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Debian 13 "Trixie" Aiming To Ship With RISC-V 64-Bit Support

Sun, 06/11/2023 - 06:38
With today's release of Debian 12 the official ports are for AMD64, AArch64, ARMEL, ARMHF, i386, MIPS, 64-bit MIPS, POWER, and IBM System Z. There isn't RISC-V 64-bit as an official port but that is likely to change for Debian 13...

Debian 12.0 Released - Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Easier Non-Free Firmware Handling

Sat, 06/10/2023 - 20:00
Following more than one and a half years in development, Debian 12 is officially shipping today as the latest major release for this long-maintained Linux distribution...

NVIDIA SHIELD Controller Driver Coming With Linux 6.5

Sat, 06/10/2023 - 18:18
Five years after NVIDIA launched their SHIELD "Thunderstrike" gaming controller, they've recently been working on upstreaming support for this controller -- and other possible NVIDIA Shield peripherals -- via a new Linux kernel driver. This new driver is now set to be merged for Linux 6.5...

KDE Plasma 6 X11 Session "Barely Buggier" Than Plasma 5 On X11

Sat, 06/10/2023 - 18:07
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his latest weekly development summary to highlight all of the work on Plasma 5 fixes and then the ongoing feature work in the march toward Plasma 6.0...

Wine 8.10 Released With Mouse Cursor Clipping Improvements

Sat, 06/10/2023 - 07:00
Wine 8.10 is out this weekend as the newest version of this open-source software allowing Windows applications and games to run gracefully on Linux, Chrome OS, macOS, and other platforms...

Linux 6.5 To Add HuC Loading Support For Intel Meteor Lake

Sat, 06/10/2023 - 03:24
In addition to the drm-intel-next pull earlier this week that brought more Meteor Lake graphics on Linux and VRR eDP support among other changes set for Linux 6.5, on Thursday a new batch of drm-intel-gt-next code was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of this next kernel cycle...

Intel Updates Cluster Scheduling Linux Patches For Hybrid CPUs

Sat, 06/10/2023 - 00:36
Intel engineers have been working on new cluster scheduling code for the Linux kernel to better help with process scheduling for their modern hybrid processors. An updated version of these patches have now been posted for attempting to help with the Linux performance of Alder Lake CPUs and newer...

Google's Patches To Speed-Up Over-Committed Linux Guest VMs Are Looking Great

Fri, 06/09/2023 - 23:25
Google engineers have been working on Linux patches to improve the guest VM performance when the host encounters memory pressure or have over-committed too many guests. Similar patches already are used on Chrome OS and Google has been working to upstream the functionality under the mainline Linux kernel and have now provided some reference benchmark results...

Radeon R600g Driver Adds Experimental Support For Rusticl

Fri, 06/09/2023 - 20:52
While there is already RadeonSI driver support for the Rust OpenCL "Rusticl" implementation in Mesa since v23.1, merged now for Mesa 23.2 is experimental support for Rusticl with the older Radeon R600g for pre-GCN graphics cards...

Qt Creator 11 Beta Brings Integrated Terminal, GitHub Copilot

Fri, 06/09/2023 - 18:30
For developers fond of the Qt/C++ focused Qt Creator integrated development environment, today the Qt Group has published the first beta of this next IDE feature release...

NVIDIA 545 Linux Driver To Support Vulkan Apps With PRIME On Wayland

Fri, 06/09/2023 - 18:12
It's still some ways away with the NVIDIA 535 driver series currently in beta but with the NVIDIA 545 Linux driver series to succeed that there will finally be support for Vulkan games/apps running via PRIME for GPU offloading under Wayland...

Last Call For The Phoronix 19th Birthday Premium Sale

Fri, 06/09/2023 - 18:00
This is just a friendly reminder that if you wanted to participate in this week's Phoronix Premium special with Phoronix.com having turned 19 this week, that special sale ends this weekend...

Cisco Posts Rust-Written PuzzleFS File-System Driver For Linux

Fri, 06/09/2023 - 17:50
PuzzleFS is a next-generation container file-system for Linux with fast image building, direct-mount support, and other container-optimized features being worked on by Cisco engineers. And it's written in Rust...

JDK 21 Forked From Mainline For What Will Be The Next Java LTS Release

Fri, 06/09/2023 - 04:25
Today marks the ramp-down phase one point for JDK 21 where the OpenJDK code is forked from mainline for this de facto Java 21 implementation. Making OpenJDK 21 all the more exciting is this is going to be one of Oracle's bi-annual Long-Term Support (LTS) releases...

Intel Xeon Ice Lake vs. AMD EPYC Milan Server Performance, Efficiency & Value In 2023

Fri, 06/09/2023 - 01:30
While AMD 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" and Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors launched a few months ago, for those not yet able to obtain the new processors/platforms, prefer waiting for DDR5 memory prices to recede further, don't necessarily need the latest bells and whistles found with these new server processors, or just looking to maximize value, 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Milan and Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors are readily available and still seeing plenty of new deployments in data centers throughout the world. In this article is a fresh look at the AMD Milan vs. Intel Ice Lake server performance, power efficiency, and performance-per-dollar across a range of processors.

Mesa 23.1.2 Released With Intel Fix For VKD3D-Proton, More RADV Fixes

Thu, 06/08/2023 - 23:14
Eric Engestrom has delivered another on-time release of a Mesa stable point release. Out today is Mesa 23.1.2 for delivering the latest stable bug fixes for this collection of open-source graphics driver components commonly used on Linux systems...

Intel's Habana Gaudi 2 Accelerator Linux Driver In Good Shape

Thu, 06/08/2023 - 22:25
Since June of last year shortly after Intel announced the Gaudi 2 AI accelerator they began posting the open-source driver patches for Gaudi 2 with the mainline Habana Labs driver. That support landed in Linux 6.0 and since then they've continued refining that support for this new processor support for deep learning training and inference workloads...

Godot 4.1 Beta 1 Released With Multi-Threading Improvements

Thu, 06/08/2023 - 19:53
Building off the huge Godot 4.0 release from March, the first beta of the Godot 4.1 game engine is now available for testing as another step forward for this open-source, cross-platform game engine...

FFmpeg Adds Support For Animated JPEG-XL

Thu, 06/08/2023 - 18:37
In addition to Apple revealing this week support is coming for the JPEG-XL image format in their Safari web browser, another step forward for this royalty-free image codec is FFmpeg now able to decode animated JPEG-XL files...

25 More Patches Further Improve RADV's Ray-Tracing For Complex Games

Thu, 06/08/2023 - 18:16
Overnight another 25 patches were merged to Mesa 23.2 for improving RADV's ray-tracing code after the merge request had been in the works for the past two months...

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