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LibreELEC 12 Beta Moves More Devices To 64-bit - Including The Raspberry Pi 5 & 4

Phoronix - 18. Březen 2024 - 0:52
LibreELEC as the Linux distribution that aims to be just enough of an operating system for bringing up Kodi for HTPC / multimedia needs, the LibreELEC 12 "Omega" Beta 1 release is available today for further improving this media center focused Linux OS...

Many Laptop Improvements In Linux 6.9, Much Faster HP Performance At Higher TDP

Phoronix - 17. Březen 2024 - 14:52
All of the x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.9 merge window. As usual, most of the x86 platform driver work is around better supporting various Intel Core and AMD Ryzen laptops under Linux...

CXL For Linux 6.9 Adds Error Injection, Native Memory Performance Enumeration

Phoronix - 17. Březen 2024 - 14:15
Intel continues leading the development of the Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem for the Linux kernel while at least for the Linux 6.9 cycle are a few feature patch contributions from AMD...

XFS With Linux 6.9 Brings Online Repair Improvements

Phoronix - 17. Březen 2024 - 13:21
Joining the other file-systems seeing notable updates for Linux 6.9, the XFS file-system is seeing continued work around online repair support and other improvements...

Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release

Phoronix - 17. Březen 2024 - 11:48
The Hyprland customizable Wayland compositor with dynamic tiling is celebrating its two year milestone by issuing v0.37 (and a v0.37.1 paper bag release)...

Linux 6.9 Change Allows Old Macs Using Firewire To Enjoy Virtualization Support

Phoronix - 17. Březen 2024 - 11:38
The PCI subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 6.9 kernel. Among the changes are the usual code churn around device-specific quirks and tuning of the power management code...

SDL Storage API Merged For SDL 3.0

Phoronix - 17. Březen 2024 - 0:35
Going back years but documented in 2022 has been a desire for the SDL hardware/software abstraction layer popular with cross-platform games to offer an abstracted file-system API. That's finally come to reality with the new SDL_Storage interface added for SDL 3.0...

New Gestures Code Squeezes Into GNOME 46

Phoronix - 16. Březen 2024 - 18:23
While the GNOME 46 desktop is being released next week, one of the very last minute feature items being merged hit the Mutter codebase on Friday...

Mold Linker Jumps From v2.4.1 To v2.30 To Resolve GNU libtool Compatibility

Phoronix - 16. Březen 2024 - 18:06
Mold 2.30 is out this weekend as the newest version of this open-source high speed linker alternative to GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD...

RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1

Phoronix - 16. Březen 2024 - 14:58
Open-source AMD Linux graphics driver engineer Marek Olšák who is known for his focus on the Gallium3D code has shown no signs of slowing down when it comes to discovering new areas to further enhance the performance and tune the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Initial IBM Power11 Enablement Begins With Linux 6.9

Phoronix - 16. Březen 2024 - 14:35
As noted a month ago that IBM was starting on Power11 CPU/platform enablement for the mainline Linux kernel, indeed the first batch of Power11 code has now been merged for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel...

An Open-Source Driver Effort Has Begun For Rockchip's NPU

Phoronix - 16. Březen 2024 - 14:12
Tomeu Vizoso who recently has been working on extending the Etnaviv open-source graphics driver to also support the Vivante NPU IP has made great progress on that with competitive performance to the proprietary NPU driver and upstreaming the Teflon framework into Mesa for handling the Neural Processing Unit. Tomeu Vizoso has now shifted his attention to working on an open-source, reverse-engineered NPU driver for the AI hardware found in various Rockchip SoCs...

Bcachefs Multi-Device Users Should Avoid Linux 6.7: "A Really Horific Bug"

Phoronix - 16. Březen 2024 - 11:57
If you were feeling adventurous and began using the Bcachefs file-system upon its introduction in Linux 6.7 mainline and using it for a multi-device setup, you are best off upgrading to Linux 6.8 as soon as possible due to known issues with the code in v6.7...

KDE Continuing To Land More Fixes, Eye More Features For Plasma 6.1

Phoronix - 16. Březen 2024 - 11:34
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his latest weekly development summary to outline all of the new KDE features and bug fixes that have come about for the KDE desktop and apps over the past week...

Linux 6.8.1 & Other Stable Kernels Released With Intel RFDS Mitigation

Phoronix - 16. Březen 2024 - 1:27
A slew of new Linux stable kernel point releases were issued today, driven in part for getting out the Intel Register File Data Sampling "RFDS" mitigations for the kernel code as part of this week's disclosure and microcode updates and kernel patches...

FUSE Passthrough Mode Merged For Linux 6.9

Phoronix - 15. Březen 2024 - 20:13
The FUSE passthrough mode that's been years in the making for better performance was merged upstream today for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel!..

The Performance Impact Of Intel's Register File Data Sampling "RFDS" Mitigation

Phoronix - 15. Březen 2024 - 20:00
Earlier this week on Patch Tuesday was the disclosure by Intel of the Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability and mitigation via updated CPU microcode and a kernel patch. RFDS is around malicious user-space software potentially being able to infer stale register values from kernel space. Register File Data Sampling affects recent Intel Atom / E-core bearing processors including the latest Raptor Lake Refresh processors. In this article are some initial benchmarks of the RFDS performance impact under Linux when using the Core i9 14900K processor.

Bcachefs Sees Improved Journal Pipelining & More Efficient Discard With Linux 6.9

Phoronix - 15. Březen 2024 - 19:00
Earlier this week with the original Bcachefs pull request for Linux 6.9 Linus Torvalds wasn't happy with some of the code pertaining to spinning out a new library code so that it could be re-used by at least the XFS file-system. A revised pull request was since submitted without that library spin-out and Torvalds today went ahead and merged that updated file-system driver...

VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex

Phoronix - 15. Březen 2024 - 18:04
VKD3D-Proton 2.12 is out today as the newest version of this software used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for implementing Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API. With VKD3D-proton 2.12 is initial support for NVIDIA Reflex technology along with various other features...

LXD 5.21 LTS Released With UI By Default, AMD SEV Memory Encryption For VMs

Phoronix - 15. Březen 2024 - 13:48
Ahead of next month's Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release, Canonical has released LXD 5.21 as the newest feature update to this container and VM manager. LXD 5.21 now ships with a production-grade graphical user interface by default, brings AMD SEV support for memory encryption of VMs on EPYC CPUs, object storage support, and other features...
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