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For those that have been eager to see more Intel Core Ultra Series 200V Lunar Lake Linux testing, here is the latest installment of testing as well as an update from Intel following my Lunar Lake Linux testing recent reports. Today's article is looking at Intel Lunar Lake versus AMD Strix Point across different ACPI Platform Profile configurations for whether you are after peak performance or the most power savings. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/lunar-lake-profiles) 2024-10-16T17:11:17Z **Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Demonstrated On Windows**
Last week at the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC2024) in Montreal there was a talk showcasing Mesa's open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver running atop Windows 11... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Windows-XDC-2024) 2024-10-16T18:01:09Z **Qualcomm Announces Mesa VCL Driver For OpenCL Acceleration Within VMs**
Qualcomm engineers have developed VCL as a new open-source OpenCL driver for use with VirtIO-GPU for providing OpenCL hardware acceleration within virtual machines... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-VCL-VirtIO-OpenCL) 2024-10-16T20:30:00Z **AMD Releases AOMP 20.0-0 For Radeon/Instinct Compiler Offloading**
Following last week's release of the LLVM/Clang-downstream AOCC 5.0 for optimized compiler support extended to Zen 5 CPUs, the GPU side of the house at AMD this week released AOMP 20.0-0 as their LLVM/Clang downstream focused on GPU device offloading... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AOMP-20.0-0-Compiler) 2024-10-17T10:30:06Z **OGRE-Next 3.0 Released For This Open-Source 3D Engine**
OGRE-Next 3.0 has debuted this week as the newest version of the Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine Next Generation for serving as an open-source 3D graphics rendering engine... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OGRE-Next-3.0) 2024-10-17T10:58:32Z **The Maturing State Of Rusticl For Rust-Based OpenCL Within Mesa**
Karol Herbst of Red Hat presented in Montreal last week at the X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC 2024) on the current state of Rusticl as the Rust-written OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D drivers within Mesa... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rusticl-2024-Status-Update) 2024-10-17T10:46:23Z **AMD Working On GPU Compute Virtualization Support With ROCm/HIP For VMs**
Last week at XDC 2024 in Montreal was a status update on AMD's GPU compute virtualization support around their open-source Linux GPU driver and ROCm compute stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-HIP-For-VMs-Coming) 2024-10-17T12:50:47Z **Linux 6.13 To Introduce Intel 5th Gen NPU Support For Panther Lake**
Earlier this month I wrote about Intel's Linux software engineers posting patches adding 5th Gen NPU support to the IVPU accelerator driver for that updated neural processing unit to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors. Those 5th Gen NPU driver patches for Panther Lake are now queued for introduction with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-PantherLake-NPU-Linux-613) 2024-10-17T14:27:33Z **Red Hat Engineer Nikita Popov Now The Lead Maintainer For LLVM**
Following a proposal that began last month, Red Hat engineer Nikita Popov was nominated to become the new lead maintainer for LLVM. Following unaminous approval, as of last week in LLVM Git he's been appointed the official lead maintainer for this critical open-source compiler stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Lead-Maintainer-Popov) 2024-10-17T16:58:17Z **PyTorch 2.5 Released With Improved Intel GPU Support**
PyTorch 2.5 is out today as the latest major update to this widely-used machine learning library... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PyTorch-2.5-Released) 2024-10-17T17:38:00Z **Exploring The Zen 5 SMT Performance With The AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" CPU**
Continuing on with the testing around the AMD EPYC 9005 series "Turin" processors, today is a look at the Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) performance impact for Turin while using the AMD EPYC 9755 as the highest-end "Turin Classic" processor with 128 cores / 256 threads. Similar SMT on/off tests for "Turin Dense" with the EPYC 9965 192-core / 384-thread will also be coming in a future benchmarking comparison on Phoronix. These tests are mainly i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-9755-smt) 2024-10-17T20:54:58Z **Intel NPU Driver Being Updated To Handle Larger AI Workloads**
Following the recent patch work for enabling the Intel 5th Gen NPU premiering with Panther Lake, a new patch series posted today brings a number of improvements for this Intel neural processing unit driver -- including the ability to handle larger workloads... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Bigger-Workloads) 2024-10-18T00:28:45Z **Microsoft Open-Sources Rust-Written OpenHCL For Running Confidential Intel/AMD VMs**
Microsoft announced today the new and now open-source OpenHCL paravisor for the virtualization stack for enabling Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) with this Rust-written software stack. This effort by Microsoft has been five years in the making and is now open-source and will continue to be developed in the open... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-OpenHCL) 2024-10-18T10:07:24Z **Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years**
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for "empowering public digital infrastructure." In the past two years it has invested more than €23 million (about $24.94M USD) into sixty open technologies... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/STF-Two-Years-24.9M-USD) 2024-10-18T10:14:23Z **Valve Contributes OpenVR Video Driver To SDL**
Merged to upstream SDL today is an OpenVR video driver that was developed at Valve Software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-OpenVR-Video-Driver) 2024-10-18T10:27:58Z **Ubuntu Snaps Up Intel's NPU User-Space Software So It's Easier To Accelerate AI**
Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical has announced the availability of an Intel NPU driver Snap package within their Snap Store to make it easier to leverage the Intel neural processing unit (NPU) on Core Ultra processors within Ubuntu Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Snaps-Intel-NPU-Driver) 2024-10-18T10:38:48Z **AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Finally Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon**
The OpenCL 3.0 compute specification has been out in finalized form since September 2020. Since then NVIDIA's official Windows/Linux drivers have been exposing OpenCL 3.0 going back to 2021, the Intel Compute Runtime stack has also been exposing OpenCL 3.0 support for years, and even with Mesa's Rusticl open-source OpenCL implementation it's beginning to see Gallium3D drivers with conformant OpenCL 3.0. Yet if installing the AMD ROCm compute stack ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-OpenCL-3.0-Soon) 2024-10-18T13:00:11Z **Laptop Vendor Malibal Suggests Not Supporting Coreboot**
In a rather surprising post this morning, laptop vendor Malibal that offers both Linux and Windows systems is suggesting to not support the Coreboot project for open-source system firmware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Malibal-Suggests-No-Coreboot) 2024-10-18T14:42:53Z **Linux Fixes Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier "IBPB" Handling For Older AMD CPUs**
Merged today to Linux 6.12 Git were bug fixes to AMD's Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) handling that can be optionally used as part of the Retbleed and Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigations on older AMD processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AMD-Fixes-IBPB-Older-CPUs) 2024-10-18T15:26:20Z **Linux 6.13 Poised To Land Prep Patches Working Toward Proxy Execution**
Years in the making has been the idea of Proxy Execution for the Linux kernel as a means of implementing priority inheritance by leveraging information from a task's scheduler context and its execution context. While the Proxy Execution patches themselves aren't yet queued for merging upstream, some prep patches look like they'll make it for the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Prep-For-Proxy-Exec) 2024-10-18T16:55:32Z **Ubuntu Considers Replacing initramfs-tools WIth Dracut**
As a possible change for Ubuntu 25.04, Canonical is evaluating the use of Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation on Ubuntu Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Considers-Dracut-Initrd) 2024-10-18T20:31:37Z **Intel Working On Coreboot Support For Xeon 6 Platforms**
Intel announced earlier this week ahead of the OCP Global Summit that they have partnered with the 9elements consulting firm for getting Coreboot up and running on Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xeon-6-Coreboot-Effort) 2024-10-18T20:42:00Z **Intel Working On Coreboot Support For Xeon 6 Platforms**
Intel announced earlier this week ahead of the OCP Global Summit that they have partnered with the 9elements consulting firm for getting Coreboot up and running on Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xeon-6-Coreboot-Effort) 2024-10-18T20:37:41Z **Wine 9.20 Released With WineDbg Now Using Capstone Disassembler**
Wine 9.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development version of this open-source software to enable running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.20-Released) 2024-10-19T10:20:10Z **KDE Developers Wrapping Up Fallout From Plasma 6.2, Spinning More Plasma 6.3 Features**
KDE developers are wrapping up addressing initial fallout/regressions from the recent Plasma 6.2 desktop release as well as pushing ahead with more feature work for Plasma 6.3... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.2-Bugs-Fixed) 2024-10-19T10:39:43Z **Linux Might Drop Fieldbus Support For Industrial Systems With No One Maintaining It**
Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus system for connecting different systems/components/instruments within industrial environments. Five years later the code isn't being well maintained and looks like it will be on its way out the door if no one steps up to better maintain this driver support for industrial systems for process automation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Might-Drop-Fieldbus) 2024-10-19T11:30:00Z **Wine-Staging 9.20 Fixes An 11 Year Old Wine Bug Report**
Building off yesterday's release of Wine 9.20, Wine-Staging 9.20 is now available for this experimental blend of Wine featuring 357 extra patches currently atop the upstream codebase for various testing/experimental features and functionality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-9.20) 2024-10-19T13:55:11Z **GNOME Making Progress On Full-Featured USB Portal For Flatpaks**
Thanks to funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund, GNOME developers have been working on greater USB permissions/controls for Flatpak-based Linux applications... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-USB-Flatpaks-Portal) 2024-10-19T19:06:05Z **"100% Free" GNU Boot Discovers Again They Have Been Shipping Non-Free Code**
GNU Boot is a "100% free software project aimed at replacing the non-free boot software" and is a downstream of Coreboot, GRUB, and SeaBIOS. While priding itself on being "100% free", last December they had to drop some motherboard support and CPU code after discovering they were shipping some files that are non-free by their free software standards. Today they announced another mistake in having inadvertently been shipping additional non-free ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Boot-Second-Fail) 2024-10-20T10:30:01Z **Audio Firmware Upstreamed For Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 On Linux**
Qualcomm has upstreamed the audio firmware for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 "X1E80100" series laptop SoCs to linux-firmware.git... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Snapdragon-X1-Audio-FW) 2024-10-20T10:38:12Z **Lightweight Guard Pages For Linux Showing 5x Speed-Up For Memory Mapping Invocations**
Patches posted this week by Oracle's Lorenzo Stoakes are the latest attempt at lightweight guard pages for the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Lightweight-Guard-Pages) 2024-10-20T10:53:28Z **ReiserFS File-System Expected To Be Removed With Linux 6.13**
With ReiserFS having been deprecated for two years with plans to remove it in 2025, the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle for what will be the first major kernel release of the new year and past the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel is expected to do just that... ReiserFS is set to be stripped from the mainline kernel codebase... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-To-Drop-ReiserFS) 2024-10-20T12:54:09Z **Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source**
Several Phoronix readers have written in this Sunday over concerns of Bitwarden further moving away from open-source. Bitwarden is a password management service that leverages an encrypted vault and supports multiple clients/platforms. Bitwarden operates on a freemium model and has provided some code as open-source while there are new concerns over Bitwarden further pivoting away from open-source... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bitwarden-Open-Source-Concerns) 2024-10-20T13:18:19Z **Intel Posts Patch For Fixing/Boosting Lunar Lake Linux Performance On ASUS Laptops**
Since purchasing an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" laptop for Linux testing last month, the performance has been coming in below expectations. Among the tests were finding Xe2 graphics on Lunar Lake performing slower that under Windows 11 and in comparison slower than Meteor Lake graphics on Linux. Intel engineers have been able to reproduce my original findings and they uncovered the culprit is a new ASUS laptop feature ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Lunar-Lake-ASUS-AIPT) 2024-10-20T22:53:18Z **Linux 6.12-rc4 Released With MSI Claw A1M Controller Support, Intel & AMD Fixes**
Linux 6.12-rc4 is out today as the half-way point to releasing the Linux 6.12 stable kernel around this time of the month in November... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-rc4-Released) 2024-10-21T10:08:27Z **Meson 1.6 Build System Adds Support For Flang & OpenXL Compilers**
Meson 1.6 was published on Sunday as the newest feature update to this popular cross-platform build system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Meson-1.6-Released) 2024-10-21T10:18:56Z **Unvanquished 0.55 Released With Big Performance Optimizations For Its Engine**
The Unvanquished 0.55 open-source game that was recently teased for its OpenGL 4.6 renderer work is out today with its shiny new release. As it's been more than one and a half years since Unvanquished 0.54, this new beta comes with a load of improvements especially around optimizing its Daemon open-source engine that is long derived from id Tech 3... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Unvanquished-0.55-Released) 2024-10-21T10:55:21Z **Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks**
Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier\_nospec() in copy\_from\_user() due to being "overkill and painfully slow." The conversation evolved into low-level discussions over CPU behavior and how to best handle, differing behavior/requirements with new Intel CPUs supporting Linear Address Masking (LAM), and the overall headaches these days around CPU ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Frustrated-Buggy-HW) 2024-10-21T12:40:00Z **Intel IWD 3.0 Wireless Daemon Released For Linux Systems**
Intel's iNet Wireless Daemon (IWD) for Linux systems is out with a v3.0 release for this featureful and modern alternative to WPA\_Supplicant... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IWD-3.0) 2024-10-21T13:00:00Z **AMD Posts Linux Patches For EPYC To Further Enhance Performance-Per-Watt By Default**
Making for an exciting Monday morning, AMD Linux engineers have kicked off the new week with a patch series introducing an exciting and long-awaited change: using the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver by default for EPYC server platforms moving forward rather than the ACPI CPUFreq driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-EPYC-Linux-Patches) 2024-10-21T16:00:00Z **Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake With ASUS Zenbook Performing Better After New Linux Patch**
On Sunday there was a new patch posted by an Intel Linux engineer to boost the Lunar Lake Linux performance out-of-the-box for ASUS laptops by adjusting the new ASUS Intelligent Performance Technology "AIPT" feature so that Linux follows the same behavior as Windows 11. My initial testing of this ASUS AIPT patch has indeed shown the Core Ultra 7 256V "Lunar Lake" yielding much better performance with this patch applied ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-lunar-lake-aipt-xe2) 2024-10-21T18:27:23Z **SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board Update**
Earlier this year SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board with plans for shipping in July. That timeframe for shipping since passed but SiFive today issued a new update on their RISC-V development board... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SiFive-Premier-P550-Update) 2024-10-22T00:52:37Z **SysVinit 3.11 Released With An "Important Feature" At Long Last**
For those still managing to avoid systemd use on Linux systems and preferring SysVinit as their init system of choice, SysVinit 3.11 is out today with a new "important feature" addition... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SysVinit-3.11) 2024-10-22T10:16:56Z **Wasmer 5.0-rc1 Adds Experimental Support For WASM, Interpreter Mode Support**
For those interested in the prospects of WebAssembly for being able to write "universal apps" that can run anywhere, Wasmer as one of the leading WASM runtimes is closing in on its v5.0 feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wasmer-5.0-rc1) 2024-10-22T10:33:40Z **Suggestion Raised For Using PGO + LLVM BOLT To Optimize More Fedora Packages**
Outside of the likes of the Arch Linux based CachyOS and Intel's Clear Linux there aren't too many distributions that widely rely on aggressive compiler optimizations in the name of bettering the system performance. A suggestion was raised recently though for Fedora to use profile-guided optimizations (PGO) and post-link optimizations with the likes of LLVM BOLT for more packages, but at this stage it's not clear if such a shift in ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Idea-More-PGO-LLVM-BOLT) 2024-10-22T10:46:01Z **Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 Fixes Lunar Lake OpenCL, Disables Ice Lake & Older**
Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 was released on Monday as the newest update to this open-source Intel integrated/discrete graphics compute stack for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for their hardware on Windows and Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CR-24.39.31294.12) 2024-10-22T12:00:00Z **Intel Preps GCC Compiler For New AMX & ISA Features Ahead Of Diamond Rapids**
Intel's compiler engineers today posted a number of feature patches for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for enabling new ISA features to be found with next-generation Xeon "Diamond Rapids" processors. Excitingly a number of new Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) features are coming with next-gen Intel Xeon... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-GCC-Diamond-Rapids-ISA) 2024-10-22T13:30:49Z **NVIDIA R565 Linux Driver Beta Brings Improvements For Wayland, DMA-BUF & VKD3D**
The first NVIDIA R565 series Linux driver beta was released this morning in the form of the NVIDIA 565.57.01 driver release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-565.57.01-Linux-Beta) 2024-10-22T15:00:00Z **System76 Thelio Astra Reviewed: High-End ARM64 Developer Desktop**
System76 is announcing one of their most innovative and interesting products going back to their Launch Configurable Keyboard and HP Dev One collaboration: the System76 Thelio Astra. The Thelio Astra is a high-end ARM64 desktop system geared for developers with a focus on AI / STEM / self-driving technologies and powered by Ampere Computing and NVIDIA. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-thelio-astra) 2024-10-22T16:15:03Z **AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Now Available For Testing, Derived From CentOS Stream 10**
AlmaLinux Kitten 10 has been introduced today as what will be the next iteration of this community-based, RHEL/CentOS-derived enterprise-grade Linux distribution. AlmaLinux Kitten 10 is tracking the CentOS Stream 10 sources for what will eventually become the base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Kitten-10) 2024-10-22T18:22:26Z **Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia**
Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Russian-Linux-Maintainers-Drop) 2024-10-22T20:36:16Z **Rust-Written Rustls Now Reportedly Outperforming OpenSSL & BoringSSL**
Rustls was initially talked up as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees. But now besides the talked up advantages due to being written in Rust, it has reached the point of reportedly being faster than both OpenSSL and BoringSSL... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rustls-Faster-Than-OpenSSL) 2024-10-23T04:00:00Z **The Free Software Foundation Finally Has AI / Machine Learning Apps On Their Radar**
The Free Software Foundation announced on Tuesday they have begun work on "freedom in machine learning applications". Or in particular, a to-be-issued "statement" on free machine learning applications for software and the associated scripts and training data... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-Freedom-AI-ML-Software) 2024-10-23T10:16:04Z **Cloudflare Continues To Praise Open-Source OpenBMC**
It was just one and a half years ago that Cloudflare began rolling out OpenBMC on their massive array of servers to replace traditional proprietary Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware stacks. Since the end of last year they've been talking up their successes using OpenBMC and now as we approach two years of their OpenBMC use within production, they continue singing the praise of this open-source, Linux-based BMC software stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloudflare-OpenBMC-2024) 2024-10-23T10:07:03Z **Intel Upstreams Firmware For Newer WiFi Chipsets On Linux**
Intel has upstreamed the firmware for their "BlazarU" core to linux-firmware.git for improving the out-of-the-box wireless experience with newer Intel WiFi adapters... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-BlazarU-WiFi-Firmware) 2024-10-23T10:32:01Z **Linux 6.13 To Default To AMD P-State Driver For EPYC 9005 CPUs**
It was just earlier this week that AMD posted Linux patches to switch EPYC over to using the AMD P-State driver rather than the long-used generic ACPI CPUFreq driver. This should lead to better power efficiency out-of-the-box and is a change being made just for EPYC 9005 "Turin" CPUs and future server processors. Already it's looking like this change will be introduced for the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-EPYC-Linux-6.13) 2024-10-23T10:45:43Z **Intel Preps PXP GuC Auto-Teardown & Improvements For Old iGPUs With Linux 6.13**
Intel engineers this morning sent out their newest pull request of "drm-intel-gt-next" material to queue in DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window. There is a new feature enabled on newer Intel graphics hardware as well as some improvements for very old Intel integrated graphics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-PXP-GuC-Auto-Teardown) 2024-10-23T13:56:47Z **Significant CRC32C Throughput Optimization On The Way To The Linux Kernel**
Google engineer Eric Biggers has worked on some very nice performance optimizations for the crypto code within the Linux kernel such as faster AES-GCM for Intel and AMD CPUs, much faster AES-XTS disk/file encryption with modern CPUs, and many other optimizations over the years. His latest work is on enhancing the CRC32C crypto performance for x86/x86\_64 processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Faster-CRC32X-x86) 2024-10-23T14:53:24Z **Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support**
More than a decade ago the DTrace tracing framework from Sun Microsystems was one of the long sought features from Solaris desired by Linux developers. Oracle ended up porting DTrace to Linux over the years but without too much fanfare outside of Oracle Linux especially since the advent of (e)BPF on Linux and other tracing/debugging open-source advancements. With the recent DTrace 2.0, it's now built atop the BPF engine and other upstream kernel tracing features on Linux. Gent ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Linux-DTrace-2.0) 2024-10-23T18:00:47Z **Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted**
Following yesterday's news first featured on Phoronix of several Linux driver maintainers being de-listed from their maintainer positions within the mainline Linux kernel over their connections to Russia, Linus Torvalds has today commented on the matter... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs) 2024-10-23T19:00:00Z **Intel Core Ultra 7 "Lunar Lake" Performance Up By ~22% With ASUS Linux Fix**
Following the ASUS AIPT patch posting this weekend from an Intel Linux engineer that was analyzing my previously-published Lunar Lake results showing rather poor performance on the ASUS Zenbook S 14, the performance has been looking much better. On Monday I posted updated Intel Xe2 graphics results showing strong uplift now that the ASUS Lunar Lake laptop was operating in its standard mode rather than whisper mode. In today's article is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/lunar-lake-linux-improved) 2024-10-24T10:16:05Z **Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ Launches: 26 TOPS Accelerator For $110**
Following the launch of the Raspberry Pi AI Kit back during the summer with up to 13 TOPS performance for AI inference, the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ was announced today with up to 26 TOPS capabilities... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-AI-HAT-Plus) 2024-10-24T10:35:20Z **NVIDIA Shipping Around One Billion RISC-V Cores In Their 2024 Products**
Going back to 2016 we've known of NVIDIA beginning to use RISC-V to replace their Falcon micro-controller and other micro-controllers within their graphics processors to using this common open-source ISA. That use has continued to grow and an unofficial estimate now puts it at around one billion RISC-V cores shipping in 2024 NVIDIA chips... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-NVIDIA-One-Billion) 2024-10-24T12:36:42Z **AMD EPYC 9755 Performance On The Linux 6.11 & Linux 6.12 Kernels**
For the recently launched AMD EPYC 9005 series "Turin" processors there is good support out-of-the-box running on the likes of Linux 6.8 as found with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The one exception is if wanting to engage CPU power monitoring you need a RAPL/PowerCap patch that was just upstreamed in v6.12. But what about using a newer kernel for greater performance in light of all the upstream optimizations to the kernel in general? Here are some Linux 6 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-EPYC-9755-Linux-6.11-6.12) 2024-10-24T15:00:00Z **Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Delivers Strong Linux Performance**
Earlier this month Intel announced the Core Ultra 200S "Arrow Lake" processors and today they go on sale. In turn, the review embargo also lifts for these new desktop processors. Up first today on Phoronix is the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux performance review for this flagship 24-core desktop processor. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-core-ultra-9-285k-linux) 2024-10-24T17:15:15Z **Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel's "Compliance Requirements" Around Russian Sanctions**
When a number of Russian Linux developers were removed from their MAINTAINERS file in the Linux kernel, it was described as due to "compliance requirements" but vague in what those requirements entailed. Linus Torvalds then commented on the Russian Linux maintainers being de-listed and made it clear that they were done due to government compliance requirements / legal issues around Russia. Now today some additional light ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements) 2024-10-25T00:36:00Z **Intel Preps OA Sync, Panther Lake Workaround & Other New Graphics Code For Linux 6.13**
For the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle there is Xe2 Ultra Joiner and GPU temperature monitoring support along with initial Xe3 graphics support for integrated form with Panther Lake among the Intel graphics driver changes expected so far. Another batch of the Xe kernel graphics driver changes were submitted today for modern Intel graphics with this upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-More-Xe-DRM-Linux-6.13) 2024-10-25T10:44:49Z **Cloud Hypervisor 42 Released With SVE/SVE2 Support For AArch64 Guests**
Cloud Hypervisor 42.0 is out as the newest update of this open-source, Rust-based hypervisor that began as an Intel software project but is now developed by a number of different organizations from Arm to Microsoft... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloud-Hypervisor-42) 2024-10-25T10:55:30Z **FUTEX2 NUMA & Small Futexes Revived For Linux**
Back in 2020~2021 there was lots of talk and work around FUTEX2 for improving the Linux kernel's Futex implementation for fast user mutex. The FUTEX2 work was driven in large part for helping Steam Play / Wine gaming by better matching the behavior of Microsoft Windows with its WaitForMultipleObjects handling. While the initial code landed back in Linux 5.16, there's been other remaining FUTEX2 features still desired like variable-sized futexes and NUMA-awareness. Fina ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUTEX2-NUMA-Small-Futex) 2024-10-25T11:05:03Z **DRM Client Library Code Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.13**
The newest drm-misc-next pull request was submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window opening up in about one month's time... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Client-Library-Linux-6.13) 2024-10-25T13:00:23Z **Linux Support Continues For The Now-Canceled Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit For Windows**
While last week Qualcomm canceled their Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit as a $899 USD mini PC built for Windows 11 on ARM and powered by the X1 Elite SoC, the upstreaming Linux support for it is continuing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Snapdragon-X-Elite-Dev-Kit-Goes) 2024-10-25T13:55:20Z **AMDGPU Changes Readied For Linux 6.13: Runtime Repartitioning, Many Fixes**
A big batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel graphics and compute driver updates were mailed in for DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-AMDGPU-Repart) 2024-10-25T15:16:06Z **Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Linux Performance**
Yesterday for the Intel Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake launch date was my extensive look at the Core Ultra 9 285K under Ubuntu Linux for that 24-core desktop processor. Under focus today is the lower-tier Intel Core Ultra 5 245K with a large variety of Linux performance benchmarks for showing how this 14-core processor compares to prior Intel Core CPUs as well as the AMD Ryzen competition atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-core-ultra-5-245k-linux) 2024-10-25T20:30:01Z **Linux Fixes "Meltdown Lite" Mitigation Handling On Newer Zen 5 CPUs**
Linus Torvalds took to some coding himself today to fix a user-address masking non-canonical speculation issue. The Linux kernel needed an adaptation for this "Meltdown Lite" issue due to different behavior with the latest AMD Zen 5 processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Meltdown-Lite-Zen-5-Linux-Fix) 2024-10-26T10:29:02Z **KDE Fixing Many Bugs, Prepping New Plasma 6.3 Features**
KDE developers continue being very busy prepping more bug fixes for the Plasma 6.2.x series while continuing to work on new feature material for Plasma 6.3... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-More-Fixes-Plasma-6.2.2) 2024-10-26T10:41:41Z **Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns**
Following the recent concerns over Bitwarden potentially moving further away from open-source given SDK changes that appeared, Bitwarden has now further addressed the situation to ease the community concerns... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bitwarden-Code-Cleared-Up) 2024-10-26T13:21:42Z **ASUS WMI Fix Submitted For Linux 6.12-rc5 To Handle Lunar Lake Performance Issue**
Submitted today were a set of x86 platform driver fixes for merging ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc5 release due out on Sunday. For the most part mostly mundane fixes. But notable is an ASUS WMI fix to address the Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" performance issue I've pointed out now in several articles... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-rc5-ASUS-Platform) 2024-10-26T17:55:00Z **Vulkan 1.3.300 Delivers New Cooperative Matrix Extension From NVIDIA**
Vulkan 1.3.300 debuted on Friday with a handful of fixes and one new extension... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.300-Released) 2024-10-27T10:27:55Z **Linux NETFS Patches Help With CIFS Performance, Single Blob Objects**
The Linux NETFS code as a network file-system helper library is seeing patches to help enhance the read performance for solutions like CIFS as well as adding single blob object support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-NETFS-Better-Reads) 2024-10-27T11:01:26Z **Intel's PCIe Cooling Driver Ready For Linux 6.13 To Reduce Bandwidth When Running Hot**
For the past year Intel software engineers have been developing a PCIe cooling driver to reduce the PCIe link speed to cope with thermal issues. In the future with PCI Express 6.0 this driver may be further adapted to also reduce the PCIe link width when encountering thermal problems. This cooling driver is now ready for merging with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-PCIe-Cooling-Driver) 2024-10-27T11:30:00Z **Linux 6.12-rc5 Disabling Intel's Linear Address Masking "LAM" Due To Security Concerns**
Intel merged Linear Address Masking into the Linux kernel last year as a means of allowing user-space to store metadata within some bits of pointers without masking it out before use. LAM can be useful for virtual machines, sanitizers / profiling / memory tagging, and other uses. While the brand new Intel Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs support LAM, the Linux kernel is now disabling LAM out of security concerns... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Disabling-Intel-LAM) 2024-10-27T13:24:00Z **Linux Working On A Counter To Keep Track Of The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot**
Sent out in original patch form this past week and already iterated to a second version this Sunday, a new proposal is underway to introduce "hung\_task\_detect\_count" as a convenient means of tracking the number of times hung tasks are detected since boot... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-hung_task_detect_count) 2024-10-27T23:31:00Z **Linux 6.12-rc5 Released With Intel LAM Disabled, ASUS Lunar Lake Laptop Performance Fix**
Following a busy week of kernel drama stemming from the Russian sanctions impacting Linux maintainers, Linus Torvalds is out with the Linux 6.12-rc5 weekly test candidate... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-rc5-Released) 2024-10-28T04:00:00Z **Sway 1.10 Released With GPU Reset Recovery & Other Wayland Enhancements**
Sway 1.10 released on Sunday as the newest version of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor for the Linux desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sway-1.10-Released) 2024-10-28T10:25:49Z **Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q3 Brings Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake Support**
Intel has issued their newest quarterly feature release of their FFmpeg Cartwheel, which is their developer staging area of new video acceleration related patches for Intel graphics hardware that they are working to upstream within the widely-used, open-source FFmpeg library... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-FFmpeg-Cartwheel-2024Q3) 2024-10-28T12:28:10Z **Intel Preps Linux Driver For Upgraded Display Capabilities With New Hardware**
While the Linux 6.12 kernel enables Intel Xe2 Battlemage discrete GPU support out-of-the-box as a sign of its maturing state, there are a number of patches for the open-source Battlemage driver support that are ongoing. One of the areas seeing some patches recently are around enhancing the display features with Battlemage's upgraded capabilities. Plus there's ongoing work around next-gen Xe3 graphics too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Battlmage-More-Res) 2024-10-28T12:37:19Z **Raspberry Pi OS Now Using Wayland By Default On All Models**
Over the past year we have seen Raspberry Pi working a lot on Wayland support for the Raspberry Pi OS desktop and using it on their latest Raspberry Pi models. With today's new Raspberry Pi OS update, Wayland is being used by default across all Raspberry Pi devices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-OS-Wayland-Default) 2024-10-28T13:49:01Z **Qualcomm Adreno Rusticl-Based OpenCL Merged For Mesa 24.3**
Another feature to look forward to with this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release is the open-source Freedreno Gallium3D driver for Qualcomm Adreno hardware now supporting Rusticl-based OpenCL compute... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Freedreno-Rusticl-Mesa-24.3) 2024-10-28T14:12:27Z **Sched_ext Scheduler Idle Selection Being Extended For LLC & NUMA Awareness**
While the sched\_ext extensible scheduler code was merged for Linux 6.12, work on sched\_ext itself it is not over. New patches this weekend continue working on NUMA awareness for it with its default idle selection policy while similar work on CPU last level cache (LLC) awareness are slated for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/sched_ext-NUMA-Awareness) 2024-10-28T14:46:04Z **Firefox 132 Ready With Certificate Compression, Accelerated SVG Filter Primitives**
Mozilla Firefox 132.0 release builds are now available for Linux, macOS, and Windows for this newest monthly feature release to this open-source web browser... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-132) 2024-10-28T14:53:42Z **Trinity TDE R14.1.3 Lets Linux Users Still Enjoy The KDE 3.5 Desktop Experience**
The Trinity Desktop Environment as a still-maintained fork of the KDE 3.5 desktop software is out with a new point release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Trinity-TDE-R14.1.3-KDE3) 2024-10-28T16:56:04Z **PCIe TPH Coming With Linux 6.13 To Further Enhance 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance**
Going back to earlier in the year AMD Linux engineers have been prepping the kernel for PCI Express TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support that allows for hints that can be injected to improve latency and lowering traffic congestion when there are several possible cache locations on the server with the TPH noting the optimal location of a Transaction Layer Packet (TLP). This PCIe TPH support is set to be merged upstream with the forthcomin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PCIe-TPH-For-Linux-6.13) 2024-10-28T18:28:00Z **Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Memory DDR5 Performance Testing**
Following last week's launch testing of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 5 245K Arrow Lake desktop processors, the next area I've been exploring deeper has been the DDR5 memory performance including with CUDIMMs. Here's a closer look at the Core Ultra 9 285K performance under Linux while testing several different sets of memory and running Ubuntu 24.10. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arrow-lake-ddr5) 2024-10-29T00:34:15Z **KDE Plasma 6.3 To Improve XWayland Window Resizing**
KDE developer Vlad Zahorodnii is out with an insightful blog post today on how XWayland window resizing has been enhanced for Plasma 6.3 so that resizing X11 clients will now appear much more polished than the status quo... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.3-XWayland-Resize) 2024-10-29T10:00:47Z **AV1 Still Picture Encoding Merged For Mesa 24.3 Radeon Driver**
David Rosca working for AMD has continued to improve their open-source video acceleration support within Mesa. Merged today for Mesa 24.3 is the code within the Gallium3D video acceleration front-end and the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for handling AV1 still picture encode... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-AV1-Still-Picture-AVIF) 2024-10-29T10:12:58Z **Google's Flutter UI Toolkit Forked As Flock**
Google's open-source and cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit has been forked by community developers as Flock... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Flutter-UI-Flock-Fork) 2024-10-29T10:21:00Z **RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Device Generated Commands Support**
Thanks to Valve's Linux graphics team, VK\_EXT\_device\_generated\_commands is now supported by the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver with the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-VK-EXT-DGC) 2024-10-29T10:45:53Z **Linux Patches Aim To Further Lower Intel Sierra Forest Idle Power Use**
A set of patches are currently under review on the Linux kernel mailing list for helping to further lower idle power use for Xeon 6 Sierra Forest processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xeon-6-SRF-Idle-Lower-Deeper) 2024-10-29T11:00:00Z **RISC-V User-Space Pointer Masking Appears Ready For Linux 6.13**
It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle will be adding RISC-V support for user-space pointer masking and tagged address ABI... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-Pointer-Masking-Linux) 2024-10-29T11:16:08Z **Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features**
Fedora 41 is ready for release today as a wonderful update to this leading edge Linux distribution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Download) 2024-10-29T14:42:00Z **Crucial Pro DDR5-6400 32GB Kit Performance With Intel Arrow Lake**
Earlier this year Micron announced the Crucial Pro DDR5-6000 memory for AMD and Intel desktops and catering to gamers. With the newest AMD Ryzen 9000 series (Zen 5) and Intel Core Ultra Series 2 (Arrow Lake) processors out there and enjoying even faster memory, today Micron announced the Crucial Pro DDR5-6400 memory kits for greater performance. In advance of today's launch I have been testing the Crucial Pro DDR5-6400 32GB Kit (16GBx2) UDIMM Kit (CP ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/crucial-pro-ddr5-6400) 2024-10-29T17:47:53Z **Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years**
CVE-2024-9632 was made public today as the latest security vulnerability affecting the X.Org Server. The CVE-2024-9632 security issue has been present in the codebase now for 18 years and can lead to local privilege escalation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-CVE-2024-9632) 2024-10-29T18:04:07Z **Linux Use On Microsoft Azure Crosses 60%, AlmaLinux Now An Endorsed Distro**
For years there have been statements about how over half of the VMs running within the Microsoft Azure public cloud are Linux-based... In a new blog post today is the first time I am seeing Microsoft cite now "over 60%" Linux marketshare on Microsoft's cloud... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Azure-Endorses-AlmaLinux) 2024-10-29T18:30:17Z **Coreboot Issues Rebuttal To Recent Laptop Vendor Controversy**
Following the rather bizarre blog post two weeks ago of laptop vendor MALIBAL suggesting not supporting Coreboot due to their frustrating experiences dealing with Coreboot consulting firms, the Coreboot project itself has now issued a response... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-Rebuttal-MALIBAL) 2024-10-30T00:36:54Z **Intel Posts Updated Raptor Lake Microcode For Linux: Fixes Voltage Issue & Other Bugs**
Intel off their typical second Tuesday of the month patch regiment today posted new CPU microcode just for 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" and 14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh" processors for Linux systems. Notable with the updated Raptor Lake CPU microcode is the internal voltage handling fix for that well known problem plaguing many Raptor Lake owners plus two other fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-RPL-Microcode-Voltage) 2024-10-30T09:38:03Z **Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Adds Initial AI Feature**
Shotcut 24.10 is now available as the latest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editor built atop the MLT framework, Qt6, FFmpeg, SDL, and other software components... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Shotcut-24.10-Released) 2024-10-30T10:01:57Z **VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Support Approaching Upstream QEMU**
Support for making use of Vulkan with VirtIO-GPU while using QEMU could very soon be upstream... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VirtIO-GPU-Vulkan-QEMU) 2024-10-30T10:23:16Z **DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs**
DRM\_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for "Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle QR code error messages, monochrome logos, and other customization options. The AMDGPU driver has new patches available for expanding the DRM\_Panic support to all DCE/DCN-based graphics cards... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DCE-DCN-DRM-Panic) 2024-10-30T15:00:00Z **OpenPaX Announced As "Open-Source Alternative To GrSecurity" With Free Kernel Patch**
Enterprise security firm Edera today is announcing OpenPaX that they promoted in their advance press notice as a "new open-source alternative to GrSecurity." GrSecurity being the firm focused on providing out-of-tree Linux kernel patches focused in the name of security enhancements. With OpenPaX they are open-source and publicly available kernel patch for mitigating common memory safety errors and other system hardening... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Edera-OpenPaX-Announced) 2024-10-30T16:00:00Z **Benchmarks Of Google's Axion Arm-based CPU: Competitive Performance & Compelling Value**
Earlier this year Google announced Axion as their first Arm-based CPU for the Google Cloud. Today already they are taking Axion to general availability with the new C4A instances. These new C4A instances are advertised as offering up to 50% better performance and up to 60% better energy efficiency than their current generation x86 instance types. In this article are some of the first public independent performance benchmarks of the G ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/google-axion-c4a) 2024-10-30T20:02:39Z **Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" Development Opens - Defaulting To -O3 Optimizations**
Canonical has announced the formal state of the Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" development. Among other early changes are now defaulting to -O3 compiler optimizations rather than the default -O2 optimization level when building Debian packages... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.04-Plucky-Puffin) 2024-10-31T00:27:52Z **AMD "Cleaner Shader" Coming For GFX11.0.3 GPUs To Help Ensure User/App Isolation**
A new patch posted today for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver is introducing a "cleaner shader" explicitly for GFX11.0.3 GPUs like the Radeon 780M integrated graphics to help ensure that there is sufficient data isolation between different workloads running on the GPUs. The motivation isn't clear if there is some GFX11.0.3 security vulnerability, some AMD Linux customer particularly concerned about security on said GPUs, o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Cleaner-Shader-GFX11.0.3) 2024-10-31T11:10:00Z **Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch**
Linus Torvalds merged a patch on Wednesday that he authored that with reworking a few lines of code is able to score a 2.6% improvement within Intel's well-exercise "will it scale" per-thread-ops benchmark test case... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-2.6p-Faster-Scale-Patch) 2024-10-31T10:43:03Z **AMX-FP8 Support Upstreamed Into LLVM For Intel Diamond Rapids**
Intel compiler engineer Feng Zou has upstreamed AMX-FP8 support into the LLVM compiler stack. This FP8 extension to the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) is coming with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors alongside other new ISA extensions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-AMX-FP8-In-LLVM) 2024-10-31T10:33:00Z **SUSE's Agama Installer Adds QR Code To The Console & Other Improvements**
SUSE's Agama OS installer 10 was recently released as the newest feature iteration for this next-gen OS installer for SUSE/openSUSE... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SUSE-Agama-10-Installer) 2024-10-31T10:20:15Z **SVT-AV1 2.3 Brings More Performance Improvements: AVX-512 & LTO By Default, More Tuning**
SVT-AV1 2.3 is now available as the newest feature release to this leading open-source AV1 encoder. With SVT-AV1 2.3 there are yet more performance improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SVT-AV1-2.3) 2024-10-31T10:03:41Z **AMDVLK 2024.Q4.1 Adds A Few More Vulkan Extensions**
One month has passed since the AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 driver release while today has brought the AMDVLK 2024.Q4.1 release with a few new Vulkan API extensions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2024.Q4.1-Released) 2024-10-31T13:00:00Z **Fedora Stakeholders Debate Idea Of "-O3" Optimized Packages**
Following the announcement yesterday that Ubuntu 25.04 will default to the -O3 optimization level with GCC for its Debian package builds, Fedora stakeholders have begun debating the merits of switching to the -O3 optimization level or not instead of the existing -O2 optimization level default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Debates-O3-Packages) 2024-10-31T13:47:48Z **AMD Formally Announces Ryzen 7 9800X3D Specs - Should Be Great For Linux Creators**
AMD has been teasing the Ryzen 9000X3D Zen 5 CPUs with 3D V-Cache and today they formally announced the specs of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor that will begin shipping 7 November... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-7-9800X3D) 2024-10-31T16:26:21Z **AMD EPYC 9655 Benchmarks Show The Terrific Generational Gains With 5th Gen EPYC**
With the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" series launch earlier this month there was launch-day benchmark review results for the EPYC 9575F, EPYC 9755, and EPYC 9965 processors in looking at that frequency optimized SKU, the new flagship 128-core Turin "classic" core model, and the new flagship 192-core Turin "dense" core SKU, respectively. That's interesting for looking at the new 5th Gen AMD EPYC top-end wares but in comparing to 4th Gen EPYC also mean ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-9655) 2024-11-01T00:57:29Z **VMware Workstation Shifting From Proprietary Code To Using Upstream KVM**
This isn't an off-schedule April Fools' Joke or anything like that but an exciting sign of the times: VMware Workstation will be shifting off its proprietary base and onto leveraging the upstream Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for virtualization needs moving forward... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VMware-Workstation-KVM) 2024-11-01T00:48:26Z **COSMIC Desktop Alpha 3 Released With More Enhancements**
As a nice Halloween treat for Linux desktop users, System76 has published their third alpha version of the Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Desktop-Alpha-3) 2024-11-01T09:53:42Z **Academy Software Foundation Releases OpenVDB 12.0 Under New License**
The Academy Software Foundation that is made up of many different vendors released OpenVDB 12.0 as the newest major release to this sparse volume data structure library and tooling that is an Academy Award winning library started by DreamWorks Animation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASF-OpenVDB-12.0) 2024-11-01T10:08:09Z **Bcachefs Reigning In Bugs: Test Dashboard Failures Drop By 40% Over Last Month**
As part of the latest Bcachefs fixes pull request, lead developer Kent Overstreet has provided an update on the bug situation for this advanced copy-on-write open-source file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Failures-Drop-40p) 2024-11-01T10:24:21Z **Ubuntu Hoping To Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS**
Ubuntu developer Simon Quigley laid out the plans for hoping Ubuntu packages will move from Qt 5 to Qt 6 so that by the time of the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle in early 2026 that the older version of this graphical toolkit can be removed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Hopes-Removing-Qt-5) 2024-11-01T10:34:00Z **Intel Arrow Lake, AMD EPYC Turin & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Interesting October**
October is now in the books after writing 247 original news articles and another 24 Linux hardware reviews / featured multi-page benchmark articles. From the launches of Intel Arrow Lake and AMD EPYC 9005 to other interesting new hardware, the Russian Linux kernel drama, Linux 6.12 developments and early Linux 6.13 patches queuing in "-next" branches, October was an interesting month both for hardware and open-source software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/October-2024-Highlights) 2024-11-01T11:00:00Z **New Intel Diamond Rapids Patch For GCC Confirms AVX10.2-512, APX & Other ISA Features**
Intel software engineers have been very busy recently with upstreaming various elements of support into the Linux kernel, open-source compilers and more for the next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. Following the recent GCC prep patches for Diamond Rapids to work on the ISA additions around AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AMX-FP32, and others, a new patch was posted today for actually exposing the "-march=diamondrapids" com ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Diamond-Rapids-APX-AVX10) 2024-11-01T13:31:24Z **Google Chrome/Chromium Lands linux_drm_syncobj_v1 For Wayland Explicit Sync**
The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser code has merged support for linux\_drm\_syncobj\_v1 as the modern Wayland protocol for explicit buffer synchronization... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Chrome-linux-drm-syncobj) 2024-11-01T14:26:15Z **Valve Engineer Fixes Massive Performance Issue For RADV Driver With AMD FSR2**
With the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release there is a huge improvement coming for those using the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver with games leveraging AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-FSR2-Mesa-24.3-Fix) 2024-11-01T15:54:06Z **Ubuntu's Great Mainline Kernel PPA Hasn't Been Working Since Mid-September**
One of the very convenient features for Ubuntu Linux users who want to run the very newest upstream kernel releases or simply test a new kernel build for verifying bug fixes or functionality has been the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA. It's been around for years, backed by Canonical, and very convenient for fetching pre-built AArch64 / ARM / POWER / RISC-V / x86\_64 kernel binaries as Debian packages... With options of stable/test kernel ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Mainline-PPA-2024-Break) 2024-11-01T17:28:03Z **Wine 10.0 Release Plans Aim For Mid-January Release**
Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard has laid out plans for releasing Wine 10.0 around mid-January as the annual stable release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.0-Release-Plans) 2024-11-02T00:12:57Z **Steam On Linux Marketshare Hits 2.0% For October, AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers Approaches 75%**
Earlier this year and through July Steam on Linux was enjoying above a 2% marketshare thanks to the success of the Arch Linux powered SteamOS and Steam Deck offerings. But then for August and September Steam on Linux use was below 2%. After a 0.13% rise in October, Steam on Linux is back to sitting at a 2.00% marketshare... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-October-2024-Numbers) 2024-11-02T10:03:31Z **Xfce 4.20 Pre1 Pre-Release Published For Testing**
Right on schedule for releasing the Xfce 4.20 desktop in December, the "Pre1" pre-release was posted on Friday for testing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-4.20-Pre1-Released) 2024-11-02T10:20:00Z **Vulkan 1.3.301 Released With New Extension For HDR Vivid**
Vulkan 1.3.301 was published on Friday with the lone new extension this release being a rare contribution from Huawei adding HDR Vivid support with VK\_HUAWEI\_hdr\_vivid... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.301-HDR-Vivid) 2024-11-02T10:30:59Z **KDE Will Nicely Notify You When Apps Are Being Killed Due To Out-Of-Memory**
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary of interesting KDE changes in closing out October... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-OOM-Notifications) 2024-11-02T10:49:46Z **Intel Lands VVC VA-API Hardware Decoding Into FFmpeg**
Intel has integrated VVC VA-API hardware accelerated decoding support into the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VVC-VA-API-FFmpeg-Decode) 2024-11-02T12:44:15Z **Genode-Based Sculpt OS 24.10 Introduces Multi-Monitor Support**
Sculpt OS for what has been working to become a general purpose operating system built off the original Genode is out with a new feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Genode-Sculpt-OS-24.10) 2024-11-02T16:00:00Z **Cloudflare's Pingora 0.4 Rust Framework Released With Experimental Windows Support**
Cloudflare's Pingora Rust framework that was written as a replacement to Nginx and made publicly open-source earlier this year with a focus on building fast and reliable networked systems is out with its newest feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloudflare-Pingora-0.4) 2024-11-02T19:49:30Z **FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 Released To Work Toward This Next Release**
FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 is out today as the first tagged test snapshot in working toward this newest FreeBSD 14 point release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.2-Beta-1-Released) 2024-11-03T11:11:11Z **Apple Silicon OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Updated This Week For Mesa 24.3**
Alyssa Rosenzweig has pushed the latest Apple Silicon OpenGL "AGX Gallium3D" and Vulkan "Honeykrisp" code from the Asahi Linux development repository into the Mesa Git codebase ahead of this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-GL-VLK-Mesa-24.3-Okt-Sync) 2024-11-03T10:58:46Z **Snapdragon X1 Elite CPUFreq Support Revised In Latest Linux Patches**
While the mainline Linux kernel has begun seeing initial support for various Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops, various feature limitations are outstanding before these Qualcomm-powered laptops really become usable for daily use. For instance, just a few days ago the audio firmware was finally upstreamed to make setting up X1 Elite laptops easier. Another important feature as an example is CPUFreq driver support for CPU frequency scaling to ensur ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Snapdragon-X1-Elite-CPUFreq-V7) 2024-11-03T11:26:35Z **Nice Performance Gains With SVT-AV1 2.3 Encoding On The System76 Thelio Astra**
With this week's release of SVT-AV1 2.3 for open-source AV1 encoding citing significant performance improvements for running on ARM, I was eager to see how well this AV1 encoder would be performing on the new System76 Thelio Astra ARM developer desktop powered by Ampere Altra. Here are some benchmarks showing those big speed-ups for ARM-based AV1 encoding... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SVT-AV1-2.3-ARM-Performance) 2024-11-03T14:10:12Z **Linux Mint Working On Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework Computer**
The Linux Mint crew is out with their newest monthly status update that outlines the activities of this desktop Linux distribution over the course of October... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-Framework-Collab) 2024-11-03T14:30:00Z **AMD Heterogeneous CPU Design Topology Patches Coming For Linux 6.13**
The latest patches from AMD Linux engineers for working on x86 heterogeneous design identification were queued last week for introduction in the Linux 6.13 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Hetero-Topo-Linux-6.13) 2024-11-03T15:34:29Z **Rust-Based Redox OS Gets RISC-V Working, Also Now Booting On The Raspberry Pi 4**
The Redox OS open-source Rust-based operating system project is out with their newest monthly development update... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-For-October-2024) 2024-11-04T00:18:19Z **Linux 6.12-rc6 Released With That Latest Performance Optimization & Various Fixes**
Linus Torvalds has just issued the Linux 6.12-rc6 kernel release as we close in on the stable Linux 6.12 kernel release later in November... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-rc6) 2024-11-04T10:39:14Z **Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Launches For $60 USD, 720 x 1280 7-Inch Display**
Nine years after the Raspberry Pi Touch Display was announced as a 800 x 480 pixel LCD panel catering to the Raspberry Pi, today the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 was announced... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-Touch-Display-2) 2024-11-04T10:55:44Z **CachyOS Explores Optimizing Its Kernel With AutoFDO**
CachyOS continues to be a fascinating Arch Linux based distribution that pushes the boundaries of out-of-the-box performance with a variety of patches, optimization techniques, specialized package builds, and more. One of the latest areas they are exploring is making use of AutoFDO for their kernel builds... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-AutoFDO-Kernel) 2024-11-04T11:17:35Z **AMD Posts New Linux Mitigation Handling For SRSO/Inception**
AMD Linux engineer Borislav Petkov kicked off the new week by volleying a patch for adjusting the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO, a.k.a. "Inception") vulnerability mitigation handling for capabilities to be found with affected processors running on newer CPU microcode... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-New-SRSO-Inception-Linux) 2024-11-04T11:33:52Z **Platform Profile Support Coming For Newer Dell/Alienware Laptops With Linux 6.13**
Select newer Dell/Alienware laptops with a "WMAX" thermal interface will see ACPI Platform Profile support now exposed with the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-WMAX-Platform-Profile-6.13) 2024-11-04T12:00:00Z **F2FS File-System Adding Device Aliasing Feature For Nifty Uses**
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is adding a device aliasing file feature that could appear in the upcoming Linux v6.13 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/F2FS-Device-Aliasing) 2024-11-04T13:28:04Z **Fujitsu Monaka CPU Target Added To GCC 15 Compiler**
Fujitsu has upstreamed support for their next-gen "Monaka" Armv9 processor into the GNU Compiler Collection codebase in time for the GCC 15 release coming out early next year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fujitsu-Monaka-GCC-15) 2024-11-04T14:00:00Z **Manjaro Linux Working On "Manjaro Data Donor" As New Data Collection Tool**
Arch-based Manjaro Linux is working on Manjaro Data Donor "MDD" as a new data collection tool of its users. This is intended to succeed their former ping-based solution for user counting plus incorporate hardware/software data collection on users. Once deployed, this will be opt-out handling for the data collection... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-Linux-Data-Donor) 2024-11-04T17:01:00Z **Linux Preps New AMD ERAPS Feature With EPYC Turin To Benefit Performance**
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week and now queued already via tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch is support for a new AMD CPU feature we haven't heard about until now... ERAPS, the Enhanced Return Address Prediction Security... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ERAPS-Linux) 2024-11-04T18:22:09Z **Intel Releases x86-simd-sort 6.0 For Speedy AVX2/AVX-512 Sorting, PyTorch Now Using It**
The x86-simd-sort project from Intel has been an interesting open-source software effort for much faster number sorting by using AVX-512. There's been lightning fast number sorting with AVX-512 and AVX2 code paths also added to broaden the appeal in helping CPUs without AVX-512. Projects like Numpy have been making use of this library while today x86-simd-sort 6.0 was released and also comes a few days after PyTorch has begun using th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-simd-sort-6.0) 2024-11-04T18:57:00Z **TOUPUWAN 30-Slot Laptop/Tablet Storage Cart**
To clear up the ever-growing stack of laptops, I recently bought a TOUPUWAN 30-Slot Laptop/Tablet Storage Cart. This laptop/tablet storage cart can accommodate 32 devices in total while slots for up to 30 laptops/tablets 16.3-inches in size. It does have built-in power strips as well to easily facilitate charging of the devices while securely stored away but for my purposes I was just looking for something to better organize the mess of laptops I only occasionally p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/toupuwan-30-32-laptop-cart) 2024-11-04T19:02:05Z **Intel Releases x86-simd-sort 6.0 For Speedy AVX2/AVX-512 Sorting, PyTorch Now Using It**
The x86-simd-sort project from Intel has been an interesting open-source software effort for much faster number sorting by using AVX-512. There's been lightning fast number sorting with AVX-512 and AVX2 code paths also added to broaden the appeal in helping CPUs without AVX-512. Projects like Numpy have been making use of this library while today x86-simd-sort 6.0 was released and also comes a few days after PyTorch has begun using th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-simd-sort-6.0) 2024-11-05T01:24:56Z **Intel Panther Lake Display Support Squeezing Into Linux 6.13**
Queued up over the past month into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle has been initial support for Xe3 graphics to be found with Panther Lake processors. The initial Xe3 graphics driver support patches have been trickling in while the final drm-intel-next pull ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window has readied support for actually being able to light up a display connected to Xe3 LPD graphics with Panther Lake... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Panther-Lake-Display-6.13) 2024-11-05T10:51:54Z **LXQt 2.1 Released With New Wayland Session Component**
LXQt 2.1 is now available as the latest feature release to this Qt-based lightweight desktop environment. Most significant with LXQt 2.1 is the introduction of the lxqt-wayland-session component... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-2.1-Released) 2024-11-05T11:14:47Z **Linux 6.13 To Enhance Logic For Trusting Built-In Thunderbolt Controllers**
Due to the possibility of DMA attacks from connected Thunderbolt devices, Linux and other platforms have built up safeguards over the years and different security levels for Thunderbolt to better protect systems having this high speed interface exposing PCIe. With the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel, the logic of the kernel is being enhanced to better detect and trust built-in Thunderbolt controllers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Thunderbolt-Trust) 2024-11-05T11:36:10Z **Linux 6.13 To Drop Fieldbus Just Five Years After Being Merged**
Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus subsystem as a set of network protocols for real-time distributed control of automated industrial systems. But now five years later, Fieldbus is being removed from the mainline Linux kernel since the code hasn't been maintained... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Dropping-Fieldbus) 2024-11-05T16:33:07Z **Open-Source PowerVR Driver Being Extended For The Imagination BXS-4-64 MC1 GPU**
Upstreamed at the start of the year was the Imagination PowerVR open-source DRM kernel driver for newer Imagination Rogue GPUs. That upstream kernel driver is now being extended to cover the Imagination BXS-4-64 MC1 GPU... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PVR-Imagination-BXS-4-64-MC1) 2024-11-05T20:25:00Z **Power Determinism Mode Still Proves Beneficial For AMD EPYC 9005 Performance**
Typically in my launch-day Linux reviews of new AMD EPYC processors I try to include results both of the performance determinism (default) and power determinism modes available with these server processors since opting in to the power determinism mode can allow for additional performance uplift at the cost of slightly higher power costs. With the AMD EPYC 9575F / 9755 / 9965 benchmarks and review I didn't have a chance to complete all ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-9005-determinism) 2024-11-05T21:26:22Z **GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released For Testing**
The long elusive GIMP 3.0 image editor that is a free software alternative to Adobe Photoshop has finally reached the release candidate phase of development... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-RC1) 2024-11-06T10:59:15Z **Intel oneCCL 2021.14 Brings New Performance & Scalability Optimizations**
Intel's oneCCL open-source software that is the oneAPI Collective Communications Library focused on providing an efficient implementation of deep learning communication patterns is out with a new release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-oneCCL-2021.14) 2024-11-06T11:23:00Z **Lazy Preemption "PREEMPT_LAZY" Slated To Land In Linux 6.13**
Yet another exciting feature expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle is the introduction of the Lazy Preemption model... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Lazy-Preemption) 2024-11-06T11:56:06Z **Mesa 24.3 Delivers Big Performance Win For Aging AMD Navi 10 GPUs**
The upcoming Mesa 24.3 graphics driver stack will deliver a very nice performance win with the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver for aging RDNA1 "GFX10" graphics processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.3-NGG-Culling-RDNA1) 2024-11-06T13:30:46Z **Intel Prepping Linux For SNC6 With Six Nodes Per L3 Cache**
Patches for the Linux kernel over the past week are preparing for an SNC6 sub-NUMA clustering mode. This is the first time I've seen patches or mentions of an SNC6 mode compared to SNC 1/2/3/4 modes with existing processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Preps-Sub-NUMA-SNC6) 2024-11-06T14:00:00Z **AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache**
Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor as the first Zen 5 CPU released with 3D V-Cache, today the review embargo lifts. Here is a look at how this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 5 CPU with 64MB of 3D V-Cache is performing under Ubuntu Linux compared to a variety of other Intel Core and AMD Ryzen desktop processors. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-linux) 2024-11-06T17:47:11Z **systemd 257-rc1 Released With A Ton Of New Features & Changes**
Systemd 257-rc1 is out today as a big feature update for this release that brings many new features and other refinements to this key piece of the Linux operating system stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-257-rc1) 2024-11-06T20:02:07Z **Fresh Take On Linux Uncached Buffered I/O "RWF_UNCACHED" Nets 65~75% Improvement**
Linux I/O expert and block/IO\_uring maintainer Jens Axboe of Meta has recently revisited his patches around uncached buffered I/O. Back in 2019 the "RWF\_UNCACHED" effort was started by Axboe to address a throughput cliff in performance once the page cache fills up. That work faded away but Axboe recently took to crafting a set of fresh patches for implementing uncached buffered I/O and they are showing extremely promising results... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-RWF_UNCACHED-2024) 2024-11-06T21:22:39Z **GIMP 3.2 Will Aim To Be Out Within One Year Of GIMP 3.0**
Following the GIMP 3.0-RC1 tagging, the GIMP project has now put out their lengthy write-up outlining many of the new features to enjoy with this first release candidate of the much anticipated GIMP 3.0. Plus there is a few words about future releases when moving past the upcoming GIMP 3.0 stable... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.2-One-Year-Goal) 2024-11-07T01:41:14Z **AMD ROCm 6.2.4 Released With Radeon PRO V710 Support & Documentation Updates**
AMD ROCm 6.2.4 is out today as the newest point release for this Radeon and Instinct open-source GPU compute stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.2.4-Released) 2024-11-07T11:19:06Z **OpenCL Headers & SDK Updated For OpenCL 3.0.17**
Near the end of October OpenCL 3.0.17 was released as the newest maintenance update to this low-level compute API for cross-vendor GPUs and other accelerators. The OpenCL Headers and SDK have now been updated for the new revision... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCL-3.0.17-Headers-SDK) 2024-11-07T11:33:58Z **Mesa 24.3 Merges Vulkan FIFO Support**
Yet another feature merging into Mesa 24.3 with the code branching (feature freeze) yet to take place is Vulkan FIFO presentation mode support under Wayland... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.3-Vulkan-FIFO) 2024-11-07T11:53:51Z **Mesa RADV Driver Delivers Conformant Vulkan 1.3 Support For Old AMD GFX6/GFX7 GPUs**
While old Radeon GFX6/GFX7 era graphics processors are no longer actively supported by AMD on Windows and haven't been for quite a while, under Linux with the upstream open-source driver stack they remain supported and still enjoying improvements in large part from common code. The most recent fascinating aspect is the old AMD GFX6/GFX7 era GPUs seeing official Vulkan 1.3 support that has been deemed conformant by Khronos... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-GFX6-GFX7-Vulkan-1.3) 2024-11-07T11:42:53Z **Haiku Enjoyed A Busy October Implementing More Features**
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS has remained very active implementing more features and fixes as we approach the end of 2024... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-October-2024) 2024-11-07T13:39:00Z **FreeBSD Reduces OS Support From 5 To 4 Years, Continues Collaboration With AMD**
The FreeBSD project issued today their Q3'2024 progress report to outline enhancements made to this open-source BSD operating system over the prior quarter... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-2024-Q3-Report) 2024-11-07T15:19:40Z **Linux 6.13 To Allow Controlling Zero RPM Feature For Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs**
Sent out yesterday was an AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver pull request with the last few feature additions and patches slated for the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. Alongside other AMD kernel graphics driver updates, the new driver code with Radeon RX 7000 series RDNA3 graphics cards will finally allow controlling the zero RPM fan feature under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-AMDGPU-Zero-Fan) 2024-11-07T17:37:30Z **NVIDIA GH200 Grace CPU vs. AMD EPYC 9005 Turin CPU Performance**
With the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" testing over the past month since launch I have looked at how well the new EPYC Turin CPUs compete against Intel Xeon, how Turin Dense dominates in performance and power efficiency to AmpereOne at 192 cores, and the generational uplift from EPYC Genoa to Turin at the same core counts, among other Turin performance benchmark tests. Up for comparison today is a look at how the NVIDIA Grace CPU performance within the GH200 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-grace-epyc-turin) 2024-11-08T01:39:00Z **Intel Linux Patch Would Report Outdated CPU Microcode As A Security Vulnerability**
A patch posted on Thursday by one of Intel's long-time Linux kernel engineers would begin treating outdated Intel CPU microcode as a security vulnerability that would be reported to user-space via the existing sysfs vulnerabilities reporting... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Intel-Old-Microcode-Vuln) 2024-11-08T10:57:49Z **AMX-AVX512 Support Merged For LLVM Clang 20 Compiler**
As the latest on the compiler enablement front for Intel's next-gen Xeon "Diamond Rapids processors, LLVM Git has merged support for the AMX-AVX512 instructions for next spring's Clang 20 compiler release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMX-AVX512-Merged-LLVM-Clang-20) 2024-11-08T11:14:07Z **Mesa 24.3 Code Branched, Mesa 25.0 Enters Development**
Mesa 24.3 feature development is now over and Mesa 25.0 has entered development with Mesa Git... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.3-Branched) 2024-11-08T11:40:24Z **Intel Spots A 3888.9% Performance Improvement In The Linux Kernel From One Line Of Code**
Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-3888.9-Performance) 2024-11-08T12:00:00Z **Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation**
Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the same level as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation Edition... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Promoted) 2024-11-08T14:00:00Z **Google Axion CPU With GCE C4A vs. AWS Graviton4 Performance**
Last week Google announced the general availability of their C4A instances powered by their in-house Axion processors. I delivered launch-day benchmarks looking at the Google Axion CPU performance with the C4A instances compared to other Google Cloud instance types powered by Ampere Altra and Intel Xeon. In this article is a look at how the Google Axion processor performance compares to the competing Amazon/AWS Graviton4 processor. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/google-axion-graviton4) 2024-11-08T16:33:28Z **Linux Fix Pending For Annoying Intel Lunar Lake Laptop Problems**
A patch is working its way to the mainline Linux kernel for addressing an annoyance affecting new Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Lunar-Lake-Monitor-Bug) 2024-11-08T17:02:22Z **OpenZFS 2.3-rc3 Adds JSON Output For Commonly Used Commands**
OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release as a big step forward for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.3-rc3) 2024-11-09T00:08:08Z **Wine 9.21 Brings DirectPlay Network Enhancements, I/O Completion Fixes**
Following a one week delay, Wine 9.21 has been released as the latest development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems. We are also closing in on the approaching Wine 10.0 stable release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.21-Released) 2024-11-09T01:34:44Z **Mesa 24.3-rc1 Released With Big Improvements For AMD Radeon & Intel Graphics**
The belated first release candidate of Mesa 24.3 is now available for testing of the upgraded OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers commonly used on Linux systems and elsewhere... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.3-rc1-Released) 2024-11-09T10:57:15Z **KDE's Info Center Now Shows Multi-GPU Information, Plasma 6.3 Bringing UI Refinements**
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development recap of all the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have landed over the past week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Info-Center-Multi-GPUs) 2024-11-09T11:10:00Z **Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0 Update Pushes Additions For Intel, AMD & Arm**
Microsoft overnight released the newest version of their Azure Linux 3.0 in-house Linux distribution that is used by a variety of internal services at the company as well as external customers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Azure-Linux-3.0-Nov) 2024-11-09T13:16:15Z **New Patches Aim To Optimize Context Switching With Two Improvements**
A set of Friday night patches provide for some exciting context switching optimizations to the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2024-Optimize-Ctx-Switch) 2024-11-09T13:40:00Z **Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs**
Friday saw a final round of "drm-misc-next" feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. The DRM Panic code continues to be enhanced for improving this "Blue Screen of Death" like experience on the Linux desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-DRM-Panic-Nouveau) 2024-11-09T14:32:21Z **NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features**
Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Wayland-Driver-Plans-24) 2024-11-09T15:19:30Z **Hyprland 0.45 Compositor Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping For Floating Windows**
Hyprland 0.45 released today as the newest version of this Wayland compositor focused on being an independent, very customizable, and dynamic tiling compositor... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.45-Wayland) 2024-11-09T21:53:38Z **Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates**
Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the "Bookworm" release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug fixes included as part of the assortment of package updates... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-12.8-Released) 2024-11-10T11:23:05Z **Linux Support For Apple's Latest Magic Trackpad USB-C Model**
A patch is pending for enabling support for the USB-C model of Apple's latest Magic Trackpad input device under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2024-Apple-Magic-Trackpad) 2024-11-10T11:31:50Z **Niri 0.1.10 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings Many Improvements**
If this weekend's release of Hyprland 0.45 doesn't suit your fancy, Niri is also out this weekend with a new feature release. Niri is the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for an interesting Linux desktop experience... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-0.1.10-Wayland-Released) 2024-11-10T11:45:05Z **Linux Support For Apple's Latest Magic Trackpad USB-C Model**
A patch is pending for enabling support for the USB-C model of Apple's latest Magic Trackpad input device under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2024-Apple-Magic-Trackpad) 2024-11-10T12:13:12Z **Wine-Staging 9.21 Fixes Some Old Game Crashes & Hangs Due To DirectMusic**
Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-9.21) 2024-11-10T12:26:05Z **Linux Support For Apple's Latest Magic Trackpad USB-C Model**
A patch is pending for enabling support for the USB-C model of Apple's latest Magic Trackpad input device under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2024-Apple-Magic-Trackpad) 2024-11-10T13:00:00Z **Debcow Optimizing Debian Packages For Copy-On-Write File-Systems**
Debcow is an experimental implementation of deploying Debian packages on copy-on-write file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs. Debcow adapts DPKG to use reflinks for installing packages. With reflinking to the file contents from the Debian package archives rather than copying of files, it can lead to a dramatic speed-up of installing Debian packages: as much as 6x faster on CoW file-systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debcow-Debian-DEBs-CoW-FS) 2024-11-10T14:00:41Z **Linux Optimization Patches Significantly Speed-Up Debuggers Using /proc/kcore**
A set of Linux kernel patches posted on Friday by Meta/Facebook provide for sizable performance optimizations for applications leveraging /proc/kcore such as for debuggers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Faster-Dragn-proc-kcore) 2024-11-10T17:24:27Z **Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Pulls In THP Shrinker & AMD Cache Optimizer**
The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution has issued its November 2025 media refresh. Notable this time are pulling a few performance-related patches into its kernel build... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-November-2024) 2024-11-10T22:36:58Z **Linux 6.12-rc7 Released: Linux 6.12 Stable On Track For Release Next Sunday**
Linus Torvalds just christened the Linux 6.12-rc7 kernel today for what will hopefully be the last release candidate before declaring Linux 6.12 stable next week Sunday... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-rc7-Released) 2024-11-11T11:10:21Z **PHPStan 2.0 Released For Leading PHP Static Analyzer**
PHPStan 2.0 is out today as what is the best open-source static analyzer for the PHP programming language... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PHPStan-2.0-Released) 2024-11-11T11:22:32Z **Servo Browser Engine Seeing Many Performance Optimizations & SubtleCrypto API**
The Rust-written Servo browser web layout engine project is out with its October 2024 status update that provides insight to their development activities the past several weeks... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-October-2024) 2024-11-11T11:35:00Z **Intel Diamond Rapids "-march=diamondrapids" Merged Into GCC 15**
The Intel Diamond Rapids target has been merged in time for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to allow for "-march=diamondrapids" targeting for leveraging the array of new CPU ISA additions found with these next-gen Xeon processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Diamond-Rapids-March-GCC) 2024-11-11T11:52:33Z **Linux 6.13 Rust Support Allowing For In-Place Modules**
Set to be merged during the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window is support with the Rust programming language infrastructure for allowing in-place kernel modules... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Rust-InPlaceModule) 2024-11-11T14:15:52Z **Intel Adapting Energy Aware Scheduling "EAS" To P-State Driver For Lunar Lake**
As another effort for boosting the energy efficiency and behavior of Intel Core platforms with a mix of energy efficient "E" and performance "P" cores, a set of patches were posted Friday night for adapting Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) to the Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver with a focus on providing better energy efficient performance initially for Lunar Lake SoCs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-P-State-EAS-Experimental) 2024-11-11T14:52:31Z **Basic Support For Many Pre-M1 Apple Devices Coming To Linux 6.13**
While not as exciting as if it were Apple M3/M4 device support hitting the upstream mainline Linux kernel, but for those with some older Apple (pre-M1) devices around, support for a number of older SoCs and boards is set to arrive with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Better-Apple-Pre-M1) 2024-11-11T15:10:00Z **Microsoft Announces Open-Source Hyperlight For Embedded VMM Within Linux/Windows Apps**
Microsoft last month announced the open-source Rust-written OpenHCL for running confidential Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP virtual machines. Today Microsoft is announcing another interesting open-source, Rust-based project in the virtualization space: Hyperlight. Microsoft's Hyperlight project is an embed-friendly, lightweight VMM for use within Linux and Windows applications... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Hyperlight-Rust-VMM) 2024-11-11T18:11:57Z **Fedora Stakeholders Debate Concerns Over "Karma" Term For Their Updates System**
The latest terminology within the Fedora camp causing concern is "karma" that's long been used for conveying feedback around package updates with their Bodhi software used for gating Fedora Linux package updates... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Bodhi-Karma-2024) 2024-11-11T18:55:50Z **Memtest86+ 7.20 Adds Support For Intel Arrow Lake & AMD Zen 5**
Memtet86+ 7.0 debuted back in January while now as we approach the end of 2024, Memtest86+ 7.20 is now available as the latest significant update to this open-source memory tester commonly used on Intel and AMD systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Memtest86-Plus-7.20) 2024-11-11T19:08:00Z **DXVK 2.5 Brings Memory Management Rewrite & Other Improvements**
DXVK 2.5 was just released as the newest version of this open-source project implementing Direct3D APIs atop the Vulkan API for better handling of Windows games on Linux systems as used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-2.5-Released) 2024-11-12T10:59:16Z **GCC 15 Lands New Optimization For AMD Zen 4 & Zen 5 CPUs**
Merged today for the upcoming GCC 15 stable release is a new "X86\_TUNE\_AVX512\_TWO\_EPILOGUES" tuning optimization that is enabled by default for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-AVX512-Two-Epi-AMD-Zen-5) 2024-11-12T11:30:00Z **AMD's Ninth Iteration Of Their XDNA Linux Driver Posted For Ryzen AI**
Yesterday brought the eighth and ninth iteration of the AMD XDNA Linux kernel driver posted for review for enabling the Ryzen AI branded NPUs found in their recent SoCs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-XDNA-Linux-Driver-v9) 2024-11-12T11:15:17Z **Red Hat & Intel Developing "Climatik" For Power Capping AI In The Data Center**
Red Hat in cooperation with Intel, Bloomberg and IBM has been developing the Climatik open-source project as a means of power capping AI use within the data center for better energy efficiency and sustainability... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Climatik) 2024-11-12T12:00:00Z **Mesa 25.0 Clover OpenCL Drops Support For NIR Drivers**
As part of the transition to eventually drop the long dormant Clover OpenCL state tracker from Mesa's Gallium3D codebase in favor of the modern OpenCL Rusticl Rust-written driver, Mesa 25.0 has ended Clover support for NIR-based drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.0-Clover-Drops-NIR) 2024-11-12T13:26:55Z **Red Hat Acquiring Neural Magic To Bolster Open-Source AI Offerings**
Red Hat announced today they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Neural Magic, an AI software company behind the likes of DeepSparse and nm-vllm... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Neural-Magic) 2024-11-12T14:30:00Z **GNOME Mutter Lands Improved GPU Selection Logic For Laptops**
Merged today to GNOME's Mutter compositor is improved logic for selecting the graphics processor to treat as the primary one within multi-GPU laptops... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Multi-GPU-eDP) 2024-11-12T16:10:00Z **Early Benchmarks: AMD EPYC 9005 Performance & Power Efficiency To Lead Further With Linux 6.13**
One of the many changes to look forward to with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle is the AMD P-State driver to be used by default with the new EPYC 9005 series processors. While AMD Ryzen CPUs for a while now have been defaulting to the modern AMD P-State driver that makes use of ACPI CPPC platform support for allowing better power efficiency, AMD EPYC CPUs have kept to using the generic ACPI CPUFreq frequency scaling ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-9005-pstate) 2024-11-12T17:42:45Z **Intel Releases New CPU Microcode For Two New Security Advisories**
It's the second Tuesday of the month and this Patch Tuesday brings new CPU microcode for mitigating the latest Intel processor security vulnerabilities and updates to some previously disclosed issues... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-November-2024-CPU-Micro) 2024-11-12T21:17:52Z **Intel Idle Support For Granite Rapids D Going Into Linux 6.13**
The "intel\_idle" driver provides CPU idle time management for Intel processors on Linux for helping to put the processor into low-power states in conjunction with the MWAIT instruction. With the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel, the Granite Rapids D support for the Intel Idle driver is set to be merged... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Idle-Granite-Rapids-D) 2024-11-13T11:15:21Z **AMD Continues Backing AlmaLinux For Community Enterprise Linux OS**
The AlmaLinux operating system project that was started from the fallout of the RHEL/CentOS development shift several years ago has once again courted AMD as a sponsorship of this community enterprise Linux operating system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AlmaLinux-2024) 2024-11-13T11:38:29Z **Uncached Buffered IO Is Performing Great, Working Now On Btrfs / EXT4 / XFS**
As covered last week Linux I/O expert Jens Axboe has been taking a fresh pursuit of uncached buffered I/O for Linux. This "RWF\_UNCACHED" work was originally started back in 2019 while a renewed effort around it is showing ~65% faster read/write performance and so far has been extended to work across EXT4, Btrfs, and XFS file-systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Uncached-Buffered-IO-2024) 2024-11-13T11:55:02Z **NVIDIA MLX5 Introducing Data Direct Placement "DDP" In Linux 6.13 For Boosting Bandwidth**
The NVIDIA MLX5 driver for NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-5 network adapters is preparing to introduce a new Data Direct Placement "DDP" feature with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-MLX5-DDP-Linux) 2024-11-13T13:21:22Z **Intel's Zswap IAA Compress Batching Work Is Very Interesting For Linux Performance**
The Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) found in various Xeon SKUs since Sapphire Rapids can be of big benefit to Linux servers/workstations with a Linux kernel patch series that has been in the works to provide Zswap IAA compress batching... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Zswap-IAA-Compress-Batch) 2024-11-13T14:20:46Z **GNU C Library Merges Support for getrandom vDSO**
Back in Linux 6.11 support for getrandom() in the vDSO was upstreamed for much better performance in providing speedy yet secure random number generation (RNG) needs. Since Linux 6.11 getrandom in the vDSO has expanded to more CPU architectures and now there's a notable user-space user ready to go: the GNU C Library "glibc" support was merged... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/glibc-getrandom-vDSO-Merged) 2024-11-13T15:30:01Z **RISC-V Motherboard For Framework 13 Pricing Starts At $368 In Early Access, $928 For Laptop**
Framework Computer has been promoting a RISC-V motherboard option for their Framework Laptop 13 to complement their existing Intel Core and AMD Ryzen motherboard options. This RISC-V motherboard is being developed in cooperation with DeepComputing. Early access pricing and more details on this quad-core StarFive JH7110 powered mainboard for the Framework 13 have now been announced... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-Framework-Early-Access) 2024-11-13T18:10:00Z **Apple M4 Mac Mini With macOS vs. Intel / AMD With Ubuntu Linux Performance**
Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon. The new Mac Mini in particular is interesting for under $600 starting out with the all re-designed Mac Mini with 10-core M4 and now the base model having 16GB of memory. It will take some time before there is any reasonable Linux support on the M4 hardware with Asahi Linux, but for those curious about ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/apple-m4-intel-amd-linux) 2024-11-13T18:03:53Z **Ubuntu 25.04 To Further Enhance Its Installer, Aims For Linux 6.14 Kernel**
Canonical's Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop, Oliver Smith, has shared some early roadmap plans for the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.04-Early-Plans) 2024-11-13T21:20:03Z **Mesa 24.3-rc2 Brings Fixes For Intel & NVK Drivers**
Last week Mesa 24.3 was finally branched and Mesa 24.3-rc1 subsequently issued for getting the release process kicked off for this quarterly 3D graphics driver feature release. Out today is Mesa 24.3-rc2 with an initial batch of fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.3-rc2) 2024-11-14T00:15:08Z **AMD Developing Next-Gen Fortran Compiler Based On Flang, Optimized For AMD GPUs**
AMD today went public with details on the "AMD Next-Gen Fortran Compiler" as a new Fortran compiler they are working on based on LLVM's Flang... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Next-Gen-Fortran-Compiler) 2024-11-14T11:07:57Z **Bcachefs Squeezes More Fixes Into Linux 6.12**
Ahead of the expected final Linux 6.12 stable kernel release this weekend, a last round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted today for this next kernel version... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Fixes-Linux-6.12-Final) 2024-11-14T11:20:34Z **Intel Touch Host Controller "THC" Driver Support Being Worked On For Linux**
The newest Linux driver being developed by Intel is for the Touch Host Controller (THC) as a new high performance input tech for enhancing touch screen, touch pad, and stylus input handling... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Touch-Host-Controller) 2024-11-14T11:35:49Z **Linux To Allow Disabling TPM PCR Integrity Protection Due To Performance Bottleneck**
Linux 6.10 introduced TPM bus encryption and integrity protection for enhancing the Trusted Platform Module support to protect against interposers from compromising them with TPM sniffing attacks. There is now a new option being added to opt-out of this protection due to a discovered performance bottleneck... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-TPM-Disable-PCR-Integrity) 2024-11-14T12:02:16Z **Linux 6.13 To Tune Intel Granite Rapids For Better Performance Out-Of-The-Box**
A patch queued yesterday ino the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window will tune Intel Xeon Granite Rapids processors for better performance out-of-the-box... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Granite-Rapids-EPP) 2024-11-14T13:39:19Z **AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver To Be Merged For Linux 6.13**
Last month AMD Linux engineers posted patches for a 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for Linux that allows the user to communicate their cache vs. frequency preference depending upon workload and for the 3D V-Cache processors where some CCDs have the larger cache but not all. That driver is now ready for appearing in the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-3DV-Optimizer-Linux-6.13) 2024-11-14T15:26:30Z **Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Enters Beta With Many New Features & Updates**
The first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) was released on Wednesday with a wide variety of new/updated packages, new features, and other changes over RHEL 9... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-RHEL-10-Beta) 2024-11-14T15:52:15Z **Supermicro H13SSL-N For AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" 1P Servers**
While it's difficult still finding Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" motherboards/servers widely available at Internet retailers/distributors, when it comes to the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors that launched just last month, there is better availability thanks in large part to leveraging the existing SP5 socket. For those wanting to assemble a single socket AMD EPYC 9005 series server, one of the readily available options in the retail channel is the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/supermicro-h13ssln-epyc-turin) 2024-11-14T17:10:40Z **Upstream Linux Developers Take Aim At TUXEDO's Out-Of-Tree Drivers**
A new patch series posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list would block kernel modules/drivers from TUXEDO Computers from accessing GPL-only symbols in the kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Drivers-Taint-Patches) 2024-11-14T18:02:42Z **OpenMP 6.0 Released With An Emphasis On Easier Parallel Programming**
The OpenMP Architecture Review Board announced from SC24 that OpenMP 6.0 is now available as a major upgrade to the OpenMP specification for multi-process programming within C / C++ / Fortran. A big emphasis on OpenMP 6.0 is making it easier for developers to embrace... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMP-6.0-Released) 2024-11-15T00:00:00Z **Khronos SYCL Being Updated To Increase Appeal For HPC & Scientific Computing**
In addition to the release today of OpenMP 6.0 ahead of the SC24 supercomputing conference in Atlanta, over at The Khronos Group they have provided an update on upcoming SYCL improvements to benefit high performance computing (HPC) and scientific computing applications... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Khronos-SYCL-HPC-SC24) 2024-11-15T11:08:12Z **SDL3 Improves Steam Controller Support, Now Enabled By Default**
A number of Steam Controller improvements have been merged for SDL, this widely-used hardware/software abstraction layer that is common to cross platform games. Among the latest Steam Controller improvements in SDL are enabling the support by default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-Steam-Controller-Default) 2024-11-15T11:23:17Z **Linux Patches Add Support For New "Phone Link" Hotkey On Latest ThinkPads**
Patches posted on Thursday for the Linux kernel add support for the newest hotkey being found on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops... The "Phone Link" hotkey for launching the Microsoft Phone Link software for linking your Android/iOS smartphone to your laptop. This hotkey can be adapted for similar purposes on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Phone-Link-Hotkey) 2024-11-15T11:39:47Z **GCC 15 Adds Option For Arm Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Code Generation**
GCC 15 feature development is soon wrapping up to focus on bug fixing before releasing GCC 15.1 as stable in the early months of 2025. One of the latest features to make it in the compiler codebase is code generation support around Arm Guarded Control Stack (GCS) functionality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15-Arm-GCS-Code-Generation) 2024-11-15T11:50:02Z **AMD Releases ZenDNN 5.0 For Deep Neural Network Library Optimized For Zen 5 EPYC**
AMD ZenDNN 5.0 was rolled out this morning as the newest version of this deep neural network library that is compatible with Intel's oneDNN APIs and infrastructure. ZenDNN 5.0 is now optimized for AMD Zen 5 processors such as the EPYC 9005 series. ZenDNN 5.0 also ships performance enhancements for generative large language models (LLMs) with its PyTorch plug-in... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZenDNN-5.0-Released) 2024-11-15T13:25:15Z **Google Posts Patches Further Speeding Up Linux Async Device Suspend & Resume**
Google engineer Saravana Kannan has posted a set of patches to better optimize async device suspend and resume handling within the Linux kernel. With thesep atches there are "significant improvements" to async device suspend/resume with testing being done on a Google Pixel 6 smartphone but other devices stand to benefit too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Faster-Async-Suspend-Resume) 2024-11-15T14:30:54Z **Linux 6.12 Preps For Release With Real-Time, Sched_Ext, Stable Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5**
The Linux 6.12 kernel is expected to be released this coming Sunday, 17 November, barring any last minute issues that would force the stable kernel to be diverted to the following Sunday. Linux 6.12 is delivering many exciting new features and beyond that it's all the more exciting with it expected to be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel version... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-Feature-Reminder) 2024-11-15T14:46:36Z **GNOME Mutter Switches To High Priority KMS Thread To Avoid Crashes**
The GNOME Mutter compositor has switched its KMS thread priority from a real-time value over to high priority to workaround a situation where the GNOME Shell / Mutter could crash or see its process killed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-High-Priority-KMS-Thread) 2024-11-15T15:12:30Z **Linux 6.13 Very Exciting With New Feature Code For AMD EPYC Zen 5, Intel Panter Lake**
While Linux 6.12 should be out this weekend with its many exciting features, following that will mark the start of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle with what will be the first stable kernel release of 2025... Already there is a lot of exciting feature work expected to land during the Linux 6.13 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Features-Early) 2024-11-15T15:49:30Z **Linux 6.13 Very Exciting With New Feature Code For AMD EPYC Zen 5, Intel Panther Lake**
While Linux 6.12 should be out this weekend with its many exciting features, following that will mark the start of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle with what will be the first stable kernel release of 2025... Already there is a lot of exciting feature work expected to land during the Linux 6.13 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Features-Early) 2024-11-15T16:41:53Z **Linux 6.13 To Expand Atomic Write Support To EXT4 & XFS**
Prominent Linux developer Christian Brauner with Microsoft has begun sending out various pull requests of VFS feature changes for the imminent Linux 6.13 merge window. One of the interesting early pull requests is the VFS untorn writes series with getting atomic writes support enabled for the EXT4 and XFS file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-VFS-Untorn-Writes) 2024-11-15T18:44:08Z **Tmpfs Adding Case Insensitive Support For Wine / Steam Play & Flatpaks**
In addition to the EXT4 and XFS atomic write support, another interesting pull request sent in today by Microsoft's Christian Brauner is adding case-insensitive file/folder support for the Tmpfs file-system to benefit use-cases like Wine / Steam Play compatibility layers and sandboxing/container facilities like Flatpak... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Tmpfs-Case-Folding) 2024-11-16T01:25:30Z **systemd 257-rc2 Released With New systemd-keyutil Tool**
Released last week was systemd 257-rc1 while succeeding that already is systemd 257-rc2 and it comes with a new tool: systemd-keyutil... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-257-rc2) 2024-11-16T11:22:05Z **KDE Developers Spent The Week Fixing Bugs & Polishing**
While Plasma 6.3 feature development is continuing, KDE developers this week spent more time fixing bugs and polishing up existing code for ensuring a solid foundation to this open-source desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.3-Nov-Progress) 2024-11-16T11:39:15Z **GCC 15 Moving C Default Language Version To C23**
The GCC 15 compiler on Friday switched its default C language version from the GNU dialect of C17 to the current C23 standard... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15-Default-C23) 2024-11-16T11:56:00Z **GCC 15 Moves C Default Language Version To C23**
The GCC 15 compiler on Friday switched its default C language version from the GNU dialect of C17 to the current C23 standard... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15-Default-C23) 2024-11-16T11:52:35Z **Linux 6.13 Introducing New Rust File Abstractions**
Alongside the VFS pull requests on Friday for case insensitive Tmpfs support and atomic writes for EXT4 and XFS, Christian Brauner also submitted a pull request for introducing some new file abstractions for the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Rust-File-Abstract) 2024-11-16T13:37:40Z **Rustls 0.23.17 Brings More Performance Improvements**
Rustls 0.23.17 is out today as the newest version of this modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and a great alternative to the likes of OpenSSL... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rustls-0.23.17-Released) 2024-11-16T14:51:17Z **TUXEDO Computers Relicenses Some Of Their Drivers To GPLv2**
Following the proposed patches this week to adjust the Linux kernel's module loader to treat the TUXEDO Computers drivers as proprietary due to being GPLv3 licensed rather than GPLv2 to jive with the rest of the upstream kernel code, some of the TUXEDO drivers have now been re-licensed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Some-Drivers-GPLv2) 2024-11-16T18:21:57Z **Google Engineer Proposes "Page Detective" As New Kernel Debugging Tool**
Google software engineer Pasha Tatashin has proposed Page Detective as a new kernel debugging tool that is able to provide greater insight around the usage and mapping of physical memory pages... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Page-Detective-RFC) 2024-11-17T01:26:59Z **Bcachefs Brings Self-Healing Work & Better Reflink Repair For Linux 6.13**
Bcachefs has now joined the party of various kernel components sending in preemptive pull requests ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window that is expected to open following the expected Linux 6.12 release on Sunday... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Linux-6.13) 2024-11-17T10:33:35Z **Archinstall 3.0 Overhauls The Text-Based Arch Linux Installer**
Archinstall is the convenient text/CLI-based installer for Arch Linux that allows getting the Linux distribution easily installed in a matter of minutes. Released today is Archinstall 3.0 that overhauls the Arch Linux installer with now using the curses library for rendering of the text interface... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Archinstall-3.0-Released) 2024-11-17T10:25:39Z **Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 Delivers Better Performance & Increased Compatibility**
Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 "uutils" has been released for this implementation of the GNU Coreutils utilities within the Rust programming language for better memory safety and greater robustness. With the Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 there is increased GNU compatibility as well as better performance... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-0.0.28) 2024-11-17T10:49:32Z **Linux 6.13 Adding "slab_strict_numa" SLAB Option For Helping ARM Performance**
As part of the SLAB (SLUB) allocator updates pending for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle is a new "slab\_strict\_numa" option that is reported to further help ARM Linux performance such as for Ampere Computing servers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-SLAB-Strict-NUMA) 2024-11-17T14:56:09Z **Linux Fixes Hosts Randomly Rebooting During Virtualization With Ryzen 7000/8000 CPUs**
Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel release expected today there is a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request. Notable with this last minute x86 urgent fixes for Linux 6.12 -- and also to be back-ported to prior kernel versions -- is working around an issue with AMD Ryzen Zen 4 client processors such as the Ryzen 7000/8000 series processors when making use of virtualization that could lead to the host randomly being rebooted... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Clear-VMLOAD-VMSAVE-Zen4) 2024-11-17T22:22:14Z **Linux 6.12 Released With Real-Time Capabilities, Sched_Ext, More AMD RDNA4 & More**
As expected, minutes ago Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.12 kernel as stable. Linux 6.12 brings many new features, new hardware support, and is rounded out by the fact of expected to become this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-Released) 2024-11-18T10:48:27Z **Linux 6.13 For ARM64 Brings GCS Support & Protected VMs With Arm CCA**
The ARM64 (AArch64) architecture changes have been submitted for the now-open Linux 6.13 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-ARM64-Features) 2024-11-18T11:03:54Z **FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 3 Released - FreeBSD Now Publishing OCI Container Images**
The third weekly beta release of FreeBSD 14.2 is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable release in early December. Besides a few fixes notable to FreeBSD 14.2-BETA3 is that they are now putting out OCI container images among their release media... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.2-Beta-3) 2024-11-18T11:18:00Z **Btrfs With Linux 6.13 Delivers Performance Improvements & Other Features**
Along with the early Bcachefs pull request for Linux 6.13, SUSE engineer David Sterba submitted all of the Btrfs file-system feature updates in an early pull request for this next kernel version. Btrfs is seeing new performance optimizations and other enhancements for Linux 6.13... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Btrfs) 2024-11-18T11:39:45Z **DXVK 2.5.1 Released To Fix A Major Regression & Other Bugs**
DXVK 2.5 released one week ago with better video memory management handling, various Direct3D additions, and more. DXVK 2.5.1 is out today to fix a "major regression" as well as a few other bugs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-2.5.1-Released) 2024-11-18T12:02:30Z **Raspberry Pi OS Now Defaults To 512MB Swap, Updates Labwc Compositor**
With last month's Raspberry Pi OS update they now default to Wayland on all Raspberry Pi models alongside various other operating system improvements. Out today is the latest iteration of the Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS with software updates and other changes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-OS-Nov-2024) 2024-11-18T12:00:00Z **LLVM Clang 20 Merges Intel Diamond Rapids Support With "-march=diamondrapids"**
Following AMX-FP8 support, AMX-AVX512, and other new Intel CPU ISA features being added to the LLVM Clang 20 compiler codebase, the Intel Diamond Rapids target is now upstreamed for allowing "-march=diamondrapids" targeting for these next-generation Xeon processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Clang-20-Diamond-Rapids) 2024-11-18T13:54:50Z **GCC 15 Compiler Development Shifts From Features To Bug Fixing**
GCC 15 feature development is now officially over with entering stage three development to focus on fixing compiler bugs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15-Enters-Stage-3) 2024-11-18T15:56:09Z **New AMD ERAPS Feature Yields Additional Performance Gains On Zen 5**
At the beginning of November I wrote about AMD Linux engineers posting Linux patches enabling a new "ERAPS" feature for Zen 5. ERAPS wasn't talked about by AMD at the Zen 5 launches of the Ryzen 9000 / Ryzen AI 300 series or with the more recent EPYC 9005 "Turin" launch but when enabled, the Enhanced Return Address Prediction Security feature can help deliver some additional gains on new AMD Zen 5 systems by allowing some existing software security mitiga ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-zen5-eraps) 2024-11-18T18:15:59Z **Linux 6.13 Rolling Out NVMe 2.1 Support & NVMe Rotational Media**
All of the block subsystem changes were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel, including a prominent set of NVMe additions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Block-NVMe) 2024-11-18T20:34:51Z **Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits**
Over the past year we have seen Canonical engineers focus more on optimizing the performance potential of Ubuntu Linux. With Ubuntu 25.04 they are now using the -O3 compiler optimization level by default and there has been other efforts like better performance tooling on Ubuntu and frame pointers by default. Another area they have been exploring is making use of Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) for faster performance in certain scenarios.. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-PGO-Praises-Performance) 2024-11-18T21:32:00Z **Linux 6.13 Quadrupling Workqueue Concurrency Limit**
The Linux kernel Workqueue (WQ) is used for handling asynchronous process execution. For the past many years there has been an upper limit on the number of workqueue execution contexts per CPU at 512, but with Linux 6.13 that is being quadrupled to a limit of 2048... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Workqueues) 2024-11-18T22:15:05Z **AMD Begins Adding "GFX950" GPU Support To LLVM For Next CDNA Accelerator**
As of today the first handful of commits have landed in LLVM Git ahead of next year's LLVM 20.0 for beginning to enable the AMDGPU compiler back-end for "GFX950", the next iteration of the CDNA family for Instinct accelerators... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX950-LLVM-Start) 2024-11-19T11:04:20Z **GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu Continues Dealing With More Blobs In The Kernel**
The GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu kernel is now available as the downstream of the newly-christened Linux 6.12 kernel that aims to remove code depending upon non-free microcode/firmware or relying on other elements of code deemed non-free software even with much of today's hardware requiring proprietary firmware for operation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-6.12) 2024-11-19T11:13:59Z **Arch Linux Working To Affirm Its Package Sources Under A BSD Zero Clause License**
Arch Linux package sources with its PKGBUILD files and similar have lacked carrying a clear license. Arch Linux developers have been working to come together to allow all Arch Linux package sources to be licensed under a BSD zero-clause "BSD0" license... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Package-Sources-BSD0) 2024-11-19T11:22:45Z **Intel SNC6 Sub-NUMA Clustering Support With Linux 6.13**
A few weeks back I wrote about Intel engineers preparing SNC6 support with Linux for six nodes per L3 cache. That was the first time hearing of SNC6 with SNC 1/2/3/4 sub-NUMA clustering modes being more common. That support is now ready for merging with the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SNC6-For-Linux-6.13) 2024-11-19T11:39:14Z **MiTAC Releases AMD openSIL Based Open-Source Firmware For Their Capri2 EPYC Server**
Ahead of SC24, MiTAC Computing has published their open-source firmware for their Open Compute Project (OCP) designed Capri2 AMD EPYC server. This open-source firmware stack makes use of AMD's in-development openSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MiTAC-Capri2-OpenSIL-Firmware) 2024-11-19T13:21:45Z **Debian 13 Is Quickly Approaching - Desktop Artwork Voting Now Underway**
The Debian 13 "Trixie" release is slated for 2025 and with the artwork voting now underway for the default desktop theme is a reminder that the release is quickly approaching... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-Trixie-Artwork-Survey) 2024-11-19T13:37:45Z **Debian 13 Is Quickly Approaching - Desktop Artwork Voting Now Underway**
The Debian 13 "Trixie" release is slated for 2025 and with the artwork voting now underway for the default desktop theme is a reminder that the release is quickly approaching... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-Trixie-Artwork-Survey) 2024-11-19T13:45:24Z **Red Hat & Microsoft Bringing RHEL To WSL**
The latest Linux distribution being brought to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Microsoft's blessing is none other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux... Microsoft and Red Hat jointly announced today that RHEL is coming to WSL... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-MS-RHEL-WSL) 2024-11-19T15:07:53Z **Linux 6.13 PM Switches EPYC Turin To AMD P-State, More Aggressive Default For Intel GNR**
The power management subsystem updates have been submitted for the newly opened Linux 6.13 merge window. As covered within individual articles over the past few weeks, the Linux 6.13 power management updates include some notable changes for both AMD and Intel systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Power-Management) 2024-11-19T16:24:14Z **FreeCAD 1.0 Released With UI/UX Improvements, New Materials System**
FreeCAD 1.0 was just released as a major update to this leading open-source, cross-platform 3D parametric modeler software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeCAD-1.0-Released) 2024-11-19T17:00:59Z **Blender 4.3 Released With AMD HIP-RT Ray-Tracing On Linux, Experimental Vulkan Backend**
Blender 4.3 is out today as the newest feature update to this leading open-source 3D modeling software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.3-Released) 2024-11-19T19:29:16Z **New Linux Patch Lets You Force CPU Bugs/Mitigations Even When Not Vulnerable**
While most users frown upon the increasing number of CPU security mitigations in part due to the additional overhead commonly introduced, a new Linux kernel patch by a Google engineer would allow users/developers to opt-in to forcing CPU bugs and their mitigations even if the system in use isn't known to be vulnerable... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-force_cpu_bug) 2024-11-19T21:53:46Z **FLTK 1.4 Released With Wayland & HiDPI Display Support**
FLTK 1.4 is out as the newest version of the Fast Light Toolkit that has been around since the late 90's... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FLTK-1.4-Released) 2024-11-20T01:35:12Z **Lazy Preemption Merged Along With Other Scheduler Improvements For Linux 6.13**
All of the scheduler feature changes were merged today for the Linux 6.13 kernel, including the introduction of the lazy preemption model... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Sched-Lazy-Preempt) 2024-11-20T11:00:49Z **Corsair Void Headset & Kysona M600 Lightweight Gaming Mouse Support In Linux 6.13**
The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-HID) 2024-11-20T11:10:00Z **Multigrain Timestamps Try Again For Linux 6.13 - Now With Less Performance Impact**
Merged last year for Linux 6.6 was multi-grain(ed) timestamps to address the current coarse-grained timestamps when updating creation time and modification time that a lot of I/O activity can happen in the once-per-jiffy timestamp. Just a few weeks in the Linux 6.6 kernel, multi-grain timestamps were removed due to bugs. The multigrain code went back to be reworked and now just over one year later the code has been re-merged ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Multigrain-Timestamp) 2024-11-20T11:34:26Z **Faster CRC32C & AEGIS-128 Crypto Performance On Linux 6.13 With Intel/AMD CPUs**
The crypto subsystem updates were merged yesterday for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel. Among other crypto improvements are new optimizations for some algorithms when running on Intel and AMD x86\_64 processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Crypto) 2024-11-20T13:34:36Z **OpenVINO 2024.5 Released With More Intel Optimizations, Better LLM/GenAI Coverage**
Intel's open-source software developers released today OpenVINO 2024.5 as the newest major feature release for this cross-platform AI toolkit... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVINO-2024.5-Released) 2024-11-20T15:18:12Z **Many AMD CPU Feature Additions Land In Linux 6.13**
The in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is bringing a lot of exciting improvements for AMD Linux customers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-AMD-CPU) 2024-11-20T15:32:23Z **Raspberry Pi Camera Front End "CFE" Video Capture With Linux 6.13**
Following the initial Raspberry Pi 5 upstream support in Linux 6.12 providing basic support, an exciting Raspberry Pi addition with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is introducing a Raspberry Pi Camera Front-End "CFE" driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-CFE-Linux-6.13) 2024-11-20T16:40:00Z **8 vs. 12 Channel DDR5-6000 Memory Performance With AMD 5th Gen EPYC**
As I wrote about last week within the Supermicro H13SSL-N EPYC Turin motherboard review, one of the factors leading me to purchasing that EPYC 9005 series motherboard was that this board offered support for full 12 channel DDR5-6000 memory performance compared to some of the other lower-cost Socket SP5 motherboards offering just 8 memory channels. For those wanting to quantify the performance difference between eight and twelve memory channels wi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/8-12-channel-epyc-9005) 2024-11-20T18:22:04Z **Many Networking Changes In Linux 6.13 - One Line Of Code Helping WireGuard Performance**
The abundance of networking subsystem updates have been mailed in for the Linux 6.13 kernel from wired and wireless driver enhancements to core networking code improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Networking) 2024-11-20T19:42:08Z **Linux 6.13 "MM" Patches Bring Some Enticing Performance Optimizations**
Andrew Morton on Monday submitted all the memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 6.13 merge window. As usual there's a lot of interesting performance optimizations and other low-level refinements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-MM-Patches) 2024-11-21T01:22:25Z **Linux 6.13 Adds Support For Ultra Capacity SD Cards "SDUC" For 2TB To 128TB Storage**
Linux 6.13 has merged support for the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity "SDUC" standard for 2TB to 128TB storage capacity SD cards... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-SDUC-Ultra-Capacity) 2024-11-21T03:34:16Z **Bcachefs Changes Rejected Reportedly Due To CoC, Kernel Future "Uncertain"**
While the Bcachefs feature changes for Linux 6.13 were already submitted even before the Linux 6.12 stable kernel was released, merging these changes are supposedly on hold due to the kernel's Code of Conduct (CoC) board... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Uncertain-Kernel-Issue) 2024-11-21T10:50:59Z **Vulkan 1.3.302 Published With AV1 Encode & NVIDIA Display Stereo Extensions**
Vulkan 1.3.302 was published this morning with a handful of new extensions, including AV1 encode support for Vulkan Video... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.302-Published) 2024-11-21T11:24:51Z **PHP 8.4 Released With Property Hooks, Lazy Objects & Other New Features**
PHP 8.4 is out today as the newest annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PHP-8.4-Released) 2024-11-21T11:34:43Z **Linux 6.13 EDAC Preps For Panther Lake H & Missing Support For Old Kabylake S CPUs**
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates landed this week for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-EDAC) 2024-11-21T13:35:56Z **VKD3D 1.14 Released With Initial Metal Shading Language Output**
Ahead of the upcoming freeze for Wine 10.0, VKD3D 1.14 is now available for this prominent Wine component that allows Direct3D 12 to be implemented over the Vulkan API for enhancing Windows games/apps running on Linux and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-1.14-Released) 2024-11-21T14:42:28Z **Khronos Announces Slang Initiative From Open-Source NVIDIA Code**
On top of an exciting Vulkan spec update out today, The Khronos Group has announced the Slang Initiative based on NVIDIA's open-source Slang compiler code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Khronos-Slang) 2024-11-21T15:00:36Z **Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation**
Zrythm 1.0 released today as a big milestone for this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software that caters from professional users down to beginners... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zrythm-1.0) 2024-11-21T15:17:27Z **Linux 6.13 SoC Updates Land With Initial Support For Many Older Apple Devices**
The four pull requests adding various SoC and board/platform support have now been merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This includes support for many older Apple iPad/iPhones, supporting another SoC with a combination of RISC-V and ARM cores, and a wide variety of other mostly ARM hardware support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-SoC-Updates) 2024-11-21T17:20:22Z **Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements**
Mesa 24.3 has managed to make it out today, one week ahead of the previous release plans due to the lack of any major blocker bugs appearing. Mesa 24.3 has a lot of new feature work on the contained open-source Vulkan drivers as well as evolutionary improvements to their OpenGL drivers and other user-space 3D driver code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.3-Released) 2024-11-21T18:15:44Z **ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel**
Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-Deleted-Linux-6.13) 2024-11-21T21:27:51Z **Faster Raspberry Pi Graphics & Intel Xe3 Enablement Starts With Linux 6.13 DRM Changes**
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 merge window in bringing many updates to the open-source kernel graphics/display drivers as well as the accelerator subsystem... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-DRM-Kernel-Graphics) 2024-11-22T02:02:17Z **Nice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13**
In addition to the pull requests managed by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner for VFS untorn writes for atomic writes with XFS and EXT4, Tmpfs case insensitive file/folder support, new Rust file abstractions, and the renewed multi-grain timestamps work, another interesting Linux 6.13 pull submitted by Brauner revolves around VFS file enhancements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VFS-File-Pull-Linux-6.13-Perf) 2024-11-22T11:05:19Z **New Sound Hardware Support In Linux 6.13**
SUSE engineer and sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai has submitted all of the sound driver updates for the Linux 6.13 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Sound) 2024-11-22T11:25:17Z **XFS With Linux 6.13 Sees Major Rework To Real-Time Volumes**
The XFS file-system updates were merged yesterday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-XFS) 2024-11-22T11:40:21Z **Sched_Ext Changes Merged For Linux 6.13 With LLC & NUMA Awareness**
One of the most prominent new features in Linux 6.12 was the merging of sched\_ext for allowing extensible scheduler innovations by altering the scheduling behavior through (e)BPF programs. With the Linux 6.13 kernel there are some nice refinements to this extensible scheduler class... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Sched_Ext) 2024-11-22T11:47:21Z **Sched_Ext Changes Merged For Linux 6.13 With LLC & NUMA Awareness**
One of the most prominent new features in Linux 6.12 was the merging of sched\_ext for allowing extensible scheduler innovations by altering the scheduling behavior through (e)BPF programs. With the Linux 6.13 kernel there are some nice refinements to this extensible scheduler class... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Sched_Ext) 2024-11-22T14:00:00Z **AMD Bus Lock Trap Support Merged For Linux 6.13**
Going back to early in the year AMD Linux engineers began preparing support for a new Bus Lock Trap feature with Zen 5 CPUs. With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel that support is being merged... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Bus-Lock-Trap-Linux-6.13) 2024-11-22T17:11:17Z **AMD Linux Graphics Driver Now Allows Display Support With Modern GPUs On LoongArch**
Following the Linux 6.13 DRM feature pull this week that brought many new open-source kernel graphics driver features, it's now time to further stabilize that new feature code with fixes. Sent out today were a batch of fixes for the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver code targeting the early Linux 6.13 state. In addition to fixes though is also allowing the AMDGPU Display Core "DC" code to build properly on LoongArch hardware for allowing rece ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-LoongArch) 2024-11-22T17:47:52Z **Linux 6.13 Enhances Interactions Between Intel TDX Guests & VMMs**
There are some new improvements in Linux 6.13 for the Intel TDX code for Trust Domain Extensions in providing hardware-based security protections for virtual machines on recent Xeon processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Intel-TDX) 2024-11-22T19:35:30Z **AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver Headlines The x86 Platform Enhancements In Linux 6.13**
The x86 platform driver updates were merged this week for the in-development Linux 6.13 and include some nice refinements, especially for those using AMD Ryzen on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-x86-Platform-Drivers) 2024-11-22T23:30:01Z **Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama**
Following the recent messaging from Bcachefs lead developer Kent Oversteet that Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.13 were rejected on the basis of his Code of Conduct, the Linux CoC committee has now formally announced their decision... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CoC-Bcachefs-6.13) 2024-11-23T11:21:00Z **Wine 9.22 Enables Wayland Driver By Default**
Wine 9.22 is out this weekend ahead of the Wine 10.0-rc1 in two weeks... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.22-Released) 2024-11-23T11:14:02Z **KDE Plasma 6.3 Sees More Feature Work, One More Crash Fix For KWin**
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly development recap that highlights all of the interesting work taking place within the KDE desktop space... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-One-Less-KWin-Crash-Icon) 2024-11-23T11:48:34Z **9elements Takes Over Intel 1st Gen Xeon Scalable "Skylake" Support Within Coreboot**
For those still running a 1st Generation Xeon Scalable "Skylake" era server, support for it within the open-source Coreboot firmware may continue to improve all these years later thanks to firmware consulting firm 9elements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/9elements-SkylakeX-Coreboot) 2024-11-23T13:45:08Z **IBM Power11 CPUs Launching In 2025 - Linux 6.13 Preps KVM Nested Guests For Power11**
IBM isn't formally releasing Power11 processors until next year, but their software engineers continue being quite busy preparing the Linux kernel and other open-source software for Power11. The newest on the kernel side is enabling support for KVM nested guests on IBM Power11 platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Power11-KVM-Nested) 2024-11-23T14:35:00Z **Microsoft Continues "Demikernel" Development LibOS For Kernel-Bypass I/O**
A Microsoft Research project that was quietly announced a few years ago to some fanfare but not hearing much about since has been Demikernel as their library OS architecture for kernel-bypass I/O. A Phoronix reader brought up Demikernel this week and while it hasn't been talked about much in recent years it does remain under active development with the most recent commits as of hours ago... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Demikernel-2024) 2024-11-23T22:07:46Z **FreeBSD 14.2-RC1 Brings Install Image Improvements**
Ahead of FreeBSD 14.2 hopefully releasing in just over one week, FreeBSD 14.2-RC1 is out this weekend as the last planned development release for testing ahead of that much anticipated point release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.2-RC1) 2024-11-24T11:15:29Z **Linux 6.13 Will Report The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot**
Following all of the MM patches earlier this week sent in by Andrew Morton, on Sunday morning he sent out all of the non-MM patches that he manages for the Linux kernel. Notable for Linux 6.13 with this pull request is presenting the hung task counter as well as finishing off the folio conversion in the NILFS2 code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Non-MM) 2024-11-24T11:58:14Z **Virtual CPUFreq Driver Coming With Linux 6.13 For Better Power/Performance Within VMs**
Earlier this week was the main power management updates for Linux 6.13 that included switching AMD EPYC Turin to using the amd\_pstate driver on supported systems. Sent out this weekend was another set of power management updates that also includes a notable addition: the virtual CPUFreq driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Virtual-CPUFreq) 2024-11-24T14:22:13Z **AMDXDNA Driver For Ryzen AI Now Ready To Appear In The Linux kernel**
The AMDXDNA kernel driver for Linux systems that was made open-source in January for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU on laptop SoCs going back to the Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" series is now one step away from appearing in the mainline Linux kernel in the near future... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-DRM-Misc-Next) 2024-11-25T05:00:00Z **Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale To Better Enjoy Our Linux Hardware Reviews & News**
While the end of year holidays are fast approaching, my commitment to Linux hardware and open-source software remains and there still is a lot of interesting content to come this year still -- each and every day, without change for roughly a decade. Unfortunately though due to the (sad) state of the ad industry, many major companies focusing on the likes of Facebook/Meta ads, and the frequent use of ad-blockers by Linux/FLOSS readers m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cyber-Week-2024-Sale) 2024-11-25T11:15:16Z **Fwupd 2.0.2 Allows Updating Firmware On Many More Devices**
Richard Hughes of Red Hat has released Fwupd 2.0.2 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.0.2-Released) 2024-11-25T11:41:42Z **Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Launches For $7**
Complementing the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 that launched this summer, the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W was announced today for $7 as the wireless-enabled variant of this small microcontroller board... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-Pico-2-W) 2024-11-25T12:01:30Z **New AMD Zen 5 Perf Events Going Into Linux 6.13**
Sent out last night for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window were all of the perf tool changes for the wonderful "perf" subsystem for performance profiling and the like. In addition to adding the HWMON PMU to "perf stat", leader sampling for inherited task events, and various other tooling improvements, there are also vendor event updates. Most notable with the updated CPU vendor events are new AMD Zen 5 processor events... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Perf-Events-Linux-613) 2024-11-25T13:50:16Z **Large Folio Patches For EXT4 Show Some Nice Performance Gains**
Huawei engineer Zhang Yi posted a set of nine patches today for enabling large folio support for regular files with the EXT4 file-system. These patches enable large folios for EXT4 on regular files except when using FSVERITY, FSCRYPT, or the journaled data mode. Long story short, these large folio patches can deliver some nice performance gains for both reads and writes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/EXT4-Large-Folios-Performance) 2024-11-25T15:30:19Z **FUSE Enhancements Submitted For Linux 6.13**
The FUSE feature enhancements were submitted today for the Linux 6.13 kernel as part of improving the file-system in user-space capabilities... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-FUSE) 2024-11-25T15:00:00Z **Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale To Better Enjoy Our Linux Hardware Reviews & News**
While the end of year holidays are fast approaching, my commitment to Linux hardware and open-source software remains and there still is a lot of interesting content to come this year still -- each and every day, without change for roughly a decade. Unfortunately though due to the (sad) state of the ad industry, many major companies focusing on the likes of Facebook/Meta ads, and the frequent use of ad-blockers by Linux/FLOSS readers m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cyber-Week-2024-Sale) 2024-11-25T16:56:46Z **SilverStone XE360-SP5 & XE04-SP5 For Cooling AMD EPYC 9004/9005 4U Servers**
With my recent AMD EPYC 9005 1P 4U server build using a Supermicro H13SSL-N motherboard, SilverStone kindly sent over their two Socket SP5 cooling options for AMD EPYC processors: the XE04-SP5 4U-compatible heatsink fan and then the XE360-SP5 AIO liquid cooler with a triple 120mm fan radiator to allow effectively cooling up to the new 400~500 Watt EPYC Turin processors. Here is a look at these two high-end AMD EPYC cooling options for those ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/silverstone-epyc-sp5) 2024-11-25T18:29:12Z **GCC 15 Ends Support For Altera Nios II Embedded Processors**
The GCC 15 code compiler that is releasing as stable in the early months of 2025 has removed all support for the Altera Nios II CPU target... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15-Drops-Altera-Nios-II) 2024-11-25T19:49:41Z **Linux 6.13 KVM Eliminates An "Awful Idea", Many x86_64 Improvements**
The KVM changes were merged yesterday for Linux 6.13 in further enhancing the open-source virtualization stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-KVM) 2024-11-25T21:17:26Z **Linux 6.13 PCI: AMD Enables PCIe TPH For Zen 5 Servers, Intel Adds PCIe Cooling Driver**
Sent out today were the big set of PCI subsystem updates ready to be merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. Most notable of the PCI updates is PCI Express TLP Processing Hints (TPH) with that kernel support worked on by AMD engineers as part of one of the new hardware features found with the AMD EPYC 9005 server processors. Over on the Intel side is the new PCIe cooling driver and other changes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-PCI) 2024-11-26T01:33:20Z **AMD Talks Up Imminent ROCm 6.3 With Big Performance Gains, New Features**
Either due to a mistimed blog post or other factors, a big feature article is out talking up the new ROCm 6.3 features... But the updated ROCm 6.3 open-source GPU compute software doesn't appear to actually be released yet at all their usual sources. In any event there are new features and big performance gains being talked up for ROCm 6.3... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.3-Features) 2024-11-26T11:00:22Z **Linux 6.13 RDMA Changes Headlined By NVIDIA's New Data Placement Ordering Feature**
The RDMA subsystem updates were sent out last Friday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel cycle. Most notable with the RDMA updates is the NVIDIA Mellanox "MLX5" network driver introducing a new Data Direct Placement (DDP) feature to further help with performance... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-RDMA) 2024-11-26T11:16:01Z **Linus Torvalds Improves Futex Code To Improve User-Space Accesses**
In between managing all of the pull requests being submitted during this two week long merge window for the Linux 6.13 kernel, Linus Torvalds has merged some of his own code this cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Torvalds-Futex) 2024-11-26T11:37:20Z **3K Lines Of New Rust Code Head Into Linux 6.13**
Overnight the Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda submitted the big set of Rust infrastructure/toolchain updates for the Linux 6.13 holiday kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Rust) 2024-11-26T13:26:24Z **AMD I3C Controller ACPI Support Added To DesignWare Driver In Linux 6.13**
The I3C subsystem updates were submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel on Monday and include support for another I3C HCI controller used on AMD systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-I3C-DW-Linux-6.13) 2024-11-26T14:00:00Z **Ubuntu 25.04 Begins Preparations For GIMP 3.0**
With GIMP 3.0-RC1 out for testing since earlier this month, the hope is that GIMP 3.0 stable will in fact ship in time for the release of Ubuntu 25.04 next April. The current GIMP 3.0 release candidate is working its way to Debian Unstable and in turn soon should be available via the Ubuntu 25.04 archive... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3-Ubuntu-25.04-Plan) 2024-11-26T15:39:00Z **Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Compute / OpenCL Performance Looking Great**
Now that Linux 6.12 has a fix for the Lunar Lake performance with the ASUS Zenbook I have been using for my Core Ultra 200V series Linux testing as well as there recently being an updated Intel Compute Runtime with Lunar Lake fixes, I have been working on some fresh Lunar Lake Xe2 graphics benchmarks using the very latest upstream open-source code. In today's article is exploring how the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics is performing for OpenCL ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xe2-lunarlake-compute) 2024-11-26T17:24:00Z **Granular Power Savings Patches Posted For Common "uvcvideo" Linux Webcam Driver**
Google engineer Ricardo Ribalda has proposed a set of patches for the common "uvcvideo" kernel driver that supports UVC-compliant web cameras and the like to provide granular power saving support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/uvcvideo-Granular-Power) 2024-11-26T19:17:03Z **F2FS Brings Interesting "Device Aliasing" Feature To Linux 6.13 To Carve Out Partition**
The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates were sent out on Monday for Linux 6.13 and include one very interesting new feature for this file-system: device aliasing as a means of being able to temporarily carve out a portion of the partition for other purposes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/F2FS-Linux-6.13) 2024-11-26T21:26:45Z **AMD GFX9.4.4 CDNA Firmware Published, More GFX950 Changes Point To Being MI350**
There are some new open-source/Linux details to note when it comes to the AMD accelerators in the Instinct "CDNA" land... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-CDNA-GFX9.4.4-FW) 2024-11-26T22:00:00Z **FSF "Excited" For 802.11n WiFi USB Adapter Costing €50 In 2024 Holiday Shopping Guide**
In prior years the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published an Ethical Tech Giving Guide for holiday shopping where they recommend products like old AMD Opteron motherboards and USB to parallel printer cables that "respect your freedoms" and meet their strict free software definitions. Out today is their newest annual FSF Ethical Tech Giving Guide... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-Ethical-Tech-Gifting-2024) 2024-11-27T10:33:53Z **Raspberry Pi Launches The Compute Module 5 For $45 USD**
Days after announcing the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W for $7, Raspberry Pi today announced the Compute Module 5 at the $45 price point... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-CM5) 2024-11-27T11:07:57Z **MIPS P8700 RISC-V CPU Support Posted For LLVM Compiler**
MIPS has begun working on the open-source compiler toolchain support for their P8700 RISC-V based processors. Initial patches posted today bring-up the MIPS P8700 RISC-V support for the LLVM compiler stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MIPS-P8700-RISC-V-LLVM) 2024-11-27T11:32:32Z **Microsoft Makes An Interesting Improvement To Kernel Modules With Linux 6.13**
Sent out on Tuesday was the modules pull request for Linux 6.13 that have some low-level improvements but it noted that the biggest kernel modules highlight wasn't in that pull request itself but had been added by way of the memory management pull. This was a change by a Microsoft engineer around caching of kernel modules into huge pages... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Modules) 2024-11-27T14:48:33Z **Linux 6.13 SoundWire Preps DisCo 2.0 Support**
The SoundWire subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This cycle brings new AMD driver support as well as supporting the MIPI DisCo 2.0 specification... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-SoundWire-DisCo-2.0) 2024-11-27T15:55:00Z **Corsair Vengeance Airflow Memory Cooling For DDR5 Server RAM**
For those building your own server around the new Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" or AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" platforms and using DDR5-6000/DDR5-6400 memory (or the interesting MRDIMM-8000 memory with Xeon 6 P), one of the factors you need to be much more mindful about than in the past is that at least the initial generation of DDR5-6000+ memory is running much hotter than prior server memory. There's been guidance from Intel and AMD as well as seve ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/corsair-ddr5-ram-cooling-server) 2024-11-27T16:56:52Z **RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.13 Deliver Pointer Masking In User-Space**
The RISC-V CPU port updates have been sent out for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-RISC-V) 2024-11-27T19:40:32Z **AMD Begins Work Upstreaming More Versal 2 SoC Support For Linux**
Back in April AMD announced the Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs for AI-driven embedded systems. In preparing for Versal2 evaluation kits expected around the middle of the year and production silicon by the end of 2025, AMD software engineers have begun ramping up their open-source and upstream-focused Linux driver support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Versal-2-Linux-Upstreaming) 2024-11-28T01:27:22Z **exFAT Driver With Linux 6.13 Reduces FAT Chain Traversal For Better Performance**
For those making use of the Microsoft exFAT file-system on Linux systems, the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel brings an optimization that will help some operations by reducing the FAT chain traversal... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-exFAT) 2024-11-28T01:52:19Z **Feature-Packed systemd 257 Nears Release With RC3 Availability**
Systemd 257 is nearing release as the next major feature release for this widely-used init system and software suite on Linux systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-257-rc3-Released) 2024-11-28T11:30:57Z **IO_uring Enjoys Hybrid IO Polling & Ring Resizing With Linux 6.13**
Merged last week back toward the start of the Linux 6.13 merge window were a number of interesting IO\_uring enhancements for this first major kernel version of 2025... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-IO_uring) 2024-11-28T11:51:43Z **Mozilla Firefox Switches To .tar.xz For Linux Packaging**
It's not any shiny new web browser feature but Mozilla announced they are moving from .tar.bz2 packages for their Firefox Linux binaries over to using .tar.xz for a faster and lighter experience... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-Linux-Tar-XZ) 2024-11-28T12:14:08Z **Intel Graphics Compiler Removes Support For Ice Lake & Older**
The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL GPU compute support as well as being depended upon by the Windows 3D driver stack has now removed platform support up to and including Ice Lake... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IGC-Drops-Ice-Lake) 2024-11-28T14:32:29Z **Linux Kernel Performance Bottlenecks Spotted By Mold Developer**
Open-source developer Rui Ueyama who is the lead developer of the Mold high performance linker and previously on the LLVM lld linker has written a detailed mailing list post that highlights some observed performance bottlenecks within the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Bottlenecks-Mold) 2024-11-28T18:00:00Z **NFS Server Scalability Improvement & Other NFS Enhancements For Linux 6.13**
There are a few Network File System (NFS) enhancements worth pointing out with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-NFS) 2024-11-28T19:45:04Z **Updated Ubuntu 24.10 Install Image Released For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptops**
In mid-October was the release of a developer preview for Ubuntu 24.10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops. Yesterday an updated Ubuntu 24.10 release was made available catering to these popular, current-generation ARM-powered laptops that typically ship with Windows 11 for ARM... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Update-X1E) 2024-11-29T11:07:05Z **Phoronix Black Friday Reminders**
Just a quick reminder this "Black Friday" if you would like to help show your support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoronix-Black-Friday-2024) 2024-11-29T10:54:33Z **UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Atop Ubuntu 20.04 Released**
The UBports community today released Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 as the latest version of the smartphone/tablet Linux platform currently running off an Ubuntu 20.04 base... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-OTA-7-Focal) 2024-11-29T11:43:04Z **Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines Of Code From Old & Unmaintained Drivers**
Greg Kroah-Hartman is out today with all of the pull requests for Linux 6.13 of the areas of the kernel he oversees. Most notable with the updates on the staging side are clearing out several drivers seeing no real code activity and no apparent users of the mainline Linux kernel... As such the staging pull lightens the kernel by around 107k lines of code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Staging) 2024-11-29T11:34:20Z **FFmpeg Git Continues Landing A Number Of Vulkan Video Enhancements**
A number of Vulkan Video enhancements landed this week in FFmpeg Git thanks to open-source developer Lynne that has been advancing the Vulkan Video encode/decode capabilities in this widely-used multimedia library... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-November-Vulkan-Video) 2024-11-29T14:36:27Z **Improved USB4 Debugging Support With Linux 6.13**
Along with the staging changes, Greg Kroah-Hartman this morning also sent out the USB/Thunderbolt changes for the nearly-over Linux 6.13 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-USB-Changes) 2024-11-29T15:36:16Z **AMD BIOS Tuning Guide Impact For Boosting AI/ML Performance On EPYC 9005 Series**
Following the release last month of the EPYC 9005 series processors, AMD published a BIOS and Workload Tuning Guide of straight-forward settings recommendations for those running new EPYC Turin servers to optimize the performance of different workloads like databases and Java to HPC and AI/ML software. Recently I started running some benchmarks to look at the impact of AMD's recommended BIOS tuning and beginning this comparison by look ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-ai-ml-tuning) 2024-11-29T17:33:45Z **LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released**
For those with some extra time over the US holiday weekend, LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 has been published as the newest feature version of this open-source, cross-platform office suite that is a great alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-25.2-Alpha-1) 2024-11-30T02:01:15Z **Clang AutoFDO & Propeller Optimization Support Sent In For Linux 6.13: 5~10% More Performance**
Making for an even more exciting Black Friday is the Kbuild pull request submitted today for the near-over Linux 6.13 merge window... And it includes Clang Auto Feedback Directed Optimization (AutoFDO) support for kernel builds as well as Clang's Propeller... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kbuild-Clang-AutoFDO-Linux-6.13) 2024-11-30T05:00:00Z **Clang AutoFDO & Propeller Optimization Support Sent In For Linux 6.13: 5~10% More Performance**
Making for an even more exciting Black Friday is the Kbuild pull request submitted today for the near-over Linux 6.13 merge window... And it includes Clang Auto Feedback Directed Optimization (AutoFDO) support for kernel builds as well as Clang's Propeller... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kbuild-Clang-AutoFDO-Linux-6.13) 2024-11-30T10:22:27Z **KDE Ends November With More KWin Fixes & Other Polishing Ahead Of Plasma 6.3**
KDE developers have wrapped up a busy November with many fixes and other refinements landing this last week of the month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Ends-November-2024) 2024-11-30T10:40:03Z **Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 Supports For More CPUs & Improves EFI Support**
The Rust Hypervisor Firmware is a project out of the Cloud Hypervisor umbrella for developing open-source, Rust-based firmware that can be launched from any environment able to load ELF binaries and run them via the PVH booting standard. Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 is out this weekend with the newest capabilities... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Hypervisor-Firmware-0.5) 2024-11-30T11:00:00Z **Linux 6.13 Hits A "Tipping Point" With More Rust Drivers Expected Soon**
In addition to the USB updates and big staging flush merged yesterday for the Linux 6.13 kernel merge window, the "char/misc" pull was also honored for that catch-all of various kernel changes. With the char/misc pull there are some notable additions for those wanting to write kernel drivers within the Rust programming language... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-char-misc-More-Rust) 2024-11-30T12:00:00Z **Resources System Monitoring App For GNOME Now Displays NPU Usage**
As an alternative to the GNOME System Monitor application for system monitoring, Resources has been in development as a currently unofficial, GNOME-aligned resource/hardware monitoring application written in the Rust programming language. Resources v1.7 was released on Friday and now has the ability to monitor NPU usage and other enhancements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Resources-1.7) 2024-11-30T15:10:18Z **Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Finally Be Close To Merging**
In what could be a wonderful holiday for the Linux desktop, it looks like the Wayland color management protocol might finally be close to merging after four years in discussion... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Color-Management-Nears) 2024-12-01T02:00:54Z **Clang AutoFDO + Propeller Optimization Support Merged For Linux 6.13**
Last night when writing about the Clang AutoFDO and Propeller optimization patches sent in for Linux 6.13 I had wondered whether Linus Torvalds would go through with the pull request given some of his past commentary around aggressive compiler optimizations... But to much delight, this evening Linus Torvalds has merged the Kbuild pull request that introduces Clang-based AutoFDO and Propeller compiler optimization support for allowing greater ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AutoFDO-Propeller-Linux-6.13) 2024-12-01T11:13:52Z **Linux Fixes Issue Where Applying AMD Zen1/Zen2 Microcode Updates Could Slow Boot Times**
Submitted today for the Linux kernel ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc1 release as part of the "x86/urgent" material is a fix for aging Zen 1 and Zen 2 processors where for the past year and a half they could potentially find very slow boot times... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Zen1-Zen2-Slow-Boot-ucode) 2024-12-01T11:26:09Z **NVIDIA's New Linux Patches For GPU Direct RDMA For Device-Private Pages**
NVIDIA engineer Yonatan Maman posted a set of "request for comments" patches this Sunday to implement GPU Direct RDMA "P2P DMA" for device private pages. This is the latest in the effort by multiple vendors to allow more efficient data sharing between GPUs/accelerators and other devices like network adapters... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Linux-P2P-DMA-RDMA-Priv) 2024-12-01T11:45:00Z **Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November**
November was filled with interesting Linux benchmarks ranging from the Apple M4 testing kicking off to ongoing AMD Zen 5 benchmarks both for desktops and servers, a lot of exciting upstream kernel activity (and some drama...), and more. Even with the end of year holidays around, there remains new and original content on Phoronix each and every day. During November there were 250 original news articles on Phoronix along with another 14 Linux ha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/November-2024-Highlights) 2024-12-01T11:58:29Z **Turbostat Utility Lands New Features With Linux 6.13**
The turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reporting CPU frequency/idle statistics and other metrics is gaining some new capabilities as part of the Linux 6.13 cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Turbostat) 2024-12-01T16:34:57Z **Xfce 4.20 Pre2 Released For Testing**
Following the Xfce 4.20 Pre1 release from one month ago, Xfce 4.20 Pre2 is ready for testing ahead of the planned desktop release in two weeks... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-4.20-Pre2) 2024-12-01T22:42:22Z **Linux 6.13-rc1 Released With Many New Features**
As expected, this evening Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.13-rc1 to cap-off the two-week Linux 6.13 merge window. With Linux 6.13 comes many new features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-rc1-Released) 2024-12-02T01:18:48Z **Lutris 0.5.18 Linux Game Manager Brings Many Improvements**
Lutris 0.5.18 is out today as the newest version of this open-source game manager for Linux systems to help with installing and playing a variety of games whether they be native Linux titles, emulated Windows games with the likes of Wine / Proton, or console emulated games and more. Lutris also continues integrating with the likes of Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and other online game services for providing a nice Linux gaming experience... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lutris-0.5.18-Released) 2024-12-02T10:42:51Z **Steam Survey Results For November 2024: Linux Gaming Marketshare Slightly Higher**
During October the Steam Linux marketshare crawled back up to 2.0% while overnight Valve published the Steam Survey results for November 2024... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-November-2024) 2024-12-02T11:15:45Z **XWayland Lands Support For xdg-system-bell**
Olivier Fourdan has merged support for using the xdg-system-bell protocol by XWayland for dealing with "system bell" functionality for Wayland compositors supporting this newer protocol for ringing the system bell or otherwise implementing a visual indicator that a system bell type event may have been triggered... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-xdg-system-bell) 2024-12-02T11:23:00Z **Imagination Lands Big PowerVR Compiler Update In Mesa 25.0**
Merged over the US holiday weekend was a big update to the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver code for Mesa 25.0... 71 patches in fact making up this merge request... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PVR-Compiler-Mesa-25.0) 2024-12-02T11:34:38Z **Llamafile 0.8.17 Brings New Web UI For This Easy-To-Distribute AI LLM Framework**
Llamafile 0.8.17 debuted this weekend as the newest version of this Mozilla research project for making it easy to distribute and run AI large language models (LLMs) within a single file. As implied by its name, Llamafile leverages Llama.cpp along with other open-source software into one consistent framework for helping to make single-file LLM executables a reality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Llamafile-0.8.17-Released) 2024-12-02T12:00:00Z **Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux**
An exciting merge today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver with next quarter's Mesa 25.0 is enabling Vulkan Video API support by default for AMD graphics having VCN 2.x and VCN 3.x hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-Video-VCN2-VCN3-Default) 2024-12-02T13:27:26Z **Qt 6.8.1 Toolkit Released With 550+ Bug Fixes**
Building off the early October release of Qt 6.8 LTS, Qt 6.8.1 is out today with more than 550 fixes collected over the past two months... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.8.1-Released) 2024-12-02T13:47:53Z **Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires**
While Intel has been under much financial difficulties and as they pursue their build out of new fabs to better compete with TSMC, to much surprise Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired effective today... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CEO-Pat-Gelsinger-Retires) 2024-12-02T15:00:00Z **AMD Per-Core Energy Counter Support Slated For Linux 6.14**
While the Linux 6.13 merge window just closed yesterday in landing all of the new features and functionality for that first kernel version of 2025, already for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle to follow a feature was queued up early this morning in a TIP branch: AMD per-core energy counter support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Per-Core-Energy-Linux-6.14) 2024-12-02T17:00:00Z **Vulkan 1.4 Released With More Extensions Mandated, Better 8K Rendering**
As a lovely early Christmas present, The Khronos Group used SIGGRAPH Asia today for announcing the Vulkan 1.4 specification release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4-Released) 2024-12-02T18:51:04Z **Mir 2.19 Released With Atomic KMS Platform Support, New Wayland Protocols**
Mir 2.19 is out today as the newest version of this Ubuntu/Canonical project making it easier for other desktops/environments to embrace Wayland support. This set of libraries for building Wayland-based shells has added a few new features with today's update... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.19-Released) 2024-12-02T19:09:22Z **NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support**
Years ago when new OpenGL spec releases would occur, it could take months or years for the open-source Mesa drivers to catch-up in supporting the latest versions... Thankfully in the Vulkan space it continues to prove to be a very different story. As we've seen with prior Vulkan specs, today's Vulkan 1.4 spec release is greeted by same-day Mesa patches... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4-Mesa-Drivers) 2024-12-03T01:20:45Z **FreeBSD 14.2 Released With OpenZFS Upgrade, Installer Improvements**
FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE is out today as a strong, incremental update to the FreeBSD 14 series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.2-Released) 2024-12-03T10:07:45Z **Last Call For This Year's Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale**
If you would like to show your support this holiday season and enjoy the site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits, today is the last day of the discounted rate on joining Phoronix Premium... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cyberweek-2024-Last-Call) 2024-12-03T10:20:13Z **PostgreSQL Finally Deprecates MD5 Passwords**
While long overdue, the PostgreSQL database server has finally deprecated MD5 password support with its latest code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PostgreSQL-Deprecates-MD5-Pass) 2024-12-03T10:34:32Z **NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.6 Brings CPU/GPU Performance Improvements**
NVIDIA's RTX Remix software for remastering DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 era games is out with the newest version of the RTX-Remix runtime that is powered in part by DXVK for Direct3D to Vulkan mapping... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-RTX-Remix-0.6) 2024-12-03T11:14:31Z **Rustls Multi-Threaded Performance Is Battering OpenSSL**
The Rustls project as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and an alternative to the likes of the widely-used OpenSSL and Cloudflare's BoringSSL has published some new performance figures. When looking at the multi-threaded server performance of Rustls, its performance is typically outperforming BoringSSL by a significant margin and downright dominating over OpenSSL... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rustls-Multi-Threading-Perf) 2024-12-03T11:33:52Z **AMD NPU Firmware Upstreamed For The Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Coming In Linux 6.14**
With the AMDXDNA kernel driver for Ryzen AI NPU support on Linux now ready for merging and is queued in drm-misc-next for the Linux 6.14 kernel early next year, the AMD NPU firmware binaries have also now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for having the necessary firmware support in place... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-NPU-Firmware-Upstream) 2024-12-03T13:24:43Z **AMD User Queue Support Merged For Linux - Submitting Work Directly To The GPU**
After an exciting day yesterday of Vulkan 1.4 driver support arriving in Mesa 25.0 drivers, there is more exciting code that was merged today for Mesa 25.0: the AMDGPU code now allows for user queue support on the latest Linux kernels for submitting rendering work directly to the GPU hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.0-AMDGPU-User-Queue) 2024-12-03T14:00:00Z **Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support**
Succeeding the Intel Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards that launched two years ago as the DG2/Alchemist series, the next-gen Battlemage graphics cards are being announced today. The embargo lifts today on the new Intel Arc B-Series graphics cards with initial availability next week. Like the prior generation Intel graphics and as discussed already in many Phoronix articles, Battlemage is still treated to fully open-source graphic ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-battlemage) 2024-12-03T19:37:52Z **Fedora 42 Aims To Enhance The Windows Subsystem For Linux Experience**
A new feature proposal seeks to improve the Fedora Linux experience when running under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 11... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-WSL-Image-Proposal) 2024-12-04T01:50:33Z **AMD ROCm 6.3 Tags Begin Appearing On GitHub**
Last week ROCm 6.3 was announced on the AMD Community Blog with a set of nice enhancements to this open-source GPU compute stack. While some good additions, when the announcement went live ROCm 6.2 software was still showing up as the latest and the open-source code via GitHub wasn't yet reflecting ROCm 6.3... That changed today... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.3-GitHub) 2024-12-04T10:45:29Z **SDL Introducing Async I/O APIs - Backed By IO_uring On Linux**
Longtime Linux game porter Ryan Gordon has introduced initial asynchronous I/O APIs for the in-development SDL3 library. On Linux these async I/O APIs allow making use of the modern kernel IO\_uring functionality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL3-Async-IO-APIs) 2024-12-04T11:03:44Z **VTE-Based Linux Terminals Now Support A Nice Feature Led By Windows Terminal**
VTE-based terminals on Linux like Ptyxis are now seeing support introduced to better display progress state for long-running processes with a more visually pleasing progress bar. Microsoft's Windows Terminal has already supported this feature while now with systemd beginning to support using these Operating System Command escape sequences, Linux terminal support is on the rise... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/VTE-Terminals-Progress-Indicate) 2024-12-04T11:24:58Z **Intel Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 Released Ahead Of The Arc B580 "Battlemage" Launch**
The Intel Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 is out as the newest monthly-ish update to this open-source GPU compute stack used on Linux and Windows for the OpenCL and Level Zero support. This Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 is also the last update ahead of next week's Battlemage availability with the Arc B580 graphics card... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Compute-24.45.31740.9) 2024-12-04T11:37:37Z **New Linux Patches Cleanup Code For Running x86 32-bit Kernels On x86_64 CPUs**
As we approach 2025, hopefully none of you are still running x86 32-bit kernels / 32-bit OS software on x86\_64 processors, but should you still be into that, there are improvements on the way... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Cleanup-x86-On-x86_64) 2024-12-04T13:48:53Z **Fedora 42 Looking To Package Intel SGX Software Stack**
Fedora stakeholders are evaluating supporting an Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) software stack with next year's Fedora 42 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-Looks-At-SGX) 2024-12-04T15:27:13Z **AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 Released With New Extensions, Other Changes**
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 is out today as the newest official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver release for Linux systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2024.Q4.2-Released) 2024-12-04T15:53:46Z **Debian 13 Desktop Theme Finalized Ahead Of Next Year's Release**
As a follow-up to last month's article around the Debian 13 release processes continuing and desktop artwork voting underway for Debian 13 "Trixie", the winning desktop theme/artwork was announced today... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-Desktop-Theme) 2024-12-04T16:09:14Z **OpenVPN DCO Looks Like It Might Be Ready For Linux 6.14 To Speed-Up VPN Performance**
In development for several years has been the OpenVPN DCO Linux kernel module for data channel offload (DCO) capabilities to provide for much faster virtual private networking (VPN) performance. It's looking like the lengthy review process on OpenVPN DCO is about wrapping up and leaving hope that it will be ready to premiere in next year's Linux 6.14 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVPN-Data-Channel-DCO-Soon) 2024-12-04T18:39:21Z **NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU Workstation Performance For Blender 4.3**
With the recent release of Blender 4.3 for this leading open-source 3D modeling software, I've been carrying out some fresh NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU benchmarks for accelerated rendering across several different popular benchmark scenes. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/blender-43-nvidia-amd) 2024-12-04T21:55:04Z **Intel Linux Display Driver Being Adapted For DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" Support**
The DRM Panic infrastructure has been in the Linux kernel for several releases now and allows for a kernel-based experience similar to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death as well as more recently allowing QR code kernel error messages and other features. The Intel kernel DRM driver has seen some patches for enabling DRM Panic support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-DRM-Panic-RFC) 2024-12-05T01:41:39Z **Mesa 24.3.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes**
Building off the Mesa 24.3 release from two weeks ago is now Mesa 24.3.1 as the first stable point release following their usual bi-weekly release regiment... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.3.1-Released) 2024-12-05T11:04:16Z **Linux Patches Would Allow RISC-V To Use A 64K Page Size**
Patches from a Bytedance engineer for the Linux kernel allow for overcoming the current 4K page size limitation of RISC-V and introduce a new 64K page size option... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-RFC-v2-64K-RISC-V-PS) 2024-12-05T11:54:22Z **Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels**
With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86\_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86\_64 micro-architecture feature levels. It turns out though that Torvalds is completely against how the x86\_64 feature levels are handled by the compiler toolchain folks and doesn't want to see it invading the kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Mind-Fart-x86_64-Level) 2024-12-05T11:34:22Z **Imagination PowerVR Driver Being Extended To Work On RISC-V**
The Linux 6.8 kernel merged the Imagination PowerVR driver as a new open-source driver for supporting the PowerVR "Rogue" graphics architecture and being developed in tandem by Imagination Tech with their upstream Mesa Vulkan driver. Initially this PowerVR driver was catering to ARM SoCs with the Rogue graphics while now the open-source driver is being extended to work on RISC-V too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-PowerVR-Driver-Support) 2024-12-05T11:21:20Z **New AMD XDNA Linux Driver Patches Add Ryzen AI NPU6 IP, Other Improvements**
The "AMDXDNA" accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU is set to be introduced in the Linux 6.14 kernel next year. Ahead of that debut, a new set of patches from AMD surfaced on Wednesday to provide fixes and code improvements as well as introducing support for newer Ryzen AI "NPU6" IP... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-XDNA-Ryzen-AI-NPU6-Patches) 2024-12-05T13:48:17Z **Alpine Linux 3.21 Released With Linux 6.12 & GCC 14, LoongArch CPU Support**
Alpine Linux 3.21 is out today as the newest version of this simple, lightweight, and security-minded Linux distribution that is popular for use within containerized environments, embedded systems, and more... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alpine-Linux-3.21) 2024-12-05T15:13:50Z **NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build**
For the past month and a half the NVIDIA R565 Linux driver series has been in public beta with a number of (X)Wayland improvements, DMA-BUF enhancements, VKD3D fixes, and a variety of other enhancements. Today the NVIDIA 565.77 Linux driver was released as the first stable build in the series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-565.77-Linux-Driver) 2024-12-05T15:46:49Z **COSMIC Alpha 4 Released For System76's Rust-Based Desktop**
System76 today released the newest development/testing version of their Rust-based desktop environment designed for their Pop!\_OS Linux distribution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Alpha-4-Released) 2024-12-05T21:16:00Z **Redox OS Makes Progress On Emulator Support, Better Documentation & Hardware Fixes**
The Rust-based Redox OS original open-source operating system project is out with a new status report to detail the enhancements they have made over the past several weeks... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-November-2024) 2024-12-05T21:42:04Z **Linux 6.12 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel**
Linux stable maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman officially designated Linux 6.12 as this year's long-term support (LTS) kernel version... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-LTS-Kernel-Official) 2024-12-06T01:30:21Z **Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Use GCC 15 As Well As Exploring Greater LLVM Use**
Canonical's Matthieu Clemenceau as the Engineering Director for the Ubuntu Foundations Team has provided a public roadmap around some of the plans for Ubuntu 25.04. This next Ubuntu Linux (non-LTS) release that is due out in April is set to enjoy more performance optimizations and other exciting bits... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.04-Foundation-Roadmap) 2024-12-06T11:19:59Z **MGLRU Sees New Performance Optimizations For Linux**
It's been a while since there have been any new advancements or performance optimizations to talk about for Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel two years ago as a very exciting kernel innovation. But that's changing now with some fresh performance optimizations being worked on for the MGLRU code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MGLRU-New-Performance-Opts) 2024-12-06T11:43:42Z **Broadcom BCM2712 MOPLET Graphics For Linux 6.14, Other Early drm-misc-next Code**
While the Linux v6.13 merge window has been over for less than one week, already the first pull requests of new feature code are being submitted to DRM-Next for queuing the display/graphics driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window in two months... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-drm-misc-next-Start) 2024-12-06T11:58:27Z **Fedora 42 Eyes Replacing SDL2 With sdl2-compat To Leverage SDL3**
The SDL2 library is widely used by cross-platform games and other software. Fedora 42 is eyeing the possibility of replacing SDL2 with the sdl2-compat code so that by way of this compatibility layer the newer SDL3 version will ultimately be used instead... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-sdl2-compat-Propose) 2024-12-06T13:38:39Z **Fwupd 2.0.3 Delivers Latest Firmware Updating Capabilities For Linux Systems**
Fwupd 2.0 debuted back in October while out today is Fwupd 2.0.3 as the newest incremental update to this open-source solution for updating system and device firmware under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.0.3-Release) 2024-12-06T13:48:49Z **openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 Brings Nice Improvements To This Lightweight Linux OS**
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 is now available as the newest version of this lightweight Linux operating system built for containerized environments and virtualized workloads... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Leap-Micro-6.1) 2024-12-06T15:03:20Z **Linux Preps For Kunpeng ARM Server SoC With High Bandwidth Memory**
New Linux patches from Huawei engineers are preparing new driver support for controlling High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) with the ARM-based Kunpeng high performance SoC... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Huawei-Kunpeng-HBM-Linux) 2024-12-06T16:28:00Z **Box64 v0.3.2 Emulator Adds Box32 Option, Introduces Native Flags & More**
Box64 v0.3.2 is out today as the newest feature release to this Linux user-space emulator for allowing x86\_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) Linux devices. Box64 is one of the leading ways for allowing x86\_64 games and Steam to be able to run on ARM 64-bit Linux devices... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Box64-0.3.2-Released) 2024-12-06T17:56:00Z **Linux 6.13 Features: AutoFDO+Propeller Optimizations, Many AMD Additions & SDUC + NVMe 2.1 Support**
With the Linux 6.13 merge window having ended this past weekend, here's the Phoronix overview of all the interesting feature additions, new hardware support, and other kernel changes coming for Linux 6.13. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-613-features) 2024-12-06T21:04:45Z **Wine 10.0-rc1 Released With Updated VKD3D, Initial Bluetooth Driver**
The first release candidate of Wine 10.0 is out today that also now marks the feature freeze ahead of this stable release expected to be out around mid-January... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.0-rc1-Released) 2024-12-07T01:32:11Z **OBS Studio 31.0 Released With New Features For Screen Recording & Screencasting**
OBS Studio 31.0 was released this evening as the newest feature update to this open-source, cross-platform software for live streaming and desktop screen recording purposes. OBS Studio remains a leading choice across operating systems for screen recording, game livestreaming, and similar purposes while the new v31.0 release tacks on even more features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-31.0) 2024-12-07T10:47:21Z **KDE Starts December By Landing A Number Of New Features**
While the winter holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain very busy working on new feature code for the Plasma 6.3 desktop. A number of new features were merged this week for the KDE desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-New-Features-December-2024) 2024-12-07T11:18:07Z **Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds 64K Kernel Option, NFTables & Intel E800 Networking**
Microsoft engineers rounded out their work week by releasing Azure Linux 3.0.20241203 on Friday evening as the newest monthly installment for their in-house Linux distribution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Azure-Linux-3.0.20241203) 2024-12-07T11:58:33Z **UMD Direct Submission "Proof Of Concept" For The Intel Xe Linux Driver**
One of the interesting Intel Xe Linux kernel graphics driver patches that was volleyed for discussion last month is working on user-mode driver (UMD) direct submission support for allowing work to be directly submitted from user-space to the GPU hardware and avoiding some of the overhead of the kernel driver interactions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/UMD-Direct-Submit-Intel-Xe) 2024-12-07T14:00:52Z **OpenWrt Affected By Security Issue That Could Have Led To Compromised Build Artifacts**
A security issue was reported to the OpenWrt project this week around their Attendedsysupgrade Server (ASU) instances that could have led to compromised firmware images being served... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenWrt-Compromised-ASU-Builds) 2024-12-07T21:09:59Z **More Kernel Bitrot: Old & Busted UltraSPARC T2 "Niagara 2" SPU Driver Slated For Removal**
Following 107k lines of old driver code within the staging area of the kernel removed for Linux 6.13, over in the crypto space they are looking at some cleaning as well with plans raised to remove the Stream Processing Unit (SPU) driver for the old Sun Niagara 2, the Sun UltraSPARC T2 and this SPU was also found in the UltraSPARC T3 as well... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niagara-2-SPU-Driver-Bitrot) 2024-12-08T10:41:46Z **Mold 2.35 Released With Big Endian ARM64 Support**
Rui Ueyama announced the release today of Mold 2.35 as the latest iteration of this high speed linker alternative to the linkers available from the GCC and LLVM toolchain projects... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-2.35-Released) 2024-12-08T11:05:52Z **Manjaro 24.2 Released With GNOME 47 Updates, Powered By Linux 6.12 LTS**
Manjaro 24.2 "Yonada" is out today as the newest version of this popular desktop focused Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-24.2-Released) 2024-12-08T11:33:57Z **Linux 6.13-rc2 To Workaround Buggy Intel Lunar Lake Leading To Responsiveness Issues**
Sent out this morning were the "x86/urgent" updates ahead of Linux 6.13-rc2 due out later today. There are x86 fixes for both Intel and AMD processors this week. Most notable though is fixing some buggy Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" behavior that could lead to responsiveness/delay issues due to the MONITOR implementation being buggy/broken... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-rc2-x86-urgent) 2024-12-08T12:00:00Z **Linux 6.13-rc2 To Workaround Buggy Intel Lunar Lake Leading To Responsiveness Issues**
Sent out this morning were the "x86/urgent" updates ahead of Linux 6.13-rc2 due out later today. There are x86 fixes for both Intel and AMD processors this week. Most notable though is fixing some buggy Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" behavior that could lead to responsiveness/delay issues due to the MONITOR implementation being buggy/broken... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-rc2-x86-urgent) 2024-12-08T11:51:00Z **Ubuntu flash-kernel Package Looks To Drop Support For Old ARM Hardware**
The flash-kernel package is used for putting the Linux kernel image and initramfs in the boot location for embedded devices that aren't able to boot directly from /boot. The flash-kernel package is particularly important for older ARM hardware while now Ubuntu maintainers are looking at dropping patches they currently carry for a number of aging ARM platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-flash-Kernel-Drop-Old) 2024-12-08T14:50:00Z **Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing On Gzip & Zstd**
The Linux kernel EFI Zboot code for carrying the Linux kernel image for EFI systems in compressed form is doing away with its "compression library museum" of offering Gzip, LZ4, LZMA, LZO, XZ, and Zstd compression options to instead just focus on Gzip and Zstd compression support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-EFI-Zboot-Gzip-Zstd) 2024-12-08T22:16:43Z **Linux 6.13-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes**
Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.13-rc2 with an initial serving of bug/regression fixes following last week's Linux 6.13-rc1 release that capped off the feature-packed Linux 6.13 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-rc2-Released)