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AMD Announces Zen 4C Cores Coming To Ryzen Laptops
We've been impressed with AMD Zen 4C cores with their initial appearance in Bergamo with the flagship EPYC 9754 and then over the summer with Siena for the likes of the EPYC 8324P(N) plus the EPYC 8354P(N) review soon. Today AMD is confirming what many had anticipated: Zen 4C cores will be coming to new Ryzen laptop SoCs.
AMD-Pensando Elba SoC & A Massive RISC-V 64-Core Chip Supported In Linux 6.7
There is some interesting new Arm and RISC-V SoC support to be found in the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel...
Intel Itanium IA-64 Support Removed With The Linux 6.7 Kernel
Overnight the mainline Linux kernel has retired support for Intel Itanium (IA-64) processors...
XWayland Now Allows For Better Choosing Between OpenGL & OpenGL ES
XWayland has added a new "-glamor" command-line argument to allow specifically choosing between OpenGL or OpenGL ES use for acceleration...
More Intel TDX Improvements Come With Linux 6.7
More Linux kernel code around Intel's Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) has landed with the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel...
Steam Linux Usage Dropped Lower In October But With More Questionable Data
Valve just published their October 2023 stats for the monthly Steam Survey and they point to a nearly quarter point drop in the Linux usage after previously hitting its own highs...
OpenRazer 3.7 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux
OpenRazer as the community-driven, open-source project providing driver support for Razer peripherals on Linux is out with a new feature release...
Sysctl With Linux 6.7 Continues Work To Remove Kernel Bloat
Since Linux 6.6 we've been seeing work upstreamed for sysctl working to remove its sentinel, the final empty element on each sysctl array. This will cut-down on around 64 bytes of bloat per array, help with kernel build times, and an all-around improvement. With Linux 6.7 more of the sysctl changes are ready and hopefully for the v6.8 kernel cycle next year the effort will be completed...
Mesa 23.3-rc2 Released With Fixes For Zink, Rusticl, RADV & Other Drivers
Eric Engestrom has put out another on-time Mesa release candidate for what's culminating with the Mesa 23.3 release in the coming weeks...
Mozilla Eyes Removal Of Theora Support In Firefox
Following Google's plans for removing Theora codec format support from the Chrome/Chromium browser, Mozilla is also eyeing a similar move for retiring Theora from Firefox...
JFS File-System Seeing Minor Stability Improvements With Linux 6.7
Bcachefs was merged for Linux 6.7 and Btrfs is seeing some shiny new features with this next kernel version. But Linux 6.7 isn't just about leading-edge file-system fun: the three decade old IBM Journaled File-System (JFS) is even seeing some minor changes...
Fwupd 1.9.7 Adds Support For More Logitech, Synaptics & Western Digital Hardware
Richard Hughes of Red Hat has released Fwupd 1.9.7 as the newest version of this open-source software for applying firmware updates on Linux for system firmware to various peripherals and other components...
Linux 6.7 MMC To See Up To 4~5% Better 4K Random Write Performance
The MMC memory card updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel have been submitted for Linux 6.7 that includes new hardware support as well as a core MMC optimization to enhance the performance in some scenarios...
KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games
Xaver Hugl who has been leading much of the KDE KWin feature development in recent years has opened up a preliminary merge request for allowing high dynamic range (HDR) enabled games to work on KDE...
Wayland Progress, Ryzen AI & Linux Benchmarks That Made For An Exciting October
Here is a look back at the most popular open-source and Linux news and featured articles/reviews for the month prior...
Intel Arc Graphics Conceals Itself To Get Diablo IV Running On Linux
Intel Arc Graphics on Linux can handle running the Diablo IV game via Valve's Steam Play but only when it hides the fact that it's Intel graphics in use via a game-specific driver workaround...
Linux 6.7 Adds Support For Intel Meteor Lake Workload Type Hints
All of the power management related updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel...
Intel Core i5 14600K & Intel Core i9 14900K Linux Benchmarks
Earlier this month Intel introduced the 14th Gen Core "Raptor Lake Refresh" processors led by the flagship Core i9 14900K. Unfortunately my review samples had arrived late but in any event today are the first Linux benchmarks of the new Core i5 14600K and Core i9 14900K processors compared to prior 13th Gen Core processors as well as the AMD Ryzen 7000 series competition. All of these Intel and AMD processors were freshly re-tested on the newly-launched Ubuntu 23.10 with the Linux 6.5 kernel.
Intel's x86-simd-sort 4.0 Delivers A 2x Boost For AVX-512 Performance, Adds AVX2 Code
Earlier this year Intel published x86-simd-sort as a very speedy sorting library that initially leveraged AVX-512 instructions for 10x to 17x faster sorts. Numpy was one of the first major projects to adopt x86-simd-sort and OpenJDK more recently adopted it. Since the initial release we've seen more features and performance optimizations added. Today marks the release of x86-simd-sort 4.0 and it's delivering even greater performance while also adding an AVX2 code path to help those without AVX-512...
Linux 6.7 GPU Drivers: Intel Meteor Lake Stable & AMD Works On Upcoming Hardware
Sent out this morning was the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) feature pull request of updated graphics/display drivers for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel. Notable this round is Intel Meteor Lake integrated graphics now being considered stable / enabled out-of-the-box, Intel Lunar Lake graphics support has started to get underway, and AMD continues working on their upcoming hardware platforms...