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Patches Updated To Tackle vmap/vmalloc Lock Contention That Can Yield ~12x Throughput
An important Linux kernel patch series has been updated for the new year that in synthetic tests has yielded a ~12x throughput improvement on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper system...
Vim 9.1 Released With Smooth Scrolling, Support For Vim9 Classes
Out today in kicking off the new year is a new release of Vim, the powerful screen-based text editor...
Linux Patch Allows For Better HP OMEN 17 Laptop Performance - But With Higher TDP
A patch for the HP-WMI Linux kernel driver sent out on New Year's Eve aims to allow for better HP OMEN 17 laptop Linux performance by altering the thermal profile behavior so that the OMEN "8BAD" laptop can run at a higher TDP than what's otherwise permitted by the system's embedded controller (EC) without throttling...
NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023
Following the 2023 highlights for Intel and AMD on Linux, here's a look back at the most popular Linux-related NVIDIA news for the past calendar year...
AMDVLK 2023.Q4.3 Released With Counter-Strike 2 Optimization, VKD3D Change
While we are now into 2024, AMDVLK 2023.Q4.3 was released today as a final EOY2023 update to this open-source AMD Vulkan driver that was supposed to be out last week but presumably got delayed due to the holidays...
Linux 6.8 To Support Next-Gen Intel Accelerators (QAT 420xx): More Engines, More Algos
Queued in the kernel's crypto subsystem development tree ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.8 merge window is introducing support for next-gen Intel QAT accelerators. The Intel QAT 420xx devices will support more acceleration engines as well as additional algorithms for next-generation QuickAssist Technology...
systemd In 2023 Added Windows-Inspired "Blue Screen Of Death" & macOS-Inspired T.D.M.
As part of our various year-end articles, here is a look back at the most popular systemd stories on Phoronix for the past year...
Mesa 24.0 Receives Further TGSI-To-NIR Conversion Work For AMD RadeonSI
The third merge request in the series addressing ongoing TGSI to NIR intermediate representation conversions has landed in Mesa 24.0-devel for the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
Bcachefs Prepares Last Minute Fixes For Linux 6.7
Ahead of Linux 6.7 releasing next weekend, there's another set of Bcachefs file-system driver fixes on their way to the mainline kernel...
Steam On Linux At Nearly 2% For Ending Out 2023
The Steam Survey results are out for December 2023 and the Linux gaming marketshare is at nearly 2%...
SDL Lands Rumble Support For Valve's Steam Deck
The SDL3 library commonly used by cross-platform games and heavily relied upon by Steam continues to be under heavy development at the start of 2024...
Intel's Open-Source Contributions & Upstream Performance Optimizations Top 2023
After looking earlier today at the most viewed AMD Linux/open-source stories of 2023, here's a look at the other side of the table with the most popular Intel content on Phoronix for the past year with my daily open-source and Linux focused coverage...
Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023
The Wayland ecosystem had a phenomenal year from much better NVIDIA proprietary driver support, Firefox ending out the year shipping with Wayland support enabled by default, KDE Plasma 6.0 will default to Wayland following many improvements on the KDE side, the Wine Wayland driver upstreamed in its initial form, XWayland continuing to be enhanced, and a lot of other software from desktop environments to apps continuing to embrace Wayland...
AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023
As part of the various end-of-year Phoronix articles, here's a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news stories and reviews of 2023...
SPI-NOR Multi-Due Erase Support Ready For Linux 6.8
While the Linux 6.8 merge window isn't opening for another week, the Memory Technology Device (MTD) subsystem updates have already been mailed in to Linus Torvalds for this next merge window...
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 & Other Scarlett Audio Mixers To Be Supported By Linux 6.8
Picked up this week by the Linux sound subsystem's "next" development branch is a number of additions to the Scarlett USB audio mixer driver for supporting this audio hardware under Linux...
Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December
Over the course of 2023 on Phoronix were more than 2,780 original news articles and more than 180 Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles. In the month of December alone were 211 original news articles and 20 featured articles/reviews. Here's a look back at what excited our Linux/open-source crowd over the final month of 2023...
Linux 6.7-rc8 Released: A Light Holiday Release With A Couple Fixes
For this New Year's Eve the decision was made to release Linux 6.7-rc8 to allow for an extra week of testing -- and pushing back the Linux 6.8 merge window further past the holidays -- rather than releasing Linux 6.7 stable today. As such, Linux 6.7-rc8 is out for a final week of testing this new kernel...
OpenCV 4.9 Brings DNN Module Enhancements, Orbbec Gemini 2 Camera Support
OpenCV 4.9 released on Friday as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source computer vision (CV) library...
GNU Boot Drops Some Motherboards & CPU Code After Discovering Non-Free Bits
The GNU Boot project has been in the works as a Coreboot/Libreboot fork focused on "freedom respecting boot firmware" that is free from closed-source and proprietary components. But in working towards its inaugural v0.1 release, they discovered that they had inadvertently been shipping some non-free software around AMD CPU microcode updates and some motherboard ports with non-open-source code...