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Microsoft .NET Runtime Lands Initial Code For RISC-V Support

Wed, 02/22/2023 - 22:30
A Phoronix reader pointed out that there are initial code that landed for adding RISC-V processor support to Microsoft's .NET runtime...

HID-BPF Ready For Linux 6.3 Along With Steam Deck Controller Interface

Wed, 02/22/2023 - 20:30
The HID subsystem updates for Linux 6.3 have been submitted and they contain a number of exciting input updates for this spring 2023 kernel version from the introduction of HID-BPF to native Steam Deck controller interface handling...

Ubuntu Flavors/Spins Will No Longer Be Able To Install Flatpak By Default

Wed, 02/22/2023 - 19:25
While Ubuntu Linux hasn't provided Flatpak support out-of-the-box due to their preference of using their own Snap app packaging/distribution format, Ubuntu flavors/spins have to this point been able to pre-install Flatpak support if they desired. However, for the 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" cycle and moving forward, Ubuntu flavors will no longer be permitted to install Flatpak packages by default...

ARK Logic X.Org Driver Sees 2023 Update For 90's PCI Video Card

Wed, 02/22/2023 - 18:56
A week after seeing X.Org display driver updates for old Trident and S3 Graphics hardware, a new release of xf86-video-ark is now available that provides the open-source UMS display driver support for old ARK Logic hardware. ARK Logic only lasted through the 1990's as a purveyor of PCI video cards...

Linux 6.3 Adds ath12k Driver For Qualcomm WiFi 7 Hardware Support

Wed, 02/22/2023 - 18:41
As part of the Linux networking updates for the Linux 6.3 cycle in addition to the BIG TCP support for IPv4 that can yield higher throughput and lower latency, another networking change worth pointing out is the introduction of the "ath12k" driver for Qualcomm WiFi 7 hardware support...

Linux 6.3 Introduces IPv4 "BIG TCP" To Improve High Speed Network Performance

Wed, 02/22/2023 - 09:30
The networking subsystem feature updates for the Linux 6.3 kernel were submitted today that feature not only some prominent networking driver enhancements and new wired/wireless hardware support but also core networking improvements like BIG TCP for IPv4...

GNOME's Mutter Drops Legacy OpenGL Driver Support

Wed, 02/22/2023 - 06:00
The Clutter OpenGL "Cogl" code within the GNOME Mutter compositor has removed legacy OpenGL driver support ahead of next month's GNOME 44 release...

Linus Torvalds' Advice On Git Merges: "If you cannot explain a merge, then JUST DON'T DO IT"

Wed, 02/22/2023 - 04:00
The Linux 6.3 merge window has been off to a good start with Linus Torvalds receiving plenty of pull requests in advance, the other early pulls all coming in quite orderly, and no colorful commentary on any of the material set for Linux 6.3 even with the likes of Microsoft Pluton (TPM2 CRB). But today Torvalds' did feel the need to share some wisdom around Git merge log message advice...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090/4090 Linux Compute CUDA & OpenCL Benchmarks, Blender Performance

Wed, 02/22/2023 - 02:00
Last week I published a number of Linux gaming benchmarks for the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 high-end graphics cards now that they finally arrived for my Linux testing on Phoronix. For those more interested in creator workloads and GPU OpenCL and CUDA compute performance for these high-end consumer Ada Lovelace graphics cards, this article is for you with an initial look at the compute performance across a wide range of workloads from Blender OptiX and CUDA rendering to common OpenCL GPU benchmarks.

Godot 4.0 RC3 Released With Godot 4.0 Game Engine Release Imminent

Wed, 02/22/2023 - 01:30
The much anticipated Godot 4.0 open-source, cross-platform game engine release is imminent. Out today is Godot 4.0 RC3 which could end up being the final test release before this big game engine release...

Linux 6.3 printk Changes Prepare For Threaded/Atomic Consoles

Wed, 02/22/2023 - 00:00
Sent out today for the Linux 6.3 kernel merge window are the updates to the printk code. Notable this time around are preparations to printk in working toward threaded/atomic consoles support. That threaded/atomic consoles support is all the more important as it's the last piece of the puzzle before the remainder of the real-time (PREEMPT_RT) patches can be upstreamed into the Linux kernel...

More Than 100 Rust Patches Merged Today For GCC 13

Tue, 02/21/2023 - 21:30
Merged back in December was the initial GCC Rust front-end "gccrs" for the GCC 13 compiler that will be released as stable within the next month or two. Squeezing today into the GCC 13 code-base is an additional 103 patches for this Rust front-end...

openSUSE Leap 15.5 Beta Released For Testing

Tue, 02/21/2023 - 20:19
The openSUSE Leap 15.5 Beta builds have begun for helping to test out this Linux distribution update that is planned to be the last of the Leap 15 series...

Microsoft Pluton TPM CRB Functionality Merged Into Linux 6.3

Tue, 02/21/2023 - 19:51
Linus Torvalds merged to Linux 6.3 Git the TPM CRB support for Microsoft's controversial Pluton security co-processor that is initially found in the latest AMD Ryzen processors...

AMD Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation Enforcement Ready For Linux 6.3

Tue, 02/21/2023 - 19:30
AMD Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation Enforcement as a new feature found with AMD EPYC 9004 series processors will be supported by the in-development Linux 6.3 kernel...

Linux 6.3 MM Changes Bring New MEMFD & MGLRU Enhancements

Tue, 02/21/2023 - 19:00
Andrew Morton on Monday submitted his memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 6.3 merge window...

Canonical & Elektrobit Announces Ubuntu-Derived EB Corbos Linux

Tue, 02/21/2023 - 18:31
Canonical and Elektrobit have jointly announced EB Corbos Linux, a new platform built on Ubuntu that is intended to be used as an automotive software platform...

Btrfs Enjoys More Performance With Linux 6.3 - Including Some 3~10x Speedups

Tue, 02/21/2023 - 06:00
The big batch of Btrfs file-system driver updates for the Linux 6.3 kernel were submitted today by SUSE's David Sterba. As with many kernel cycles, this Btrfs pull includes more performance optimizations as well as new features...

Ubuntu's New Desktop Installer Working On Auto-Install, Active Directory Integration

Tue, 02/21/2023 - 04:00
While the new Ubuntu 23.04 desktop installer is shaping up nicely, Canonical engineers continue to be busy working on additional features and ironing out functionality found within the existing Ubiquity installer but not yet their new Flutter-based graphical installer...

Microsoft Hyper-V Nested Hypervisor Support Comes For Linux 6.3

Tue, 02/21/2023 - 03:00
Several months back I wrote about Microsoft working on nested hypervisor support for Hyper-V with the Linux kernel. That work is now ready to go for the in-development Linux 6.3 cycle...

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