explicit sync also nearing the state of being merged, there's been much talk recently about Wayland explicit sync. KDE KWin developer Xaver Hugl has written a detailed blog post for those interested in the topic... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-Explicit-Sync-Goal)
2024-04-06T16:39:03Z	**Raspberry Pi V3D Kernel Graphics Driver Prepares For Big & Super Pages To Boost Speed**
Last month I wrote about the V3D kernel graphics driver preparing for 1MB "super pages" support to help boost the performance for this open-source Broadcom DRM driver most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi single board computers. The latest iteration of these patches have now been posted for supporting both super pages and big pages... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-V3D-Big-Super-Page)
2024-04-07T10:17:28Z	**Debian Policy 4.7 Outlines Latest Packaging/System Guidelines**
A new version of the Debian Policy Manual has been published that outlines the policy requirements for Debian around the package archive and various design matters of the platform... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Policy-4.7)
2024-04-07T11:00:00Z	**CoCo VMs On Linux Will Now Panic If RdRand Is Broken To Avoid Catastrophic Conditions**
For confidential computing "CoCo" virtual machines where the VM host is assumed to be un-trusted and aims to be as isolated as possible, RdRand hardware random number generator instructions are one of the limited sources of entropy for guest VMs. Right now RdRand can fail and the CoCo guest VMs will continue to boot albeit with limited or no entropy to see the VM's random number generation. But being merged today as part of x86 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CoCo-Linux-Require-RdRand)
2024-04-07T10:56:01Z	**Rust Bindings Are Being Worked On For Linux CPUFreq Drivers**
One of the latest areas being worked on for enabling Rust programming language use within the Linux kernel is for CPU frequency "CPUFreq" scaling drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Bindings-Linux-CPUFreq)
2024-04-07T13:08:48Z	**Framework Hiring For Open-Source Firmware Development**
Framework Computer as the company behind the popular Framework 13 and Framework 16 upgradeable/modular laptops is hiring for an open-source firmware developer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-OSS-Firmware-Hiring)
2024-04-07T13:24:33Z	**x86-64-v5? Questions Arise Over The Future Of x86-64 Micro-Architecture Feature Levels**
While recently there has been more Linux distribution vendor interest in evaluating x86-64-v2 and/or x86-64-v3 baselines for future Linux distribution releases as well as offering optimized packages for higher x86-64 baselines either for x86-64-v3 with being able to assume AVX/AVX2 or in the x86-64-v4 level where AVX-512 is introduced, the prospect of x86-64 micro-architecture feature levels for future processors isn't clear... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-64-v5-Questioned)
2024-04-07T18:28:22Z	**Arch Linux Increasing Its vm.max_map_count To Help Steam Play Games & Other Software**
Similar to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Fedora 39, and other recent Linux distributions increasing its vm.max\_map\_count default in order to satisfy some Windows games running under Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and other memory-intensive software, Arch Linux is also increasing its default value... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-vm.max_map_count)
2024-04-07T20:43:06Z	**Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches**
Linux 6.9-rc3 is released and most notable are the Bcachefs fixes to which Torvalds quipped, "if you had a corrupted bcachefs filesystem you'd probably want this, and if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you. Special deal only for you, real cheap." Plus various other fixes throughout... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-rc3-Released)
2024-04-08T10:18:47Z	**Raspberry Pi OS Now Shipping With Vulkan Support By Default**
For those running the official Raspberry Pi OS on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 series single board computers, the Mesa V3DV Vulkan driver is now shipping by default to provide for a better out-of-the-box experience... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-OS-Default-V3DV)
2024-04-08T10:48:55Z	**Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems**
DTrace used to be one of the Solaris features long sought after by Linux developers but over time the Linux kernel tracing capabilities have improved and Oracle has been supporting DTrace on Linux now for years without too much fanfare. DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 was released this past week as the latest iteration of this user-space implementation that builds off the Linux kernel tracing functionality like BPF... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/D-Trace-2.0.0-1.14)
2024-04-08T10:33:25Z	**RADV Vulkan Driver Enables EXT_shader_object By Default With Mesa 24.1**
It's been a long journey but Valve's Samuel Pitoiset has now enabled VK\_EXT\_shader\_object support by default with Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" for the upcoming Mesa 24.1 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Default-ESO-Support)
2024-04-08T11:01:40Z	**RISC-V Adding Kernel-Mode FPU For Linux 6.10 To Enable Recent AMD Display Support**
With the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle, the RISC-V architecture code is seeing kernel-mode FPU. This kernel floating point support is needed for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and particular its DCN display code. In turn this should allow recent AMD Radeon graphics cards to work on RISC-V with display support using the company's open-source driver stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-Linux-6.10-Kernel-FPU)
2024-04-08T13:00:00Z	**SolidRun Launches Bedrock R8000 As First Industrial PCs With Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series**
Following the launch last week of the AMD Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series, SolidRun today announced the Bedrock R8000 as the first industrial PCs designed around these new Ryzen Embedded 8000 series SoCs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SolidRun-Bedrock-R8000)
2024-04-08T13:54:49Z	**KDAB Working On Embedding Servo Web Engine Within Qt**
Engineers at the KDAB consulting firm have begun experimenting with embedding the Rust-written Servo web engine inside Qt software using CXX-Qt... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDAB-Embed-Servo-Qt)
2024-04-08T14:41:09Z	**AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland**
With a few weeks having passed since the KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release along with some point releases for addressing initial fall-out, I've been meaning to run some Plasma 6.0 Linux gaming performance benchmarks. I'll have up some interesting metrics soon using Fedora 40 while for this initial article is a look at the KDE Plasma 6.0 gaming performance between the Wayland and X11 sessions atop KDE Neon. Then similarly are the re ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/kde-plasma-6-amd-gaming)
2024-04-08T16:52:22Z	**Linux 6.10 AES-XTS For Disk/File Encryption As Much As ~155% Faster For AMD Zen 4 CPUs**
For those making use of AES-XTS crypto for the likes of disk and file encryption on x86\_64 CPUs, the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle is bringing some very tantalizing improvements especially if you are running recent AMD and Intel processors. With AMD Zen 4 processors the benefits can be as much as 155% faster while even Intel Ice Lake and Sapphire Rapids server processors can enjoy 127~151% faster AES-XTS-256... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Faster-AES-XTS)
2024-04-09T00:00:14Z	**FESCo Approves The Fedora 41 Switch To DNF5**
Following the plans going back to 2022 for Fedora 39 to use DNF5 but last summer deemed weren't ready and then delayed DNF5 to Fedora 41 due to the RHEL10 branching from Fedora 40, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now given their sign-off for the updated package manager in F41... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Switch-DNF5-Approved)
2024-04-09T08:15:00Z	**AMD Announces Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs - AI Focused & Newer Arm Cores**
AMD is using the Embedded World conference in Bavaria for today introducing their Versal Series Gen 2 SoCs for AI-driven embedded systems. Today's embargo lift covers the Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Versal-Gen-2-Adaptive-SoC)
2024-04-09T10:12:15Z	**Canonical Announces Ubuntu Pro For Devices**
Complementing Canonical's existing Ubuntu Pro subscription service for expanded security maintenance, live kernel patching, compliance and hardening, real-time kernel flavor support, and other enterprise/support add-ons, Canonical today announced Ubuntu Pro For Devices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Pro-For-Devices)
2024-04-09T09:53:05Z	**Nouveau GSP Fix On The Way For Regression That Broke Ampere GPU Support**
An earlier fix to the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA kernel graphics driver with the new GPU System Processor (GSP) code path had fixed RTX 20 "Turing" GPU support but inadvertently broke the RTX 30 "Ampere" support. David Airlie sent out an urgent new fix today for addressing that regression in the NVIDIA GSP display code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-GSP-Fix-Ampere-Support)
2024-04-09T10:44:40Z	**Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland**
One year in the making, NVIDIA's code for explicit GPU synchronization in XWayland along with the X.Org Server DRI3 and Present extensions has now been merged! This is a big culmination of all the recent work around Wayland explicit synchronization and notably takes care of a number of NVIDIA driver problems on Wayland in the process... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Explicit-GPU-Sync-XWayland-Go)
2024-04-09T10:38:56Z	**Linux Mint Aims For More Reliable & Faster Repository Access**
Linux Mint is working on providing "ultra fast" repositories for users obtaining system updates and installing new packages on this popular desktop Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-Faster-Repos-Beta)
2024-04-09T12:45:55Z	**OpenSSL 3.3 Released With Many Additions For QUIC, CPU Performance Optimizations**
OpenSSL 3.3 is out today as the latest major feature release for this widely-used SSL library... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-3.3-Released)
2024-04-09T12:30:00Z	**Nouveau/NVK Driver Lands NIL Library Rewrite In Rust For Mesa 24.1**
In addition to working on NOVA as a Rust-based, GSP-focused NVIDIA open-source kernel graphics driver being developed as the eventual successor to the existing Nouveau DRM kernel driver, over in user-space Mesa developers have begun landing a portion of their Nouveau/NVK driver library code rewritten in Rust... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-NIL-Mesa-Begins-Rust)
2024-04-09T14:24:57Z	**Google Announces Axion ARM-Based CPUs For The Cloud**
Similar to Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure spinning their own Arm-based processors for their data centers, Google Cloud today announced the Google Axion Processors that will be available in the future... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Cloud-Axion-CPUs)
2024-04-09T15:35:00Z	**Intel Announces Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator, Intel Xeon 6 Brand**
Intel is using its Vision 2024 conference in Arizona today to announce the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. With Gaudi 3 comes some rather bold AI claims from Intel: 50% on average better inference and 40% on average better power efficiency than the NVIDIA H100. All while costing "a fraction" of the NVIDIA H100. Gaudi 3 sounds quite promising and will be interesting to see how its adopted in the marketplace. In addition, Intel also is disclosing the new Xeon 6 brand ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-gaudi-3-xeon-6)
2024-04-09T16:30:00Z	**SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Announced As New RISC-V Developer Board**
Since SiFive ceased production of the HiFive Unleashed developer board we've been clamoring for a new and more powerful RISC-V developer board... Today SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 as a new developer system offering that will be available this summer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SiFive-HiFive-Premier-P550)
2024-04-09T18:12:16Z	**Linux Kernel Patched For Branch History Injection "BHI" Intel CPU Vulnerability**
Disclosed back in March 2022 was Branch History Injection (BHI) as a new Spectre vulnerability affecting Intel and Arm CPUs. Then in July of 2022 were patches for Intel working on hardware-based prevention for Spectre-BHI attacks. Now two years later the Linux kernel is seeing mitigations added for the native Branch History Injection vulnerability... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-BHI-Branch-History-Inject)
2024-04-10T00:08:24Z	**UPower 1.90.4 Fixes Excessive Disk Writes & High CPU Usage**
UPower as the abstraction layer for enumerating power devices on Linux systems and allowing various battery / power supply features is out with a new feature update... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/UPower-1.90.4-Released)
2024-04-10T10:13:06Z	**Intel HID Driver Ready For Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Laptops With Linux 6.9**
Sent out this morning were a batch of x86 platform driver fixes by Intel engineer and platform-drivers-x86 co-maintainer Ilpo Järvinen. Besides a couple of fixes, worth mentioning is the Intel HID driver seeing support added for upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Intel-HID-ARL-LNL)
2024-04-10T11:00:00Z	**Microsoft Rolls Out Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 With Security Fixes & Other Patches**
Microsoft's Azure Linux formerly known as CBL-Mariner for their in-house Linux distribution is out with a new version. Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 was released overnight and comes with a number of security updates and other fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Azure-Linux-2.0.20240403)
2024-04-10T10:45:51Z	**Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm**
Following yesterday's news of Canonical launching Ubuntu Pro For Devices, the latest mobile/embedded news in the Ubuntu space this week is Canonical partnering with Qualcomm... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Qualcomm-2024-Partners)
2024-04-10T10:35:38Z	**Intel Updates OpenCL Intercept Layer With New Abilities**
For several years Intel has been developing the OpenCL Intercept Layer to assist in debugging OpenCL software. It's been nearly two years since the last release of this open-source OpenCL interception layer while today brings v3.0.4 with a number of optimizations and new features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-OpenCL-Intercept-3.0.4)
2024-04-10T15:11:24Z	**Gentoo Linux Now An SPI Project**
While the Gentoo Foundation has long existed, to reduce the organizational complexity and overhead as well as becoming effectively a tax deductible non-profit at the US federal level, Gentoo Linux has become an associated project with Software in the Public Interest (SPI)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Linux-SPI-Project)
2024-04-10T15:25:54Z	**Linux 6.8.5 & Other Stable Kernel Updates Due To Native BHI Vulnerability**
Due to yesterday's Native BHI vulnerability disclosure affecting all Intel processors with this variant of Branch History Injection (BHI) not requiring BPF to exploit, a slew of new Linux kernel stable releases are out today to back-port this security mitigation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-685-Mitigates-Native-BHI)
2024-04-10T16:41:51Z	**Turbostat Becomes Semi-Useful To Non-Root Users**
The turbostat utility is useful on Linux systems for reporting idle/power-state statistics, temperatures, and other useful metrics for modern CPUs. It's also able to dive deeper and provide various MSR values and counters and other intriguing CPU bits. For much of these features root access is required and thus turbostat has bailed out up to this point if not running as root. But as a number of the metrics can still be obtained without root access, turbostat is fina ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-turbostat-Non-Root)
2024-04-10T16:21:50Z	**Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q1 Brings New Filter To Transform Old Content**
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel is where they maintain their various yet-to-be-upstreamed patches for the FFmpeg multimedia library either to enhance/enable new Intel graphics hardware support or improve/add extra functionality to this widely-used open-source library. With the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q1 release they are shipping a new filter for dealing with older content as well as several other new features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-FFmpeg-Cartwheel-2024Q1)
2024-04-10T18:56:48Z	**Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines**
Mesa's Lavapipe driver as a software (CPU-based) implementation of the Vulkan API has now implemented support for ray-tracing pipelines... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lavapipe-RT-Pipelines-Mesa-24.1)
2024-04-10T20:48:42Z	**KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support**
A day after explicit sync support was merged for XWayland, a week after explicit sync support for Mesa Vulkan drivers hit Mesa 24.1, and GNOME's Mutter enabling explicit sync at the end of March, KDE's KWin compositor has now merged its Wayland explicit sync support!.. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Lands-Explicit-Sync)
2024-04-11T00:21:24Z	**Lutris 0.5.17 Game Manager Brings Bug Fixes, Library Syncing & New Runners**
A new release of Lutris is now available, the open-source game manager that's popular with Linux gamers and enthusiasts for managing games from Steam, GOG, a number of retro game consoles and emulators, and other sources from one convenient UI... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lutris-0.5.17-Released)
2024-04-11T10:36:15Z	**Wayland 1.23 Planned For Release Around The End Of May**
Wayland 1.22 released at the start of April 2023 while now Wayland 1.23 is taking shape as the next version of this core Wayland code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-1.23-Release-Plan)
2024-04-11T10:23:31Z	**Bcachefs Sees More Fixes For Linux 6.9-rc4, Reiterates Its Experimental Nature**
Last week Bcachefs' repair code was largely completed and in good shape for merging with the Linux 6.9-rc3 kernel. Bcachefs patches last week amounted to about one third of the kernel changes for the week. This week is a new round of fixes to further stabilize the experimental file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Fixes-Linux-6.9-rc4)
2024-04-11T10:51:11Z	**Open-Source Radeon Driver Enables Support For Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode**
The open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa, RADV, has merged its support for handling Vulkan Video accelerated encoding for H.264 and H.265... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Vulkan-VIdeo-H265-H264)
2024-04-11T14:27:55Z	**GCC 14 Compiler Adds AArch64 GNU/Hurd Support**
While GNU Hurd continues having a tough time on x86 support and GNU Hurd x86\_64 is being worked toward, the GCC 14 compiler has been working on compiler toolchain support for GNU Hurd AArch64... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-AArch64-GCC-14)
2024-04-11T14:10:00Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Now Available For Testing**
The Ubuntu 24.04 beta release is now available for testing ahead of the official release later this month for this new Long Term Support release of Ubuntu Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Beta-Test)
2024-04-11T15:20:14Z	**X.Org Server Change Allows GLAMOR To Fallback To Software Rendering For Obsolete GPUs**
For those trying to use the X.Org Server's GLAMOR accelerated 2D rendering on legacy/obsolete GPUs, there's now a fallback in place to allow software rendering to work when encountering crippled hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GLAMOR-Software-Fallback-Fail)
2024-04-11T17:01:38Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 Brings Some Performance Gains For AMD Threadripper 7980X / System76 Thelio Major**
With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS due out later this month and the beta now available, I've been spending more time recently testing out the latest development state for this next Long Term Support installment of Ubuntu Linux. Similar to seeing some Ubuntu 24.04 performance gains on server class hardware both from Intel and AMD, testing on workstation hardware is also showing some gains over the current Ubuntu 23.10 release. Here are s ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2404-tr7980x)
2024-04-11T20:55:47Z	**Intel's Newest Software Effort For Achieving Greater Performance: Thin Layout Optimizer**
Intel's software team is today sharing their newest innovation for achieving greater performance on Linux systems: the Thin Layout Optimizer. Intel's Thin Layout Optimizer is inspired by the likes of the Meta/LLVM BOLT optimizer and Google's Propeller but aims to be much easier to use while still delivering measurable performance gains for optimized binaries... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thin-Layout-Optimizer)
2024-04-12T10:31:53Z	**SDL 3.0 Will Now Prefer PipeWire Over PulseAudio**
For the widely-used SDL hardware/software abstraction layer that is commonly used by cross-platform games, the upcoming SDL 3.0 release now has the logic to be able to prefer using PipeWire directly rather than PulseAudio when successfully detecting the presence of PipeWire... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-3.0-Prefer-PipeWire)
2024-04-12T10:19:44Z	**TUXEDO Computers Launches First Linux Laptop With AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS**
While TUXEDO Computers has already been offering powerful AMD Zen 4 laptops such as the Pulse 14 Gen 3 with Ryzen 7 7840HS SoC, today the Bavarian company announced their first Ryzen 8000 series mobile laptop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Ryzen-8845HS-Linux)
2024-04-12T12:59:51Z	**LPython 0.21 Released For Alpha-Stage Python AOT Compiler**
As the first new release since last September, LPython 0.21 has been released for this alpha-stage Python ahead-of-time compiler written in C++. LPython remains focused on providing "the best possible performance" especially for numerical use-cases, cross-platform compatibility, and hopes to be able to eventually transform Python code over to C++ and Fortran or other languages... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LPython-0.21-Released)
2024-04-12T14:08:34Z	**AMD Updates More Radeon GPU Firmware To Fix VP9 Video Decode Glitches**
Back at the start of March AMD published updated VCN firmware to fix VP9 video decoding on Rembrandt APUs and other GPUs. Today is a new round of AMDGPU firmware file updates believed to firmly address the VP9 video decode glitches for a wide range of AMD GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-FW-VP9-Decode-Fixed)
2024-04-12T14:38:36Z	**Linux 6.10 SLUB Optimization To Reduce Memory Consumption In Extreme Scenarios**
A patch to the Linux kernel's SLUB allocator has been queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.10 merge window to help reduce memory consumption in extreme scenarios... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-SLUB-Optimization)
2024-04-12T14:23:04Z	**Dbus-Broker 36 Released For This Fastest D-Bus Implementation**
David Rheinsberg has released Dbus-Broker 36 as the newest version of this speedy, drop-in DBus implementation for Linux systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dbus-Broker-36-Released)
2024-04-12T15:59:00Z	**KDE Frameworks 6.1 Released With Many Improvements & Fixes**
KDE Frameworks 6.1 is out today as the first monthly update since the release of KDE Frameworks 6.0 alongside KDE Plasma 6.0... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Frameworks-6.1)
2024-04-12T17:39:23Z	**XWayland 24.1 Planned For Release Next Month With Explicit Sync & Other Features**
The XWayland 23.2 series was introduced last August while now release preparations have begun for releasing XWayland 24.1 as the next feature release for this X.Org Server derived code for allowing X11 clients (apps / games) to work within the confines of Wayland environments... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.1-Release-Plan)
2024-04-13T00:35:00Z	**APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More**
APT as the packaging tool built around Debian Linux is embarking on some big upgrades with the APT 2.9 development series to then roll-out as APT 3.0. There's big improvements to the command-line user interface with the new APT and it's certainly looking nice from my initial Friday night encounter... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-2.9-Released)
2024-04-13T10:13:14Z	**KDE's Busy Week With Landing Explicit Sync & Many Other Changes**
KDE developers had a very busy week with a lot of new feature work continuing to land for Plasma 6.1 plus continuing to address bugs and other fallout from the recent Plasma 6 introduction... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Explicit-Sync-Week)
2024-04-13T04:00:00Z	**APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More**
APT as the packaging tool built around Debian Linux is embarking on some big upgrades with the APT 2.9 development series to then roll-out as APT 3.0. There's big improvements to the command-line user interface with the new APT and it's certainly looking nice from my initial Friday night encounter... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-2.9-Released)
2024-04-13T10:46:49Z	**Mesa 24.1 Zink Lands "Super Fast" Merge Request To Optimize IO**
Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has merged a big optimization / bug fixing effort he's recently been tackling for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-Zink-ioopt-Merged)
2024-04-13T13:30:00Z	**Linux 6.10 To Account For NUMA Node When Allocating Per-CPU Cpumasks**
In addition to a SLUB optimization for extreme scenarios, faster AES-XTS disk/file encryption for modern Intel/AMD CPUs, and other performance optimizations on the way for Linux 6.10, another minor one was queued up this week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Per-CPU-NUMA-Node-Cpumask)
2024-04-14T10:38:39Z	**OpenRazer 3.8 Brings Support For Newer Razer Devices On Linux**
OpenRazer 3.8 is out today as the newest update to this collection of community-developed, open-source drivers for Razer devices on Linux. OpenRazer allows for Razer device customization and support under Linux to make full use of these gaming peripherals outside of Windows / macOS. Paired with the likes of the Polychromatic UI, OpenRazer allows a nice Razer hardware experience on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRazer-3.8-Released)
2024-04-14T10:21:54Z	**Linux 6.9-rc4 To Bring New Fixes For x86 Speculation Mitigations**
The Linux 6.9-rc4 weekly test release is due out later today and ahead of that this week's "x86/urgent" material has been sent in that includes several patches for various x86 speculation mitigation fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-rc4-x86-urgent)
2024-04-14T11:02:16Z	**Proposed "LibGodot" Lets You Embed Godot Game Engine Into Other Apps**
Miguel de Icaza who founded GNOME and of Mono / Ximian / Xamarin fame is now talking up the greatness of the Godot game engine and the opportunities that are presented with code proposed for mainlining to introduce "LibGodot" to make it easy to embed Godot scenes into other apps... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibGodot-Proposed-Embed-Game)
2024-04-14T12:52:26Z	**OpenJPH 0.11 Works Toward Low-Latency High-Throughput JPEG-2000 (HTJ2K)**
The OpenJPH project that provides an open-source implementation of JPEG-2000 Part 15 for High Throughput J2K (HTJ2K) / JPH support is working on extending its abilities to handle low-latency High-Throughput JPEG-2000 images and other capabilities... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenJPH-0.11-HTJ2K-Low-Latency)
2024-04-14T13:29:19Z	**AMD Prepares More Next-Gen GPU Driver Support For Linux 6.10**
AMD on Saturday submitted a big batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel graphics driver feature patches ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-More-For-Linux-6.10)
2024-04-14T14:09:48Z	**Linux 6.10 To Merge NTSYNC Driver For Emulating Windows NT Synchronization Primitives**
Going through my usual scanning of all the "-next" Git subsystem branches of new code set to be introduced for the next Linux kernel merge window, a very notable addition was just queued up... Linux 6.10 is set to merge the NTSYNC driver for emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives within the kernel for allowing better performance with Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and Wine of Windows games and other apps on  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Merging-NTSYNC)
2024-04-14T21:22:31Z	**Linux 6.9-rc4 Brings More Bcachefs Fixes, Native BHI Mitigation**
As expected the Linux 6.9-rc4 test kernel is out today as Linux 6.9 works its way toward release by mid-May... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-rc4)
2024-04-15T10:32:47Z	**Archinstall 2.8 Further Refines The Easy Arch Linux Installation Experience**
Archinstall 2.8 is out today as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it much faster deploying this popular Linux distribution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Archinstall-2.8-Released)
2024-04-15T10:23:40Z	**FEX-Emu 2404 Optimization Can Take Memcpy From 2-3 GB/s To 88 GB/s**
FEX 2404 is now available for this open-source emulator project to allow running x86/x86\_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) LInux systems. FEX has been one of the leading avenues for opening up gaming on AArch64 Linux hardware, even making use of Wine / Proton (Steam Play) for enjoying Windows x86 games within AArch64 Linux confines... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emulator-2404)
2024-04-15T10:04:47Z	**Vim Lands XDG Base Directory Specification Support**
For fans of the Vim text editor, the latest development code has landed support for the XDG Base Directory "XDG\_BASE\_DIR" specification... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vim-XDG-Base-Directory-Spec)
2024-04-15T11:00:00Z	**Servo Driving Modularity To Eye Different JavaScript Engines**
The Rust-based Servo web layout engine started by Mozilla that is now stewarded by the Linux Foundation and worked on by several different organizations is eyeing modularity support for its JavaScript integration. Currently Servo is closely tied to Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine but with a modularity push could see other options supported... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-JavaScript-Engine-Modular)
2024-04-15T13:55:13Z	**Firefox 125 Adds AV1 Support In Encrypted Media Extensions, Other New Features**
Ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement, the Firefox 125.0 release binaries have been uploaded to the Mozilla mirror this morning. Firefox 125.0 brings a number of new features and developer additions -- more so than we've seen recently from the monthly Firefox releases... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-125-AV1-EME-And-More)
2024-04-15T14:26:59Z	**Fedora 41 Aims For More Reproducible Package Builds Thanks To A Rust Program**
Continuing a trend worked on in recent Fedora Linux releases and more broadly in the open-source ecosystem at large for securing the software supply chain and ensuring unaltered binaries, Fedora 41 is aiming to ensure more reproducible package builds... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-More-Reproducible-RPM)
2024-04-15T15:35:30Z	**openSUSE Leap Micro 6 Reaches Alpha**
openSUSE's Leap Micro OS that caters to containerized and virtualized workloads by providing a lightweight and reliable foundation is embarking on its next major release. The openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 operating system is now available in alpha form... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Leap-Micro-6-Alpha)
2024-04-15T15:23:58Z	**Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them**
Within yesterday's Linux 6.9-rc4 release is an interesting little nugget by Linus Torvalds to battle Kconfig parsers that can't correctly handle tabs but rather just assume spaces for whitespace for this kernel configuration format... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kconfig-Tabs)
2024-04-15T16:35:13Z	**AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL**
AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta is out today for this popular community-oriented Linux distribution derived from upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Besides pulling in the RHEL 9.4 Beta changes, AlmaLinux 9.4 also restores hardware support for some devices that was deprecated by upstream RHEL... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-9.4-Beta)
2024-04-15T20:54:26Z	**More Bcachefs Fixes & Recovery Improvements Land In Linux 6.9**
The Bcachefs fixes continue to come in on the heavier side for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-Bcachefs-For-Linux-6.9-rc5)
2024-04-16T10:38:44Z	**Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11**
At the start of April Mesa 24.1 saw Vulkan explicit sync support for Wayland implemented. Now hitting Mesa 24.1-devel today is Vulkan explicit sync support for X11/X.Org... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-X11-Explicit-Sync)
2024-04-16T10:27:59Z	**Native BHI Mitigation Performance Benchmarks On Core i9 14900K Under Linux 6.9**
With the new security mitigation for the "Native BHI" Spectre vulnerability affecting even the recent Intel processors, a number of Phoronix readers have been curious about the performance impact of the mitigation. Over the past week I've been running some benchmarks on recent Intel CPUs to better look into any performance implications... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-14900K-Native-BHI-Perf)
2024-04-16T11:00:00Z	**Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11**
At the start of April Mesa 24.1 saw Vulkan explicit sync support for Wayland implemented. Now hitting Mesa 24.1-devel today is Vulkan explicit sync support for X11/X.Org... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-X11-Explicit-Sync)
2024-04-16T13:00:00Z	**AMD Announces Ryzen PRO 8840 & PRO 8000G Series CPUs**
Following the launch of the Ryzen 8000G series processors earlier this year as well as the Ryzen 8840 series mobile processors, AMD has now announced the associated "PRO" parts for business customers. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-pro-8000)
2024-04-16T14:02:42Z	**KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Ships With Dozens Of Bug Fixes**
It's been three weeks since the Plasma 6.0.3 point release while today KDE has shipped Plasma 6.0.4 as its April bug-fix release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0.4)
2024-04-16T14:25:36Z	**Valkey Celebrates Its First Stable Release As Open-Source Redis Fork**
Last month the Linux Foundation along with industry stakeholders such as AWS, Google Cloud, Snap, Oracle, and others formed Valkey as an open-source Redis fork following Redis moving to Redis Source Available License v2 and SSPL v1 licensing. Today they've released Valkey 7.2.5 as the first stable release for this open-source Redis fork... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valkey-First-Stable-Release)
2024-04-16T15:30:00Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption**
For those wondering about the OpenZFS root file-system support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, it's in-place with the Ubuntu desktop installer. Not only is it still there but now there's also the ability to easily setup Ubuntu atop an OpenZFS encrypted root file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Ubuntu-24.04-LTS)
2024-04-16T16:05:00Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption**
For those wondering about the OpenZFS root file-system support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, it's in-place with the Ubuntu desktop installer. Not only is it still there but now there's also the ability to easily setup Ubuntu atop an OpenZFS encrypted root file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Ubuntu-24.04-LTS)
2024-04-16T21:00:40Z	**Linux Foundation, Intel & Others Launch The Open Platform for Enterprise AI**
The Linux Foundation along with industry stakeholders like Intel, Red Hat, Hugging Face, MariaDB, Cloudera, and others have launched the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) as a new enterprise AI collaborative effort... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Platform-for-Enterprise-Ai)
2024-04-16T23:08:22Z	**ROCm 6.1 Released With Ubuntu 22.04.4 Support, rocDecode For AMD Video Decode**
The much anticipated ROCm 6.1 has now been released! ROCm 6.1 is heavy on new features as well as expanding official operating system coverage to include the latest Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS point release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.1-Released)
2024-04-17T09:45:10Z	**XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations**
As expected, the first release candidate of the forthcoming XWayland 24.1 is now available ahead of its planned stable debut in May... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.1-RC)
2024-04-17T10:10:56Z	**Linux 6.10 To Add Script For Building ARM64 Flat Image Trees**
Queued as part of the ARM64 patches in the various "-next" branches ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window is a script for being able to build Flat Image Trees (FITs). A Flat Image Tree is the compiled Linux kernel paired with the associated DeviceTree content that is compressed and easily then distributed and executed by capable bootloaders... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-610-ARM64-Flat-Image-Tree)
2024-04-17T10:45:00Z	**Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver**
Following last year Nouveau receiving support for running with the NVIDIA GSP firmware and initial GeForce RTX 40 series accelerated support, Ben Skeggs of Red Hat unexpectedly resigned as the Nouveau kernel driver maintainer. It turns out this longtime open-source Nouveau driver developer is now employed by NVIDIA Corp and continuing to work on the open-source Linux graphics driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ben-Skeggs-Joins-NVIDIA)
2024-04-17T12:45:27Z	**LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support**
LXQt 2.0 is now available for this lightweight desktop environment that has now been ported to the Qt 6.6+ toolkit. Additionally, much of the LXQt components are ready to be used under Wayland compositors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-2.0-Released)
2024-04-17T15:38:04Z	**Wayland Protocols 1.35 Introduces Alpha Modifier Protocol, Tablet-V2 As Stable**
Wayland Protocols 1.35 is out today as the newest update to this collection of Wayland protocol specifications... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.35)
2024-04-17T20:51:39Z	**MPV 0.38 Media Player Released With New Options & Fixes**
MPV as the popular open-source media player forked from MPlayer/mplayer2 and leveraging FFmpeg is out with its newest release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MPV-0.38-Released)
2024-04-18T00:12:27Z	**System76's COSMIC Working On Drag & Drop, More Compositor Improvements**
System76 software engineers continue working heavily on their COSMIC desktop that is Rust-written and to debut with their Pop!\_OS 24.04 release later this year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-April-2024-Update)
2024-04-18T10:49:49Z	**GTK4 Continues Improving Graphics Offload & DMA-BUF Integration**
There is a new post on the GTK blog outlining some of the recent enhancements to this open-source toolkit for benefiting the graphics/GPU offloading capabilities... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK4-Better-Offload)
2024-04-18T10:42:53Z	**Rocky Linux To Support Upstream Stable Kernels**
With the various Linux distributions derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we're beginning to see more features to distinguish between them rather than just "RHEL clones". It was just days ago talking about AlmaLinux restoring old hardware support that's been deprecated by upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Now over on the Rocky Linux side, CIQ as the principal organization behind them is rolling out support for upstream Linux kernels... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rocky-Linux-Upstream-Kernels)
2024-04-18T11:00:55Z	**Autodafe 0.2 Released For Freeing Your Project From Autotools**
Eric S Raymond has released version 0.2 of Autodafe, his latest open-source project that provides "tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of Autotools.".. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Autodafe-0.2-Released)
2024-04-18T12:45:28Z	**Intel Preps Adaptive Sync SDP, Lunar Lake Display & More DG2 PCI IDs In Linux 6.10**
On Wednesday the latest round of drm-intel-next material was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.10 kernel merge window. Intel's open-source engineers remain very busy working on the i915 and Xe kernel graphics drivers with new display features, expanding hardware support, and other functionality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-More-Graphics-Linux-6.10)
2024-04-18T14:13:15Z	**openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds**
While Fedora 41 in late 2024 is aiming to have more reproducible package builds, openSUSE Factory has already achieved a significant milestone in bit-by-bit reproducible builds... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Reproducible-Builds)
2024-04-18T15:25:01Z	**Ubuntu 24.04 Boosts Performance, Outperforming Windows 11 On The AMD Ryzen Framework 16 Laptop**
With the Framework 16 laptop one of the performance pieces I've been meaning to carry out has been seeing out Linux performs against Microsoft Windows 11 for this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS powered modular/upgradeable laptop. Recently getting around to it in my benchmarking queue, I also compared the performance of Ubuntu 23.10 to the near final Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on this laptop up against a fully-updated Microsoft Windows 11 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-16-windows-linux)
2024-04-18T17:35:55Z	**Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming**
Changwoo Min with Igalia presented yesterday at Open-Source Summit North America on optimizing the kernel's scheduler for Linux gaming. Of course, the motivation is around Valve's Steam Deck but for Linux gaming at large to benefit too from this scheduler work to ideally yield less stuttering during gameplay... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LAVD-Scheduler-Linux-Gaming)
2024-04-18T18:39:55Z	**Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week**
After not being ready in time for this week's early release target date, it's now been determined today that Fedora 40 is ready for release next week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Next-Week)
2024-04-19T10:23:03Z	**Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 Brings VP9 Fix & AV1 Refinements**
Overnight Intel released their oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 release for this media stack component to their oneAPI software collection... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-oneVPL-GPU-RT-2024Q1)
2024-04-19T10:36:08Z	**Rockchip NPU Open-Source Driver Taking Shape, Will Aim For Upstream Accel Driver**
It was just one month ago that open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso was beginning work on reverse-engineering and writing a Rockchip NPU driver following his work on the Vivante NPU IP open-source driver support. He quickly began seeing the driver working and with very viable performance and now today he's shared another update on this Rockchip open-source NPU driver effort... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rockchip-NPU-Driver-Success)
2024-04-19T12:45:04Z	**Tow-Boot 2023.07 U-Boot Distribution Released With New Board Support**
It's been nearly one year since the last Tow-Boot release while debuting on Thursday was Tow-Boot 2023.07-007 for this open-source project derived from the U-Boot bootloader... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tow-Boot-2023.07-007)
2024-04-19T13:42:28Z	**Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 Brings Improved OpenCL/OpenGL Sharing**
As the first new release to Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack in about one month for this OpenCL and Level Zero compute support, Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 was released this morning with much improved OpenCL/OpenGL sharing and interoperability on Linux, out-of-the-box support for the Xe kernel graphics driver, new optimizations, and many other changes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CR-24.13.29138.7)
2024-04-19T14:09:33Z	**Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death"**
While systemd 255 last year introduced a "blue screen of death" inspired solution with systemd-bsod for presenting logged error messages full-screen, it's not appropriate for all errors. Systemd-bsod can work out for presenting full-screen messages in case of boot failures and other problems where user-space is alive. But the user-space code does little good in case of a kernel panic and similar issues bringing the system to a halt. Set ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-DRM-Panic-Handler)
2024-04-19T16:02:33Z	**Miracle-WM 0.2 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor**
Announced back in February was Miracle-WM as a Wayland compositor built atop Mir and developed by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek. Today he announced version 0.2 as the latest feature update to this Wayland compositor with tiling window management... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0.2)
2024-04-19T17:00:00Z	**Godot's Vulkan Backend Seeing Better Performance, 10~20% Reduction In Frame Times**
The Godot game engine has spent the past number of months collaborating with Google and The Forge to bring performance optimizations to their Vulkan back-end. While the immediate focus was on bettering Godot's Vulkan performance for Android mobile devices, this work will ultimately benefit all Vulkan platforms/users... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-Better-Vulkan)
2024-04-19T17:54:00Z	**Git 2.45 Begins Landing Code For SHA1 & SHA256 Interoperability For Repositories**
Junio Hamano announced the release today of Git 2.45-rc0 as the first test release toward the next version of this distributed version control system. Notable with Git 2.45 is beginning to land SHA1 and SHA256 interoperability work for repositories... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.45-rc0-Released)
2024-04-19T18:56:57Z	**Mozilla Finally Begins Offering Firefox ARM64 Linux Binaries**
While the Firefox web browser has long worked on AArch64 Linux and Mozilla even offers Windows ARM64/AArch64 binaries, to date Mozilla hasn't released official ARM64/AArch64 binaries for Linux. That is finally beginning to change... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-ARM64-Nightly)
2024-04-20T00:34:57Z	**Wine 9.7 Works On Build System For ARM64X, Other ARM Improvements**
Wine 9.7 is out this evening as the latest bi-weekly unstable development release for this open-source software to run Windows programs and games under Linux and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.7-Released)
2024-04-20T10:06:56Z	**KDE Developers Work Through More Bug Fixes & Features For Plasma 6.1**
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary to outline all of the prominent feature work and fixes that landed in the KDE space this week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Fixes-For-Qt-6.7)
2024-04-20T10:41:07Z	**Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows**
The past year there's been an independent open-source driver developer working on "Terakan" as a Vulkan driver for old Radeon HD 6000 series GPUs. These pre-GCN GPUs never received any official Vulkan driver support from AMD but thanks to open-source and a strong desire to pull off such a feat, Vitaliy Kuzmin "Triang3l" has been pursuing this challenge and has been pulling off some basic results. The work so far has been predominant ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Terakan-HD-6000-VLK-Windows)
2024-04-20T12:00:00Z	**Linux BHI Mitigation Being Tweaked Following 12% Database Performance Hit**
A new set of Linux kernel patches were sent out on Friday for tweaking th Native BHI mitigation introduced earlier this month for Intel processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-BHI-Fix-Server-Perf)
2024-04-20T12:41:21Z	**GNOME Working To Make Key Rack A Viable Password Manager, Better Printing For Flatpaks**
This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue that outlines ongoing exciting work to the desktop thanks to the additional funding from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund plus a variety of other ongoing desktop/app enhancements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Key-Rack-PW-Manager)
2024-04-20T19:17:09Z	**Niri 0.1.5 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds New Animations**
Niri as an innovative, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor is out today with its newest feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-0.1.5-Wayland-Compositor)
2024-04-21T10:36:30Z	**EROFS Eyes Zstd Compression, Intel QAT/IAA Accelerator Support, & Experimental Rust Code**
The open-source EROFS read-only file-system that is popular with mobile/embedded devices and containerized applications has been making good progress on performance, showing itself to be rather robust, and has an ambitious roadmap of new feature plans for this RO file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/EROFS-Roadmap-Zstd-Intel-IAA)
2024-04-21T10:08:39Z	**Linux 6.9-rc5 Picking Up Fixes For Intel FRED, BHI & GFNI/VAES Checks**
Ahead of the Linux 6.9-rc5 test kernel being released later today, this week's batch of "x86/urgent" fixes were sent out this morning... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-rc5-x86-Urgent)
2024-04-21T13:50:16Z	**GNOME Mutter 46.1 Brings Explicit Sync, Better NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Acceleration**
GNOME Mutter 46.1 was released this weekend as the developers prepare to release the GNOME 46.1 point release. This Mutter update brings several exciting feature/bug changes back-ported for the GNOME 46 series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-46.1-Released)
2024-04-21T13:42:28Z	**GNU Portability Library's Tool Rewritten In Python For 8~100x Better Performance**
The GNU Portability Library for common portability code across platforms has seen a major rewrite to gnulib-tool, the program for importing modules from gnulib into their packages. This code rewrite of gnulib-tool is said to offer between eight and 100 times faster performance than the existing implementation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gnutool-lib-Rewrite-Faster-Perf)
2024-04-21T14:25:00Z	**AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users**
This weekend AMD upstreamed a number of new AMDGPU firmware files into the linux-firmware.git repository that serves as a basis for all of the binary firmware/microcode files used by the Linux kernel drivers. This big set of new AMDGPU firmware files is likely for the upcoming RDNA 3.5 / "RDNA3 refresh" / RDNA3+ as it appears will be called updated RDNA3 graphics for upcoming AMD Ryzen SoCs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RDNA3-Plus-Firmware-Files)
2024-04-21T20:47:15Z	**Linux 6.9-rc5 Released: The Diffstat "Looks A Bit Wonky" But Not Bad**
The fifth weekly release candidate of Linux 6.9 is now available as the kernel cycle looks to get wrapped up by mid-May... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-rc5-Released)
2024-04-22T09:59:22Z	**Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 Brings Arrow Lake H Support**
The Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 release is now available that serves as the company's modern Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems. The Intel media driver allows for iGPU/dGPU-based video encode/decode for HEVC, VP9, AV1, and other formats supported by the respective graphics hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Media-Driver-2024Q1)
2024-04-22T10:40:00Z	**AMD: "Additional Parts Of The Radeon Stack To Be Open Sourced Throughout The Year"**
After recently announcing they'd be working to get out Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) firmware documentation and open-source code, AMD said they would be working to open-source more of their software stack and hardware documentation. AMD repeated those calls over the weekend... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-OSS-2024)
2024-04-22T10:32:42Z	**AMD SEV-SNP Hypervisor Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel**
AMD's upstreaming effort around Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) to the mainline Linux kernel appears to be nearly wrapped up with the latest hypervisor patches now at their fourteenth revision... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SEV-SNP-Hypervisor-v14)
2024-04-22T11:05:00Z	**Intel Enabling Linux Driver Display Support For Upcoming "Battlemage" GPUs**
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have been busy working to enable the display support for the upcoming Battlemage graphics cards as the successor to DG2/Alchemist... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-Display-Battlemage)
2024-04-22T14:04:31Z	**Steam Deck Motion Sensors Being Worked On For Linux's HID-Steam Driver**
A patch is undergoing work to add Steam Deck IMU support to the HID-Steam kernel driver for supporting the accelerometer and gyroscope sensors of the Steam Deck controller... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Deck-IMU-For-HID-Driver)
2024-04-22T15:20:00Z	**Kioxia KCD8XPUG1T92 CD8P-R & KCMYXVUG3T20 CM7-V PCIe 5.0 SSDs**
While there is a growing number of PCIe 5.0 consumer NVMe SSDs available through Internet retailers, when it comes to PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD data center / enterprise grade solid-state drives there aren't as many yet and even for announced ones they have been relatively in short supply. In preparing for some upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS tests and ahead of next-gen servers arriving, I was recently searching for some new PCIe 5.0 data center solid state driv ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/kioxia-pcie5-cd8p-cm7v-ssds)
2024-04-22T16:55:00Z	**Reverse Engineered MSI WMI Platform Driver Being Worked On For Linux**
Submitted for code review this weekend was a new MSI WMI Platform driver that was developed via reverse engineering MSI laptops. Initially this MSI WMI Platform driver is just exposing fan speed sensors but ultimately can be more useful for other Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MSI-WMI-Platform-Driver-Linux)
2024-04-22T18:31:47Z	**Fwupd 1.9.17 Adds Firmware Updating For ASUS DC201 & Realtek RTS541x**
Richard Hughes of Red Hat has announced the released of Fwupd 1.9.17, the newest update to this open-source solution for system and device firmware updating under Linux that is paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for a streamlined user experience... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-1.9.17-Released)
2024-04-22T19:30:00Z	**Linux AMDGPU Control Application Adds vBIOS Dumping, Fan Control Hysteresis**
LACT 0.5.4 is out as the open-source and independently developed "Linux AMDGPU Control Application" for this community AMD Linux graphics driver control panel option given the lack of any official Radeon GUI management solution from AMD... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.5.4-AMDGPU-Utility)
2024-04-23T00:20:00Z	**Steam On Linux Changes The Default Scaling Factor For 4K Displays**
With tonight's Steam client beta update they have reduced the default scaling factor for those running it on Linux with a 4K display... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-4K-Scaling-Change)
2024-04-23T10:21:38Z	**AMD Prepping Fixes & Enhancements For P-State CPUFreq Driver**
The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for Zen 2 and newer processors has been working out well in its roughly two years of being in the mainline Linux kernel. The AMD P-State driver has helped with ensuring modern Ryzen systems are delivering optimal performance and power efficiency. Recently AMD Linux engineers have been working on a few fixes and enhancements to this CPUFreq driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Enhancements-11)
2024-04-23T10:01:42Z	**NetBSD 9.4 Released With Security & Stability Fixes**
NetBSD 10.0 debuted last month with a long list of improvements and other enhancements that built up over the past several years. For those not yet taking the leap to this big NetBSD update, NetBSD 9.4 is out today for those relying on the stable NetBSD 9 series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-9.4-Released)
2024-04-23T10:42:30Z	**CBD Proposed For The Linux Kernel: CXL Block Device**
The latest Compute Express Link (CXL) feature work being pursued for the mainline Linux kernel is a driver to create CXL block devices for storage. On Monday a "request for comments" patch series sent out the initial code for setting up CXL shared memory to be used as Linux block devices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CBD-CXL-Block-Device)
2024-04-23T10:33:07Z	**Bcachefs Sends In More Fixes For Linux 6.9: Recovery & Repair Issues Settling Down**
Another week, another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes for the mainline Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Yet-More-Linux-6.9)
2024-04-23T11:00:00Z	**NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance**
Adding to the impressive number of features to be found in this quarter's Mesa 24.1 release is now the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver supporting implicit pipeline caching... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Implicit-Pipeline-Caching)
2024-04-23T12:32:00Z	**Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade**
It's Fedora 40 release day! Fedora 40 is now available for download from mirrors for this leading Linux distribution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Available)
2024-04-23T14:55:06Z	**Framework Raises $18M In New Funding, More Collaborations Coming With Cooler Master**
The folks behind the very popular Framework upgradeable/modular laptops announced today $18M in new funding and a few other interesting details... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-More-Funding)
2024-04-23T16:13:00Z	**Intel Has Many Improvements For The Xe Graphics Driver In Linux 6.10**
Intel today sent out more than one hundred new feature patches to DRM-Next of new "Xe" kernel graphics driver material they have readied for the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Intel-Xe-DRM-Patches)
2024-04-23T19:45:25Z	**Mozilla Has Been Rewriting Its Crash Reporter In Rust**
Mozilla hopes you'll never have to see it, but they've been rewriting their crash reporting application for Firefox within the Rust programming language... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Rust-Crash-Reporter)
2024-04-24T00:00:44Z	**FFmpeg Makes Progress On Dolby Vision Support**
The widely-used, open-source FFmpeg multimedia library has seen commits this week advancing its support for Dolby Vision... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Dolby-Vision-Progress)
2024-04-24T01:35:14Z	**QEMU 9.0 Released WIth True Multi-Queue Support For VirtIO Block Driver**
QEMU 9.0 is out tonight as the latest feature release for this prominent component to the open-source Linux virtualization stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-9.0-Released)
2024-04-24T10:37:22Z	**TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform**
The folks at iXsystems have released TrueNAS SCALEE 24.04 as the newest iteration of their Linux-based platform for network attached storage (NAS) devices. TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 brings better performance, new features, and additional hardware support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrueNAS-SCALE-24.04)
2024-04-24T10:26:32Z	**Nginx 1.26 Released With Experimental HTTP/3 Support**
Nginx 1.26 stable is out as the newest version of this popular alternative to the Apache web server while also able to work as a load balancer, reverse proxy, and HTTP cache. Nginx 1.26 incorporates the great work from the Nginx 1.25 mainline branch such as experimental HTTP/3 support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/nginx-1.26-Released)
2024-04-24T10:10:01Z	**Wine's Wayland Driver Will Finally Set The Window Title**
A small but notable patch was merged to upstream Wine overnight: the window title for application windows is now actually set under Wayland... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Set-Window-Title)
2024-04-24T10:50:45Z	**Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6**
Polychromatic is the open-source software package that serves as a GUI front-end to the OpenRazer drivers for allowing Razer devices to be configured under Linux for managing keyboard/mice RGB lighting and other options. With today's Polychromatic 0.9 release there is a port for the Qt6 toolkit... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Polychromatic-0.9-Released)
2024-04-24T12:55:16Z	**Red Hat Releases DNF 4.20 In Preparation For DNF5**
DNF 4.20 was released this morning by Red Hat as a stepping stone toward the upcoming DNF5 package manager... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DNF-4.20-Released)
2024-04-24T14:08:00Z	**New AMD Linux Patch Acknowledges More Zen 5 CPU Models**
A new AMD Linux kernel patch queued today via "x86/urgent" for routing into the Linux 6.9 development kernel expands the range of recognized CPU model IDs for upcoming Zen 5 processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-More-Family-26-Models)
2024-04-24T15:02:00Z	**GCC 14 vs. LLVM Clang 18 Compiler Performance On Fedora 40**
One of the leading-edge benefits of Fedora Linux is that it always ships with the most up-to-date open-source compiler toolchains at release. For their spring releases each year, it typically means shipping with a GCC compiler that isn't even officially released as stable yet. With this week's release of Fedora 40, it's shipping with GCC 14.0.1 as the development version that will culminate with the inaugural GCC 14 stable release in the coming weeks. Plu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/gcc14-clang18-amd-zen4)
2024-04-24T16:53:19Z	**Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 Adds Radeon GPU Analyzer Interoperability**
AMD's GPUOpen team today released the Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 software that now sports interoperability with the Radeon GPU Analyzer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-GPU-Profiler-2.1)
2024-04-24T21:04:56Z	**RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1**
Down to literally minutes before the Mesa 24.1 codebase was branched for making up this quarter's Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan driver to then be tested and stabilized with a stable release around mid-May, a number of AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver patches were merged... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-Whole-Improvements)
2024-04-25T00:23:58Z	**Mesa 24.1-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements**
Shortly following today's Mesa 24.1 code branching, the first release candidate has been announced by ongoing Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.1-rc1-Released)
2024-04-25T10:17:13Z	**Etnaviv NPU Optimizations Make It Into Mesa 24.1**
In addition to many RadeonSI driver optimizations that were merged just prior to yesterday's code branching and Mesa 24.1-rc1 release, a number of Etnaviv driver improvements were also merged for benefiting that recent Vivante NPU IP open-source driver work... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Etnaviv-NPU-Optimize-Mesa-24.1)
2024-04-25T10:48:53Z	**Fedora Miracle Spin Proposed For Fedora 41**
Not to be confused with Fedora's "Beefy Miracle" from a decade ago during their entertaining codename days, but a Fedora Miracle spin has been proposed for the now-open Fedora 41 development cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Miracle-Spin-Proposed)
2024-04-25T10:36:00Z	**Llamafile 0.8 Releases With LLaMA3 & Grok Support, Faster F16 Performance**
Llamafile has been quite an interesting project out of Mozilla's Ocho group in the era of AI. Llamafile makes it easy to run and distribute large language models (LLMs) that are self-contained within a single file. Llamafile builds off Llama.cpp and makes it easy to ship an entire LLM as a single file with both CPU and GPU execution support. Llamafile 0.8 is out now to join in on the LLaMA3 fun as well as delivering other model support and enha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Llamafile-0.8-LLaMA3)
2024-04-25T13:51:00Z	**Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Enables VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2**
Following yesterday's Mesa 24.1 feature branching, Mesa 24.2-devel is now open for the Mesa Git mainline code and some early feature work has begun for that Q3 release series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Shader-Float-Controls2)
2024-04-25T14:26:00Z	**Sovereign Tech Fund Makes New Investments Into GNOME & PHP, Bug Bounty For systemd**
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making significant, much-needed investments into various open-source upstream projects from the GNOME desktop to Rust-written Coreutils and more. Today the Sovereign Tech Fund outlined their latest funding for advancing the open-source software ecosystem... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Fund-PHP-GNOME)
2024-04-25T14:58:00Z	**Intel Releases OpenVINO 2024.1 With More Gen AI & LLM Features**
Intel engineers have just released OpenVINO 2024.1, the newest feature release for this excellent open-source AI toolkit that continues expanding its features and capabilities particularly around Generative AI "GenAI" and Large Language Models (LLMs)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-OpenVINO-2024.1-Released)
2024-04-25T16:02:10Z	**AMD Ryzen 9 7950X & Intel Core i9 14900K: Ubuntu 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04 Linux Performance**
As part of my ongoing benchmarking of the newly-released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux distribution, today's focus is looking at the high-end Intel Core i9 14900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktops while comparing the performance across Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for dozens of workloads. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2404-benchmarks)
2024-04-25T17:14:00Z	**Wayland 1.23 Alpha Released With OpenBSD Support & New APIs**
As expected, the Wayland 1.23 Alpha release is now available as this next Wayland release looks to officially roll-out toward the end of May... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-1.23-Alpha)