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Updated 2025-07-12 11:15
AMD Announces The Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX Series For What Should Be Great On Linux
It's been well over two years since AMD introduced the Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series and subsequently introduced the Threadripper PRO 3000WX series as workstation-focused parts. Today AMD is introducing the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX Series as the first Zen 3 based Threadripper processors.
BoringTun v0.4 Released For CloudFlare's Rust-Based WireGuard
Back in 2019 the folks at CloudFlare announced BoringTun as a Rust-written WireGuard user-space implementation. Yesterday marked the first tagged release of BoringTun in the form of version 0.4...
Vulkan Ready To Take On Safety-Critical Market With Vulkan SC 1.0
Last week The Khronos Group introduced Vulkan SC 1.0 in providing safety-critical Vulkan support for allowing this modern graphics API to used in new areas requiring maximum safety requirements...
Renesas H8/300 CPU Support Looks To Be Dropped Again From The Linux Kernel
The Linux kernel support is looking to drop support for Renesas (Hitachi) H8/300 CPUs once again...
Mold 1.1.1 Released With Optimized Memory Usage, New Options
A new version of the high performance, open-source Mold linker is now available with more feature additions and performance optimizations...
Fedora 37 Looks To Stop Building Unused i686 Packages
The latest change to be proposed for the Fedora 37 release later this year is encouraging package maintainers to drop unused 32-bit x86 (i686) packages...
Open-Source AMD Radeon Linux Graphics In Great Shape For Workstations, Handily Beating Proprietary Driver
With SPECViewPerf 2020 finally released for Linux I was curious to see how AMD's open-source "RadeonSI" Gallium3D driver within Mesa would compare to the performance offered by AMD's proprietary OpenGL Linux driver. After all, that longstanding proprietary driver, which is distributed as part of their Radeon Software for Linux driver package, has code in common with their Windows OpenGL driver and has previously been talked up as the preferred choice for workstation customers. Well, the latest open-source driver stack was outright kicking mud at that legacy binary blob for SPECViewPerf 2020 as well as the ParaView workstation visualization software.
Steam Survey Results For February 2022 Put Linux Right Above 1.0%
After a week delay in processing of the monthly Steam Survey data, the Steam Survey results for February 2022 are in! Yes, the much anticipated Steam Deck did begin shipping in February, but at the tail-end and in limited quantities, so don't expect any big surprises.....
Firefox 98 Set For Release With Dialog Element, Still Working On Wayland Support
Mozilla Firefox 98.0 binaries have hit the web today ahead of the formal release announcement tomorrow. There are various improvements in this latest monthly update to the Firefox web browser while its Wayland support for the Linux desktop remains ongoing...
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS To Carry GNOME Triple Buffering Support
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will be carrying the patches so the GNOME desktop makes use of the on-demand triple buffering support when necessary in order to boost the GPU rendering performance in order to allow for a smoother desktop experience...
The Qt Company Planning For Many Qt6 Enhancements This Year
The Qt Company has made a public roadmap for the Qt6 tool-kit this year with some of the items they are planning to add/enhance and are ready to talk about at this time...
VDPAU 1.5 Video Decode Library Released With AV1 Support
With the NVIDIA 510 series Linux driver back in January NVIDIA added AV1 video decode support to their Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) driver. Now finally out is libvdpau 1.5 as the adjoining open-source VDPAU library update...
Linux 5.17-rc7 Released - Final Kernel Planned For Next Weekend
Barring any last minute issues the Linux 5.17 stable kernel is expected to be out next Sunday...
DXVK-NVAPI 0.5.3 Released To Improve NVIDIA API Integration For Games On Steam Play
Following the recent releases of DXVK 1.10 and VKD3D-Proton 2.6 this past week, DXVK-NVAPI 0.5.3 is out this Sunday as the newest update to this library providing NVIDIA driver API "NVAPI" integration around DXVK/VKD3D-Proton for Windows games running on Linux by way of Steam Play (Proton)...
Anker's USB-C Hub Has Been Working Out Well With Valve's Steam Deck
Since last month's Steam Deck launch a few Phoronix readers have been asking about USB-C hubs for expanding connectivity with this handheld Linux-powered gaming console. Pretty much any reliable USB-C hub should do, while for my purposes the past month I've been using the Anker USB-C Hub...
FEX 2203 Emulator Released With RdRand & 3DNow Support, More JIT Work
FEX-Emu is the open-source project striving for speedy x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 with similar objectives to Box86/Box64. FEX-Emu is working toward allowing Steam and other x86_64 Linux games to work on 64-bit Arm hardware and achieving some early success. Out today is FEX-Emu 2203 as the latest step in that direction...
Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Enables Anisotropic Filtering
Back in 2017 the Mesa open-source OpenGL driver for Broadcom VC5 hardware most notably used by the Raspberry Pi 4 aimed to enable anisotropic filtering (AF). However, that patch wasn't fully hooked up correctly and now this past week should be in good shape...
Tow-Boot Sees New Release As User-Friendly U-Boot Distribution
The open-source Tow-Boot project has been in development now for about one year as a "user-friendly" distribution of the U-Boot bootloader...
digiKam 7.6 Released With Enhanced AppImage Build, JPEG-XL Support
Version 7.6 of the digiKam open-source photo management software is now available with a number of enhancements...
Intel "Madison Peak" Bluetooth Support Coming For Linux 5.18
Beyond all their timely Linux kernel contributions surrounding their processors and graphics hardware, Intel continues well with ensuring network adapters, Bluetooth, and other ASICs are generally well supported on Linux ahead of launch. With Linux 5.18 there is now support for "Madison peak" as another yet-to-be-announced Bluetooth chip...
The Worst Razer Mouse I've Tested In The Past 17 Years
Going back to the original Razer Copperhead mouse in 2005, I've tested many different Razer mice over the years and have exclusively used Razer mice on my main production system for basically as long. This week the scrollwheel physically broke on a Razer DeathAdder mouse I've used the past few years so quickly ordered a replacement, which sadly turned out to be the worst Razer mouse I've personally ever used, and replaced it a day later...
sdl-compat 1.2.52 Debuts As Initial SDL-1.2-Atop-SDL-2.0 Release
In development recently has been sdl12-compat as a compatibility layer that implements the SDL 1.2 interfaces atop SDL 2.0. This effort allows many older Linux games not seeing updates for SDL2 to in turn make use of the newer version by way of this compatibility layer...
AMD ROCm 5.0.2 Released With A Fix, Minor Documentation Update
Just under one month ago was the ROCm 5.0 release with formal RDNA2 support and on Friday night marked the latest point release for that open-source AMD Radeon Open eCosystem compute stack update...
KDE Activity Lower This Week As Impact From The Russia-Ukraine War
Unfortunately this week the KDE project saw "overall activity was lower than usual" that in part at least seems to be fallout from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Sadly some Ukranian KDE contributors have been impacted by the ongoing situation and some KDE Russia contributors have also been impacted by their Internet restrictions...
LatencyFlex v0.1 Released As Drop-In Replacement To NVIDIA Reflex
Back in January I wrote about LatencyFlex as an open-source, vendor-agnostic alternative to NVIDIA Reflex. This drop-in replacement to NVIDIA's proprietary solution focused on reducing rendering latency is out with its very first release...
Apache NetBeans 13 IDE Released
Apache NetBeans 13 is now available as the latest version of this popular open-source integrated development environment (IDE)...
Imagination Tech Publishes Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver For Mesa
After many years of waiting and past faltered efforts, "Imagination Tech publishing a new open-source driver" probably wasn't on your bingo card for 2022... But they are doing such with a new open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver for Mesa...
DXVK 1.10 Released With More Performance Improvements
In addition to this morning's release of VKD3D-Proton 2.6, DXVK 1.10 has been released as the Direct3D 9/10/11 over Vulkan API implementation used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...
VKD3D-Proton 2.6 Released With Many Fixes, Shader Model 6.6 & Optimizations
VKD3D-Proton 2.6 is out as the latest update to this project used by Steam Play / Proton for mapping the Direct3D 12 API atop Vulkan for accelerating Windows games on Linux...
New AMD Radeon Firmware Published For Upcoming GPUs
Besides the dance of getting all of the various open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver components upstreamed (i.e. the Linux kernel, Mesa, libdrm, LLVM back-end) and worked out to major Linux distributions in time for new graphics processor releases, another challenge has been on the firmware/microcode front with also needing those binary blobs made publicly available in time and also picked up by the Linux distributions. For some past Radeon graphics card launches AMD hasn't posted those necessary blobs until the day of or a few days past launch. Fortunately, ahead of their next launch, the initial firmware binaries were posted today...
DDR5-6000 Memory Performance On Linux, Scaling From DDR5 3000 to 6000 MT/s
Up to this point my Intel Alder Lake DDR5 memory testing on Linux has been limited to a set of DDR5-4400 modules given the very limited DDR5 availability. But with having recently received a DDR5-6000 kit, here is a look at how the Intel Core i9 12900K performs under Linux with memory speeds up to DDR5-6000 and running a memory scaling comparison from 3000 to 6000 MT/s.
Mesa's Venus VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Driver Adds Code To Handle ANGLE
Mesa's Venus driver providing VirtIO-GPU Vulkan support that was developed by Google as part of the Virgil effort for 3D acceleration within guest VMs can now run ANGLE. Google's ANGLE in turn is their OpenGL ES conformant implementation that can run atop Vulkan / Metal / OpenGL / Direct3D interfaces...
Cloud-Hypervisor 22.0 Released With New Features For This Open-Source VMM
The Rust-based Cloud-Hypervisor that started out as an open-source VMM at Intel for cloud workloads and now developed under the Linux Foundation is out with a new feature release...
Chrome 100 In Beta With APIs For Digital Goods, Multi-Screen Window Placement
Following this week's release of Chrome 99, Google has now promoted Chrome 100 to beta...
EXT4 Fast Commit Mode To Be Even Faster With Linux 5.18
Added back in 2020 with the Linux 5.10 kernel was the new EXT4 "fast commits" mode for reducing commit latency in the ordered data mode. Now for the upcoming Linux 5.18 cycle, that fast commits mode should be even faster...
SPEC Finally Updates SPECViewPerf For Linux With SPECViewPerf 2020 v3.0
SPEC today finally published an updated Linux-native build of their SPECViewPerf industry graphics benchmark for professional applications...
Commercial-Only Qt 5.15.3 LTS Now Released As Open-Source
One year ago this week Qt 5.15.3 LTS was released with 200+ bug fixes for this toolkit but that long-term support release was made commercial-only. Today The Qt Company has made available an open-source release of the Qt 5.15.3 changes...
OpenBLAS Deciding Whether To Drop Support For Russia's Elbrus CPUs
OpenBLAS recently added support for Russia's Elbrus E2000 processors, however, the OpenBLAS developers are now debating whether to drop support for these Russian domestically-produced CPUs given Russia's invasion into Ukraine...
Intel Prepares More DG2/Alchemist & Xe HP Driver Improvements For Linux 5.18
Intel's big open-source Linux graphics driver engineering team has submitted their last feature pull of new material for inclusion into the upcoming Linux 5.18 kernel. Intel engineers remain very busy on the discrete GPU enablement both for the DG2/Alchemist Arc graphics cards as well as the forthcoming compute accelerators...
Intel's Idle Linux Driver Finally Seeing Xeon Sapphire Rapids Support
While much of Intel's Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" enablement has been squared away for a while now within the Linux kernel and related components, there are a few holdouts only now coming about in patch form and working their way to the mainline kernel with Sapphire Rapids production ramping up in the coming months...
Linux 5.18 Will Speed Up Some FBDEV Operations By 6x, ASpeed AST2600 DRM Code Added
Another round of drm-misc-next changes has been sent in to squeeze into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.18 merge window opening later this month...
AMDGPU Linux Driver Preparing Gang Submission Interface
The AMDGPU Linux kernel driver is preparing a new interface for allowing user-space to submit work to the GPU that will be executed across multiple engines simultaneously...
VMware Enabling VMWGFX 3D Support For AArch64
VMware engineers are in the process of enabling 3D acceleration within their VMWGFX driver on AArch64 so those making use of VMware virtualization software on 64-bit Arm will be able to enjoy accelerated 3D guest virtual machines...
AMD Lands New CDNA "GFX940" GPU Target In LLVM Backend, GFX1036 Merged Too
AMD developers had a busy day with merging into mainline LLVM for the AMDGPU shader compiler is a new Vega/CDNA "GFX940" GPU target as well as a GFX1036 RDNA GPU target...
AMD-Powered Lenovo ThinkPads To Soon Have Working Platform Profile Support On Linux
Last month I covered the issue of Lenovo's ACPI Platform Profile support for AMD-powered laptops was busted on Linux. The platform profile controls were exposed but in reality did not work. Fortunately, fixed up support for this feature is now on the way to the Linux kernel for letting users choose between better performance or extended battery life and cooler operating device...
KDAB Launches CXX-Qt To Provide Safe Rust Language Bindings For Qt
KDE/Qt-focused consulting firm KDAB has been developing CXX-Qt as a new project to improve integration of the Rust programming language with the Qt toolkit...
VKD3D 1.3 Being Prepared For Release
While the VKD3D-Proton downstream gets much of the spotlight these days for the Direct3D 12 API implemented atop Vulkan for use by Valve's Steam Play (Proton), Wine's VKD3D continues to be developed and is closing in on its v1.3 release...
Intel "In-Field Scan" Coming With Sapphire Rapids As New Silicon Failure Testing Feature
Intel In-Field Scan is a hardware feature we have not heard the company talk about publicly until yesterday when they posted a new open-source Linux driver for this hardware failure testing feature being introduced with Sapphire Rapids processors...
openSUSE Leap 15.4 Beta Builds Now Available For Testing
OpenSUSE has begun the beta phase of openSUSE Leap 15.4...
UCIe Announced For Fostering An Open Chiplet Ecosystem
The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) consortium was announced today for fostering an open chiplet ecosystem for future generations of hardware...
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