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Intel CR 23.35.27191.9 Released As A Big Update To Their Open-Source GPU Compute Stack
Intel today published Compute-Runtime 23.35.27191.9 as their latest update to this open-source GPU compute stack enabling OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support on Linux and Windows. With this being their first tagged release since September, it's coming in heavy on changes...
NVK Driver Nearing Vulkan 1.1 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 & Newer
It was just last week NVK developers were celebrating Vulkan 1.0 conformance while now this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa is preparing to expose Vulkan 1.1 support...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Dropping The X.Org Server Except For XWayland
Red Hat has formally confirmed what many were thinking: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 will be doing away with X.Org Server support aside from XWayland...
Mir 2.16 Released With Seamless Boot Integration, Improved X11 Client Support
Canonical this morning released Mir 2.16 as the latest version of this open-source software for helping to build out Wayland compositors...
PowerVR Binary Blob Added To Linux-Firmware.Git For New Graphics Driver
With the Imagination PowerVR open-source kernel graphics driver expected for Linux 6.8, the necessary firmware binary blob has now been accepted into linux-firmware.git...
Corsair MP700 PRO 2TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD
Corsair this month released the MP700 PRO NVMe SSD as the company's newest PCI Express Gen5 NVMe SSD. After the initial issues encountered with the Corsair MP700, I was eager to see how well this PCIe 5.0 solid-state drive would perform. Corsair rates their MP700 PRO SSD as capable of reaching up to 12,400 MB/s sequential reads and 11,800 MB/s sequential writes.
Wayland's Weston 13.0 Released With Multi-Backend Support & Overlapping Outputs
Weston 13.0 has been released as the latest major update to this reference Wayland compositor that attracts various experimental features and other innovations as developers experiment in the post-X11 world...
AMD Has A Nice Performance Optimization Coming With Linux 6.8
Queued up into tip/tip.git's x86/cpu branch ahead of the Linux 6.8 merge window opening in a month is an optimization that should prove helpful in cloud/VM scenarios...
Intel Appears On The Verge Of Some Exciting Performance Optimizations For Linux Distros
One thing that has never gotten old over the past nearly twenty years of covering Linux news on Phoronix are the relentless performance optimizations made to the Linux kernel, GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers, and other key open-source projects over the years. Intel engineers have been responsible for so many exciting Linux performance optimizations over time at ensuring maximum Linux x86_64 performance as well as ensuring great performance at a macro-level as they've showcased with the likes of Clear Linux. It looks like they have some new innovation(s) in store soon for further maximizing compiler-assisted performance...
OpenZFS Is Still Battling A Data Corruption Issue
Last week OpenZFS 2.2.1 was released with a reported fix for a data corruption issue that was initially blamed as being a block cloning bug for a new feature introduced in the v2.2 release. Well, it turns out that the block cloning feature isn't the root cause and that v2.2.1 is still prone to data corruption and pre-v2.2 releases are also vulnerable to this file-system data corruption issue...
FreeBSD 14.0 Is Delivering Great Performance Uplift & Running Well In Early Tests
Following last week's release of FreeBSD 14.0, I've begun testing out this major FreeBSD operating system update on a number of servers. What's clear so far is the performance being much improved with FreeBSD 14.0 on modern x86_64 Intel/AMD servers over FreeBSD 13.
Mesh/Task Shader Queries Land For RADV With RDNA2, RDNA3 Support On The Way
Thanks to prolific RADV driver developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team, mesh/task shader queries have landed for GFX10.3 (RDNA2) with the in-development Mesa 24.0 while support for GFX11 (RDNA3) graphics cards is on the way...
Qt 6.6.1 Fixes More Than 400 Bugs
Back in October Qt 6.6 released with Qt Graphs being introduced, more robust Wayland support, various render enhancements, and more. Out today is Qt 6.6.1 with more than four hundred bugs resolved...
FreeRDP 3.0 Adding Relative Mouse Movement & Other Improvements
FreeRDP 3.0-rc0 was released this morning as the latest stepping stone toward FreeRDP 3.0 for this open-source implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)...
AMDVLK 2023.Q4.2 Vulkan Driver Brings Ray-Tracing & SPIR-V Improvements
It's been just over one month since AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1 and this morning it's been succeeded by a new AMD open-source Vulkan Linux driver release...
Linux 6.7-rc3 Released Following A Light Holiday Week
Linus Torvalds released the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 6.7 kernel on Sunday night...
PCSX2 Emulator Disables Wayland Support By Default
While more applications continue enabling Wayland support and getting into a shape by default, the PCSX2 open-source PlayStation 2 emulator recently moved in the opposite direction: disabling Wayland support for their distributed builds...
Intel Begins Readying Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.8
Intel Linux kernel graphics driver developers this week sent out their first batch of drm-intel-next i915 DRM driver changes to DRM-Next of new material to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle...
Linux Kernel Developers Debate Priority-Based Shutdown Support
A Linux kernel mailing list discussion this holiday weekend that is seeing polarized views on the matter is around a new patch series proposed priority-based shutdown support for drivers/hardware...
Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation Code
While much of the modern graphics world these days is focused on the Vulkan API, there's no signs of Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers losing optimization focus with their OpenGL Linux driver by way of the Iris Gallium3D code. Merged this holiday week was a rather significant rework to its buffer object allocation system...