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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Support Installs With NVMe-Over-TCP Drives

Phoronix - 11. Březen 2024 - 15:49
The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release next month will roll out initial support in its server installer for being able to handle root file-system setups on NVMe-over-TCP scenarios for remote drives...

Linux 6.9 Making It Easier Managing Security Mitigation Options

Phoronix - 11. Březen 2024 - 15:32
The x86/core changes were submitted today for the now-open Linux 6.9 merge window. Among other changes, the x86 CPU security mitigation options within the Linux kernel Kconfig have been adjusted where appropriate to make more clear the options/features are for security mitigations...

AMD Posts Performance Monitoring Patches For Zen 5 CPUs

Phoronix - 11. Březen 2024 - 14:50
While Linux 6.8 carries some elements of Zen 5 CPU support, more upstream Linux enablement for the next-generation AMD processors remains ongoing. Sent out this morning were the initial patches around AMD Zen 5 performance monitoring and events for the perf subsystem...

Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance

Phoronix - 11. Březen 2024 - 11:58
Igalia continues maintaining the Broadcom V3D open-source graphics driver code that is used by the Raspberry Pi single board computers. With a new patch series posted today for the V3D DRM driver, support for Super Pages is enabled to help with enhancing the graphics performance. In many benchmarks having Super Pages can enhance the performance by a few percent but in some extreme cases can be 19~42% faster...

x86/cpu Change For Linux 6.9 Slightly Eases Future AMD Zen CPU Enablement

Phoronix - 11. Březen 2024 - 11:44
A number of x86-related pull requests were already submitted today for kicking off the new Linux 6.9 merge window. With the x86/cpu pull for this new kernel cycle there is just one patch and it's for slightly easing future AMD Zen processor enablement under Linux...

Linux 6.8 Released As Stable With New Intel Xe Graphics Driver

Phoronix - 10. Březen 2024 - 22:23
Linus Torvalds has gone ahead and released Linux 6.8 as stable today rather than drawing this cycle into overtime...

Awesome Changes Coming With Linux 6.9: Lots From Intel/AMD, FUSE Passthrough & More Rust

Phoronix - 10. Březen 2024 - 17:10
Depending upon how Linus Torvalds is feeling today, Linux 6.8 could debut today as stable and in turn mark the opening of the Linux 6.9 merge window... Otherwise it will be punted off by one week. In any event, there's a lot of interesting work queuing for Linux 6.9 as shared in today's preview...

Linux 6.9 To Allow AMD P-State With ACPI CPPC V2 For Threadripper 3000 Series CPUs

Phoronix - 10. Březen 2024 - 14:39
The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver works with Zen 2 and newer processors supporting ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Controls (CPPC) but to date this hasn't worked for Threadripper 3000 series processors with the TRX40 chipset. That though is finally being fixed up with Linux 6.9 thanks to a one-line code change...

Radeon Memory Visualizer Hooks Up With Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver

Phoronix - 10. Březen 2024 - 12:20
Thanks to the nature of open-source and AMD making their Radeon Memory Visualizer "RMV" open-source under the GPUOpen umbrella, outside of AMD graphics drivers it's found usage elsewhere. Back in January I wrote how Intel's open-source Vulkan driver was adapted for being able to interface with the Radeon Memory Visualizer. Now this week the Qualcomm Adreno "TURNIP" Vulkan driver has also been wired up for enabling RMV integration...

Niri 0.1.3 Wayland Compositor Brings Touch Support, New Animations

Phoronix - 10. Březen 2024 - 12:08
Niri is an interesting scrollable tiling Wayland compositor inspired by PaperWM that has been gaining user interest in recent months. This weekend marked the v0.1.3 release of this Wayland compositor...

Linux 6.9 To Upgrade Rust Toolchain - Making More Features Stable

Phoronix - 10. Březen 2024 - 11:46
All of the Rust feature patches have already been submitted in a pull request to Linus Torvalds ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 merge window...

Effort Continues To Remove Most Of The SPARC 32-bit CPU Support From Linux

Phoronix - 10. Březen 2024 - 11:33
Last year saw a lot of code clean-up work on the Linux kernel and working to remove support for obsolete hardware no longer being actively maintained within the mainline kernel tree for years. On the CPU side one of the efforts has been to remove unused SPARC 32-bit CPU support for old Sun workstations. The patches for removing unused SPARC32 code was updated this weekend and now undergoing review...

GNOME 46 Release Candidate Rolls Out Last Minute Fixes, VRR & Other Refinements

Phoronix - 10. Březen 2024 - 1:37
The GNOME 46 release candidate was officially rolled out today as the last chance to test the GNOME 46 desktop software ahead of its stable release later this month...

Linux 6.8 Is Very Exciting With Intel Xe Driver, Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics & New Hardware

Phoronix - 9. Březen 2024 - 15:43
Linux 6.8 could debut as stable as soon as tomorrow if all goes well... Linus Torvalds last week was unsure whether an extra release candidate would be needed after the quiet 6.8-rc7 release. This week's seen a continued flow of fixes land, so we'll see what Linus decides on Sunday but in any event there are already a number of early 6.9 pull requests...

GNOME Developers Continue Tweaking The Shell, Tuning For Performance

Phoronix - 9. Březen 2024 - 15:13
Not only have KDE developers been very busy this week but so has the GNOME crew working toward the GNOME 46 release later this month as well as working on various other improvements to land past the 46 cycle...

NVK Lands Sparse Memory Support - Enabling More Games To Run On This Open-Source Driver

Phoronix - 9. Březen 2024 - 13:00
Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver for open-source NVIDIA support has merged sparse memory support. This is a big milestone as it's needed for running a number of newer games under Linux...

LXQt Desktop Now "100%" Ready For Wayland

Phoronix - 9. Březen 2024 - 12:53
The lightweight LXQt desktop environment is fully ready to take on the Wayland world...

KDE Developers Are Currently Seeing 150~200 Bug Reports Per Day

Phoronix - 9. Březen 2024 - 12:24
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary outlining the interesting feature work and bug fixes to land in the KDE space. Being fresh off the recent Plasma 6.0 release, a lot of bug reports are still coming in while developers are already busy tackling new features for Plasma 6.1...

Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver

Phoronix - 9. Březen 2024 - 1:08
Wine 9.4 is out today as a rather notable bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

AMD Squeezes In Additional GPU Enablement Code For Linux 6.9

Phoronix - 8. Březen 2024 - 20:29
While the Linux v6.8 kernel may debut as stable as soon as this weekend, a last-minute pull request of some new AMD graphics IP was submitted today to DRM-Next in aiming to make it for the imminent Linux 6.9 merge window...
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