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Armbian 23.11 Promotes Some Arm Boards, Adds Ubuntu 23.10 & Debian Trixie Daily Builds
Armbian 23.11 was released this week as the decade-old Linux distribution project focused on providing good Arm single board computer support...
Server Upgrades In Progress
It's the season for hardware and software upgrades as Phoronix.com rolls out to new infrastructure. Pardon any downtime or interruptions over the next few hours...
GDB 14.1 Adds Support For DAP - Debugger Adapter Protocol
GDB 14.1 has been released today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger for source-level debugging of C/C++, Rust, Fortran, Go, Ada, and other languages...
Linux 6.7-rc4 Released As The Holidays Approach
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.7-rc4 kernel around twelve hours early today due to his end-of-year travels...
AMD Graphics Driver Changes Being Queuing For Linux 6.8
AMD has begun submitting "new stuff" to DRM-Next for preparations ahead of the Linux 6.8 kernel cycle in the new year...
ASRock X570D4U BMC Working Toward OpenBMC Support
For those that happen to own an ASRock Rack X570D4U micro-ATX motherboard or are in the market for a server-grade AMD Ryzen 5000 series motherboard, patches are pending as this motherboard works on OpenBMC support as an alternative to the proprietary BMC software stack that ships with this AMD Ryzen 5000 series + ECC DDR4 supported motherboard...
Linux 6.8 To Add Atomic Mode-Setting Mouse Hotspots, Atomic Async Page Flip
The drm-misc-next changes sent out this week to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.8 kernel cycle include a few interesting additions worth mentioning for Linux desktop users...
Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO Coolers Linux Driver Being Developed
Joining the likes of the Aquacomputer and NZXT water/liquid cooling hardware monitoring/control "HWMON" kernel drivers, an Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO Coolers Linux driver is being developed...
Mesa 24.0 PVR Vulkan Driver Adds Support For New PowerVR Kernel Driver
The PVR Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa for modern PowerVR graphics hardware has now landed support for using the upcoming PowerVR DRM kernel driver that is being upstreamed in Linux 6.8...
Bcachefs Lands Another Round Of Fixes For Linux 6.7
On Friday another round of fixes were merged for the Bcachefs file-system for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel...
Vulkan 1.3.272 Published With Two New Extensions
Vulkan 1.3.272 was published on Friday as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API...
Cloudflare Teases Next-Gen Server Design, Benefits Going From 1U To 2U Servers
Two years ago Cloudflare rolled out their "Gen 11" server fleet built around AMD EPYC Milan processors and on Friday the company began talking about their forthcoming "Gen 12" server designs that will soon be rolling out across their data centers for powering this widely-used web infrastructure...
KDE Lands NVIDIA Hardware Cursor Support & Other Last Minute Plasma 6.0 Features
With this week's release of the Plasma 6.0 beta and beta milestones for KDE Frameworks 6 and the latest Gear apps, KDE has now entered the bug-fixing phase ahead of the stable releases coming up in February. But prior to that bug-fixing shift, a few more features were merged...
Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November
Steam on Linux enjoyed a various nice boost in popularity during the course of November at least as it concerns Valve's Steam Survey...
Using Miriway For Empowering Xfce / MATE / LXQt & Other Desktops With Wayland
Miriway is an effort for bringing Wayland to desktops not currently having native Wayland support and is made possible via the Canonical-developed Mir. Miriway has been a side-project of Alan Griffiths as the lead Mir developer and today he published a blog post with more details for users interested in making use of it...
SNC/NPS Tuning For Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series To Further Boost Performance
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series offer great performance out-of-the-box for Linux desktop/workstation users as shown in my Ryzen Threadripper 7970X and 7980X benchmarks along with the Threadripper PRO 7995WX. While a more common tunable on the EPYC side, the Threadripper 7000 series can also benefit from Nodes Per Socket (NPS) / Sub-NUMA Clustering (SNC) tuning for enhancing the performance of some workloads. In this article is a look at dozens of benchmarks while looking at the performance impact of SNC2/SNC4 adjustments for the Zen 4 Threadripper.
Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights
November was very busy on Phoronix with all of the benchmarking around the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series, the much anticipated Framework 13 laptop review, a lot of Wayland accomplishments being made this week, excitement building around the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release, and the Linux 6.7 kernel getting underway with new features like the Bcachefs file-system...
Servo Browser Engine Continues On Its Path To Be Embed-Friendly
Following good progress in October and this former-Mozilla browser engine project receiving funding recently for "table" support, Servo developers continued implementing more functionality over the course of November...
OpenZFS 2.2.2 & OpenZFS 2.1.14 Released To Fix Data Corruption Issue
Following a rare but nasty data corruption issue, OpenZFS 2.2.2 and OpenZFS 2.1.14 were released this evening to address the problem...
AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of P-State Preferred Core Patches For Linux
For the past number of months AMD has been actively working on enabling AMD P-State Preferred Core functionality for Linux so that their modern processors can communicate "preferred" cores to the Linux kernel scheduler for making better decisions around task placement and ultimately ensuring best performance of Ryzen and EPYC processors running on Linux. This week they are up to their 11th take on these kernel patches...