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Intel Arc B580 Linux Graphics Driver Performance One Month After Launch

Yesterday I looked at how the Intel OpenCL GPU compute performance evolved for the Arc Graphics B580 in the one month since that first Battlemage graphics card premiered. There were nice Intel GPU compute optimizations merged over the past month to imp...

2025-01-14 15:47

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GNOME 48 Desktop Introducing An Official Audio Player: Decibels

The modern GNOME desktop hasn't had a core application to playback audio files although many different audio/multimedia players exist. But now for the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop release, there is now a promoted core app for audio playback: Decibels...

2025-01-14 12:19

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GCC Developers Consider Deprecating ARM64 ILP32 Support

ARM64 ILP32 is the Armv8 architecture with a 32-bit ABI rather than 64-bit -- akin to the "x32" x86 effort that never really took off on Linux. ARM64 ILP32 support never ended up making it into the mainline Linux kernel or GNU C Library but did appear ...

2025-01-14 11:01

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Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support Still Poses A Challenge For Linux Laptops

Back in 2022 there were Linux kernel developers like Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman recommending that Intel Alder Lake laptops be avoided. This was due to the Intel web camera support in those new-at-the-time laptops yet to be properly up...

2025-01-14 10:11

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Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands More Performance Optimizations Ahead Of The B570

It's not only the Intel GPU compute stack seeing some nice improvements recently but over with the Mesa 25.0-devel code for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver there have been some new performance optimizations arriving this week...

2025-01-14 06:55

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Haiku OS Gets The Iceweasel Web Browser Up & Running

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has published their latest monthly development report. During December they worked on a number of features and fixes as well as getting a modern web browser up and running...

2025-01-14 06:36

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JUring: Experimental IO_uring For Java With Big Performance Gains

For those looking toward better I/O performance with Java, there is JUring for making use of IO_uring and the reported performance benefits are very enticing...

2025-01-14 06:23

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Intel's Open Image Denoise Begins Preparing For Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics

Open Image Denoise 2.3.2 was released by Intel on Monday. Contrary to being a point release, it's actually an exciting update...

2025-01-14 06:09

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OpenZFS 2.3 Released With RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, Direct I/O & Other Great Improvements

OpenZFS 2.3 is out as stable this evening as the latest major feature release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation used on Linux and FreeBSD systems. OpenZFS 2.3 is heavy on new features...

2025-01-13 20:42

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Fedora 42 Cleared To Ship WSL Images For Easy Windows Subsystem For Linux Use

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted approval of the change proposal for shipping Fedora Linux WSL images to enhance the user experience for those wanting to run this Linux distribution within the confines of Microsoft's Wi...

2025-01-13 20:25

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Intel Battlemage Showing Off Nice OpenCL Gains With Newest Open-Source Compute Stack

Last month with the launch of Intel Battlemage with the Arc B580 graphics card, there was fairly nice open-source GPU compute performance but with some outliers... Today it's a pleasure to report that with the newest open-source GPU compute stack as of...

2025-01-13 14:52

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Oracle OLED Wants To Help Improve The Debugability Of The Linux Kernel

Oracle today announced the Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics (OLED) as their newest project that aims to enhance the debugability of the Linux kernel...

2025-01-13 13:25

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GNOME Shell 48 Alpha Introduces Screen Time / Health Breaks, Mutter 48 Alpha Out Too

The "48.alpha" releases of GNOME Shell and Mutter were tagged on Sunday for this week's release of the GNOME 48 Alpha in leading up to the GNOME 48.0 stable release in mid-March...

2025-01-13 11:50

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DXVK 2.5.3 Brings More Fixes For Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 On Vulkan

Philip Rebohle working for Valve has just released DXVK 2.5.3 as the newest update to this Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 implementation over the Vulkan API that is used for enjoying older Windows games on Linux...

2025-01-13 10:54

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Linux Attack Vector Controls Updated To More Easily Controlling CPU Security Mitigations

Last year an AMD engineer proposed the notion of "Attack Vector Controls" for the Linux kernel to re-think how the CPU security mitigation handling is done and making it easier for system administrators/users to toggle the mitigations they are concerne...

2025-01-13 10:16

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A Microsoft-Contributed Change To Linux 6.13 Is Causing A Last Minute Ruckus

A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected nex...

2025-01-13 08:40

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Alibaba Engineers Work To Address Suspend/Resume Bugs With The AMD Graphics Driver

Alibaba engineers have recently been working through some AMD Linux kernel graphics driver bugs uncovered during suspend-and-resume testing with AMD graphics cards...

2025-01-13 07:00

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Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver To Speed-Up With AF_XDP Zero-Copy For Linux 6.14

Queued up into the networking subsystem's "net-next" branch last week ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is AF_XDP zero-copy support for the common Intel Gigabit Ethernet "IGB" driver. With this the AF_XDP performance improvements can be quite dramat...

2025-01-13 06:36

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AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Linux Patches Reworked In 4th Spin

A nice Christmas surprise for 2024 was Meta engineer Rik van Riel posting Linux kernel patches for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found since Zen 3 processors for broadcast TLB invalidation...

2025-01-13 06:20

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Hyprland Wayland Compositor Lands HDR / Color Management Support

Hyprland is now the latest Wayland compositor supporting the color management protocols and allowing High Dynamic Range (HDR) color support with capable displays...

2025-01-13 06:05

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