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Last Minute Random/RNG Updates Land In Linux 5.18
While Jason Donenfeld is known for his splendid work on the open-source WireGuard secure network tunnel technology, lately he's been driving a number of improvements into the random/RNG code for the Linux kernel...
FreeBSD 13.1-RC1 Pulls In OpenZFS 2.1, WiFi Updates
FreeBSD 13.1 continues working its way towards release later in April...
Linux 5.18 Picks Up Two New Input Drivers
Linux input subsystem maintainer has sent in its batch of changes for the ongoing Linux 5.18 merge window...
FreeType 2.12 Released With Support For OT-SVG Fonts
FreeType as the widely-used, open-source library for font rendering is out with FreeType 2.12 as its first big feature release since last summer...
Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1
Here is a look back at the most-read stories on Phoronix during Q1'22 with our daily content around Linux hardware, open-source news, and lots of benchmarking...
Chrome 101 Beta Introduces Priority Hints, FedCM API, CSS HWB Function
Following this week's release of Chrome 100, Google has now published the Chrome 101 web browser beta...
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Beta Released With Many Improvements
In working toward the official Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" release on 21 April, today Canonical and the Ubuntu community have announced the beta release...
Qt 5.15 LTS Support Extended An Additional Two Years - For Their Paying Subscribers
The Qt Company announced they will be maintaining the Qt 5.15 long-term support (LTS) code-base by an additional two years...
Poking At A Big NUMA Benchmark Regression In Linux 5.18 Git
There still is a few days left to the Linux 5.18 merge window but already I've started firing up benchmarks of this new kernel on a handful of desktops and servers so far. One benchmark though in particular has been showing a staggering performance drop on Linux 5.18 on multiple systems but overall Linux 5.18 in my testing thus far has been working out well...
openSUSE Tumbleweed Gets First D-Installer Public Experimental Release
Earlier this year was news of (open)SUSE developing "D-Installer" as a new web-based distro installer. D-Installer is to complement YaST's existing Qt/CLI installer front-ends and would open up Web UI support, a better UI, and enhanced integration via the D-Bus installer service. The first public release of openSUSE with this new installer is now available for testing...
Radeon's ROCm 5.1 Released With CRIU Support, More RDNA Enablement
Building off the Radeon ROCm 5.0 series introduced in February, AMD is ending out Q1 by launching the Radeon Open eCosystem 5.1 series...
XWayland 22.1.1 Released - Fixes Some Windowed Apps Stuck To 58 FPS
It's been over one month already since the release of XWayland 22.1 while this morning v22.1.1 was issued with a handful of bug fixes...
Radeon Software For Linux 22.10 Driver Being Prepared For Release
At the moment the Radeon Software for Linux 21.50.2 is AMD's latest packaged graphics driver intended for enterprise Linux distributions. But Radeon Software for Linux 22.10 should soon be announced and can already be fetched from their package archive...
Apple M1 NVMe Linux Driver Out For Review
Sent out last week amid the busy Linux 5.18 merge window days were the patch series wiring up an Apple NVMe driver for use with the M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max SoCs...
Fedora Looks To Better Onboarding For IoT/Edge Devices
For Fedora 37 later this year the Linux distribution is looking at providing support for zero touch onboarding for IoT / edge devices...
Glibc's strncasecmp / strcasecmp Get AVX2 & EVEX Optimized Versions, Drops AVX
The GNU C Library (glibc) has landed a set of 23 patches providing optimized AVX2 and EVEX versions of strcasecmp/strncasecmp functions while dropping support for the original AVX implementation...
EXT4's Fast Commit Feature Faster & More Scalable With Linux 5.18
Last week the EXT4 file-system feature updates were submitted and merged for the ongoing Linux 5.18 merge window...
Intel Introduces The Arc A-Series Mobile Graphics
Intel today is formally introducing their Arc 3 series mobile graphics that will begin appearing in laptops beginning in April while Arc 5 and Arc 7 graphics are coming out in the "early summer" for the much anticipated Intel discrete graphics offerings.
AMD To Expose More PSP Security Information Under Linux, Including State Of CPU Fuses
Right now under Linux it isn't quick and easy to figure out if the likes of (Transparent) Secure Memory Encryption are enabled and working but a new patch series will more easily expose the security attributes of the AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) to users on Linux. Among the information to be exposed will also include whether the CPU is fused in the name of tampering prevention...
Intel Preparing For SVT-AV1 1.0 Video Encoder With More AVX2 Optimizations
Back in January Intel engineers released SVT-AV1 0.9 with significant speed-ups to this open-source AV1 encoder while now as we roll into Q2, SVT-AV1 v1.0 is being readied for launch...
NVIDIA Tegra Video Decode Driver Promoted In Linux 5.18
Part of the mainline kernel has been Tegra-VDE as an originally reverse-engineered NVIDIA Tegra video decode driver. After much work on that driver by developer Dmitry Osipenko, it's been promoted out of "staging" with Linux 5.18 among other media subsystem changes...
Systemd 251-rc1 Released With Experimental systemd-sysupdate Tool
The first release candidate of systemd 251 is now available for testing as a rather large update to this Linux init system and service manager...
LoongArch Port Merged For GCC 12
In continuation of last week's article that the GCC steering committee approved landing of LoongArch as a new port to this MIPS-derived Chinese CPU architecture, the code was merged on Tuesday...
Mesa 22.0.1 Released With Many Fixes, AMD GFX1037/GFX1036 Backported
It's coming a week late due to a scheduling mishap but in any event today marks the first stable point release to the Mesa 22.0 series for open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers...
Chrome 100 Released With APIs For Multi-Screen Window Placement, Digital Goods
Chrome 100 is out today with Google's multi-platform web browser now up to a three digit version...
Sailfish OS 4.4 "Vanha Rauma" Released With Camera App Improvements, Updated Gecko
For those still intrigued by Finnish outfit Jolla and their work on the Linux-based smartphone OS Sailfish, their v4.4 "Vanha Rauma" update is out today...
Fedora Linux 36 Beta Now Available For Testing
After a slight delay the Fedora 36 beta images are officially available today...
Vulkan 1.3.210 Released With Two Notable Extensions
Vulkan 1.3.210 is out today with various specification corrections/clarifications but also two notable extensions...
NVIDIA Launches The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti For $1999+ USD
As expected and following months of rumors and leaks, NVIDIA today formally unveiled the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti as their newest flagship graphics card...
An Early Look At The Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Performance On AMD Ryzen 9 5950X + RX 6800
With Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" less than one month out from release, I have begun testing it on more desktop and server platforms ahead of release. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS overall is in nice shape. On current generation platforms I am not seeing much uplift compared to Ubuntu 21.10 but for those still making use of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS series with its older compiler and other older packages, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is providing some uplift. Here is a look at Ubuntu 20.04.4 vs. 21.10 vs. 22.04 daily on an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X desktop.
Intel Prepares Linux For ATS-M No-Display Server GPUs
Earlier this year with the Intel Media Driver 22 there was enablement of "ATS-M" with references to "Arctic Sound Mainstream" . Now the Linux kernel patches have arrived with the changes needed on their end for this DG2-based discrete GPU that now sums up ATS-M as a display-less GPU for servers...
AMD Starts Working On New Sound Code For Upcoming Platforms With Linux 5.18
The sound subsystem updates were sent in last week for the ongoing Linux 5.18 merge window. There is a lot of new audio hardware enablement and other improvements to find with this sound pull for the new kernel...
Google Has A Problem With Linux Server Reboots Too Slow Due To Too Many NVMe Drives
Hyperscaler problems these days? Linux servers taking too long to reboot due to having too many NVMe drives. Thankfully Google is working on an improvement to address this where some of their many-drive servers can take more than one minute for the Linux kernel to carry out its shutdown tasks while this work may benefit other users too albeit less notably...
Linux 5.18 Switches From Zero Length Arrays To Flexible Array Members
Back in 2020 the Linux kernel tried adding flexible array members to replace zero length arrays but that time the code was reverted shortly thereafter. For Linux 5.18 the tree-wide change of replacing zero length arrays with C99 flexible array members was merged and appears to be all in good shape this time...
EROFS Read-Only Linux File-System Working Toward New Features
EROFS as a reminder is the read-only Linux file-system originally introduced four years ago that has gone on to see some use particularly by Android devices. While there hasn't been much to report on EROFS in recent time, they are approaching some new functionality in coming kernels...
LLVM Begins Landing The Initial DirectX / HLSL Target Code
Earlier this month I wrote about Microsoft engineers wanting to add DirectX and HLSL support into the upstream LLVM/Clang compiler. As of this week the very early bits of code are beginning to land in LLVM 15.0 for this Microsoft graphics effort...
Intel PECI Submitted As Part Of Char/Misc Changes For Linux 5.18
After being years in development, the Intel PECI subsystem is landing for the Linux 5.18 kernel...
Intel Launches The Core i9 12900KS At Up To 5.5GHz Alder Lake
Intel today announced the Core i9 12900KS as "the world's fastest desktop processor" with a 5.5GHz maximum turbo frequency...
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Ray-Tracing Gets A Bit Further Along For Doom Eternal
While last year saw initial Radeon Vulkan ray-tracing merged into Mesa's "RADV" driver, the work remains experimental but bit by bit is becoming more mature and capable...
Linux 5.18 Power Management Brings Improvements For Both Intel & AMD
Last week the power management changes landed for the in-development Linux 5.18 kernel with a number of changes in tow, including notable items for both AMD and Intel processors...
Improved Arch Linux Installer Experience Being Readied With Archinstall 2.4-RC1
Debuting on the Arch Linux monthly ISOs a year ago was Archinstall as a way to carry out quick and easy installations of this popular Linux distribution. Over the past year Archinstall has matured into increasingly robust shape for quickly installing Arch Linux...
LLVM Clang Adds "-march=native" Support For The Apple M1
A subtle but notable change worth mentioning last week for LLVM Clang 15.0 is "-march=native" now working for this compiler when running on Apple M1 SoCs...
Linux 5.18 KVM Prepares For Intel IPI Virtualization, Larger AMD VMs
The initial batch of KVM virtualization changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 5.18 merge window...
Linux 5.18 Hardens The Kernel For 64-bit Arm With Shadow Call Stack Support
In addition to supporting the Tesla FSD chip, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, and other new Arm SoCs in Linux 5.18, this kernel will also be more secure for 64-bit Arm with adding Shadow Call Stack support...
RISC-V Gets Sv57-Based Virtual Memory, Other Improvements For Linux 5.18
The RISC-V CPU architecture updates have landed for the in-development Linux 5.18 kernel...
libdisplay-info Started To Address The Wayland Fragmentation Around EDID/DisplayID
There has been a known problem for some time that with the increasing number of different Wayland compositors out there, there is a lot of fragmentation when it comes to display EDID/DisplayID handling. Thankfully libdisplay-info has been started with hopes of addressing that issue...
WirePlumber 0.4.9 Fixes Surround Sound For Some Linux Games
WirePlumber is the increasingly used session/policy manager for PipeWire for audio/video streams on the Linux desktop. Out this weekend is WirePlumber 0.4.9 with some important fixes and improvements...
Linux 5.18 Xen USB Driver To Harden Against Malicious Hosts
The many USB and Thunderbolt feature patches have landed into the in-development Linux 5.18 kernel...
KDE Plasma 5.25 Seeing Touch Gesture Additions, More Fixes & Other Work
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly summary of all the notable KDE changes to land in the past week...
Ceph File-System Updates For Linux 5.18 Address A "Pretty Nasty Problem", Other Bugs
The Ceph file-system updates for this scalable distributed storage system have landed for Linux 5.18 with some fairly noteworthy fixes...
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