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RADV Driver Enables Device Generated Commands Task Shader Support
The RADV Radeon Vulkan driver in Mesa 24.2-devel has received support for task shaders with the NVIDIA Device Generated Commands "DGC" extension...
Microsoft Releases New Azure Linux 3.0 Preview
A new preview release is available of Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 operating system...
Fedora 42 Looks To Make It Easier For Unprivileged System Flatpaks & Disk Management
In addition to proposed opt-in data metrics collection and the new web-based installer UI, some of the other early proposals for Fedora Linux 42 that isn't due out until April of 2025 is expanding the possibilities for unprivileged users...
Intel Xe Graphics Driver Squeezes In More Changes Ahead Of Linux 6.11
The Intel kernel graphics driver code being queued for the Linux 6.11 kernel already has added the initial Intel Battlemage PCI IDs, Battlemage display support, eDP Panel Replay support, Hardware Replay to help with hang debugging, SR-IOV preparations, and more Lunar Lake / Xe2 enablement. Today another unexpected last minute pull request was submitted of a bit more Xe driver code...
Arm Expands Speculative SSBS Workaround With More CPU Cores Being Affected
Back in May there were Linux kernel patches posted as a workaround for Arm CPU errata around the Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) handling. Initially this workaround was just noted as the Cortex-X4 and Neoverse-V3 as being affected, but now it turns out many more exciting Arm processor cores are impacted...
The Linux Kernel Matures To Having A Minimum Rust Toolchain Version
Nearly every Linux kernel cycle has bought patches to bump the version of the Rust language targeted by the kernel as it worked toward having a suitable minimum version. With the latest Linux kernel patches, it looks like we may be finally approaching the point where a safe minimum version can be specified and for the Linux kernel to in turn allow supporting multiple different versions of the Rust compiler...
LLVM Clang 19 Adds Initial "-std=c2y" Support For The Next C Standard
LLVM Clang 19 this morning landed initial support for the -std=c2y and -std=gnu2y options for targeting the next C programming language standard...
Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7
A change proposal has been filed by Red Hat engineer Miro Hronok for retiring Python 2.7 within Fedora 41 and to drop packages still depending upon Python 2...
Redox OS Doubles The Performance Of Its File-System & I/O Drivers
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is out with its monthly development summary that notes some interesting work taking place...
Miracle-WM v0.3 Released - Working Out To Daily-Drive This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor
Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek has released Miracle-WM v0.3 as the newest version of this Wayland tiling compositor built atop Mir. Miracle-WM is beginning to be useful and practical enough for daily driving by its lead developer...
Microsoft's WSL2 Transitions To Linux 6.6 LTS Kernel
The kernel powering Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) has long been using the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel while finally it's now upgraded past that aging long-term support kernel and onto the current Linux 6.6 LTS series...
Vulkan 1.3.289 Further Helps Out With Layered Driver Implementations
Vulkan 1.3.289 was released at the end of last week with a handful of clarifications/corrections to the Vulkan API specification plus one new maintenance extension...
Intel's VA-API 2.22 Library Adds VVC/H.266 Video Decode Interface
Intel engineers today released version 2.22 of libva, the driver-agnostic library for the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). Most notable with libva 2.22 is adding a new interface for Versatile Video Coding (VVC / H.266)...
Steam On Linux Use Stayed Above 2% In June
With the start of the new month comes the Steam Survey hardware/software details for the month prior. The June 2024 results show a decline to the Steam on Linux marketshare but staying above the magic 2% threshold...
Fedora Workstation 42 Looking At Adding Opt-In User Metrics Collection
Data collection around users tends to be a very touchy subject in the Linux/open-source world even when opt-in and Fedora Workstation 42 has just seen a proposal raised to do just that. If approved the Fedora Workstation 42 release would roll-out an opt-in metrics system of anonymous user information from system settings to hardware information and desktop usage patterns...
Radeon Developer Tool Suite Migrates To Qt6
AMD's Radeon Developer Tool Suite from their GPUOpen group has now migrated to the Qt6 graphical toolkit...
Linux Mint 22 Enters Beta, Built Atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Linux Mint has kicked off the start of July by releasing the beta of Linux Mint 22 "Wilma" as the next iteration of their desktop distribution built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and with plans to support it until 2029...
AMD Zen 4 vs. Intel Core Ultra 7 "Meteor Lake" In 400+ Benchmarks On Linux 6.10
In part for preparing for upcoming Linux testing of AMD Ryzen AI 300 series laptops, I've been re-benchmarking various Intel/AMD laptops around the lab at Phoronix. In today's article is a fresh look at how the existing AMD Zen 4 laptop performance in the form of the popular Framework 13 and Framework 16 laptops is competing with the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H "Meteor Lake" SoC while using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and upgrading to the latest Linux 6.10 development kernel as well as the newest Mesa open-source graphics driver support.
Qualcomm Begins Optimizing Glibc For Their Oryon CPU Core
Qualcomm has begun landing performance optimizations into the GNU C Library "glibc" for benefiting their new Oryon-1 CPU cores as found in the Snapdragon X Elite/Plus SoCs...
GNOME Mutter 46.2 Rolls Out To Ubuntu 24.04 Users, Experimental VRR Remains Rough
GNOME's Mutter 46.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.1 package was uploaded on Friday for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users. This Mutter compositor update not only brings Mutter 46.2 changes to this current Ubuntu release but also pulls in all of the 46.1 upstream changes too...
Suspend To Idle Under Linux Being Worked On For Raspberry Pi
Linux developer Stefan Wahren has been working on adding support for suspend-to-idle (s2idle) to the Raspberry Pi single board computers. It's working and there are power-savings benefits, but the downside is that initially the support is just for older Raspberry Pi boards...
RegreSSHion: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability In OpenSSH Server
Qualys went public today with a security vulnerability they have discovered within the OpenSSH server that could lead to remote, unauthenticated code execution...
Linux BSOD, NVIDIA Linux Excitement, Intel Sierra Forest & Other June Highlights
With the month of June wrapped up, here is a look back at the most popular open-source/Linux news and reviews from notable hardware launches to a lot of exciting kernel activity...
AMD Landing ISP 4.x IP In Linux 6.11, Strix Point & Granite Ridge IP Versions Confirmed
AMD on Friday sent out another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD patches for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window opening up in about two weeks...
Arch Linux Powered EndeavourOS Restores ARM Support
Arch Linux built EndeavourOS has released new install media in celebrating the project's fifth anniversary. Making this 5th anniversary release all the more exciting is the project has restored support for EndeavourOS on ARM...
GNOME Shell & Mutter See "47.alpha" Releases With Many Big Changes
GNOME 47 Alpha is approaching in the coming days and on Sunday evening the "47.alpha" versions were declared for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor. This alpha milestone is a big one with seeing enhanced VR headset support, the ability to build Wayland-only desktop environments, GNOME Shell accent color integration, and other Wayland improvements...
Linux 6.10-rc6 Arrives As A "Fairly Calm" Release
The Linux 6.10 kernel cycle continues trending along nominally and giving hope for an on-time stable kernel release in two weeks...
RISC-V Memory Hot Plugging To Be Introduced With Linux 6.11
The RISC-V kernel port with Linux 6.11 is introducing the ability to handle memory hot plugging/unplugging...
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Powered ASUS Vivobook S15 Laptop Seeing Linux Patches
For those interested in laptops powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite SoC, it's looking like the ASUS Vivobook S15 model could be one of the first devices with decent Linux support. There are patches undergoing review for upstreaming the ASUS Vivobook S 15 DeviceTree support so that much of the basic functionality is working under Linux but various features are known to be broken...
Reverse-Engineered Vivante Driver Brings Improved Performance & Fixes For Linux 6.11
The Etnaviv kernel graphics driver that provides reverse-engineered open-source support for Vivante graphics (and NPU) IP has seen a fresh round of patches ready to go for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.11 cycle kicking off in mid-July...
Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights
With the first half of the year drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular content on Phoronix so far in 2024. Year to date there has been 1,530 original news articles so far and 78 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles written by your's truly. There has been a lot happening in 2024 from Linux kernel improvements to exciting new hardware and other open-source advances...
Linux 6.10 Lands Improved Support For LG's Latest Laptops
Merged on Saturday ahead of today's Linux 6.10-rc6 release is the latest batch of x86 platform driver changes. Notable as part of this week's fixes is improving support for the very latest (2024) LG laptop models...
Debian 12.6 Released With Many Security Updates & Bug Fixes
For those on the Debian stable train, Debian 12.6 is out this weekend as the newest point release to Debian Bookworm...
Linux Prepares New Spectre BHI Mitigation Option For Cloud Environments
For the Branch History Injection variant of Spectre (Spectre BHI) there is a patch pending to add a new mitigation option for that two year old CPU security vulnerability...
Chrome's Coreboot Firmware Adapting For 64-bit Boot, Prepping For Intel Panther Lake
The Open-Source Firmware Foundation is out with an interesting blog post by Google firmware engineer Subrata Banik around adapting the Coreboot-based Chrome AP Firmware for 64-bit booting. The transition to 64-bit booting is happening for the system firmware powering Chromebooks and other Chrome devices and is driven in part for Intel Panther Lake generation hardware...
GNOME Ends Out June With New Libadwaita Addition, Optional Building Without X11
This Week in GNOME is out with the latest summary to highlight all of the interesting changes this week...
Niri 0.1.7 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Fractional Scaling
Niri 0.1.7 is out today as the latest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. While the version number may not signify it, Niri 0.1.7 is quite a notable feature update...
KDE Developers Fix More Bugs For Plasma 6.1, Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.2
KDE developers have still been busy addressing early fallout from the Plasma 6.1 desktop that released earlier this month while also beginning more feature activity for Plasma 6.2...
Wine 9.12 Lands Rewrite Of CMD.EXE Engine & Other Improvements
Wine 9.12 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release and in passing roughly the half-way point before Wine 10.0 stable enters the sights for early 2025...
Intel Preps More eDP Panel Replay Driver Code For Linux 6.11
On top of already having queued Intel Battlemage display support and the Battlemage device PCI IDs and other Intel kernel graphics driver features like hardware hang replays, Intel engineers today sent out another batch of "drm-intel-next" material slated for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle...
Servo Web Engine Gets WebGPU Running On OpenGL ES & Other New Features
The Rust-written Servo web layout engine continues progressing for this open-source project now stewarded by the Linux Foundation Europe and seeing code contribution from a range of developers. They have published their June 2024 status update to outline the latest accomplishments for this alternative web engine...
DRM Panic "Screen of Death" To Gain Monochrome Logo Support In Linux 6.11
The DRM Panic handler in Linux 6.10 that is used for presenting a visual error message in case of kernel panics and similar when CONFIG_VT is disabled continues seeing new features. This is the Linux equivalent to Windows' Blue Screen of Death or in the case of DRM Panic can also be a black screen of death. With Linux 6.11, the DRM Panic display can now handle monochrome logos...
Vulkan Sparse Binding Support Comes To Lavapipe Software Driver
Merged into Mesa 24.2 on Thursday is Vulkan sparse binding support for the CPU-based Lavapipe driver...
SUSE's "Agama" OS Installer Rolls Out New Web UI, Better Auto Installations
Besides Red Hat / Fedora working on a new web-based UI for their Anaconda OS installer, (open)SUSE developers remain very busy working on their Agama installer with new web-based interface. Agama 9 has now been announced as the latest iteration of SUSE's OS installer work...
Open-Source Vivante NPU Driver Being Extended For The NXP i.MX 8M Plus SoC
Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso had been doing a lot of work on the Etnaviv driver stack for open-source, reverse-engineered Vivante driver support that began with the 3D graphics support but Vizoso tackled enabling the Vivante NPU IP as well. After all the successes with the Etnaviv NPU support, he turned his attention to creating an open-source driver stack for the Rockchip NPUs. Now thanks to a new sponsorship deal, he's back to making more Etnaviv improvements...
Shotcut 24.06 Supports SVT-AV1 Encode & AVIF Images, Many Fixes
A few days ago was the release of the OpenShot 3.2 open-source video editor while Shotcut 24.06 also released this week as another great cross-platform, free software video editing solution...
Linux Fixing A Major Performance Issue For Intel Hybrid Systems With Buggy Firmware
Sent in as the sole patch for this week's Linux power management subsystem updates is an important fix for Intel Core hybrid systems with buggy firmware. The Intel P-State driver fix can address as much as a 50% performance hit seen with existing Linux kernel versions on affected Intel hybrid platforms...
GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled
Last week the GNOME 47 development code saw Wayland DRM lease protocol support for enhancing VR headset handling and separately was also accent color support for GNOME Shell. Adding to the recent slew of changes landing for GNOME 47, the GNOME Shell and Mutter code can now be successfully compiled -- optionally -- without any X11 support or requiring any X11 build dependencies...
AMD's Advanced Media Framework Promotes RADV Support
AMD today published version 1.4.34 of its Advanced Media Framework (AMF) SDK. This accelerated multimedia framework is used on Linux and Windows for integrating with games/applications leveraging DirectX, OpenGL, and OpenCL with interoperability support for Radeon GPU customers...
PipeWire 1.2 Released With Async Processing, Explicit Sync & Other Features
PipeWire 1.2 was christened today as the latest major feature update to this solution common to the modern Linux desktop for managing audio/video streams...
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