Earlier this month at AMD’s AI event in San Francisco they announced ROCm 6.0 while launching the MI300X and MI300A accelerators. While announced back on the 6th, today marks the actual availability of ROCm 6.0 with the source code and binaries now publicly available…

Source: Phoronix – AMD ROCm 6.0 Now Available To Download With MI300 Support, PyTorch FP8 & More AI

A few months back GNOME developer Christian Hergert noted that Linux terminal emulators could be much faster following his experiments but then concluded at the time he didn’t want to develop a new terminal becase “creating your own terminal is like 20 lines of code these days.” Well, he ended up shifting stance a bit and has now announced Prompt, a new container-focused terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME Gets A New Terminal Choice: Prompt

With Intel’s just-launched 5th Gen Xeon “Emerald Rapids” processors headlined by the 64-core Xeon Platinum 8592+, one of the key upgrades with these new server processors is now supporting DDR5-5600 memory compared to DDR5-4800 with Sapphire Rapids and also the memory frequency limit with AMD’s EPYC Zen 4 processors. Here are some benchmarks of the flagship Xeon Platinum 8592+ when being tested with DDR5-4800 versus DDR5-5600 memory modules.

Source: Phoronix – Intel 5th Gen Xeon Performance Benchmarks With DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-5600

While the holidays are quickly approaching, the System76 developers working on their Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution and new Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment haven’t been losing focus. December has been another busy month so far as they continue crafting this new modern desktop environment…

Source: Phoronix – Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop Improving Multi-Monitor & Multi-Window Support

A quirk has been discovered with the AMD-powered Framework 13 inch laptop where if a user closes the laptop’s lid on an already-suspended system, the system will wake up. A set of Linux kernel patches are on the way to workaround this issue…

Source: Phoronix – Framework 13 AMD Workaround Prepared For Linux To Deal With A Suspend Issue

Intel’s VC Intrinsics software package that provides a set of intrinsics atop the LLVM IR instructions to represent SIMD semantics for programs targeting Intel GPUs has been updated for new hardware support…

Source: Phoronix – Intel VC-Intrinsics Updated With Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake & XeHPCVG Support

Tim Holmes-Mitra with Canonical has shared some roadmap highlights for the Ubuntu desktop with the in-development Ubuntu 24.04 LTS…

Source: Phoronix – Canonical Details Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop Plans + Ongoing X11 Sunsetting Discussions

While some at Intel were busy launching the 5th Gen Xeon Scalable “Emerald Rapids”, other Linux engineers at the company were pushing ahead on their new hardware enablement quest for future platforms. Sent out on the same day as Emerald Rapids being announced were continued patches for enabling Grand Ridge…

Source: Phoronix – The Intel_Idle Linux Driver Prepares For Grand Ridge SoCs

In addition to Fedora 40 applying systemd hardening settings to bolster system security, another security enhancement now approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is on having the linker error out on encountering possible security issues…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora 40’s Linker Will Now Error Out On Security Issues

It’s been two weeks since Mesa 23.3 was punctually released and this week has been succeeded by the Mesa 23.3.1 point release with the first batch of bug/regression fixes…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3.1 Rolls Out Fixes From D3D12 To RADV

Fedora 40 is planning to provide more hardened system security by leveraging some high level security features provided by systemd…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora 40 To Apply Systemd Security Hardening

Back in September AMD released FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) and at the time they noted the open-source code would be made available “soon”. As a nice Christmas present, the FSR3 source code is public as of today…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Publishes FSR 3 Source Code

Following the 5th Gen Xeon Scalable “Emerald Rapids” overview, you are likely wondering about the performance claims made by Intel and how they shake up in independent testing as well as how Emerald Rapids competes against AMD EPYC Genoa(X) and Bergamo. If so this article is for you with the Phoronix benchmarks of the new flagship Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ 64-core processors being tested in both single and dual socket modes.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ “Emerald Rapids” Linux Benchmarks

In addition to announcing the Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” processors, Intel’s AI Everywhere event in New York City also served as the launch point for 5th Gen Xeon Scalable “Emerald Rapids” server processors. Emerald Rapids is an incremental improvement over Sapphire Rapids with emboldened AI capabilities, energy efficiency improvements, and now up to 64 cores per socket.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Launches 5th Gen Xeon Scalable “Emerald Rapids” Server Processors

While Intel’s AI Everywhere event today was primarily focused on Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” laptop processors and 5th Gen Xeon Scalable “Emerald Rapids” processors, Intel also briefly announced their newest Xeon D and Xeon E series processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Announces Xeon E-2400 & Xeon D-1800/D-2800 CPUs

At Intel’s AI Everywhere event they officially launched their new Core Ultra branded Meteor Lake processors that will begin appearing in new laptops. Intel Core Ultra aims to deliver their most power efficient client processors, deliver around twice the GPU performance of existing integrated graphics, and via the NPU feature more robust AI capabilities.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Launches Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” Mobile Processors

There’s been nothing new on the BUS1 front this year for capability-based IPC within the Linux kernel… In fact, the BUS1 out-of-tree kernel module has gone untouched for years now. But out of the BUS1 project has been Dbus-Broker for a high performance D-Bus message broker in user-space that doesn’t break existing D-Bus compatibility. Out today is the newest version of that project closely tied to systemd developers…

Source: Phoronix – Dbus-Broker 34 Released For High Performance D-Bus Message Broker

The unofficial “ALHP” repositories for Arch Linux have begun offering an x86-64-v4 tuned repository for packages built against this current highest x86-64 micro-architecture feature level for the latest Intel and AMD processors with AVX-512 support…

Source: Phoronix – Arch Linux ALHP Adds x86-64-v4 Repository For Packages Built With AVX-512

While there has been much talk this year about KDE Plasma 6.0 on the desktop as it gears up for release at the end of February, there’s been less talk about the Plasma Mobile work for having the KDE stack on smartphones. But it turns out some progress is quietly being made on KDE Plasma Mobile for bringing it aligned with the “6” platform…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway

For those that were interested in the openSUSE logo contest, the voting wrapped up on Tuesday and the results of this logo contest for new openSUSE branding have been selected…

Source: Phoronix – openSUSE Logo Contest Concludes With Winners Selected