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LATEST LINUX HARDWARE REVIEWS, OPEN-SOURCE NEWS & BENCHMARKS

Cloudflare Talks Up Its Success In Using OpenBMC
4 Minutes Ago - Free Software - Open-Source BMC - Add A Comment

Cloudflare has talked up their success in using the open-source Linux-based
OpenBMC software for baseboard management controllers (BMCs) as a replacement to
proprietary BMC software stacks.

Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly
18 Minutes Ago - Fedora - Fedora 40 Booting UKIs - Add A Comment

Fedora 40 is eyeing the next phase of its unified kernel (UKI) support within
the distribution that will include the ability to support booting to unified
kernel image files directly without having to go through a traditional
bootloader like GRUB or SD-Boot.

Austrian Game Studio Now Sponsoring Krita Development
39 Minutes Ago - Free Software - Broken Rules - 1 Comment

While Blender is at the forefront of receiving corporate sponsorships and
funding for advancing that open-source 3D modeling software, other free software
graphics programs haven't all received the same level of support. As good news
for further raising the open-source creative/graphics ecosystem, an Austrian
video game studio has become one of the new Krita sponsors.


More AMD GFX12 Additions Land In LLVM Git For RDNA4 GPUs
108 Minutes Ago - Radeon - AMDGPU LLVM GFX12 - Add A Comment

As noted in late November, AMD has begun enabling new "GFX12" hardware in LLVM
for their AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is the target for
next-generation RDNA4 graphics processors and that upstreaming effort has
continued with more patches being upstreamed.

AlmaLinux's ELevate Begins Handling EPEL Repositories
4 Hours Ago - Operating Systems - ELevate + EPEL - Add A Comment

AlmaLinux's ELevate software is a wonderful utility to help ease migration
between existing major versions of RHEL derivatives. In particular, it's been
very useful for moving past CentOS 7 and/or upgrading from AlmaLinux 8 to 9,
along with the ability to even move to other RHEL derivatives.

SQLite Lands JSONB For Much Faster JSON Functions
4 Hours Ago - Programming - SQLite + JSONB - 2 Comments

SQLite as the leading open-source embedded database solution has landed JSONB, a
rewrite of the SQLite JSON functions that can be up to "several times faster"
than the existing JSON functions.

One Week Left To Vote On openSUSE's New Logo
4 Hours Ago - SUSE - openSUSE Logo - 13 Comments

The openSUSE project has been working on a rebranding to better differentiate
between this community open-source project and SUSE itself. There's been work on
a logo design contest with just under one week left to vote in this survey.




5 DECEMBER

The Performance & Power Improvement Of Steam Deck OLED's 6nm APU
5 December 04:19 PM EST - Linux Gaming - 23 Comments

The Steam Deck OLED has been on the test bench the past few weeks at Phoronix.
The HDR OLED display of the updated Steam Deck handheld game console is gorgeous
and was very impressed by it. On a technical level the battery life improvements
are significant and one of the items I was most curious about were the
power/performance implications in moving from the 7nm Van Gogh APU to a 6nm die
shrink version of it while retaining the Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA2 integrated
graphics. Here's a look at the performance and CPU power consumption between the
Steam Deck LCD and Steam Deck OLED models not only for gaming but other Linux
workloads too.

Linux 6.8 To Drop The SLAB Allocator, SLUB Optimizations Coming Too
5 December 02:54 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Bye Bye SLAB - 12 Comments

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.

GNOME Shell Lands Improved Icon & Text Scaling
5 December 11:55 AM EST - GNOME - Improved Text Scaling - 7 Comments

GNOME Shell has merged a set of 35 patches to fix/improve icon and text scaling
support, especially when using the Large Text mode for accessibility.

Fedora Workstation 39 Delivers Some Nice Gains For AMD Ryzen 7040 Series
Graphics
5 December 09:32 AM EST - Fedora - RDNA3 Graphics - 2 Comments

Here are some benchmarks looking at the performance uplift in migrating from
Fedora Workstation 38 to Fedora Workstation 39 on an AMD Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix"
series laptop.

Intel, AMD, Red Hat / IBM, Meta & Others Launch The AI Alliance
5 December 09:00 AM EST - Standards - AI Alliance - 26 Comments

The AI Alliance has launched as a consortium focused on advancing open, safe,
and responsible AI.

TornadoVM 1.0 Released For Running Java On Heterogeneous Hardware: CPUs, GPUs &
FPGAs
5 December 06:49 AM EST - Programming - TornadoVM 1.0 - 3 Comments

TornadoVM 1.0 has been released as the open-source software providing an OpenJDK
and GraalVM plug-in for allowing Java on heterogeneous hardware from multi-core
CPUs to GPUs and FPGAs. TornadoVM allows targeting OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and
SPIR-V devices for a rather robust array of hardware support.

LZ4 Support Revised For Faster Restore From Linux Hibernation
5 December 06:24 AM EST - Linux Kernel - LZ4 Hibernation - 21 Comments

Published originally back in October were a set of patches for allowing
different compression algorithms for the Linux hibernation image to yield faster
restore times. That work -- focused on LZ4 compression support -- has been
revised as it works toward the mainline kernel.


4 DECEMBER

Intel's Linux CPU Temperature Driver Being Adapted To Handle 128+ CPU Cores
4 December 04:25 PM EST - Intel - coretemp - 11 Comments

Intel's CPU temperature driver "coretemp" within the Linux kernel is being
adapted so it can report CPU core temperatures in excess of 128 cores.

Mainline Linux Support Is Being Worked On For A $100~200 ARM Handheld Gaming
Console
4 December 02:43 PM EST - Hardware - Powkiddy X55 - 60 Comments

If the likes of the Steam Deck or ASUS ROG Ally are out of your budget or you
just prefer enjoying more classic, less demanding games, there are Linux kernel
patches being floated to allow mainline support for a sub-$200 ARM-powered
handheld gaming console.

"Panthor" DRM Driver Coming Together For Newer Arm Mali GPUs
4 December 01:28 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Panthor DRM - 9 Comments

Being worked on recently by Boris Brezillon at Collabora is Panthor, a new
Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver for supporting the newer Arm Mali graphics
processors.

Flowblade 2.12 Video Editor Brings Faster Proxy Rendering, Continued GTK4
Porting
4 December 10:19 AM EST - Multimedia - Flowblade 2.12 - 11 Comments

Flowblade 2.12 is now available as this multi-track, non-linear video editor for
Linux systems. Shotcut as another open-source video editor also recently put out
a new version too.

AMD Posts Linux Patches For QoS RMID Pinning / ABMC
4 December 09:59 AM EST - AMD - QoS RMID Pinning / ABMC - Add A Comment

One of the latest Linux kernel patch series posted by AMD Linux engineers is for
enabling an AMD QoS RMID pinning feature found within their latest generation
processors.

AWS Nitro Secure Module Driver Going Upstream For Linux 6.8
4 December 09:44 AM EST - Virtualization - AWS Nitro - 6 Comments

As part of AWS Nitro Enclaves, coming for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year
is a Nitro Secure Module driver.

AMD Threadripper 7980X Kernel Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / 6.6 / 6.7
4 December 08:23 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Threadripper 7980X Linux Kernel
Benchmar - 36 Comments

A number of Phoronix readers have been inquiring whether using the newer Linux
6.6 stable kernel or Linux 6.7 development kernel deliver any additional gains
when running on the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series hardware. Here are
some benchmarks looking at that while using a Threadripper 7980X workstation.

TuxClocker 1.4 Brings More CPU & GPU Features
4 December 06:39 AM EST - Hardware - TuxClocker 1.4 - 3 Comments

TuxClocker continues on its quest as being one of the leading open-source GUI
control panels for overclockers and enthusiasts on Linux. Out this morning is
TuxClocker 1.4 that brings more features for making this Qt-based open-source
app more useful for those overclocking or just wanting to keep a better eye on
their hardware's performance and thermals/power from the Linux desktop.

FEX 2312 Brings More Optimizations For Running x86_64 Games/Apps On AArch64
4 December 06:28 AM EST - Free Software - FEX Emulator - 3 Comments

The newest monthly release of FEX is now available for this open-source project
that allows running x86_64 games and applications on 64-bit ARM (AArch64) Linux
environments.

Fwupd 1.9.10 Adds LoongArch Support & Firmware Updating For A ~$1k USD Web
Camera
4 December 05:48 AM EST - LVFS - Fwupd 1.9.10 - Add A Comment

Red Hat's Richard Hughes just released Fwupd 1.9.10 as the newest version of
this open-source utility for facilitating device and system firmware/BIOS
updates under Linux in conjunction with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)
for the easy distribution of such firmware updates.


3 DECEMBER

Armbian 23.11 Promotes Some Arm Boards, Adds Ubuntu 23.10 & Debian Trixie Daily
Builds
3 December 08:05 PM EST - Operating Systems - Armbian 23.11 - 3 Comments

Armbian 23.11 was released this week as the decade-old Linux distribution
project focused on providing good Arm single board computer support.

Server Upgrades In Progress [Complete]
3 December 12:00 PM EST - Phoronix - Software + Hardware Upgrades - 41 Comments

It's the season for hardware and software upgrades as Phoronix.com rolls out to
new infrastructure. Pardon any downtime or interruptions over the next few
hours.

GDB 14.1 Adds Support For DAP - Debugger Adapter Protocol
3 December 10:36 AM EST - GNU - GNU Debugger 14.1 - 25 Comments

GDB 14.1 has been released today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger for
source-level debugging of C/C++, Rust, Fortran, Go, Ada, and other languages.

Linux 6.7-rc4 Released As The Holidays Approach
3 December 06:24 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.7 - Add A Comment

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.7-rc4 kernel around twelve hours early today
due to his end-of-year travels.

AMD Graphics Driver Changes Being Queuing For Linux 6.8
3 December 06:00 AM EST - Radeon - AMDGPU For Linux 6.8 - 2 Comments

AMD has begun submitting "new stuff" to DRM-Next for preparations ahead of the
Linux 6.8 kernel cycle in the new year.

ASRock X570D4U BMC Working Toward OpenBMC Support
3 December 03:00 AM EST - Hardware - ASRock X570D4U + OpenBMC - 9 Comments

For those that happen to own an ASRock Rack X570D4U micro-ATX motherboard or are
in the market for a server-grade AMD Ryzen 5000 series motherboard, patches are
pending as this motherboard works on OpenBMC support as an alternative to the
proprietary BMC software stack that ships with this AMD Ryzen 5000 series + ECC
DDR4 supported motherboard.

Linux 6.8 To Add Atomic Mode-Setting Mouse Hotspots, Atomic Async Page Flip
3 December 01:00 AM EST - Linux Kernel - drm-misc-next - 6 Comments

The drm-misc-next changes sent out this week to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.8
kernel cycle include a few interesting additions worth mentioning for Linux
desktop users.

Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO Coolers Linux Driver Being Developed
3 December 12:00 AM EST - Hardware - Waterforce - 1 Comment

Joining the likes of the Aquacomputer and NZXT water/liquid cooling hardware
monitoring/control "HWMON" kernel drivers, a Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO
Coolers Linux driver is being developed.


2 DECEMBER

Mesa 24.0 PVR Vulkan Driver Adds Support For New PowerVR Kernel Driver
2 December 01:45 PM EST - Mesa - PVR Vulkan + Open Kernel Driver - 2 Comments

The PVR Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa for modern PowerVR graphics
hardware has now landed support for using the upcoming PowerVR DRM kernel driver
that is being upstreamed in Linux 6.8.

Bcachefs Lands Another Round Of Fixes For Linux 6.7
2 December 08:54 AM EST - Linux Storage - Bcachefs Fixes - 18 Comments

On Friday another round of fixes were merged for the Bcachefs file-system for
the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel.

Vulkan 1.3.272 Published With Two New Extensions
2 December 07:01 AM EST - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.3.272 - Add A Comment

Vulkan 1.3.272 was published on Friday as the latest routine spec update for
this high performance graphics and compute API.

Cloudflare Teases Next-Gen Server Design, Benefits Going From 1U To 2U Servers
2 December 06:52 AM EST - Hardware - Cloudflare Gen12 Server - 13 Comments

Two years ago Cloudflare rolled out their "Gen 11" server fleet built around AMD
EPYC Milan processors and on Friday the company began talking about their
forthcoming "Gen 12" server designs that will soon be rolling out across their
data centers for powering this widely-used web infrastructure.

KDE Lands NVIDIA Hardware Cursor Support & Other Last Minute Plasma 6.0 Features
2 December 06:16 AM EST - KDE - KDE Plasma 6 Beta Week - 67 Comments

With this week's release of the Plasma 6.0 beta and beta milestones for KDE
Frameworks 6 and the latest Gear apps, KDE has now entered the bug-fixing phase
ahead of the stable releases coming up in February. But prior to that bug-fixing
shift, a few more features were merged.


1 DECEMBER

Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November
1 December 07:12 PM EST - Valve - Steam On Linux - 76 Comments

Steam on Linux enjoyed a various nice boost in popularity during the course of
November at least as it concerns Valve's Steam Survey.

Using Miriway For Empowering Xfce / MATE / LXQt & Other Desktops With Wayland
1 December 10:13 AM EST - Wayland - Miriway - 34 Comments

Miriway is an effort for bringing Wayland to desktops not currently having
native Wayland support and is made possible via the Canonical-developed Mir.
Miriway has been a side-project of Alan Griffiths as the lead Mir developer and
today he published a blog post with more details for users interested in making
use of it.

Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights
1 December 05:00 AM EST - Phoronix - November Highlights - 1 Comment

November was very busy on Phoronix with all of the benchmarking around the new
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series, the much anticipated Framework 13 laptop
review, a lot of Wayland accomplishments being made this week, excitement
building around the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release, and the Linux 6.7
kernel getting underway with new features like the Bcachefs file-system.

Servo Browser Engine Continues On Its Path To Be Embed-Friendly
1 December 01:21 AM EST - Free Software - Servo Engine - 16 Comments

Following good progress in October and this former-Mozilla browser engine
project receiving funding recently for "table" support, Servo developers
continued implementing more functionality over the course of November.


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