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2024-08-19 12:42:29

Fedora 41 To Rely On PipeWire By Default For Firefox Camera Handling
Red Hat engineer Jan Grulich has provided an update today on PipeWire camera handling with the upcoming Fedora 41 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Firefox-PipeWire-Cam

2024-08-18 20:15:17

Arch Linux Based CachyOS Switches To Open NVIDIA Kernel Modules, COSMIC Desktop Option
Arch Linux powered CachyOS that is known for its performance optimizations and other enhancements is out with its "August 2024" rolling release update...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-August-2024

2024-08-16 10:29:43

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Now Handles 12-bit AV1 Video Decoding
The Vulkan Video support within Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver continues to be improved upon. The newest addition now found in the code for Mesa 24.3 is enabling 12-bit AV1 content accelerated decoding...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-AV1-12-bit-Decode

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

2024-08-13 21:12:04

Intel Begins Queuing Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.12
Intel Linux graphics driver engineers today sent in their first batch of patches to DRM-Next of new material they are prepared to introduce with the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel cycle...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DRM-Next-For-Linux-6.12

2024-08-09 15:55:42

An Initial Benchmark Of Bcachefs vs. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS On Linux 6.11
A number of Phoronix readers have been requesting a fresh re-test of the experimenta; Bcachefs file-system against other Linux file-systems on the newest kernel code. Your wish has been granted today with a fresh round of benchmarking across Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS using the Linux 6.11-rc2 kernel. This round of testing was carried out on the newly-released Solidigm D7-PS1010 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs that offer very speedy performance for modern Linux desktops and servers.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-611-filesystems

2024-08-09 11:05:00

Linux On The Snapdragon X1 Microsoft Surface Laptop 7, But Critical Features Missing
A Qualcomm engineer has posted the Linux kernel patches for adding the DeviceTree to support the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 devices powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 SoCs. This allows Linux to run on these new Snapdragon X1-powered Microsoft laptops but as with the other devices there are a number of support caveats that for most end-users will be a showstopper...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Surface-7-X1-Linux-DT

2024-08-09 10:44:09

EROFS-UTILS 1.8 Brings Multi-Threaded Compression, Intel IAA Acceleration, Initial Zstd
For those making use of the EROFS read-only file-system designed with mobile/embedded devices and containers in mind, EROFS-UTILS 1.8 is now available as an important update for these user-space utilities...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/EROFS-UTILS-1.8-Released

2024-08-09 10:29:46

Linux Will Be Able To Boot ~0.035 Seconds Faster With One Line Kernel Patch
The Linux kernel itself can already boot quite fast but with a simple one-line patch another ~0.035 seconds will be able to be shaved off the boot time...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Faster-Boot-One-Line-ACPI

2024-08-09 01:06:07

OpenBLAS 0.3.28 Brings More Optimizations, Meteor Lake & Emerald Rapids Support
OpenBLAS 0.3.28 made it out today as the open-source optimized BLAS library that caters to a wide range of processors spanning various architectures. With this OpenBLAS 0.3.28 release are yet more optimizations and new CPU optimized paths...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBLAS-0.3.28

2024-08-08 18:08:00

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Performance With DDR5-8000
With the new AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors the AGESA supports up to DDR5-8000 memory. With yesterday's testing of the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X review all of the tests were done at DDR5-6000 in matching with the Ryzen 7000 series and Intel Core 13th/14th Gen configurations. In this article today is an initial look at the DDR5-8000 performance with the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X while using Corsair Vengeance 2 x 16GB DDR5-8000 DIMMs (Corsair CMH32GX5M2X8000C36).
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-7-9700x-ddr5-8000

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 14:00:03

Red Hat's Tuned 2.24 Can Now Control AMD Core Performance Boost
Red Hat's performance team has been working on the Tuned profile delivery software as an alternative to power-profiles-daemon on Linux systems. Fedora will be switching over to Tuned to replace power-profiles-daemon and the newest Tuned 2.24 release is now available...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Tuned-2.24

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

2024-08-08 01:09:11

Valve's SteamOS 3.6.9 Beta Brings Many Fixes & Supports More Controllers
Valve has just released a SteamOS 3.6.9 beta as the newest update to their Arch Linux derived operating system powering the Steam Deck and other gaming devices...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-SteamOS-3.6.9-Beta

2024-08-07 10:27:36

Dragonfly As Redis Alternative Adds Multi-Tenancy & Alpha Level SSD Data Tiering
Dragonfly 1.21 released today as the newest version of this modern, drop-in replacement to Redis and Memcached. This performance-optimized in-memory data store has added a few interesting features with the new release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dragonfly-DB-1.21

2024-08-06 15:07:00

Solidigm D7-PS1010 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs Offer Great Performance For Servers
Solidigm today is formally announcing the D7-PS1010 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs for the data center. The new D7-PS1010 solid-state drives offer phenomenal performance for PCIe Gen 5 servers as I've enjoyed in testing out a few of these D7-PS1010 SSDs the past several weeks and their leading performance that should be especially appealing for modern AI and HPC servers.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/solidigm-d7-ps1010

2024-08-06 14:38:27

Open-Source AMD GPU Implementation Of CUDA "ZLUDA" Has Been Taken Down
Back in February of this year you may recall the interesting news that was announced on Phoronix that AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source. That open-source ZLUDA code for AMD GPUs has been available since AMD quit funding the developer earlier this year. But now the code has been retracted. It's not from NVIDIA legal challenges but rather AMD reversing course on allowing it to be open-source...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZLUDA-CUDA-Taken-Down

2024-08-06 13:53:26

QNAP TS-433 Making For A Nice Open-Source & Mainline Linux NAS Experience
While there is no shortage of consumer network attached storage (NAS) devices these days, those able to run a mainline Linux kernel, open bootloader, and other open/mainline software components is a bit more challenging. Thanks to the work of open-source developer Heiko Stuebner, the QNAP TS-433 is looking to be an interesting candidate for those wanting a nice 4-bay NAS while being able to load it with a mainline Linux kernel build and other upstream open-source software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/QNAP-TS-433-Mainline-Linux

2024-08-06 12:46:59

RadeonSI Driver Sees GPU Hang Fixes - RDNA4 Fixed, Optimally Programming "OREO MODE"
A number of GPU hang fixes have been merged for AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver within Mesa. These fixes should help further enhance the current RDNA3 GPU driver support and also has fixes for stabilizing the upcoming RDNA4 GPU support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-GPU-Hang-Fixes

2024-08-06 10:39:08

AMD Posts Patches For VCN IP DUMP With Open-Source Linux Driver
AMD engineers posted a set of patches today for enabling VCN IP DUMP support with their open-source AMDGPU kernel driver. This allows for dumping the IP state of all Video Core Next (VCN) hardware from VCN 1.0 through VCN 5.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-VCN-IP-DUMP-Linux-Patches

2024-08-06 10:28:39

Linux 6.11 x86 Platform Driver Fixes Add More Zen 5 CPU IDs, ASUS ROG Ally X Quirk
Ilpo Järvinen of Intel sent in a new round of x86 platform driver fixes today for the ongoing Linux 6.11 kernel cycle. This pull request has a few items worth mentioning as part of this fixes queue...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-x86-Platform-Drv-Fix

2024-08-05 16:30:00

Trying Out The Ubuntu "-O3" Optimized Build For Greater Performance
Canonical engineers on Friday announced they are evaluating "-O3" compiler optimized package builds for Ubuntu Linux. As part of this evaluation of using GCC's -O3 compiler optimization level rather than -O2 when compiling Ubuntu packages, experimental Ubuntu desktop and server ISOs are available for testing with this change. Excitingly I ran some initial benchmarks over the weekend in looking at the performance difference.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-o3-experiment

2024-08-05 15:05:17

Sway Compositor Lands Wayland Tearing Control Support
A one year old merge request to support Wayland's Tearing Control protocol (tearing-control-v1) has finally been merged into the Sway compositor codebase...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sway-Tearing-Control-Lands

2024-08-01 10:30:00

GCC 14.2 Compiler Brings Latest Fixes - Including Adjustments For AMD Zen 4 / Zen 5
GCC 14.2 hit the Internet today as the first stable point release update to the GCC 14 series following the inaugural GCC 14.1 stable release from early May...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-14.2-Released

2024-08-01 10:24:30

Blumenkrantz Continues On Big Mesa Code Refactoring
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has recently begun pushing changes to the Mesa 3D graphics code-base as part of "The Juiciest Refactor Ever". After merging the first of the patches last week, this week has brought more code for this juicy refactoring...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Juiciest-Refactor-Part-1

2024-07-28 13:00:00

AMD Radeon 890M "RDNA3.5" Graphics Run Well With Latest Open-Source Linux Driver
While the upcoming AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors continue to make use of RDNA2 graphics, with the Ryzen AI 300 series shipping today in notebooks there are RDNA3.5 graphics being introduced alongside the Zen 5 CPU cores and upgraded Ryzen AI XDNA2 NPU. While just an evolution of RDNA3, the initial benchmarks of RDNA3.5 graphics with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 are looking rather promising for both the raw graphics performance as well as the power efficiency. The Radeon 890M RDNA3.5 graphics are working on Linux when using a new enough software stack.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-radeon-890m-rdna35

2024-07-25 15:20:30

AMD Working On More Precise GPU Reset Capabilities For Their Linux Driver
While the hope remains that GPU resets are a very infrequent task, AMD Linux driver engineers have recently been working on the ability to support a per-queue GC reset capability for more precise reset capabilities when needed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Per-Ring-Resets

2024-07-25 15:05:01

VMware Hypercall API Makes It Into Linux 6.11 For Basis To Allow Confidential Computing
When it comes to virtualization with the Linux 6.11 kernel, in addition to the latest AMD SEV-SNP code making it upstream, for those making use of VMware virtualization products their initial "VMware Hypercall" API has been merged...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VMware-Hypercall-Linux-6.11

2024-07-19 18:30:00

AMD XDNA Ryzen AI Linux Kernel Driver Posted For Review
Back in January AMD quietly posted an XDNA Linux kernel driver for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs. The driver has been maintained within that GitHub repository since but without any clear effort for getting this accelerator driver reviewed and merged into the upstream Linux kernel. Today that first step is finally being taken with the Ryzen AI XDNA Linux kernel driver patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list and dri-devel to begin facilitating the upstream review process for getting this AI accelerator driver in the mainline kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-XDNA-Ryzen-AI-Driver-Patch

2024-06-27 00:30:00

Free Software Foundation Names Three New Board Members
Following a more than one year long process, the Free Software Foundation today named three additional board members...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-3-New-Board-Members

2024-05-27 17:23:44

Intel Performance Limit Reasons For Linux To Report Why Your CPU Is Downclocking
Intel Performance Limit Reasons (PLR) can indicate why your CPU is downclocking / limited to a lower performance limit for a given core or die. With some Windows utilities this information this Intel CPU feature has been available there while now Intel is bringing PLR support to Linux too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Perf-Limit-Reasons-Linux

2023-12-17 11:24:50

Intel Proposing XeGPU Dialect For LLVM MLIR
As part of Intel's ongoing quest for maximizing the compute performance of their GPUs/accelerators, their compiler engineers have proposed introducing a XeGPU dialect for LLVM's MLIR...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XeGPU-Dialect-MLIR-LLVM