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2024-10-09 12:55:30

GNOME Triple Buffering May Need To Be Re-Engineered - Helping NVIDIA Performance
The long-in-development GNOME triple buffering support that is patched into the Ubuntu and Debian builds and available for years in patch form might need to undergo a redesign. That's to better accommodate the NVIDIA Linux driver and likely help other non-Mesa graphics drivers too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Triple-Buffering-NV

2024-10-02 09:53:37

Manjaro 24.1 Released With GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6.1 & Xfce 4.18 Desktop Options
Manjaro 24.1 "Xahea" debuted on Tuesday as the newest update to this Arch Linux based distribution. Manjaro 24.1 is the first new tagged release since May and with it comes updated desktop options, the Linux 6.10 kernel, and other package upgrades...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-24.1-Released

2024-10-01 10:50:00

Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10
For those making use of "reverse PRIME" setups where you have a primary NVIDIA discrete GPU while monitors are connected to Intel integrated graphics as the secondary GPU, such configurations should be working nicely with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 release under Wayland. This support is also likely to be back-ported for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Reverse-PRIME

2024-10-01 10:25:50

Linux 6.13 To Bring Big/Super Pages For The Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver - Better Performance
While the Linux 6.12 merge window only ended this weekend and won't be out until November, already code is beginning to accumulate for DRM-Next of graphics driver improvements targeting the Linux 6.13 cycle that in turn will be the first major Linux kernel release of 2025. A nice improvement is on the way for the Raspberry Pi graphics driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Big-Super-RPi-V3D

2024-09-27 10:11:00

Asynchronous Device Shutdown Doesn't Make It For Linux 6.12
Patches for wiring up async device shutdown within the Linux kernel were queued via the driver core branch for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. However, at the last minute these asynchronous device shutdown patches were reverted so that they can be reworked and hopefully land for the Linux v6.13 kernel in the new year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Async-Device-Shutdown-Not-6.12

2024-09-24 11:07:42

Intel LPSS Driver Adds Panther Lake Support In Linux 6.12
Going along with other early Linux kernel driver additions for enabling Panther Lake, the intel-lpss driver in Linux 6.12 has made its device ID additions for supporting Panther Lake H and Panther Lake P processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LPSS-Panther-Lake-Linux

2024-09-23 10:40:00

Linux Preparing Support For The RISC-V Framework Laptop 13
Back in June it was teased that Framework Computer in collaboration with DeepComputing would be releasing a RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13. That RISC-V laptop motherboard has yet to be officially released but Linux kernel patches were posted today for enabling the DeviceTree support so Linux can boot on this upcoming board...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DT-Framework-13-RISC-V

2024-09-20 10:42:00

Gfxstream Merged Into Mesa For Vulkan Virtualization
After seven months under review, Google's Gfxstream code has been upstreamed into Mesa 24.3 as a Vulkan virtualization solution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Gfxstream-Merged

2024-09-15 10:00:00

AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems
The modern AMD kernel graphics driver "AMDGPU" is the biggest driver within the mainline Linux kernel and is approaching six million lines of code albeit a large chunk of that is made up of auto-generated header files for each supported GPU. But this AMDGPU kernel driver is becoming "really really big" that it's beginning to cause issues for Plymouth that commonly provides the initial boot splash screen experience on modern Linux desktops...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Driver-Plymouth-Woes

2024-09-13 10:10:40

Samba Secures A Big Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is set to make a €688,800 investment into the Samba open-source project that re-implements the SMB networking protocol and focused on better file and print service interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/STF-Samba-Investment

2024-09-09 10:30:00

Intel Panther Lake HDMI Audio Support Coming With Linux 6.12
While Intel Lunar Lake is only beginning to ship later this month, Intel Linux engineers have already begun work on enabling its successor: Panther Lake. With the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel cycle will be more early enablement work on Intel Panther Lake, presumably what will be the Core Ultra 300 series...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Panther-Lake-HDMI-Audio

2024-09-06 00:22:14

KDE Again Operated At A Loss During 2023
KDE e.V. announced the availability today of their annual report for covering 2023. While they made a lot of accomplishments and worked a lot on KDE Plasma 6 development, it was another year they unfortunately operated in the red funding wise...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-2023-Report

2024-09-03 13:48:36

Samba 4.21 Released With LDAP TLS/SASL Channel Binding, Other Improvements
Samba 4.21 is out as the newest version of this SMB networking protocol implementation commonly used on Linux systems for file and print services interaction with Windows systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samba-4.21-Released

2024-08-19 19:32:17

ASUS ROG Ally X & GT7868Q See HID Fixes With Linux 6.11
A new batch of HID subsystem fixes were merged today for the ongoing Linux 6.11 kernel development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-HID-ROG-Ally-X-GT786

2024-08-16 10:13:23

Rockchip Driver Will Be Able To Drive 4K @ 60Hz HDMI Displays With Linux 6.12
Sent out today was the latest round of DRM-Misc-Next patches to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window opening up in mid-September. For those using ARM single board computers with a Rockchip SoC and have been struggling for 4K support over HDMI, the Rockchip updates in Linux 6.12 should excite you...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rockchip-Linux-6.12-4K-60Hz

2024-08-14 02:11:08

Intel Publishes Updated CPU Microcode For A Variety Of Security & Functional Issues
Intel published a number of new CPU microcode images this Patch Tuesday for addressing various security issues as well as a number of functional issues being addressed across different CPU client and server processor generations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Microcode-20240813

2024-08-13 10:28:09

AMDVLK 2024.Q3.1 Brings Official Ubuntu 24.04 Support & New Performance Tuning
Hitting the release button minutes ago, AMDVLK 2024.Q3.1 is available as the newest version of AMD's official open-source Vulkan driver and the first new release since the end of June. This driver continues to trail in popularity to the likes of the Valve-based Mesa RADV Radeon Vulkan driver but does well in areas like Vulkan ray-tracing and is officially backed by AMD...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-2024.Q3.1-Released

2024-08-13 10:12:09

Apple Silicon OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Updated In Mesa 24.3 Git
Yesterday was a fresh sync of the Asahi Linux projecr's AGX Gallium3D and Honeykrisp drivers to the upstream Mesa 24.3-devel Git repository. Some 42 patches are now upstream in Mesa for benefiting OpenGL and Vulkan atop Apple Silicon graphics...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AGX-Honeykrisp-Apple-Aug-12

2024-08-12 10:48:35

GCC 15 Merges Initial Support For Intel AVX10.2 Support
As a follow up to the article from a few weeks ago of Intel publishing the AVX10.2 specifications and posting GCC compiler patches for that next iteration of AVX10, the initial support was merged today into the GNU Compiler Collection...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15-Merges-Initial-AVX10.2

2024-08-12 10:05:35

GTK Making Progress On HDR & Supporting More Color Spaces
Colors within the GTK toolkit have been represented to date using sRGB but developers have been working on supporting other color spaces like Display-P3 and BT.2100-PQ as they work to better support High Dynamic Range (HDR) displays on the Linux desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-HDR-More-Color-Spaces

2024-08-08 15:27:51

System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha Desktop - It's Looking Quite Interesting
System76 today is releasing an alpha build of Pop!_OS 24.04 that is built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and making it very interesting is that it includes the alpha version of their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment. I've been playing around with this Pop!_OS 24.04 alpha in advance of today's embargo lift and it's been working out quite well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-COSMIC-Alpha

2024-08-08 11:00:52

Linux Prepares For Intel Arrow Lake H With Mix Of Lion Cove, Skymont & Crestmont Cores
With upcoming Intel Arrow Lake H processors it's just not P cores and E cores but for the E cores will be a mix of both Skymonth and Crestmont core types...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ARL-H-3-Core-Types

2024-08-08 10:47:04

GNOME's libspelling Turns To Threads For Much Faster Spell Checking
GNOME's libspelling library is seeing up to eight times faster spell checking performance thanks to threading and other optimizations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libspelling-Faster-Spell-Check

2024-08-08 10:33:23

fsck.exfat Can Now Check & Repair Filenames With Invalid Characters
For those making use of Microsoft's exFAT file-system on Linux systems, the user-space programs within exfatprogs have been updated that also include more robust "fsck.exfat" capabilities for checking and repairing exFAT file-systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/exfatprogs-1.2.5

2024-08-02 18:52:11

AMD Releases ROCm 6.2 With New Components, Improves PyTorch & TensorFlow
As expected, AMD has released ROCm 6.2 as the newest version of their open-source GPU compute stack for Radeon graphics cards and Instinct accelerators. ROCm 6.2 is a big update with several new software components, improving the existing PyTorch and TensorFlow support, and a variety of other enhancements as AMD works to better compete with NVIDIA's CUDA...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.2-Released

2024-02-13 11:33:42

Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Sees "Massive Boost" With Indirect Draw Generation
Intel's Iris Gallium3D driver for providing open-source OpenGL support on Linux systems has implemented indirect draw generation. For software relying heavily on indirect draws will see a "massive boost" in performance...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Iris-Indirect-Draw-Gen

2024-02-12 11:19:02

Rust Kernel Support On AArch64 Ready To Go For Linux 6.9
The 64-bit Arm (AArch64) little-endian kernel will be ready to support the Rust kernel code with the upcoming Linux 6.9 cycle...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-AArch64-Rust-Support

2024-02-11 20:48:54

Linux 6.8-rc4 Released With Bcachefs & NTFS3 File-System Fixes, Transmeta Crusoe Fix
As more exciting than the Super Bowl (at least for some of us) is the new Linux 6.8-rc4 kernel available for testing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-rc4-Released

2024-02-11 11:49:59

TrenchBoot Progress For Adding More Security & Integrity To The Boot Process
TrenchBoot has been in development for several years now by Oracle, 3mdeb, and other stakeholders for providing greater security and integrity to the Linux boot process via measured launch of the OS using a Dynamic Root of Trust Measurement (DRTM) backed by Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and AMD Secure Startup. Much progress was made over 2023 while more work is ahead in 2024 for furthering the TrenchBoot efforts...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrenchBoot-Status-2024

2024-02-11 05:00:00

Debian 12.5 Released To Provide The Latest Security & Bug Fixes
Debian 12.5 is out this weekend as the newest stable point release for this widely-used Linux distribution in order to ship the latest security fixes and various bug fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-12.5-Released

2024-02-10 11:07:34

Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Comes Down To The Wire For GNOME 46
Today marks the UI, feature, and API/ABI freezes for the GNOME 46 desktop ahead of its stable release on 16 March. One feature coming down to the wire that looks like it may not make it -- unfortunately -- is the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) integration...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-VRR-February

2024-02-10 10:36:33

Three Weeks To Go Until The KDE Plasma 6.0 Release
There is just under three weeks to go until the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6 debut...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Three-Weeks

2024-02-09 22:53:45

Wine 9.2 Released With System Tray Fixes, Better ARM Exception Handling
Wine 9.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.2-Released

2024-02-09 21:19:51

MythTV 34 Released For Open-Source DVR/PVR
In an era of Internet streaming digital video recorders (DVR) / personal video recorder (PVR) software isn't nearly as popular as it was in the past, but the long-used open-source MythTV software is out with its first major update in one year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MythTV-34-Released

2024-02-08 12:08:15

Canonical Improving The Thunderbird Snap For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Canonical is continuing the emphasis on Snaps for the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Better-Thunderbird-Snap

2024-02-08 11:44:04

WireGuard Driver Merged To DragonFlyBSD Kernel
Merged today to DragonFlyBSD Git is the WireGuard protocol driver for leveraging this popular tech...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DragonFlyBSD-WireGuard-Merge

2024-02-08 11:33:32

Blender 4.1 Will Further Expand Linux's CPU Rendering Performance Lead Over Windows
When running Windows vs. Linux performance benchmarks one of the real-world areas where Linux consistently dominates across both AMD and Intel platforms is for the Blender 3D modeling software's rendering performance. For CPU-based rendering in Blender as well as other 3D modeling software, Linux typically dominates by wide margins. With the upcoming Blender 4.1 release, it looks like Linux's lead will only further expand...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.1-Faster-CPU-Linux

2024-02-08 00:04:25

Microsoft Confirms Bringing Sudo For Windows, Is Open-Source Too
There's been recent reports that Microsoft is bringing sudo to Windows as discovered in recent Windows 11 Insider previews. This was briefly confirmed today by Microsoft in a since-removed blog post as well as noting that it's open-source...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Windows-sudo

2024-02-07 11:19:20

Snaps & Ubuntu Core Desktop Talked Up At FOSDEM 2024
Canonical engineer Till Kamppeter was at FOSDEM 2024 last weekend in Belgium to talk up the Snap packaging format spearheaded for Ubuntu Linux as well as their ongoing work around Ubuntu Core Desktop for providing an all-Snap based operating system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FOSDEM-2024-Snaps

2024-02-06 15:30:00

Mozilla's Latest Plan To Make Money Is Mozilla Monitor Plus
Mozilla's latest non-browser foray and attempt at generating additional revenue is Mozilla Monitor Plus, what formerly was known as the free service Firefox Monitor for monitoring of exposed personal information such as email addresses as part of security breaches to various web services...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Monitor-Plus

2024-02-06 11:23:30

Linux Pulls In Two Serious Bug Fixes For Bcachefs
Overnight the latest fixes to the Linux 6.8 kernel were merged including two that are "serious" and will be back-ported to the existing stable Linux 6.7 kernel as well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Two-Serious-Fixes

2024-02-05 22:07:22

Another Optimization Comes For Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing In Mesa 24.1
Valve contractor Friedrich Vock who is part of the team working on the open-source Linux graphics drivers has merged another RADV ray-tracing optimization for this open-source AMD Vulkan driver with this improvement in next quarter's Mesa 24.1 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-RT-VGPR-Optimize

2024-02-03 20:08:29

Linux 6.9 To Support The Power Profile Key On New Lenovo ThinkPads
On newer Lenovo ThinkPad laptops (2024+ models) there is a new key combination appearing to make it easy to switch between ACPI Platform Profiles for toggling your power/performance preference of the system. With the Linux 6.9 kernel coming in a few months this key will now work under Linux too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-ThinkPad-Profile-Key

2024-02-03 10:54:22

KDE Plasma 6.0 Getting More Fixes & UI Refinements Ahead Of Release This Month
KDE Plasma 6.0 is due to be released at the end of this month! KDE Megarelease 6 RC2 released this week in facilitating more testing ahead of this big KDE desktop milestone and there's been no let-up in the amount of bug fixes and last minute work being prepped for this milestone...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0-This-Month

2024-02-02 17:33:09

Debian 64-bit time_t Transition Underway For Addressing Y2038 Problem On 32-bit Systems
Debian Experimental has begun its package rebuilds for its 64-bit time_t transition for ensuring 32-bit architectures running Debian Trixie will be able to operate past the Year 2038...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Experimental-64bit-Time

2024-02-02 15:04:57

Redox OS Porting More Linux Software Over, Including The COSMIC Desktop
The Rust-based Redox OS open-source project has published a new blog post outlining some of their recent accomplishments as well as a look ahead to other technical adventures planned for this year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Starts-2024

2024-02-02 11:25:05

OBS Studio 30.1 Beta Released With AV1 For VA-API & AV1 For WebRTC/WHIP Output
Following the release of OBS Studio 30.0 last November, OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 was released today as what will be the next feature release for this open-source software that is popular with livestreamers and other game streaming / desktop recording purposes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-30.1-Beta

2024-02-01 17:42:50

GNU libmicrohttpd version 1.0 Released For Embed-Friendly Web Server
GNU libmicrohttpd version 1.0.0 is out today as the first major release of this C library implementing an easy-to-run HTTP web server that is embed-friendly for use by other applications...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-libmicrohttpd-1.0

2024-02-01 16:08:44

More AMD SEV-SNP Support To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.9
More of AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) support for memory encrypted VMs is set to make it upstream for the Linux 6.9 kernel coming out toward the middle of the year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-More-AMD-SEV-SNP

2024-02-01 05:00:00

AMD Releases ROCm 6.0.2 With Improved Stability For Instinct MI300 Series
AMD on Wednesday evening released ROCm 6.0.2 as the newest point release to their open-source compute stack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.0.2-MI300

2024-02-01 00:55:22

GNU C Library 2.39 Released With New Tunables, stdbit.h For ISO C2X
In addition to this week's release of GNU Binutils 2.42, ending out January is the release of the GNU C Library 2.39. This C library "libc" update comes with several new features, security fixes, and other enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-C-Library-glibc-2.39

2024-01-31 12:48:07

LibreOffice 24.2 Released For This Leading Free Software Office Suite
LibreOffice 24.2 is now available as the latest major update to this leading cross-platform, free software office suite to compete with the likes of Microsoft Office...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-24.2-Released

2024-01-30 16:50:28

Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Released With Per-Contact Ringtones, Built-In Theme Switching
For fans of the Ubuntu Touch platform maintained by UBports for enjoying Linux on tablets and smartphones is out with their 4th Over The Air update based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-OTA-4

2024-01-30 11:38:10

ChipStar 1.1 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V
ChipStar 1.1 was released this past week as one of the open-source projects to help in porting HIP and CUDA applications to support the industry-standard SPIR-V. ChipStar acts to get HIP/CUDA codes working on SPIR-V with OpenCL or Intel's oneAPI Level Zero...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ChipStar-1.1-HIP-CUDA-SPIR-V

2024-01-29 19:53:42

A Linux Hardware Vendor Is Valuing Itself At $75,000,000 USD
Linux hardware vendor Purism that is known for their crowd-funded Librem 5 smartphone effort, Linux-loaded laptops, and other privacy-minded wares announced a first public offering of Purism stock on the StartEngine platform...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Purism-75M

2024-01-29 16:18:31

GNU Binutils 2.42 Brings Support For New Intel CPU Extensions: APX, AVX10.1 & More
Nick Clifton with Red Hat announced today the release of GNU Binutils 2.42, the newest feature release to this collection of binary utilities widely relied upon by Linux and Unix-like systems as part of the compiler toolchain...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Binutils-2.42

2024-01-29 12:00:00

New Linux Driver Posted For Latest NZXT AIO CPU Coolers
Thanks to the reverse-engineering, open-source community there is already a NZXT Kraken Linux driver for supporting hardware monitoring and controls for various NZXT all-in-one CPU liquid cooler products. A new Linux driver was posted today for supporting the latest generation of the NZXT AIO CPU coolers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NZXT-Kraken-3-Linux-HWMON

2024-01-28 14:54:12

Linux 6.8-rc2 Adds More Zen 5 IDs, AMD PMF Will Know If You're In Front Of Your Laptop
New code submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.8 cycle are some AMD additions now set for premiering in today's Linux 6.8-rc2 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-More-Zen-5-And-PMF

2024-01-28 14:22:08

GNOME Sees Progress On Variable Refresh Rate Setting, Adding Battery Charge Control
There's been some new work pending for further enhancing the GNOME desktop when it comes around Variable Rate Refresh (VRR). Separately, there's new merge requests pending for adding laptop battery charge threshold controls from the GNOME UI...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-VRR-Setting-Battery-Con

2024-01-27 13:56:40

Arch-Based Endeavour OS Updates ISO With Linux 6.7 Kernel, Mesa 23.3.3
Endeavour OS as the popular desktop rolling-release Linux distribution built upon Arch Linux has published updated ISOs that bundle in the stable Linux 6.7 kernel as well as other package updates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Endeavour-OS-Linux-6.7

2024-01-27 11:51:16

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Will Aim To Ship With The Linux 6.8 Kernel
As some terrific news, Canonical laid out their kernel plans for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and they are being ambitious with plans to ship the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel as their default kernel on this next long-term support Ubuntu desktop/server distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Will-Use-Linux-6.8

2024-01-27 11:19:46

KDE Lands More Performance Improvements & Fixes Ahead Of Plasma 6.0 Next Month
We're nearly one month to the day until the release of the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release alongside the new KDE Gear apps and KDE Frameworks 6.0. Developers aren't letting up at all with more performance optimizations and fixes continuing to hit the codebase...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-6.0-End-Of-January

2024-01-25 23:09:16

AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support For Ryzen AI On Linux!
With the AMD Ryzen 7040 series "Ryzen AI" was introduced as leveraging Xilinx IP onboard the new Zen 4 mobile processors. Ryzen AI is beginning to work its way out to more processors while it hasn't been supported on Linux. Then in October was AMD wanting to hear from customer requests around Ryzen AI Linux support. Well, today they did their first public code drop of the XDNA Linux driver for providing open-source support for Ryzen AI...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-XDNA-Linux-Driver-Ryzen-AI

2024-01-25 14:00:00

Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Brings Shader Quad Control, Shader Maximal Reconvergence & More
The Khronos Group today announced their Vulkan Roadmap 2024 milestone as a specification for their latest API features and meeting the needs of 2024 graphics processors and other hardware. Vulkan Roadmap 2024 builds upon Vulkan 1.3 and the Vulkan Roadmap 2022 specifications to deliver next-generation capabilities...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-Roadmap-2024

2024-01-25 11:51:45

GNOME Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols
GNOME Network Displays is the software that allows streaming your GNOME desktop to WiFi Display devices using PipeWire. Last week GNOME Network Displays 0.91 was released with some big improvements to this software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Network-Displays-0.91

2024-01-23 17:38:06

Real-Time Patches Updated Against The Linux 6.8 Kernel
It's 2024 and sadly the real-time (RT) patches still have yet to be mainlined for the Linux kernel. At least though the out-of-tree patches continue to be quickly re-based and decrease in size over time... Out today is the Linux v6.8-rc1-rt1 patches for bringing the real-time support against the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-rc1-Real-Time

2024-01-22 15:05:13

FreeBSD Considers Making Use Of Rust Within Its Base System
FreeBSD developers are currently weighing the benefits and costs of allowing the Rust programming language to be used within the FreeBSD base system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Considers-Rust-Base

2024-01-21 19:43:54

StarFive RISC-V SoC's Camera Subsystem Driver Added To Linux 6.8
Sent in last week were all of the media driver updates for Linux 6.8. Arguably most notable is the introduction of the StarFive Camera Subsystem driver as a new image sensor processor driver initially being treated as a staging driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Media-Drivers

2024-01-21 14:33:28

BFQ I/O Scheduler For Linux Sees Big Scalability Improvement
Following the work on enhancing the scalability of the MQ-Deadline I/O scheduler, Linux storage expert Jens Axboe has applied similar scalability improvements to the BFQ I/O scheduler...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/BFQ-IO-Better-Scalability

2024-01-21 13:34:17

Linux 6.8 Brings Intel Lunar Lake Thunderbolt, New Qualcomm USB AltMode Mux Driver
Merged this week were the USB and Thunderbolt driver changes for the nearly-closed Linux 6.8 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/USB-Thunderbolt-Linux-6.8

2024-01-20 14:06:04

Serpent OS To Require x86_64-v2 CPUs While Offering x86_64-v3 Packages Too
Serpent OS as the latest Linux distribution project of well known developer Ikey Doherty is off to a great start for 2024. Following all their Rust infrastructure work last year, that infrastructure work has continued while also taking on new challenges for the new year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Serpent-OS-January-2024

2024-01-19 11:38:29

AppArmor Switches To SHA256 Policy Hashes In Linux 6.8
For those making use of the AppArmor Linux kernel security module, there is a notable change coming with the Linux 6.8 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AppArmor-Linux-6.8

2024-01-18 18:51:04

Hangover Aiming For RISC-V Support This Year, x86_64 Emulation
Building off this week's release of Wine 9.0 for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms is now Hangover 9.0. Hangover as a reminder is the project based on Wine initially focused on running x86 32-bit Windows apps on AArch64 Linux. Hangover works by running Wine atop various emulators such as QEMU, FEX, or Box64 for handling the processor/ISA translation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hangover-9.0-Released

2024-01-17 20:21:03

Linus Torvalds Gets Back To Merging New Code For Linux 6.8
Last weekend the Linux 6.8 merge window was thrown into a mess with Linus Torvalds losing Internet access and electricity during some significant winter storms battling the Portland, Oregon area. After nearly five days without being able to manage the Git merges for the Linux 6.8 merge window, a few minutes ago activity was restarted...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Merges-Resume

2024-01-17 18:28:07

Gigabyte G242-P36: A Great Ampere Altra Max Platform For AI/GPU Computing
The past two months I've been using the Gigabyte (Giga Computing) G242-P36 and it's been a refreshing delight for an ARM64 server platform running well with the mature Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors while boasting support for up to two GPUs and up to two DPUs or other PCIe adapters to make for a nice GPU/AI accelerated computing server.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/gigabyte-ampere-g242-p36

2024-01-17 11:18:58

DRM Driver Changes Already Begin Queuing For Linux 6.9
While the Linux v6.8 kernel merge window isn't even over yet and that kernel not debuting until March, a few days ago the first drm-misc-next pull request was submitted to DRM-Next to begin queuing the open-source graphics/display driver changes that will ultimately be targeting the Linux 6.9 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-DRM-Misc-Next-Start

2024-01-16 11:38:16

Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance
A Canonical engineer has been experimenting with implementing a Linux scheduler within the Rust programming language. His early results are interesting and hopeful around the potential of a Rust-based scheduler that works via sched_ext for implementing a scheduler using eBPF that can be loaded during run-time...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Scheduler-Experiment

2024-01-15 21:24:21

AMD Releases AOMP 18.0-1 Compiler Based On ROCm 6.0, Defaults To -O2 Optimizations
As the first new tagged version of AMD's AOMP LLVM-based OpenMP-focused compiler for offloading to their Instinct / Radeon GPUs, AOMP 18.0-1 was released today with many changes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AOMP-18.0-1-Compiler

2024-01-15 20:25:19

Microsoft Releases First CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Update Of 2024
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution CBL-Mariner that is used for a variety of purposes from Azure to WSL has seen its first release of 2024. While the distribution has at times released up to a few new versions per month, there hadn't been a new release since late November given the holidays...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CBL-Mariner-2.0.20240112

2024-01-15 11:34:04

"The Finals" Can Run With Intel Graphics On Linux When Hiding The Fact It's An Intel GPU
Embark Studios' The Finals free-to-play first person shooter has proven quite popular since its release in early December. The Finals is a game powered by Unreal Engine 5 that has been running on Linux thanks to Valve's Steam Play (Proton + VKD3D-Proton). With the latest Mesa driver activity, Intel Arc Graphics on Linux with their open-source driver can now handle this popular game...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/The-Finals-Intel-Arc-Graphics

2024-01-15 00:37:02

KDE Hiring For New Project To Promote Environmentally-Sustainable Software
KDE e.V. as the German legal organization behind the KDE project is hiring an employee for a new project to promote environmentally-sustainable software and long-term hardware use...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Environmentally-Sustainable

2024-01-14 20:45:48

A Fix For The Severe Linux Performance Regression Spotted By Torvalds
Prior to Linus Torvalds' Internet and electricity being knocked out by a snow storm and thus impacting the Linux 6.8 merge window, his weekend was already in rough shape due to encountering a performance regression with new Linux 6.8 code that was causing his Linux kernel builds to be as twice as long as with previous kernels. An AMD Linux engineer was able to reproduce the regression and with upstream developers there is now a believed fix for this issue in the latest scheduler code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Perf-Regression-Fix

2024-01-14 14:41:03

AMD IOMMU Improvements & Apple M1 USB4/Thunderbolt DART Submitted For Linux 6.8
All of the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) subsystem updates were sent out this week for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-IOMMU

2024-01-14 14:13:28

Limine 7.0 Bootloader Released
Following the recent release of GRUB 2.12, another prominent open-source bootloader project is also out with a new release: Limine 7.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Limine-7.0-Bootloader

2024-01-13 15:41:06

Git Developers Discuss The Possibility Of Beginning To Use Rust Code
The latest open-source project eyeing the possibility of beginning to allow the Rust programming language to be used within its codebase is the Git project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Rust-Developer-Discussion

2024-01-13 14:40:00

Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration
Fedora 40 is looking at shipping the AMD ROCm 6.x GPU compute stack to offer "end-to-end open-source GPU acceleration" with ease for this Red Hat funded Linux distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Eyes-AMD-ROCm-6

2024-01-12 01:24:08

F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support With Linux 6.8
In addition to the Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.8, the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have also been separately submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/F2FS-For-Linux-6.8

2024-01-11 20:49:31

Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0
This week prior to the Mesa 24.0 feature freeze / code branching, a notable merge request landed that had been worked on the past few months by one of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver developers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ACO-Last-Minute-Mesa-24.0

2024-01-11 20:16:18

System76's COSMIC Desktop Working Toward Its Alpha Release
The System76 crew has put out a new blog post outlining the work ahead toward their upcoming alpha release of their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment and in turn the Pop!_OS 24.04 release expected to happen "over the summer"...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Alpha-Roadmap

2024-01-11 18:45:00

Fedora 40 Looks At Packaging Its Own PyTorch
While on Fedora and other Linux distributions it can be as easy as running "pip3 install torch" or similar for deploying the PyTorch machine learning framework, Fedora 40 is looking at packaging PyTorch on its own for enhancing the Fedora Linux user experience...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Own-PyTorch-Proposal

2024-01-10 15:06:58

Linux 4.14 LTS Reaches End-Of-Life After Six Years
Linux 4.14 debuted at the end of 2017 with exciting features at the time like AMD Vega improvements, working on the since-failed Intel Cannonlake graphics, Zstd compression support, and more. The kernel has advanced a heck of a lot since then and Linux 6.7 recently debuted. It's now time that Linux 4.14 LTS has been declared end-of-life...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-4.14-LTS-Reaches-EOL

2024-01-10 00:51:12

Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache
The latest notable feature addition for Mesa 24.0 worth mentioning is to NVK, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver that works with the Nouveau DRM kernel driver for providing increasingly robust Vulkan API support on this alternative to NVIDIA's proprietary graphics driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Pipeline-Shader-Cache

2024-01-09 17:23:46

Arch Linux Will Now Use Dbus-Broker As Its Default D-Bus Daemon
Arch Linux is finally going the way of Fedora and others in making Dbus-Broker its default D-Bus daemon implementation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Dbus-Broker

2024-01-09 10:37:32

Linux 6.8 Power Management Prepares For Upcoming Intel Server Processors
Intel engineer and longtime Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki on Monday sent out all the PM updates for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Power-Management

2024-01-09 01:05:00

Solus Linux 4.5 Released With AMD ROCm Support, PipeWire Default & Calamares Installer
The Solus 4.5 Linux distribution is out today as a big update to this original distro that is known for its Budgie desktop environment and other innovations over the years. Solus 4.5 brings some pretty big changes this time around and a nice step forward over Solus 4.4 from a half-year ago...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Solus-4.5-Released

2024-01-08 17:59:19

Some Intel Arrow Lake CPUs To Feature Revised Xe LPG+ Graphics IP
The Intel engineers enabling next-generation Arrow Lake processors for Linux have largely been just adding new device IDs and other mostly minor changes over current Meteor Lake processors. It was that way too for Arrow Lake's integrated graphics with largely re-using existing Meteor Lake graphics support, but now it's come to light that select Arrow Lake SKUs will feature updated graphics IP...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arrow-Lake-SKUs-Better-Xe-LPG

2024-01-07 13:49:51

OpenBLAS 0.3.26 Brings More x86_64 Optimizations, Better LoongArch64 & ARM64
OpenBLAS 0.3.26 was released this week as the newest feature update to this open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBLAS-0.3.26

2024-01-07 11:26:20

GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released
In preparing for the GNOME 46 Alpha release, this morning the "46.alpha" builds of GNOME Shell and Mutter were published...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-46-Alpha

2024-01-05 18:35:41

Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Improvement Scores Huge Ray-Tracing Wins
A change merged today for Mesa 24.0 is yielding much better Vulkan ray-tracing performance for the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" across a number of games...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-RT-Much-Faster-Mesa-24.0

2024-01-05 17:30:00

Canonical To Work On Improving Snap Support Across Linux Distributions
It looks like 2024 could bring improved support for the Snap app sandboxing/packaging format across Linux distributions to better the overall experience of this Flatpak alternative outside the confines of Ubuntu...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Better-Cross-Distro-Snaps