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Updated 2025-07-06 00:15
Ultra Ethernet Consortium Publishes UEC 1.0 Specification
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium today published the UEC Specification 1.0 release. Nearly two years ago the Ultra Ethernet Consortium was started by Intel, AMD, Meta, HPE, and others and hosted by the Linux Foundation for open and high performance networking with an emphasis on AI and HPC...
Taking AMD Ryzen AI Max Performance To The Max With Clear Linux & CachyOS
With the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop sporting the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics it offers incredible performance potential as shown in my many benchmarks over the past month on Ubuntu Linux. But if wanting to push the Ryzen AI Max even further, with performance-optimized Linux distributions like CachyOS and Intel's Clear Linux it's possible to tap some additional performance out of this 16-core Zen 5 laptop.
DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Graphics Drivers With New GPU Support But Still Years Behind
DragonFlyBSD has updated its Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver code that it ports over from what's available in the upstream Linux kernel. The latest revision to the DragonFlyBSD kernel graphics driver code enables support for some new hardware platforms but remains woefully behind the latest generation dGPUs/iGPUs and what is found in the upstream Linux kernel...
Intel Iris Linux Driver Lands Shared Virtual Memory Support
In late May the Rust-written "Rusticl" OpenCL driver within Mesa landed support for Shared Virtual Memory (SVM). Following that, the Intel Iris Gallium3D driver has now seen its support merged for SVM...
Ubuntu Server Weighing Tmux vs. Screen, Wget vs. Curl
With less than one year to go until the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release and trying to get any major changes into Ubuntu 25.10 for extra baking, Ubuntu engineers have been evaluating some Ubuntu Server seed changes...
Experimental Patch Brings Very Primitive AMD Instinct MI300 Support To GCC Compiler
With AMD continuing to be focused on their AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end for their GPU compiler needs from compute to graphics shaders, the AMD GPU/accelerator hardware support within the GNU Compiler Collection "GCC" has long taken a backseat and left to third-party firms to implement. Posted today was an experimental patch providing very early support for the AMD Instinct MI300 series hardware with the GCC compiler...
Linux 6.15 Delivering Some Performance Gains On AMD EPYC For AI, HPC & Databases
The Linux 6.15 kernel cycle started off a bit rough with a heavy hitting performance regression spotted and then fixed but to only then discover another Linux 6.15 performance regression affecting modern AMD CPUs. Fortunately those issues were cleared out in time for the recent Linux 6.15 stable release. Linux 6.15 stable is looking good especially on 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" servers with some recent benchmarks showing some modest gains over the Linux 6.14 kernel.
Amazon/AWS Is Now Sponsoring & Powering All Of GNOME's Web Infrastructure
On the GNOME Foundation blog today is an interesting post how Amazon Web Services (AWS) has ended up sponsoring and powering all of the GNOME web infrastructure...
Linux 6.15.2 Fixes "Quite Dramatically...Potentially Dangerous" Idle Power Regression
Along with releasing Linux 6.14.11 today to end-of-life the Linux 6.14 kernel series, Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux 6.15.2 as the newest stable point release. There is a notable fix here for the CPU idle power regressing on some systems since moving to Linux 6.15...
DXVK 2.6.2 Released For Direct3D On Vulkan
DXVK 2.6.2 was released this morning as the newest update to this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over Vulkan API implementation. DXVK continues to be most notably used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for running countless Windows games well on Linux...
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux GPU Compute Performance
Following last week's AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux graphics/gaming review for launch day, today's article is providing an initial look at the GPU compute performance for this new RDNA4-powered ~$349 graphics card on Linux with ROCm 6.4.1.
Canonical Confirms Ubuntu 25.10 Will Drop Support For GNOME On X.Org
In aligning with upstream GNOME 49 expected to ship with X11 support disabled by default, Canonical announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release will also ship without support for running the GNOME desktop on X11...
Raspberry Pi RP1 PCI Device Support On Path For Linux 6.17 Upstreaming
Going back to last year there have been patches worked on by SUSE for upstreaming Raspberry Pi's RP1 PCI device support. It looks like for the Linux 6.17 kernel later this year that work will finally be upstreamed...
AMD Linux Patches Aim To Improve S5 Power Consumption
An ongoing area of work for AMD's Linux client team is on enhancing the power management and overall power savings/efficiency support for Ryzen platforms on Linux. An updated patch series was posted on Monday for making the system S5 power state handling more ideal when powering off the system...
IO_uring Shows Promising Potential For Linux Accelerator Drivers
Last year there was some ideas raised around potentially making use of the Linux kernel's IO_uring functionality for graphics drivers to help with better performance and synchronization. It turns out Qualcomm engineers have recently been exploring IO_uring use for the DRM accelerator drivers with very promising results on their Cloud AI hardware in seeing around 50% speed-ups in ioctl execution time...
RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Merges Support For VP9 Video Decoding
Following the release of Vulkan 1.4.317 back on Friday that brought the long-awaited VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 extension for VP9 codec support for Vulkan Video, the Mesa RADV driver is now the first prominent open-source Vulkan driver merging support for VP9 decode...
FreeBSD 14.3 Released With Network Driver Updates, OpenZFS Updated
As a nice stepping stone until FreeBSD 15 is ready to ship later in the calendar year, FreeBSD 14.3 stable is out today as the newest point release for this leading BSD operating system...
FreeBSD Quest Continues For Better Laptop Support With Better WiFi, GPU Drivers & PM
Going on since last year has been an effort to improve FreeBSD laptop support with backing by Dell, AMD, Framework Computer, Netflix, and others. This has focused on better WiFi driver support, enhancing power management, and other improvements for modern laptops. That work has been continuing on all fronts for improving the FreeBSD laptop user experience...
AMD Preps Linux Support For User CPUID Faulting
While Intel has supported CPUID Faulting on processors going back to Ivy Bridge and supported this feature in the Linux kernel since early 2017, only now the AMD support is being wired up and making use of the existing Intel code paths...
AMD EPYC 4345P 8-Core CPU Performance
Last month with the launch of the AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" series for entry-level Zen 5 servers we ran benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-tier 16-core CPUs. They delivered an excellent combination of performance, power efficiency, and most of all value for those looking to assemble an AM5-based budget-oriented server in 2025 and beyond. Those processors destroyed the Intel Xeon 6300 series competition's flagship, the Xeon 6369P that is simply 8 cores / 16 threads in 2025... Being curious about the core-for-core performance between the AMD EPYC 4005 series and Intel Xeon 6300 series, I got my hands on an AMD EPYC 4345P as the Grado 8-core processor to see how it performs against that Xeon E-2400 series replacement as well as how the performance compares to the prior generation 8-core EPYC 4344P.
Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
Now that the Linux 6.16 kernel merge window closed this weekend, here is a convenient recap of all the interesting features coming in this next kernel release due out as stable around the end of July.
Mold 2.40.1 Delivers More Performance - Including A New Algorithm Generated By ChatGPT
While a point release, Mold 2.40.1 is another notable step forward for this high-speed linker alternative to GNU LD/Gold and LLVM LLD. Mold 2.40.1 brings yet more performance improvements...
Open-Source Linux Driver Preps For Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 GPU Support
When it comes to the Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux it's been primarily focused on the Snapdragon X Elite support with the X Plus SoC support not being as well off yet. But recently there has been more patches surfacing around the Snapdragon X Plus support, including the Adreno X1-45 GPU used by that lower-tier SoC...
NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.14 Improves Compatibility & Fixes Various Issues
The open-source, unofficial VA-API driver implementation for NVIDIA GPUs is out with a new release. The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver project continues to build VA-API support atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface to allow the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack to work with VA-API-only applications like the Mozilla Firefox web browser on Linux...
Linux's Turbostat Updated For Intel Diamond Rapids & Bartlett Lake
The turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other CPU information saw some last minute updates during the Linux 6.16 merge window...
Sway 1.11 Released With New Wayland Protocols & More
Simon Ser announced the release of Sway 1.11 on Sunday as the newest feature update to this popular i3-inspired Wayland compositor from which the wlroots library was originally born...
Linux 6.16-rc1 Released: New AMD & Intel Drivers, More Performance & Blackwell Support
Linux 6.16-rc1 was just released by Linus Torvalds. This first release candidate of Linux 6.16 marks the close of the two-week merge window where many new features and other changes were introduced...
AMD Announces New Ryzen AI Z2 SoCs For Gaming Handhelds
AMD in cooperation with ASUS and Microsoft used the Xbox Games Showcase for announcing their new Ryzen AI Z2 series processors for gaming handhelds. The new Ryzen AI Z2 series is launching with the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally / ROG Xbox Ally X handhelds running Microsoft Windows...
Linux GPIB Drivers Maturing Into Good Shape 50+ Years After The Bus Was Introduced
Notable with the staging area updates for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel is word that the GPIB driver code may be ready to leave the staging area in the next kernel cycle (Linux v6.17) in then being promoted to the main driver area in signifying the maturity of the code and being cleaned up to meet kernel coding standards. The GPIB drivers are for the General Purpose Interface Bus that was introduced back in 1972...
GNOME 49 Alpha 0 Releases Begin As GNOME 49 Preps For X11 Disabled-By-Default
The GNOME 49 Alpha release isn't expected until the end of June but for facilitating additional testing and a number of prominent changes this cycle, a number of GNOME packages have begun releasing "GNOME 49 Alpha 0" tags as part of plans to issue multiple alpha releases this cycle. Notable for GNOME 49 are plans moving forward for disabling X11 session support by default with that code then likely to be removed entirely with GNOME 50 for a Wayland-only desktop...
Last Call On The Phoronix 21st Birthday Premium Special
This week in marking Phoronix.com turning 21 years old there was a Phoronix Premium special for those wanting to enjoy the site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits. That special deal is ending at end of day Monday (9 June) as your last chance to hop on this special...
LoongArch Enables Multi-Core Scheduler Support In Linux 6.16
All of the LoongArch CPU architecture changes have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel with the merge window set to wrap up later today...
Linux Mint Continues Working On Its libAdwaita Fork, Fingerprint Authentication
The Linux Mint project published its newest monthly status report to outline various interesting development activities around this Linux desktop distribution project building off Ubuntu and Debian bases...
Linux 6.16 Introduces New Helper For Restricting Symbols To Select Kernel Modules
All of the kernel build system "Kbuild" updates were merged today for the nearly-over Linux 6.16 merge window that is expected to conclude tomorrow with the Linux 6.16-rc1 release. Notable with the Kbuild pull is the introduction of the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES helper...
NumPy 2.3 Introduces OpenMP Parallelization Support
NumPy 2.3 is out today as the latest release of this widely-used library for scientific computing. Notable with NumPy 2.3 is finally adding some parallelization support via OpenMP...
Linux 6.16 Preps For RISC-V's SBI Firmware Features Extension
The RISC-V architecture feature updates were merged on Friday for the Linux 6.16 merge window that is set to end on Sunday with the Linux 6.16-rc1 release...
Mesa 25.1.3 Released As Emergency Update For Radeon RX 9000 Series Linux Users
It was just earlier this week that Mesa 25.1.2 arrived as the newest bi-weekly bug-fix release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Coming out today is an emergency bug-fix release to fix a regression affecting AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics card owners...
Vulkan 1.4.317 Introduces VP9 Video Decode, ARM Tensors & 8-bit Floating Point
Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions...
GNOME's Papers App Lands Better Annotations Experience
For those making use of GNOME Papers as the increasingly popular document viewer app for the GNOME desktop, a major rework was merged to enhance the annotations experience...
Intel's Clear Linux Rolls Out Software Packaging Bundle Improvements
Intel's Clear Linux distribution has made some packaging improvements to help better suit the needs of its users...
Linux 6.16 Lands Support For EcoNet MIPS Platforms
While there isn't much new MIPS activity taking place due to other CPU architectures like RISC-V and LoongArch taking the interest away, the MIPS code within the Linux kernel does continue seeing enhancements as well as upstreaming of hardware that has long been relegated to downstream kernels...
Initial USB Audio Offloading Code Merged For Linux 6.16
Merged on Friday to the Linux 6.16 kernel by way of the USB/Thunderbolt branch was the massive set of patches (12k+ lines of code) for USB offload support for audio devices...
KDE Prepares For Plasma 6.4 Debut With Better VRR Experience
KDE developers are on the final stretch of fixes and polishing ahead of the Plasma 6.4 release next Thursday. Plus there has been plenty of early work building toward Plasma 6.5...
Hierarchical Constant Bandwidth Server "HCBS" Posted In Aiming To Replace RT_GROUP_SCHED
Posted as a request for comments this week were the initial Linux kernel patches for the Hierarchical Constant Bandwidth Server (HCBS)...
New AMD-SBI Code Merged For Linux 6.16
New AMD code merged today to the mainline Linux 6.16 kernel that's in-development is the introduction of the AMD-SBI driver/subsystem for primarily benefiting EPYC server platforms. AMD-SBI is for their Side-Band Interface also known as the Advanced Platform Management Link (APML)...
Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Improvement For Helping Direct3D Games Under Steam Play
Merged today to Mesa 25.2 is an adjustment for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver to help with Direct3D games running under Linux with Valve's Steam Play via Proton + VKD3D...
Intel Linux Driver Patch Posted For Wildcat Lake NPU Accelerator Support
Last month Intel software engineers began posting Linux enablement patches for Wildcat Lake. Some of those first patches were merged for Linux 6.16 while more work is forthcoming. Posted yesterday for the first time on the Linux kernel mailing list was enabling the NPU accelerator support for Wildcat Lake...
Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compiler Performance
Since recently picking up a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop for Linux testing now that the Linux support is starting to evolve into better shape (albeit still with many rough corners limiting the daily usability of such devices with Linux), one of the areas I was curious about was looking at the performance of Linux binaries with GCC vs. LLVM Clang. Here are some benchmarks for those wondering how the GCC and Clang compilers are competing on the Snapdragon X Elite with the Oryon CPU cores.
Box64 v0.3.6 Brings Better AVX Handling, Volatile Metadata For Windows Executables
Just a few days after the FEX 2506 release for that open-source emulator enabling x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) hosts, Box64 is out with its newest feature update for this open-source project with similar goals...
The Performance Gains Brought By Linux 6.15+ & Mesa 25.2 For AMD Strix Halo
While the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo SoCs have a nice out-of-the-box experience with modern Linux distributions for the Radeon 8050S and Radeon 8060S graphics, if going for the recently-released Linux 6.15 kernel there are some performance gains to enjoy as well as if opting for the latest Mesa 25.2 development code for the latest RadeonSI OpenGL and RADV Vulkan driver support...
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