Open-source News

Linux 6.13-rc3 Released With KVM Caching For "Wildly Expensive" Intel CPUID Handling  Phoronix

Xfce 4.20 Linux desktop environment gets lit with experimental Wayland support and new features  BetaNews

How to Mix And Match Windows and Linux With WSL  How-To Geek

Elementary OS: A Linux Distro Easy To Use and Easy on the Eyes  The New Stack

Last month I looked at the impact of AMD's BIOS tuning guide on AI / machine learning workloads for new 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors. In today's article I am looking at the performance and power efficiency impact of AMD EPYC 9005 series processors with AMD's BIOS tuning recommendations for Java workloads on Linux.

Java Throughput/Latency & Power Efficiency Tuning For AMD EPYC Turin Review  Phoronix

Linux Fixing A "Hilarious/Revolting Performance Regression" Around Intel KVM Virtualization  Phoronix

It's not too often that "fixes" to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) are noteworthy but today is an interesting exception with among the KVM fixes sent in today ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc3 tagging is for beginning to deal with a "hilarious/revolting" performance regression affecting recent generations of Intel processors. This performance regression won't be fully worked around until Linux 6.14 but at least there is an interim step in place once the code is merged later today...

The upcoming Lenovo Legion Go S may come with a SteamOS Linux version  GamingOnLinux

Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Released with Experimental Wayland Support  9to5Linux

Xfce vs. LXQt: Lightweight Linux Environments Compared  How-To Geek

After roughly two years of development the Xfce 4.20 lightweight desktop has been released ahead of the year end holidays...

Btrfs Working On RAID1 Round-Robin Read Balancing  Phoronix

It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on the Btrfs file-system's built-in RAID functionality but that is changing with RAID1 round-robin read balancing...

In addition to Linux 6.14 set to add sensor monitoring support for the ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS, another lower-cost AMD AM5 motherboard is also set to see sensor monitoring support with this next version of the Linux kernel...

Running Fusion 360 On Linux With Wine  Hackaday

Gear Lever: An Open Source Tool To Manage AppImage Apps on Linux  It's FOSS News

Linux 6.6.66 was released today alongside other updated Long Term Support (LTS) kernel versions...

Some Qualcomm processors/SoCs on the mainline Linux kernel are left vulnerable to Spectre security issues since Qualcomm hasn't upstreamed patches for properly treating affected CPU cores to their relevant mitigations. But a new patch series from a Google engineer is working to get those Qualcomm CPU security mitigations in order...

As covered last month on Phoronix, Intel has been experimenting with Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) for the Intel P-State driver with a goal of enhancing the power efficiency of Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" processors. Recently a second iteration of that work was posted for review ahead of possible inclusion in a future version of the Linux kernel...