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AMD's Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be busy working on enabling next-generation graphics processors with their upstream open-source driver...

With Ubuntu 23.10 due for release on Thursday, I've been benchmarking a number of systems to look at the Ubuntu 23.10 performance against prior releases like Ubuntu 23.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Besides the open-source graphics driver performance for Intel and AMD Radeon graphics always being a stand-out improvement, one area that is particularly exciting with Ubuntu 23.10 is for those with newer AMD processors where there are some nice performance gains to find with this new Ubuntu Linux release. Here are side-by-side benchmarks of an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktop along with an Intel Core i9 13900K desktop while testing Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS / Ubuntu 23.04 / Ubuntu 23.10.

The widely-used Curl project as a command-line tool and library for transferring data via a variety of protocols is preparing to roll-out Curl 8.4 early in order to address a particularly nasty vulnerability...

A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment...

In addition to Intel's compiler engineers pushing a lot of code into GCC -- and other open-source compiler components -- around AVX10, over the weekend code began hitting the GCC 14 Git codebase for the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) functionality...

Hangover 8.17 was released this weekend as the newest feature release for this open-source Wine-based software that aims to make it easy to run Windows x86/x64 binaries on 64-bit Arm Linux systems as well as potentially other architectures too like RISC-V and POWER...

Libva 2.20 was released today as the newest update to this common Video Acceleration API (VA-API) library that sits in front of the various hardware-specific VA-API driver implementations...

As we approach the Linux 6.6 stable release in a few weeks, Linus Torvalds today released Linux 6.6-rc5 with everything looking "normal" for this week's test release...

At the end of September PreSonus Audio Electronics announced Studio One 6.5 as the latest version of their premium Studio One music production software / digital audio workstation (DAW). While for years Linux has had options like Ardour, Stargate, REAPER and Zrythm, for the first time the commercial Studio One has seen native Linux support...

Back in August Linux Containers forked the LXD project as Incus following Canonical's decision to take in control of LXD. Released this weekend was the first formal release for the Incus software...

The upcoming Linux 6.7 merge window is set to include a new AMD driver for supporting error detection and correct (EDAC) for their Versal SoCs...

Polychromatic continues evolving as the open-source management software for Razer peripherals on Linux that makes use of the independently-developed OpenRazer kernel drivers for improving the customization experience around Razer mice, keyboards, and other devices on Linux...

Following the release of Debian 12.1 in July, Debian 12.2 was released this weekend to incorporate all of the latest security fixes and other stable back-ports for Debian 12 Bookworm...

The OpenZFS 2.2 release candidates are dragging on with the fifth test release having debuted on Saturday to provide some additional fixes and support for the Linux 6.5 stable kernel...

In addition to x86-simd-sort 3.0 being released for speedy AVX-512 sorting, Friday also brought the release of oneDNN 3.3 as the deep neural network library that is part of oneAPI and focused on helping developers build out deep learning applications...

Google engineers on Friday promoted Chrome 119 to its beta stage with some interesting features in tow...

Dav1d 1.3 was released on Friday as the newest feature update to this widely-used, open-source AV1 video decoder...

October is off to a great start as February inches closer for what's expected to bring the much anticipated Plasma 6.0 desktop release...

Earlier this year Intel posted x86-simd-sort as a blazing fast sorting library that makes use of AVX-512. When the popular Numpy began using it they found up to 10~17x faster sorts for 16-bit to 64-bit data types. Today Intel software engineers released x86-simd-sort 3.0 and it also comes minutes after OpenJDK merged a modified version of this speeding sorting code into that reference JDK codebase...

Vulkan 1.3.267 was published this morning with two new extensions...