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LATEST LINUX HARDWARE REVIEWS, OPEN-SOURCE NEWS & BENCHMARKS

Fedora 38 Features Approved For Unified Kernel, mdadm BIOS RAID, Xfce 4.18
9 Hours Ago - Fedora - Fedora 38 - 3 Comments

At today's Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) more features were
approved for the Fedora 38 release coming up in April.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H "Sapphire Rapids" Performance Benchmarks
10 January 01:00 PM EST - Processors - 20 Comments

Now that the 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" and Xeon CPU Max Series
overview is out of the way, you are probably very eager to see some independent
performance benchmarks of the much anticipated Sapphire Rapids CPUs that are
going up against AMD 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" processors for 2023... For kicking off
our Sapphire Rapids benchmarking, first up is a look at the Xeon Platinum 8490H
performance under Linux as the flagship SKU.

Intel Launches 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids", Xeon CPU Max Series
10 January 01:00 PM EST - Processors - 1 Comment

Intel has announced the 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" CPUs today along
with the Xeon CPU Max Series (Sapphire Rapids HBM) and Data Center GPU Max
Series (Ponte Vecchio). Here is an overview of today's announcements prior to
getting to some initial Sapphire Rapids Linux benchmarks on Phoronix.


Ubuntu's Real-Time Kernel Approaching GA Status
10 January 10:50 AM EST - Ubuntu - Real-Time Kernel - 27 Comments

Last year with the release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS there was a beta real-time kernel
offering from Canonical.

Linux Preparing To Disable Drivers For Microsoft's RNDIS Protocol
10 January 07:33 AM EST - Linux Networking - Dropping RNDIS - 7 Comments

With the next Linux kernel cycle we could see upstream disable their driver
support for Microsoft's Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS)
protocol due to security concerns.

More AMD Zen 4 Tuning Ongoing For GCC 13 Compiler
10 January 05:44 AM EST - AMD - Znver4 Tuning - 3 Comments

GCC compiler expert Jan Hubicka at SUSE began working on AMD Zen 4 compiler
tuning patches that began landing in December for the GCC 13 compiler that will
debut as stable in a few months. It looks like the work isn't over on Znver4
tuning with another patch being sent out today for fine-tuning the latest AMD
CPU microarchitecture.

CentOS Hyperscale SIG Caps Off A Busy 2022
10 January 05:32 AM EST - Red Hat - CentOS Hyperscalers - Add A Comment

Established two years ago was the CentOS Hyperscale SIG for a group of engineers
from Facebook, Twitter, and other hyperscalers in making optional changes to
CentOS Stream to better suit the Linux distribution to their internal needs.

Microsoft's Dozen Up To A 98.5% Pass Rate For Vulkan 1.0
10 January 05:16 AM EST - Microsoft - Dzn In Mesa - 25 Comments

Microsoft's Dozen "dzn", which was merged to Mesa last year as Vulkan
implemented on Direct3D 12, is onto a 98.5% pass rate for its Vulkan 1.0
coverage.




9 JANUARY

AMD Rolling Out New Website Area For Zen Software Studio
9 January 03:55 PM EST - AMD - AMD Zen Software Studio - 9 Comments

For those making use of AMD's Optimizing C/C++/Fortran compilers, ZenNN library,
profiling software, and various other CPU-based software resources for EPYC and
Ryzen processors, AMD is in the process of rolling out a new area on the website
for highlighting these Zen Software Studio assets.

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 / Ryzen 7 7700 / Ryzen 9 7900 Linux Performance
9 January 09:00 AM EST - Processors - 41 Comments

Last week at the AMD CES 2023 keynote hosted by Lisa Su, new 65 Watt Ryzen 7000
series processors were announced. These more affordable Zen 4 processors are
going retail this week and today marks the embargo lift. Up on the Linux testing
block are the Ryzen 5 7600, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 9 7900 processors.

Intel Meteor Lake's VPU Linux Driver Updated, UMD Code Posted
9 January 07:46 AM EST - Intel - Versatile Processing Unit - 2 Comments

Back in July Intel engineers published the initial open-source driver code
around the new Versatile Processing Unit "VPU" coming with Meteor Lake. This VPU
block with 14th Gen Core CPUs is intended for AI inference acceleration for deep
learning software.

XFS Progressing On Defragmenting Free Space - Needed For Online Shrinking
9 January 07:03 AM EST - Linux Storage - Defragment Free Space - 91 Comments

As part of a New Year's Eve patch deluge, XFS developer Darrick Wong sent out
patches working on free space defragmenting support, among other work for
further enhancing this mature open-source file-system.

Blender 3.5 Boasts Working Apple Metal Backend, Vulkan Still In Early Stages
9 January 06:51 AM EST - Free Software - Blender 3.5 + Metal - 12 Comments

In addition to Blender's back-ends for NVIDIA CUDA and OptiX, Intel oneAPI, and
AMD HIP, Blender 3.5 is set to have a working Apple Metal back-end for that
proprietary graphics/compute API with accelerated UI/viewport handling to
complement the Metal Cycles support.

Dynamic Triple Buffering Hopefully Will Land For GNOME 44
9 January 05:48 AM EST - GNOME - Dynamic Triple Buffering - 32 Comments

For over two years Canonical has been working on dynamic triple buffering for
the GNOME desktop with the Mutter compositor. This triple-buffering-when-needed
can dramatically boost the desktop performance especially in cases like Intel
integrated graphics and Raspberry Pi boards. The triple buffering work hasn't
been upstreamed yet but the hope is that it may finally be ready for upstream
inclusion with GNOME 44.

RISC-V Hibernation Support / Suspend-To-Disk Nears The Linux Kernel
9 January 05:24 AM EST - RISC-V - RISC-V Hibernation - 1 Comment

While the open RISC-V processor architecture has proven to be highly successful,
one of the features that it hasn't yet supported with the Linux kernel to this
point has been system hibernation / suspend-to-resume, but that support is now
on the way.


8 JANUARY

Linux 6.2-rc3 Released - "Starting To Look A Lot More Normal"
8 January 01:55 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.2 - 9 Comments

Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.2-rc3 a few hours early today and noted that
things are "starting to look a lot more normal" in terms of the code churn for
this stage of the Linux 6.2 development cycle now that the holiday period has
passed.

AVX2 & AVX-512 Optimized Versions Of ARIA Cipher Coming With Linux 6.3
8 January 09:39 AM EST - Linux Kernel - AVX2/AVX-512 ARIA Cipher Optimization -
4 Comments

The ARIA block cipher devised by South Korean researchers is being sped up by
AVX2 and AVX-512 for its Linux kernel implementation.

AMD Begins Sending In "New Stuff" For Their Graphics Driver With Linux 6.3
8 January 06:45 AM EST - Radeon - AMDGPU Linux 6.3 Updates - 7 Comments

AMD sent out an initial batch of "new stuff" for their AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel
graphics driver code to begin queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.3 cycle
kicking off during the back-half of February.

DragonFlyBSD Adds Temperature Sensor Support For AMD Zen 3 / Zen 4
8 January 06:20 AM EST - AMD - AMD Family 19h Temperature Sensors - Add A
Comment

While DragonFlyBSD has previously praised the performance of AMD Ryzen
Threadripper CPUs going back to the Zen 2 days, it's taken them until this
weekend to get temperature sensor monitoring working for Family 19h processors:
Zen 3, Zen 3+, and Zen 4 CPUs.

Mir 2.11 Released With A Fix Around XWayland Use
8 January 06:02 AM EST - Ubuntu - Mir 2.11 - 22 Comments

A new version of Mir has been released, which in recent years has been serving
as a Wayland compositor and used for various niche use-cases like smart exercise
mirrors and other IoT and kiosk-type deployments.


7 JANUARY

OBS Studio 29 Released With AV1 Encode Additions, Upward Compression Filter
7 January 09:13 PM EST - Multimedia - OBS Studio 29 - 9 Comments

OBS Studio 29.0 is out this weekend as the latest major feature release to this
very popular, cross-platform software for screencasting and screen recording
purposes.

Linux 4.9.337 Released To End Out The 2016 LTS Series
7 January 10:23 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Long Term Support - 28 Comments

The Linux 4.9 kernel was released back in 2016 and Greg Kroah-Hartman today
issued the final point release for that kernel series with the Long Term Support
(LTS) period now expired.

A Developer Hopes To Restore GCC's Java Front-End
7 January 09:39 AM EST - GNU - GCJ - 20 Comments

Following GCC Rust being merged and the Modula-2 front-end, a developer hopes to
restore the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Java front-end, GCJ.

Intel Discontinues Development Of Open-Source HAXM Software
7 January 06:18 AM EST - Intel - HAXM No More - 21 Comments

For years Intel has been developing HAXM as a hardware-accelerated execution
manager with a focus on using it for the Android Emulator and QEMU in
conjunction with Intel VT enabled processors. HAXM works not only on Linux but
Windows, macOS, and some BSDs. Unfortunately, Intel has decided to discontinue
development of HAXM. Oh yeah, they also note there are security issues with the
code so it's best to just stop using it.

Wine 8.0-rc3 Released With 28 Known Bug Fixes
7 January 06:04 AM EST - WINE - Wine 8.0-rc3 - 3 Comments

Wine 8.0-rc3 is now available as the latest test release for this software to
enjoy Windows games and applications on Linux and macOS.

VKD3D-Proton's Hans-Kristian Arntzen Experimenting With Vulkan Video
7 January 05:57 AM EST - Vulkan - Vulkan Video - 5 Comments

Hans-Kristian Arntzen of notoriety for being with Valve's Linux team and leading
the work on VKD3D-Proton has been experimenting with the Vulkan Video API
initially for his personal Vulkan renderer, Granite.

KDE Kicks Off 2023 With UI Refinements, More Fixes
7 January 05:36 AM EST - KDE - KDE Starts 2023 - 9 Comments

KDE developers had a busy first week of the new year as they work toward the big
Plasma 5.27 release.

OpenMandriva ROME 23.01 Rolling Release Arrives
7 January 05:15 AM EST - Operating Systems - OpenMandriva ROME - 3 Comments

OpenMandriva ROME 23.01 is now officially available as this
Mandriva/Mandrake-derived Linux distribution in rolling-release form.


6 JANUARY

FEX-Emu 2301 Working More On AVX Emulation Atop Arm, New AArch64 Code Emitter
6 January 01:50 PM EST - Linux Gaming - FEX 2301 - 5 Comments

FEX as the open-source project working on allowing x86_64 software to run atop
Linux AArch64 (64-bit Arm) systems -- including games and the likes of Valve's
Steam Play (Proton) -- is out with its newest monthly feature release.

OpenZFS Lands A Very Nice Performance Optimization
6 January 10:30 AM EST - Linux Storage - OpenZFS - 73 Comments

A very nice feature pull request was merged to OpenZFS that can provide a nice
performance improvement to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation to
kick off the new year.

X.Org Server No Longer Allowing Byte-Swapped Clients By Default
6 January 06:05 AM EST - X.Org - Byte Swapped Clients No More - 28 Comments

Following the recent discussions around Fedora planning to disable byte swapped
clients support for the X.Org Server in order to close another "large attack
surface" with the aging X11 server codebase, the upstream X.Org Server has now
dropped this support by default.

The Linux OS Originally Known As Lindows Is Out With Linspire 12 Alpha
6 January 05:55 AM EST - Operating Systems - Linspire 12 Alpha 1 - 19 Comments

Linspire as the Linux distribution whose roots go back two decades ago to when
it originally started out as "Lindows" is preparing a new major release. The
current incarnation of Linspire though started five years ago when
PC/OpenSystems acquired the Linspire and Freespire rights from Xandros. Linspire
claims to be "the easiest desktop Linux" and are looking to improve things
further with their v12 release.

An MGLRU Performance Regression Fix Is On The Way Plus Another Optimization
6 January 05:47 AM EST - Linux Kernel - MGLRU Performance Fix - 9 Comments

While MGLRU is a nice performance win for the Linux kernel now available when
enabling it for v6.1+ kernel builds, during my testing I did encounter a
regression around the SVT-AV1 video encode performance at least and a fix is
working its way toward mainline.

Mold 1.9 Released With Support For More CPU Architectures
6 January 05:05 AM EST - Programming - Mold 1.9 - 10 Comments

Mold as the high performance linker alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD is out
with another feature release.


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