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FEX-Emu 2212 Improves x86_64 Game Support On Arm, Now Supports Older Radeon GPUs 68 Minutes Ago - Linux Gaming - FEX 2212 - Add A Comment FEX-Emu is the open-source software project working on speedy x86/x86_64 software emulation on AArch64. FEX-Emu is one of the leading options for running x86 binaries on 64-bit Arm and has matured enough for allowing Linux games and Steam Play titles to run on Arm. FEX 2212 is out as the newest shiny feature update to this promising software. openSUSE's D-Installer Adds LVM & Full Disk Encryption Configuration 78 Minutes Ago - SUSE - New D-Installer Prototype - Add A Comment One of the big undertakings this year within the (open)SUSE camp has been the YaST team's work on D-Installer as their next-generation operating system installer. This week they have published a new prototype of this installer with more functionality now in place. LibreOffice 7.5 Alpha Released For Testing - Better Dark & High Contrast Theme Support 104 Minutes Ago - LibreOffice - LibreOffice 7.5 Alpha 1 - 3 Comments Ahead of LibreOffice 7.5 expected to be released in February, today marks the availability of the first alpha build available for testing. FreeBSD 12.4 Released With Various Fixes & Improvements 2 Hours Ago - BSD - FreeBSD 12.4 - Add A Comment For FreeBSD users not yet on the FreeBSD 13 stable series, FreeBSD 12.4 is now available as the newest point release to that N-1 series. 5 DECEMBER Fedora 38 Cleared To Produce "Mobility Phosh" Spins 5 December 06:25 PM EST - Fedora - Fedora Mobility Phosh - 21 Comments The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has provided their blessing to begin creating new x86_64 and AArch64 ISO images for mobile devices that feature the Phosh Wayland compositor. Armbian 22.11 Released With RISC-V 64-bit UEFI Build Support, New Arm Boards 5 December 03:00 PM EST - Operating Systems - Armbian 22.11 - 9 Comments Armbian 22.11 is now available as the Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux distribution popular with ARM development boards and supporting a wide range of hardware from different vendors. A Fresh Look At The Asahi Linux Performance On Apple's M2 5 December 12:00 PM EST - Software - 12 Comments Back during the summer once Asahi Linux introduced initial Apple M2 SoC support I ran many Apple M2 Linux benchmarks including a look at how the M2 competes with AMD and Intel laptop processors. With months having passed since then and the Apple M1/M2 Linux support has continued to advance upstream as well as more work hitting the Asahi Linux tree, here is a fresh look at where the performance of the M2 is currently at compared to that initial at-launch support. Intel IGC 1.0.12504.5 Released As Big Graphics Compiler Update - MTL, Ray-Tracing 5 December 09:23 AM EST - Intel - IGC 1.0.12504.5 - Add A Comment Released this morning is Intel IGC 1.0.12504.5 for Linux and Windows systems as the newest version of the open-source Intel Graphics Compiler. As the first tagged update in nearly two months, IGC 1.0.12504.5 is a big one. PoCL 3.1 Released - Improved SPIR-V For CPU & CUDA Drivers, WIP Vulkan Driver 5 December 08:19 AM EST - Standards - PoCL 3.1 - Add A Comment PoCL 3.1 is out today as the newest feature update to the "Portable Computing Language" that is effectively a portable OpenCL implementation that originally began focused on being a CPU-based implementation of OpenCL and has grown to support additional back-end drivers via LLVM for targeting NVIDIA CUDA, an experimental Vulkan driver, and other accelerator targets. USB4 Wake-On-Connect / Wake-On-Disconnect Ready For Linux 6.2 5 December 07:02 AM EST - Hardware - USB4 Wake - Add A Comment Last month I wrote about Intel having worked on USB4 wake-on-connect and wake-on-disconnect handling for the Linux kernel and those patches are indeed primed to be introduced next week with the Linux 6.2 merge window. Floppy Driver Update Ready For Linux 6.2 - Still Being Maintained In 2023 5 December 06:34 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.2 Floppy - 18 Comments As we get ready to enter 2023, the Linux kernel's floppy disk driver is still being maintained. Twenty Old X.Org Components See New Updates 5 December 05:57 AM EST - X.Org - X11 Updates - 35 Comments While X.Org Katamari releases are no longer being organized to bundle up all of the different X11 software components behind one version number and some X.Org software pieces are seeing very seldom updates every number of years, this past week has seen twenty new X.Org software releases. OpenIndiana Hipster 2022.10 Released With Updates For This OpenSolaris-Derived OS 5 December 12:00 AM EST - Operating Systems - OpenIndiana Hipster 2022.10 - 19 Comments There isn't too much interest in Solaris these days and the once vibrant open-source (Open)Solaris community is a small fraction of its past, but OpenIndiana Hipster continues pushing forward as the operating system forked from OpenSolaris and now serves as a distribution derived from the Illumos code-base. 4 DECEMBER Linux 6.1-rc8 Released For An Extra Week Of Kernel Testing 4 December 06:05 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.1-rc8 - Add A Comment As was expected following an uptick in kernel patches mid-to-late in the cycle, Linus Torvalds today opted to issue Linux 6.1-rc8 rather than going straight to the stable release for Linux 6.1, which is also expected to serve as this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel. Linux 6.1 Lands Revert For "Huge Performance Regressions" From Three Lines Of Code 4 December 04:55 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Performance Fix - 10 Comments Ahead of the Linux 6.1-rc8 kernel that Linus Torvalds is expected to issue shortly rather than going straight to Linux 6.1 stable, a revert for a small change leading to "huge performance regressions" in select areas has fortunately been caught and reverted. Polychromatc 0.8 Released As GUI Frontend For Managing Razer Devices On Linux 4 December 12:05 PM EST - Hardware - Polychromatic 0.8 - 5 Comments A new release of Polychromatic is now available, the open-source GUI front-end for managing Razer devices on Linux by way of the community-managed OpenRazer drivers. More CXL Work On The Way For Linux 6.2 (Compute Express Link) 4 December 06:21 AM EST - Hardware - Linux 6.2 CXL - 3 Comments Thanks to the ongoing work led by Intel's Linux engineers, the upcoming Linux 6.2 kernel will feature more feature work around enabling Compute Express Link (CXL) functionality. Apache IoTDB 1.0 Released As An "Internet of Things Database" 4 December 06:08 AM EST - Free Software - Apache IoTDB 1.0 - 13 Comments The newest Apache software project hitting the version 1.0 milestone is the Apache IoTDB as a time-series database focused on serving as a database to the Internet of Things (IoT). SDL 3.0 Drops Its OpenGL ES 1.0 Render Path 4 December 05:54 AM EST - Linux Gaming - No More OpenGL ES 1.0 - 4 Comments With SDL 3.0 in development and it taking a more modern focus and doing away with various pieces of old code, one of the latest chunks of code being retired is the OpenGL ES 1.0 2D render path. 3 DECEMBER PAPPL 1.3 Released With Improved Print Job Management, Image Printing 3 December 07:15 AM EST - Free Software - PAPPL 1.3 - 16 Comments CUPS print server lead developer Michael Sweet has announced the release of PAPPL 1.3, his printer application framework to help in developing CUPS Printer Applications as replacements to conventional printer drivers. Intel oneDNN 3.0 Being Prepared With More Performance Optimizations 3 December 06:56 AM EST - Intel - oneDNN 3.0 - 1 Comment Intel's oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library "oneDNN" is preparing to embark on its v3.0 release that improves performance not only for current and upcoming Intel hardware but also furthers along the NVIDIA and AMD support too. KDE's KWin Working On An Advanced Tiling System 3 December 05:52 AM EST - KDE - Custom Tiling With KWin - 26 Comments It's been an exciting start to December in the KDE world. 2 DECEMBER Linux 6.0.11, 5.15.81 & 5.10.157 Released With Intel Gen12 Graphics Security Fix 2 December 12:00 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Gen12 Graphics Driver Issue - 2 Comments Greg Kroah-Hartman released a trio of stable kernel updates this morning that are notable in part for having mitigated the recently disclosed i915 driver security issue affecting Intel "Gen12" graphics from Tigerlake integrated graphics up through the DG2/Alchemist Arc Graphics. AMD Radeon With Linux 6.1 + Mesa 23.0-dev vs. NVIDIA R525 Gaming Performance 2 December 07:30 AM EST - Linux Gaming - 28 Comments With the Linux 6.1 kernel due to be released in the next week, Mesa 23.0-devel continuing to see a lot of improvements land for RADV and RadeonSI, and the NVIDIA R525 Linux driver series being available, here is a fresh look at the AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce Linux gaming performance with various graphics cards and an assortment of Linux games -- both native and via Valve's Steam Play. Fedora 38 Might Ship With A Sway ISO Spin 2 December 06:12 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora 38 Sway - 22 Comments While the Sway Wayland compositor has long been available via the Fedora package repositories, Sway fans within the Fedora space are hoping that Fedora 38 will ship with a Fedora Sway spin being available for an easy and out-of-the-box experience for running this i3-inspired Wayland compositor. HasVK Trims Some Fat For This Old Intel Hardware Vulkan Driver 2 December 05:55 AM EST - Intel - HasVK - 19 Comments With the new Mesa 22.3 release one of the changes for vintage hardware users is the introduction of "HasVK" as a Vulkan driver forked from Intel's ANV codebase. Xfce 4.18 Desktop Nears Release, New Development Release For Testing 2 December 05:40 AM EST - Desktop - Xfce 4.18 Pre2 - 46 Comments The lightweight Xfce 4.18 desktop is planning to release in two weeks while out now is the Xfce 4.18 Pre2 development milestone. OpenZFS 2.1.7 Released With Linux 6.0 Support, Many Bug Fixes 2 December 05:21 AM EST - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.1.7 - 14 Comments For those looking to enjoy the ZFS file-system on Linux and FreeBSD platforms, OpenZFS 2.1.7 is now available. 1 DECEMBER Steam On Linux Usage Climbs Higher Thanks To The Steam Deck 1 December 07:43 PM EST - Valve - Steam November 2022 - 133 Comments Valve just posted their November 2022 Steam Survey results and it shows the Linux gaming marketshare continue to climb, driven by the success of their Arch Linux powered Steam Deck handheld gaming console. Initial - But Disabled - Support Added For Intel Meteor Lake With Mesa 23.0 1 December 01:45 PM EST - Mesa - Meteor Lake Mesa - 1 Comment Intel engineers have been busy bringing up Meteor Lake support for Linux from the improved integrated graphics to other areas of this next-gen Core processor that will eventually succeed Raptor Lake. In addition to heavy and ongoing work with the i915 kernel graphics driver, the initial Meteor Lake support has been merged now for Mesa. Trying Out The BSDs On The Intel Core i9 13900K "Raptor Lake" 1 December 11:45 AM EST - BSD - One Boots, The Others Fail - 35 Comments It's been a while since trying out the BSD operating systems on bleeding-edge hardware while a Phoronix Premium recently asked about the BSDs on Raptor Lake. Well, here are my initial experiences trying to run FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonflyBSD on the Intel Core i9 13900K desktop. Fedora's FESCo Rejects The Idea Of "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" As Default Compiler Flag 1 December 07:28 AM EST - Fedora - Too Much Lost Performance - 34 Comments The past few months there has been a change proposal discussed around adding "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" to the default compilation flags for packages being built for Fedora Linux. Adding this option would improve the profiling/debug-ability of the packages but with possible performance implications. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now rejected this contentious change proposal. Blender Ray-Tracing: Intel Aiming For oneAPI RT In 3.6, AMD HIP-RT Working Internally 1 December 06:45 AM EST - Free Software - Blender Ray-Tracing - 10 Comments While NVIDIA users have been enjoying hardware ray-tracing with the Blender 3D modelling software for years with the OptiX back-end and RTX GPUs, the ray-tracing support for AMD Radeon and Intel Arc Graphics is still coming together for this industry-standard, open-source 3D modelling software. AMD EPYC Genoa, Linux 6.1 & Rust Efforts Excited Linux Users In November 1 December 06:30 AM EST - Phoronix - November Highlights - 1 Comment With November now in the books, here is a look back at the most popular original open-source/Linux content on Phoronix from the 245 original articles written by your's truly over the past month. It was an extremely exciting month given the launch of the AMD EPYC 9004 "Genoa" processors with up to 96 cores per socket, AVX-512, and with all of the improvements meant outright insane generational improvement and currently slaughtering the competition. The Linux 6.1 kernel nearing the limelight, early development work on Linux 6.2, and the continued embracing of the Rust programming language by the open-source ecosystem all made for an interesting November. NixOS 22.11 Released With Better AArch64 Support, NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Driver Option 1 December 06:26 AM EST - Operating Systems - NixOS 22.11 - 8 Comments NixOS as the Linux distribution built atop the purely-functional and declarative Nix package manager is out with a new release to kickoff December. Intel Publishes Latest FFmpeg Patches For Better GPU Video Encode/Decode 1 December 06:14 AM EST - Intel - FFmpeg Patch Queue - Add A Comment Intel engineers have published their "2022Q3" patch queue for FFmpeg along with a "2022Q4 RC1" set too for representing the latest yet-to-be-merged patches for improving FFmpeg video acceleration with Intel graphics. Genode OS 22.11 Released With Support For Intel Gen12 Graphics, More PinePhone Work 1 December 05:58 AM EST - Operating Systems - Genode OS 22.11 - 14 Comments Developers behind the Genode open-source operating system framework that uses a micro-kernel design have released their v22.11 update. SVT-AV1 1.4 & Rav1e 0.6 Released For Open-Source AV1 Encoding 1 December 05:44 AM EST - Multimedia - AV1 Encoders - 12 Comments Yesterday marked new releases of the SVT-AV1 and Rav1e open-source AV1 video encoders. 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