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ARCAN DISPLAY FRAMEWORK RECEIVES FUNDING AS INNOVATIVE WAYLAND ALTERNATIVE

While much of the focus by Linux desktops as we roll into 2024 is polishing off
their Wayland support, there does exist a rather innovative display server out
there that's been in the works for years: Arcan. Arcan is the open-source
project built atop a game engine and provides a display server paired with a
real-time multimedia framework for audio and video. Arcan can be used from
embedded purposes through full desktop solutions and can also interact with
Wayland and X11 as well as embracing VR. Arcan 0.6.3 was released today along
with the announcement that they've taken on some funding...

INTEL GAUDI2'S LINUX DRIVER SUPPORT IS "VERY STABLE AT THIS POINT", GAUDI2C
DEVICE ADDED

By now you've likely heard how Intel's Gaudi2 accelerator hardware is standing
up very well against the NVIDIA competition especially in value. There's nothing
new there but an important part to keep in mind -- and where Intel is the
hands-down winner -- is the open-source ecosystem with having a fully
open-source and upstream Linux kernel accelerator driver as well as their
SynapseAI open-source components in user-space. The Gaudi2 open-source kernel
driver support is now considered "very stable at this point" with the upstream
state fairing well...

FFMPEG BEGINS LANDING SUPPORT FOR AOMEDIA'S IAMF - IMMERSIVE AUDIO MODEL AND
FORMATS

Yesterday the initial code for supporting the Alliance For Open Media's
Immersive Audio Model and Formats (IAMF) was merged for the widely-used FFmpeg
multimedia library...

NINTENDO SWITCH ONLINE CONTROLLER SUPPORT COMING WITH LINUX 6.8

The Nintendo HID open-source driver is being extended with the Linux 6.8 kernel
to support the Nintendo Switch Online "NSO" controllers...

FIREFOX 121 NOW AVAILABLE WITH WAYLAND ENABLED BY DEFAULT

Ahead of tomorrow's official announcement, the Mozilla Firefox 121.0 release
binaries have hit the mirrors and it's keeping to the most exciting Christmas
gift for Linux desktop users: Wayland support enabled by default!..

SHOTCUT 23.12 RELEASED WITH WAYLAND CRASH FIX, UPGRADED AV1 ENCODE/DECODE

Shotcut 23.12 debuted this weekend as the newest version of this open-source
non-linear video editing solution for Linux, Windows, and macOS systems...

INTEL 5TH GEN XEON PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS: IMPRESSIVE EFFICIENCY GAINS WITH
"OPTIMIZED POWER MODE"

With the new Intel 5th Gen Xeon "Emerald Rapids" processors there is a new
feature called the Optimized Power Mode (OPM). This Optimized Power Mode can be
enabled via the system BIOS for Emerald Rapids for helping to reduce the CPU
power consumption when not running at full utilization. With Intel claiming that
up to 110 Watts of server power savings can be conserved when running at 30~40%
utilization, I was curious and set out to run my own Optimized Power Mode
benchmarks with the Xeon Platinum 8592+ processors. Here is a deep dive on Intel
Optimized Power Mode benchmarks.

QUALCOMM SNAPDRAGON 8 GEN 3 WILL BE ABLE TO BOOT ON THE MAINLINE LINUX 6.8
KERNEL

All the pieces have been aligned that the mainline Linux 6.8 kernel should be
able to boot on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC without any out-of-tree
patches being necessary...

INTEL LUNAR LAKE THUNDERBOLT SUPPORT BEING PREPPED FOR LINUX

While Intel Meteor Lake processors only launched last week, Intel Linux
engineers have already been busy for some time enabling next-generation Arrow
Lake and Lunar Lake processors...

GIGABYTE WATERFORCE AIO COOLER DRIVER SET TO PREMIERE IN LINUX 6.8

A new driver set to be merged in the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle is
"gigabyte_waterforce" as a new kernel driver for supporting Gigabyte AORUS
Waterforce AIO coolers...

RADV VULKAN VIDEO ENCODING STILL BEING WORKED ON

For Mesa 23.1 earlier this year initial RADV Vulkan Video decode support was
merged for supporting GPU-based video acceleration with this Khronos video API.
As we approach the end of the year, RADV's Vulkan Video encode support remains a
work-in-progress but hopefully won't be too much longer before being
upstreamed...

IT'S LOOKING LIKE 2024 COULD BE THE YEAR OF HDR ON THE LINUX DESKTOP

KDE developer Xaver Hugl has shared a status update on the current state of HDR
support for the KDE Plasma desktop...

LINUX 6.7-RC6 RELEASED: "VARIOUS RANDOM FIXES ALL OVER"

Linux 6.7-rc6 was released today while the final release of Linux 6.7 is likely
to come New Year's weekend and complicating the opening of the Linux 6.8 merge
window around the end-of-year holidays...

THE FIRST RUST-WRITTEN NETWORK PHY DRIVER SET TO LAND IN LINUX 6.8

Since Linux 6.1 when the very initial Rust infrastructure was added to the Linux
kernel there's been a lot of other plumbing and house keeping merged since for
enabling kernel drivers to be written in the Rust programming language. With the
upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle, the first Rust network driver is set to be
introduced...

AMD ENABLES VCN REGION OF INTEREST "ROI" VIDEO ENCODER SUPPORT FOR LINUX GPU
DRIVERS

While not talked about as much as the AMD open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers
for Linux, AMD's multimedia stack on Linux continues to be improved upon for
supporting new use-cases with AMD-based Linux deployments continuing to come up
in the embedded space for all different applications like in-vehicle
infotainment systems. The newest AMD video acceleration feature to now be wired
up to their open-source Mesa code is enabling region of interest (ROI) encoding
functionality...

FOR AT LEAST ONE GAME, MESA'S NVK DRIVER CAN OUTPERFORM NVIDIA'S PROPRIETARY
DRIVER

In at least one game running on Linux via Proton Experimental, the Mesa NVK
open-source Vulkan driver paired with the latest Nouveau reverse-engineered
kernel driver is delivering better performance than NVIDIA's proprietary Linux
graphics driver...

CLOUD HYPERVISOR 37 LTS RELEASED WITH FASTER VM RESTORATION FROM SNAPSHOTS

A new Long-Term Support version of Cloud Hypervisor was released this week,
which is the open-source project originally started by Intel as a cloud-focused
and Rust-written VMM that now has wide industry backing including from multiple
other CPU vendors...

SOPHGO SG2380 RISC-V SOC TO NOW SUPPORT UP TO 96GB RAM, ADDITIONAL PCIE & 25 GBE

Back in October the Milk-V Oasis mITX board was announced with this RISC-V board
being powered by a 16-core Sophgo SG2380 SoC featuring SiFive-designed cores: 12
P cores and four E cores. While that Milk-V Oasis board isn't expected to ship
until Q3'2024, Milk-V shared this week that the SG2380 RISC-V SoC has been
revised with additional capabilities...

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...

DEBIAN LIKELY MOVING AWAY FROM I386 IN THE NEAR FUTURE

There was recently a mini DebConf in Cambridge where the Debian GNU/Linux
release team held a spring and figured out some items moving forward, including
the dim future for i386 moving forward...

XF86-VIDEO-MODESETTING DRIVER OPTIMIZATION HELPS CONSERVE INTEL POWER
CONSUMPTION

A change merged to the X.Org Server Git for the generic xf86-video-modesetting
DDX driver is helping conserve some power consumption at least for Intel
graphics by determining the optimal hardware cursor size...

AMD STAGES THE RADEON GRAPHICS COLOR MANAGEMENT CODE FOR LINUX 6.8

On Friday in addition to Intel submitting their new Xe kernel graphics driver to
DRM-Next ahead of Linux 6.8, the red team sent in their latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD
kernel driver changes ahead of this next kernel cycle. Exciting on the AMD side
is landing the AMD color management properties support! But on the downside,
it's compile-time disabled for the time being...

MANJARO 23.1 RELEASED WITH LINUX 6.6 LTS, PIPEWIRE 1.0 & DESKTOP UPDATES

Manjaro 23.1 was released overnight as the newest version of this popular Arch
Linux based desktop Linux distribution...

BOX64 V0.2.6 BRINGS SUPPORT FOR MORE CPU EXTENSIONS, BETTER SYSCALL EMULATION

Box64 and Box86 are out with new releases this weekend for these open-source
projects allowing x86_64 and x86 binaries to run on ARM64 Linux systems...

KDE RECEIVES MANY BUG FIXES AHEAD OF CHRISTMAS

KDE developers remain very busy working toward the release of the Plasma 6
desktop in late February...

INTEL'S NEW "XE" KERNEL GRAPHICS DRIVER SUBMITTED AHEAD OF LINUX 6.8

As I wrote about last week that Intel's modern Xe kernel graphics driver was
nearing submission for the mainline kernel and today it's indeed been submitted
to DRM-Next. The Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is the modern alternative to
the long-used i915 DRM kernel driver and is fitted to support Tigerlake graphics
and newer -- both integrated graphics hardware as well as discrete
GPUs/accelerators...

WINE 9.0-RC2 RELEASED WITH 33 MORE FIXES - INCLUDING WINE WAYLAND FIXES

Wine 9.0-rc2 is now available as the latest weekly release candidate on the road
to the stable Wine 9.0 release in early 2024...

AMD ROCM 6.0 NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD WITH MI300 SUPPORT, PYTORCH FP8 & MORE AI

Earlier this month at AMD's AI event in San Francisco they announced ROCm 6.0
while launching the MI300X and MI300A accelerators. While announced back on the
6th, today marks the actual availability of ROCm 6.0 with the source code and
binaries now publicly available...

GNOME GETS A NEW TERMINAL CHOICE: PROMPT

A few months back GNOME developer Christian Hergert noted that Linux terminal
emulators could be much faster following his experiments but then concluded at
the time he didn't want to develop a new terminal becase "creating your own
terminal is like 20 lines of code these days." Well, he ended up shifting stance
a bit and has now announced Prompt, a new container-focused terminal emulator
for the GNOME desktop...

INTEL 5TH GEN XEON PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS WITH DDR5-4800 VS. DDR5-5600

With Intel's just-launched 5th Gen Xeon "Emerald Rapids" processors headlined by
the 64-core Xeon Platinum 8592+, one of the key upgrades with these new server
processors is now supporting DDR5-5600 memory compared to DDR5-4800 with
Sapphire Rapids and also the memory frequency limit with AMD's EPYC Zen 4
processors. Here are some benchmarks of the flagship Xeon Platinum 8592+ when
being tested with DDR5-4800 versus DDR5-5600 memory modules.

POP!_OS COSMIC DESKTOP IMPROVING MULTI-MONITOR & MULTI-WINDOW SUPPORT

While the holidays are quickly approaching, the System76 developers working on
their Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution and new Rust-written COSMIC
desktop environment haven't been losing focus. December has been another busy
month so far as they continue crafting this new modern desktop environment...

FRAMEWORK 13 AMD WORKAROUND PREPARED FOR LINUX TO DEAL WITH A SUSPEND ISSUE

A quirk has been discovered with the AMD-powered Framework 13 inch laptop where
if a user closes the laptop's lid on an already-suspended system, the system
will wake up. A set of Linux kernel patches are on the way to workaround this
issue...

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LINUX 6.8 TO DROP THE SLAB ALLOCATOR, SLUB OPTIMIZATIONS COMING TOO



Following the SLOB allocator removal earlier this year, the Linux 6.8 kernel in
the new year is now positioned to remove the SLAB allocator. Additionally, the
lone good-for-everything SLUB allocator is set to receive further optimizations.
Read more at phoronix

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appeared first on Linux.com.



CRITICAL BLUETOOTH FLAW EXPOSES ANDROID, APPLE & LINUX DEVICES TO TAKEOVER



Attackers can exploit a critical Bluetooth security vulnerability that’s been
lurking largely unnoticed for years on macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux device
platforms. The keystroke injection vulnerability allows an attacker to control
the targeted device as if they were attached by a Bluetooth keyboard, performing
various functions remotely depending on the endpoint. Read more at […]

The post Critical Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Android, Apple & Linux Devices to
Takeover appeared first on Linux.com.



LINUX FOUNDATION PROJECTS UNITE AT COP28 TO SHOWCASE OPEN SOURCE ACTION ON U.N.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS



The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation
through open source, is excited to announce a one-hour live-stream presentation
at COP28, Dubai that will explore the transformative power of open source and
how it is being used to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs). Featuring speakers from Linux Foundation Research, Linux Foundation […]

The post Linux Foundation Projects Unite at COP28 to Showcase Open Source Action
on U.N. Sustainable Development Goals appeared first on Linux.com.



CYBER MONDAY DEALS EXTENDED UNTIL DEC. 6TH!



Elevate your profile. Improve your skills. Showcase your badges. Get significant
deals on open source training and certification from Linux Foundation. Deals end
December 6, so start saving now! SAVE NOW

The post Cyber Monday Deals Extended Until Dec. 6th! appeared first on
Linux.com.



LINUX FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER: NOVEMBER 2023



This month, our communities met in Chicago for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North
America, where AI topics were front and center. Two new LF Research reports have
been published: the World of Open Source Global Spotlight and the 2023 State of
Open Source in Financial Services. We also launched two new projects, the App
Defense Alliance […]

The post Linux Foundation Newsletter: November 2023 appeared first on Linux.com.



PROMCON RECAP: UNVEILING PERSES, THE GITOPS-FRIENDLY METRICS VISUALIZATION TOOL



“An important aspect of Perses strategy is the foundational open source path.
Perses is already a project under the Linux Foundation, which means it does not
belong to Amadeus or any of the other contributing companies, but to the
vendor-neutral foundation, and under its governance. Furthermore, Perses’s end
goal is to join the Cloud Native Computing […]

The post PromCon Recap: Unveiling Perses, the GitOps-Friendly Metrics
Visualization Tool appeared first on Linux.com.



LINUX FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER: OCTOBER 2023



This month’s newsletter will be one of our biggest ever! In October, our
communities met in person at the Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao and KubeCon
+ CloudNativeCon + OSS in Shanghai, China.  At OpenSSF’s Secure Open Source
Summit in Washington, DC, we continued advancing important conversations to
improve the security of software supply […]

The post Linux Foundation Newsletter: October 2023 appeared first on Linux.com.



MKFS.EXT4 – WHAT IT ACTUALLY CREATES



Introducing the internal data written to Click to Read More at Oracle Linux
Kernel Development

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EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS IN THE MOBILE INDUSTRY



Read the original blog at Read More 

The post Exploring the Future of Open Source Solutions in the Mobile Industry
appeared first on Linux.com.



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