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The Clutter OpenGL "Cogl" code within the GNOME Mutter compositor has removed legacy OpenGL driver support ahead of next month's GNOME 44 release...

The Linux 6.3 merge window has been off to a good start with Linus Torvalds receiving plenty of pull requests in advance, the other early pulls all coming in quite orderly, and no colorful commentary on any of the material set for Linux 6.3 even with the likes of Microsoft Pluton (TPM2 CRB). But today Torvalds' did feel the need to share some wisdom around Git merge log message advice...

Last week I published a number of Linux gaming benchmarks for the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 high-end graphics cards now that they finally arrived for my Linux testing on Phoronix. For those more interested in creator workloads and GPU OpenCL and CUDA compute performance for these high-end consumer Ada Lovelace graphics cards, this article is for you with an initial look at the compute performance across a wide range of workloads from Blender OptiX and CUDA rendering to common OpenCL GPU benchmarks.

The much anticipated Godot 4.0 open-source, cross-platform game engine release is imminent. Out today is Godot 4.0 RC3 which could end up being the final test release before this big game engine release...

Sent out today for the Linux 6.3 kernel merge window are the updates to the printk code. Notable this time around are preparations to printk in working toward threaded/atomic consoles support. That threaded/atomic consoles support is all the more important as it's the last piece of the puzzle before the remainder of the real-time (PREEMPT_RT) patches can be upstreamed into the Linux kernel...

Merged back in December was the initial GCC Rust front-end "gccrs" for the GCC 13 compiler that will be released as stable within the next month or two. Squeezing today into the GCC 13 code-base is an additional 103 patches for this Rust front-end...

The openSUSE Leap 15.5 Beta builds have begun for helping to test out this Linux distribution update that is planned to be the last of the Leap 15 series...

Linus Torvalds merged to Linux 6.3 Git the TPM CRB support for Microsoft's controversial Pluton security co-processor that is initially found in the latest AMD Ryzen processors...

AMD Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation Enforcement as a new feature found with AMD EPYC 9004 series processors will be supported by the in-development Linux 6.3 kernel...

Andrew Morton on Monday submitted his memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 6.3 merge window...

Canonical and Elektrobit have jointly announced EB Corbos Linux, a new platform built on Ubuntu that is intended to be used as an automotive software platform...

The big batch of Btrfs file-system driver updates for the Linux 6.3 kernel were submitted today by SUSE's David Sterba. As with many kernel cycles, this Btrfs pull includes more performance optimizations as well as new features...

While the new Ubuntu 23.04 desktop installer is shaping up nicely, Canonical engineers continue to be busy working on additional features and ironing out functionality found within the existing Ubiquity installer but not yet their new Flutter-based graphical installer...

Several months back I wrote about Microsoft working on nested hypervisor support for Hyper-V with the Linux kernel. That work is now ready to go for the in-development Linux 6.3 cycle...

Building off yesterday's release of Linux 6.2, the GNU Linux-libre 6.2 kernel was published today by the GNU FSFLA folks maintaining this kernel downstream that strips out driver support dependent upon non-free software firmware/assets as well as dropping the ability to load closed-source kernel modules...

While the Linux 6.3 merge window has just begun, what you won't find in this next kernel version is the Intel Xe DRM driver as the new kernel graphics driver being worked on by the company for their modern integrated and discrete graphics processors...

Intel this weekend submitted their Linux device driver patches for review concerning their La Jolla Cove Adapter (LJCA) hardware...

As part of the tracing updates sent in for Linux 6.3 is the introduction of the new "hwnoise" tool within the kernel source tree for monitoring and quantifying hardware noise...

Out today is AMDVLK 2023.Q1.2 as AMD's second open-source Vulkan Linux driver release of the year...

The EROFS file-system updates for Linux 6.3 include introducing a new option for per-CPU KThreads to provide low-latency decompression for speeding up use of compressed EROFS file-systems on Android devices...