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RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1
Down to literally minutes before the Mesa 24.1 codebase was branched for making up this quarter's Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan driver to then be tested and stabilized with a stable release around mid-May, a number of AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver patches were merged...
Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 Adds Radeon GPU Analyzer Interoperability
AMD's GPUOpen team today released the Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 software that now sports interoperability with the Radeon GPU Analyzer...
GCC 14 vs. LLVM Clang 18 Compiler Performance On Fedora 40
One of the leading-edge benefits of Fedora Linux is that it always ships with the most up-to-date open-source compiler toolchains at release. For their spring releases each year, it typically means shipping with a GCC compiler that isn't even officially released as stable yet. With this week's release of Fedora 40, it's shipping with GCC 14.0.1 as the development version that will culminate with the inaugural GCC 14 stable release in the coming weeks. Plus Fedora 40 has all of the other latest GNU toolchain components and then over on the LLVM side is with the current LLVM 18 stable series. For those curious how GCC 14 vs. LLVM Clang 18 performance is looking, here is a wide range of C/C++ benchmarks carried out on Fedora Workstation 40 using a System76 Thelio Major workstation powered by the Zen 4 AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X.
New AMD Linux Patch Acknowledges More Zen 5 CPU Models
A new AMD Linux kernel patch queued today via "x86/urgent" for routing into the Linux 6.9 development kernel expands the range of recognized CPU model IDs for upcoming Zen 5 processors...
Red Hat Releases DNF 4.20 In Preparation For DNF5
DNF 4.20 was released this morning by Red Hat as a stepping stone toward the upcoming DNF5 package manager...
Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6
Polychromatic is the open-source software package that serves as a GUI front-end to the OpenRazer drivers for allowing Razer devices to be configured under Linux for managing keyboard/mice RGB lighting and other options. With today's Polychromatic 0.9 release there is a port for the Qt6 toolkit...
TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform
The folks at iXsystems have released TrueNAS SCALEE 24.04 as the newest iteration of their Linux-based platform for network attached storage (NAS) devices. TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 brings better performance, new features, and additional hardware support...
Nginx 1.26 Released With Experimental HTTP/3 Support
Nginx 1.26 stable is out as the newest version of this popular alternative to the Apache web server while also able to work as a load balancer, reverse proxy, and HTTP cache. Nginx 1.26 incorporates the great work from the Nginx 1.25 mainline branch such as experimental HTTP/3 support...
Wine's Wayland Driver Will Finally Set The Window Title
A small but notable patch was merged to upstream Wine overnight: the window title for application windows is now actually set under Wayland...
QEMU 9.0 Released WIth True Multi-Queue Support For VirtIO Block Driver
QEMU 9.0 is out tonight as the latest feature release for this prominent component to the open-source Linux virtualization stack...
FFmpeg Makes Progress On Dolby Vision Support
The widely-used, open-source FFmpeg multimedia library has seen commits this week advancing its support for Dolby Vision...
Mozilla Has Been Rewriting Its Crash Reporter In Rust
Mozilla hopes you'll never have to see it, but they've been rewriting their crash reporting application for Firefox within the Rust programming language...
Intel Has Many Improvements For The Xe Graphics Driver In Linux 6.10
Intel today sent out more than one hundred new feature patches to DRM-Next of new "Xe" kernel graphics driver material they have readied for the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel merge window...
Framework Raises $18M In New Funding, More Collaborations Coming With Cooler Master
The folks behind the very popular Framework upgradeable/modular laptops announced today $18M in new funding and a few other interesting details...
Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade
It's Fedora 40 release day! Fedora 40 is now available for download from mirrors for this leading Linux distribution...
NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance
Adding to the impressive number of features to be found in this quarter's Mesa 24.1 release is now the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver supporting implicit pipeline caching...
CBD Proposed For The Linux Kernel: CXL Block Device
The latest Compute Express Link (CXL) feature work being pursued for the mainline Linux kernel is a driver to create CXL block devices for storage. On Monday a "request for comments" patch series sent out the initial code for setting up CXL shared memory to be used as Linux block devices...
Bcachefs Sends In More Fixes For Linux 6.9: Recovery & Repair Issues Settling Down
Another week, another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes for the mainline Linux kernel...
AMD Prepping Fixes & Enhancements For P-State CPUFreq Driver
The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for Zen 2 and newer processors has been working out well in its roughly two years of being in the mainline Linux kernel. The AMD P-State driver has helped with ensuring modern Ryzen systems are delivering optimal performance and power efficiency. Recently AMD Linux engineers have been working on a few fixes and enhancements to this CPUFreq driver...
NetBSD 9.4 Released With Security & Stability Fixes
NetBSD 10.0 debuted last month with a long list of improvements and other enhancements that built up over the past several years. For those not yet taking the leap to this big NetBSD update, NetBSD 9.4 is out today for those relying on the stable NetBSD 9 series...