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Linux 6.7 Continues Work On printk Threaded Printing

Fri, 11/03/2023 - 03:21

One of the last major blockers before the remaining real-time "PREEMPT_RT" patches can be upstreamed is sorting out threaded / atomic console printing. With the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel, there's been more work upstreamed in that endeavor...

AMDVLK Dropped Vega While Mesa's RADV Is Continuing To Make Vega Faster In 2023

Fri, 11/03/2023 - 01:16

Last week with the AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1 driver, AMD removed support for Polaris and Vega GPUs from this official open-source Vulkan driver. But as mentioned this doesn't impact the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver maintained by Valve, Red Hat, and other open-source developers. In fact, this week another optimization for Vega/GFX9 was merged for Mesa 24.0-devel...

KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session

Fri, 11/03/2023 - 00:19

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has signed off on shipping KDE Plasma 6.0 as the KDE desktop option for Fedora 40. Additionally, as part of this change, the plan is to drop the KDE X11 session to leave only the KDE Plasma Wayland session available...

OpenELA Publishes Initial Source Code For Building RHEL Derivatives

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 22:32

Following Red Hat's decision to limit access to the RHEL source code to their customers, various RHEL-based Linux distributions were caught in a tailspin. CIQ (Rocky Linux), SUSE, and Oracle decided to form the Open Enterprise Linux association (OpenELA) to collaborate around the development of distributions with compatibility against Red Hat Enterprise Linux and ensuring open and free access to EL source code. Today they are announcing initial source available for their EL8 and EL9 packages...

Google Rewriting Android's Binder In Rust With Promising Results

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 22:20

Google engineers on Wednesday posted an initial "request for comments" set of patches that re-implement Android's Binder code within the Linux kernel in the Rust programming language rather than C...

AMD Announces Zen 4C Cores Coming To Ryzen Laptops

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 21:00

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

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 20:41

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

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 18:51

Overnight the mainline Linux kernel has retired support for Intel Itanium (IA-64) processors...

XWayland Now Allows For Better Choosing Between OpenGL & OpenGL ES

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 18:44

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

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 18:30

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

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 08:15

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

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 04:42

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

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 04:20

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

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 02:03

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

Wed, 11/01/2023 - 23:36

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

Wed, 11/01/2023 - 23:04

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...