Linux

Linux 6.13 To Drop Some Old & No Longer Maintained Staging Drivers
With a number of patches queued this week into the staging tree ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel, a number of old and no longer maintained hardware drivers are set to be removed in the next kernel cycle...
2024-10-13 10:13
Improvements To The Ad Experience
As a result of user feedback and being able to reproduce some annoying ad experiences, particularly on mobile devices, I've been able to make some enhancements to hopefully improve the user ad experience when browsing Phoronix...
2024-10-13 10:00
Mesa 24.3 Allows Rusticl On Asahi Gallium3D By Default
Building off the recent infrastructure merged for Mesa 24.3 as a build option to allow Rusticl driver support to be enabled by default, Red Hat's Karol Herbst has added the Asahi Gallium3D driver to the default list...
2024-10-13 06:32
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Adds VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate Support
Adding to the growing set of features for NVK as this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa, the VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate fragment shading rate extension is now supported...
2024-10-13 06:13
Microsoft's Azure Linux 2.0 Updated With Dozens Of Security Fixes
While Azure Linux 3.0 has been available since the late summer, for those continuing to rely on Azure Linux 2.0 in production there is a big update out this weekend. Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 brings dozens of security fixes to this Microsoft Linux distr...
2024-10-13 06:05
KDE neon 6.2 Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
KDE neon 6.2 distribution is now available for download based on the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment. The post KDE neon 6.2 Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop, Based on...
2024-10-12 11:20
Wayland Protocols 1.38 Brings System Bell, FIFO & Commit Timing Protocols
Wayland Protocols 1.38 is out with three new staging protocols...
2024-10-12 10:28
AMD XDNA Linux Driver Updated As It Nears The Upstream Kernel
Back in January AMD published an open-source XDNA Linux kernel driver for supporting their Ryzen AI NPUs. But it wasn't until July that the formal review process for the AMD XDNA driver began as the necessary prerequisite for getting picked up into the...
2024-10-12 09:21
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Enabling More Intel Hardware & Driving Kernel Optimizations
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS...
2024-10-12 09:02
Intel Panther Lake H EDAC Support Posted For Linux
With Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake systems now shipping and the Linux support largely settled, Intel open-source software engineers have begun ramping up their support for Panther Lake due out in a year...
2024-10-12 06:53
AMD Job Posting Confirms More Details Around Their AI GPU Compute Stack Plans
A Friday evening job posting has confirmed and reinforced details around their future AI GPU compute stack, presumably what's been referred to as the Unified AI Software Stack...
2024-10-12 06:44
KDE Developers Fixing Initial Bugs From Plasma 6.2
Following this week's release of KDE Plasma 6.2, the KDE developers are busy addressing some of the initial fallout from this desktop update as well as more feature work aimed at Plasma 6.3...
2024-10-12 06:13
AMD To Integrate "Project Caliptra" Into Products Beginning In 2026
As another interesting AMD announcement this week following their Advancing AI event yesterday where they launched the EPYC 9005 series and other new hardware, they've continued with a few more soft announcements in the lead-up to the OCP Global Summit...
2024-10-11 20:50
KDE Frameworks 6.7 Released with Performance Optimizations and Improvements
KDE Frameworks 6.7 open-source software suite is now available with various improvements for the Plasma desktop and KDE applications. Here's what's changed! The post KDE Frameworks 6.7 Released with Performance Optimizations and Improvements appeared f...
2024-10-11 17:13
Spotify Controls GNOME Extension is Ideal for Music Addicts
GNOME Shell shows now playing info in the notification shade, out of view but there when you want to check in. Most users like this approach, but perhaps you don’t? Personally, I do like seeing media info (album art, artist name, track title) in the ...
2024-10-11 14:03
Spotify Controls: GNOME Shell Extension Ideal for Music Addicts
GNOME Shell shows now playing info in the notification shade, out of view but there when you want to check in. Most users like this approach, but perhaps you don’t? Personally, I do like seeing media info (album art, artist name, track title) in the ...
2024-10-11 14:03
Arm Exploring IO_uring For Graphics Drivers For Better Performance & Synchronization
The IO_uring asynchronous I/O API for Linux is quite novel and has proven performance benefits. With time IO_uring has been adapted to other areas of the kernel like networking and now with a proposal raised by an Arm graphics driver engineer, it could...
2024-10-11 13:45
AVX-512 Performance With 256-bit vs. 512-bit Data Path For AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs
Now past the launch day for the AMD EPYC 9005 series server processors and having delivered initial AMD EPYC Zen 5 benchmarks for the EPYC 9575F / EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965 SKUs, it's onto one of my favorite areas of testing and that is the more focused be...
2024-10-11 10:40
Meet Canonical at OCX 2024 in Mainz, Germany
OCX 2024 is a dynamic and inclusive event hosted by the Eclipse Foundation; every year it brings together diverse open source communities from around the world. This year’s gathering features EclipseCon, the flagship conference, and two exciting new ...
2024-10-11 10:30
Intel Xe2 Ultra Joiner, GPU Temperature Reporting & Another Arrow Lake ID For Linux 6.13
The drm-xe-next pull request earlier this week began preparing open-source driver support for Intel Xe3 graphics to premiere with Panther Lake processors. That code is beginning to queue for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle. Today a drm-intel-next pull re...
2024-10-11 09:28