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**New Dell PC Driver & Intel Performance Limit Reasons Help Laptops On Linux 6.11**
The x86 platform driver updates were merged last week for the Linux 6.11 merge window. The x86 platform drivers predominantly benefit Intel/AMD laptops on Linux but also some other x86 non-laptop hardware and then more recently also some ARM64 laptop drivers appearing in this area of the kernel... ⌘ Read more
19 hours ago
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**AlmaLinux Picking Up glibc Patch Ahead Of RHEL To Rescue VFX Houdini Users**
While Red Hat Enterprise Linux is very popular with the VFX crowd, those relying on the SideFX Houdini 3D animation software are running into a bit of a pickle if trying to use RHEL 9.4. There's a glibc bug causing random crashes for Houdini that Red Hat has been slow to pickup but is now going to be shipped by AlmaLinux early to satisfy VFX users... ⌘ Read more
20 hours ago
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**KDE Human Interface Guidelines Being Further Refined & Polished**
Back in early June the KDE Human Interface Guidelines "HIG" were updated. These design principles for KDE software were updated to modern standards, adapt to the latest Qt toolkit behavior, and also making it more inviting to new contributors. Since then the KDE HIG has continued to see more refinements... ⌘ Read more
20 hours ago
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**VirtualBox 7.1 Beta Released With Modernized GUI, Wayland Support For Clipboard Sharing**
Oracle today released the first public beta of their VirtualBox 7.1 virtualization software... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**Linux Mint 22 Released - Built Atop Ubuntu 24.04 With Latest Cinnamon Desktop**
Linux Mint 22 was formally released today as the newest major release of this desktop-focused Linux distribution built atop the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base while featuring its in-house Cinnamon desktop environment and other software apps... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**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... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**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... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**Amazon's Graviton Has Evolved Into A Formidable CPU Contender: Graviton1 To Graviton4 Benchmarks**
Amazon's Graviton4 server processor that recently went into GA in the AWS cloud is easily the most competitive AArch64 server processor we've seen to date and proving capable of being able to compete with Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors across various workloads. Since Graviton4 went GA on AWS earlier this month I've looked at the Graviton4 comparison to other instances at 64 vCPUs and also comparing the Graviton4 9 ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**Qt Creator 14 IDE Released With Support For Lua-Based Plugins**
The Qt Group today released Qt Creator 14 as the newest version of this Qt and C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE) for developers... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**AMD's Unified AI Software Stack Might Be A Boon For Other Vulkan/SPIR-V Hardware Too**
Earlier this month AMD talked more about their Unified AI Software Stack plans for debuting in the coming months to provide a unified software view where AI work can be seamlessly offloaded to Ryzen processors, AMD graphics, or AMD Ryzen AI NPU hardware. Another possible and exciting prospect came to mind when going through the LLVM/Clang 19 changes this week... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**Fedora 41 Aims For Out-Of-The-Box Webcam Support For Newer Intel Laptops**
The open-source software pieces have come together where Fedora / Red Hat developers are hoping that for Fedora 41 there can be out-of-the-box support for the web cameras on newer Intel laptops... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**Rust Is Ready With Robust Toolchain Handling For Linux 6.11**
Miguel Ojeda has sent out the big Rust pull request for the nearly wrapped up Linux 6.11 merge window. This contains all of the latest Rust programming language infrastructure now ready for the mainline kernel... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**ollama v0.3 Released With Llama 3.1 Support & Mistral Large 2**
For fans of ollama as an open-source means for easily running large language models (LLMs) on your system, ollama v0.3 has been released with support for the newest exciting models... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**ASUS ROG Ally X Begins Seeing Linux Patches**
This weekend the ASUS ROG Ally X began shipping as an upgraded version of the ASUS ROG Ally handheld gaming console that launched last year. The ASUS ROG Ally X is still powered by the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC and for the most part similar to the original model but now with 24GB of LPDDR5X-7500 memory up from 16GB of LPDDR5-6400, twice as large battery capacity, 1TB of NVMe storage rather than 512GB, improved input controls, improved cooling, and other refinements. ... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**LLVM Clang Switches MMX Intrinsics To Use SSE2 Instead**
Following LLVM/Clang recently dropping support for AMD 3DNow! instructions, the open-source compiler stack is now pushing the MMX SIMD instruction set to a backseat. Moving forward the MMX intrinsics will not make use of MMX but rather be mapped to SSE2. This is all fine unless you are wanting to use this modern code compiler on an Intel Pentium MMX / Pentium II / Pentium III or AMD K6 / K7 processor from the late 90's... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Launch Delayed To August**
While we have been super eager for the AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" desktop processor launch that's been set for 31 July, AMD has issued a last minute delay. Instead the processors will launch in two stages in August... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**New AMD Linux Driver Patches Enable I3C HCI Support**
One of the newest patch series out from AMD this week is on providing I3C HCI driver support for their MIPI I3C IP block found within their latest processors... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**Linux 6.11 Lands Support For getrandom() In The vDSO**
Going back two years has been the effort for adding getrandom() to the vDSO in order to enhance the performance. This work has yielded as much as 15x the performance in showing very fast while being secure user-space RNG needs. A few weeks back Linus Torvalds was unconvinced by adding getrandom() to the vDSO, but after going back through the patches he gave it another go. Today the work has managed to be mainlined for Linux 6.11... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**Rust Linux Kernel Code Prepares For CPU Mitigations Handling**
The latest Rust for the Linux kernel work led by Miguel Ojeda is on preparing the Rust kernel code for various CPU security mitigations... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.17193.4 Released With Initial Battlemage Support**
Intel today released IGC 1.0.17193.4 as the newest version of the Intel Graphics Compiler that is used for their compute stack on Windows/Linux as well as by their Windows graphics driver for shader compilation... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**AMD Reveals More Zen 5 CPU Core Details**
As a follow-up to last week's AMD Zen 5 overview with the Ryzen 9000 series and Ryzen AI 300 series, today the embargo has lifted on some additional Zen 5 CPU core details. ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**F2FS, exFAT & Btrfs File-System Changes In Linux 6.11**
While not as notable as the nice EXT4 performance optimization making it into Linux 6.11 or features like XFS real-time FITRIM and self-healing Bcachefs on read I/O errors, the Bcachefs, F2FS, and Btrfs file-systems saw smaller updates for the Linux 6.11 kernel cycle... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**Linux 6.11 Upstream Now Defaults To A Better SATA Link Power Management Policy**
It's not too often that the ATA pull request for a new Linux kernel merge window has much worth mentioning. With Linux 6.11 there is a change to the kernel defaults worth noting over the default SATA link power management policy. In this case most Linux distributions have been setting a better default themselves and is now a case of the upstream kernel defaults catching up... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**Mesa 24.3 Radeon VCN Adds HDR Metadata Support For AV1 Encoder**
The latest video acceleration improvements to report on with the open-source AMD Radeon driver front is support in Mesa 24.3-devel for passing HDR metadata in the AV1 encoder... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**Printk Patches For Linux 6.11 Further Work Toward Threaded Console Printing**
The latest printk patches have been submitted and merged for the Linux 6.11 kernel. The printk updates take another step toward the long-in-development work around threaded console printing / non-blocking "NBCON" consoles as the last major step to allow the real-time "RT" kernel patches to land... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**Intel OSPRay 3.2 Further Advances This Open-Source Ray-Tracing Engine**
Intel's OSPRay ray-tracing engine as part of their oneAPI rendering toolkit continues to serve as a great, scalable and portable RT engine for high fidelity visualizations. With OSPRay 3.2 released today, they continue advancing this open-source engine further... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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**Upstream Linux 6.11 Makes It Easy To Build A Pacman Kernel Package For Arch Linux**
The upstream Linux 6.11 kernel is making it easier to build a Pacman package of the kernel for use on Arch Linux and other Arch derived distributions relying on Pacman... ⌘ Read more
3 days ago
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**Intel's Mesa Driver Upstreaming For Xe2 Support Appears Mostly Done**
Ahead of launch for new discrete/integrated graphics backed by open-source Linux drivers, it can often be difficult to ascertain the level of support pre-launch given the complexity of today's GPUs, we are past the days of long monolithic patch series for new hardware enablement, and also not knowing about what features may be added for the next-generation hardware. But if latest Mesa developer comments hold, it looks like for Intel Xe2 gr ... ⌘ Read more
3 days ago
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**Intel Xe2/Battlemage & AMD RDNA4 Lead The Graphics Driver Changes In Linux 6.11**
DRM subsystem lead maintainer David Airlie recently submitted the DRM-Next pull request for merging into Linux 6.11. All of that Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) feature code has landed for the many kernel graphics/display driver updates along with changes to the few AI accelerator "accel" drivers also part of the tree. As usual, the Intel Xe/i915 and AMD AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel drivers see a bulk of the upstream open-source graphic ... ⌘ Read more
3 days ago
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**NVIDIA 560 Linux Driver Beta Released - Defaults To Open GPU Kernel Modules**
NVIDIA today released their first Linux beta driver in the new R560 driver release branch. Coming days after their NVIDIA 560 Windows driver, out this morning is the NVIDIA 560.28.03 beta Linux driver... ⌘ Read more
3 days ago
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**Fedora Workstation 42 Cleared To Offer Opt-In Metrics Reporting**
Following up on the previously noted proposal around Fedora Workstation 42 looking at adding opt-in user metrics, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now granted approval for this somewhat controversial feature... ⌘ Read more
3 days ago
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**LLVM Clang 19 Branched, LLVM 20 Enters Development- No AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Merged Yet**
As scheduled, LLVM Clang 19 was branched from mainline Git this morning and is now considered feature frozen ahead of its planned September release. LLVM Clang 20 in turn is now in development with the main Git branch... ⌘ Read more
3 days ago
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**AMD ROCm 6.2 Release Appears Imminent For Advancing Open-Source GPU Compute**
We appear to be on the heels of the AMD ROCm 6.2 software release for advancing the open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack with new features... ⌘ Read more
3 days ago
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**Linux 6.11 Begins Upstreaming Support For KEBA CP500 System FPGA**
Greg Kroah-Hartman described the char/misc pull request for the Linux 6.11 merge window as having "just loads of new drivers and updates." Among the new drivers is beginning to enable support for the KEBA CP500 as the latest FPGA seeing upstream kernel support... ⌘ Read more
3 days ago
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**AMD ROCm 6.2 Release Appears Imminent For Advancing Open-Source GPU Compute**
We appear to be on the heels of the AMD ROCm 6.2 software release for advancing the open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack with new features... ⌘ Read more
3 days ago
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**OpenBSD Now Supports VA-API Video Acceleration**
The BSDs unfortunately continue to lag behind Linux in their GPU driver support. The latest example of this is OpenBSD only days ago seeing initial support for the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) merged for GPU-accelerated video playback on that BSD platform... ⌘ Read more
3 days ago
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**X.Org Testing Ground Expands Its Scope To Illumos/OpenIndiana**
Coming just a day after posting a big set of patches for improving VRR display support under the X.Org Server, Enrico Weigelt today announced the release of the X.Org Testing Ground v0.0.4 software that now supports OpenIndiana / Illumos (OpenSolaris) in addition to its Linux and BSD platform support... ⌘ Read more
3 days ago
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**WPA_Supplicant 2.11 Released With WiFi 7 EHT & Many Other New Features**
Released this weekend was a new version of WPA\_Supplicant along with hostapd for this WiFI Protected Access client and IEEEE-802.1x supplicant. WPA\_Supplicant 2.11 is the first major release of this software since early 2022 and as a result comes packing many changes... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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**Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha With COSMIC Desktop Planned For 8 August**
We have been eagerly awaiting the end of July for the planned alpha release of System76's Rust-written COSMIC desktop. For those awaiting COSMIC in the form of a new Pop!\_OS development release, that at least will be coming in early August... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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**Performance Event Changes For Linux 6.11 Bring Several Additions For Intel Hardware**
All of the "perf" performance events feature updates were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.11 merge window... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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**MidnightBSD 3.2 Released With Ravenports On x86_64, New AMD Features**
MidnightBSD 3.2 is out as the newest feature update to one of the few desktop-focused BSD operating systems still being maintained. MidnightBSD 3.2 continues to be derived from FreeBSD sources while shipping with a nice Xfce-based desktop experience... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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**X.Org Server Patches Look To Cleanup VRR Handling, Make It Xinerama-Aware**
Open-source developer Enrico Weigelt has in recent months taken to near single-handedly maintain and further enhance the aging X.Org Server codebase. The latest area that Weigelt has been working to improve is around the X.Org Server's Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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**Linux 6.11 "MM" Patches Include Many Improvements, A 10x Speedup For One Optimization**
Andrew Morton on Sunday sent in his "MM" pull requests for Linux 6.11 of the areas of the kernel he manages... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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**GNU C Library 2.40 Released With New C23 Features & New Performance Tunables**
GNU C Library "glibc" 2.40 is now available with more C23 features being enabled as well as some new performance tunables on x86\_64 and AArch64 along with other improvements to this widely used libc implementation... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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**LZ4 v1.10 Introduces Multi-Threading Support For Major Compression Speedups**
Yann Collet released LZ4 v1.10 today as a major update to this extremely fast compression algorithm. Most significant with LZ4 1.10 is adding multi-threaded compression support for much faster performance with today's modern multi-core processors... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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**systemd Talks Up Automatic Boot Assessment In Light Of The Crowdstrike-Microsoft Outage**
In light of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage/disaster that has been wreaking havoc on corporate Windows systems around the world since Friday, systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering pointed out how such a situation on Linux systems could be averted by leveraging systemd's Automatic Boot Assessment functionality... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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**LZ4 v1.10 Introduces Multi-Threading Support For Major Compression Speedups**
Yann Collet released LZ4 v1.10 today as a major update to this extremely fast compression algorithm. Most significant with LZ4 1.10 is adding multi-threaded compression support for much faster performance with today's modern multi-core processors... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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**Kalray Updates Patches For Their Linux Kernel Port To The KV3-1 "Coolidge" SoC**
Way back at the start of 2023, French fabless semiconductor company Kalray posted Linux kernel patches for a "KVX" Linux kernel port to get Linux up and running on their MPPA3-80 "Coolidge" DPU SoC with the KV3-1 CPU architecture. A year and a half later this work still is outside the Linux kernel but finally a third iteration of the KVX Linux kernel port has been posted for review... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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**NTFS Driver For Linux 6.11 Prepares FileAttr Support, Bug Fixes**
Konstantin Komarov with Paragon Software has prepared the latest patches for the NTFS3 kernel driver that is providing the modern NTFS read/write file-system support on Linux systems... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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**Intel oneAPI VPL 2024Q2 GPU Runtime Prepares For VVC Decode**
Intel's oneAPI Video Processing Library (VPL) GPU Runtime 2024Q2 release is now available along with an updated quarterly release of the Intel Media Driver... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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