As part of AWS Nitro Enclaves, coming for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year is a Nitro Secure Module driver…

Source: Phoronix – AWS Nitro Secure Module Driver Going Upstream For Linux 6.8

A number of Phoronix readers have been inquiring whether using the newer Linux 6.6 stable kernel or Linux 6.7 development kernel deliver any additional gains when running on the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series hardware. Here are some benchmarks looking at that while using a Threadripper 7980X workstation…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Threadripper 7980X Kernel Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / 6.6 / 6.7

TuxClocker continues on its quest as being one of the leading open-source GUI control panels for overclockers and enthusiasts on Linux. Out this morning is TuxClocker 1.4 that brings more features for making this Qt-based open-source app more useful for those overclocking or just wanting to keep a better eye on their hardware’s performance and thermals/power from the Linux desktop…

Source: Phoronix – TuxClocker 1.4 Brings More CPU & GPU Features

The newest monthly release of FEX is now available for this open-source project that allows running x86_64 games and applications on 64-bit ARM (AArch64) Linux environments…

Source: Phoronix – FEX 2312 Brings More Optimizations For Running x86_64 Games/Apps On AArch64

Red Hat’s Richard Hughes just released Fwupd 1.9.10 as the newest version of this open-source utility for facilitating device and system firmware/BIOS updates under Linux in conjunction with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for the easy distribution of such firmware updates…

Source: Phoronix – Fwupd 1.9.10 Adds LoongArch Support & Firmware Updating For A ~k USD Web Camera

Armbian 23.11 was released this week as the decade-old Linux distribution project focused on providing good Arm single board computer support…

Source: Phoronix – Armbian 23.11 Promotes Some Arm Boards, Adds Ubuntu 23.10 & Debian Trixie Daily Builds

It’s the season for hardware and software upgrades as Phoronix.com rolls out to new infrastructure. Pardon any downtime or interruptions over the next few hours…

Source: Phoronix – Server Upgrades In Progress

GDB 14.1 has been released today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger for source-level debugging of C/C++, Rust, Fortran, Go, Ada, and other languages…

Source: Phoronix – GDB 14.1 Adds Support For DAP – Debugger Adapter Protocol

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.7-rc4 kernel around twelve hours early today due to his end-of-year travels…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7-rc4 Released As The Holidays Approach

AMD has begun submitting “new stuff” to DRM-Next for preparations ahead of the Linux 6.8 kernel cycle in the new year…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Graphics Driver Changes Being Queuing For Linux 6.8

For those that happen to own an ASRock Rack X570D4U micro-ATX motherboard or are in the market for a server-grade AMD Ryzen 5000 series motherboard, patches are pending as this motherboard works on OpenBMC support as an alternative to the proprietary BMC software stack that ships with this AMD Ryzen 5000 series + ECC DDR4 supported motherboard…

Source: Phoronix – ASRock X570D4U BMC Working Toward OpenBMC Support

The drm-misc-next changes sent out this week to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.8 kernel cycle include a few interesting additions worth mentioning for Linux desktop users…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.8 To Add Atomic Mode-Setting Mouse Hotspots, Atomic Async Page Flip

Joining the likes of the Aquacomputer and NZXT water/liquid cooling hardware monitoring/control “HWMON” kernel drivers, an Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO Coolers Linux driver is being developed…

Source: Phoronix – Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO Coolers Linux Driver Being Developed

The PVR Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa for modern PowerVR graphics hardware has now landed support for using the upcoming PowerVR DRM kernel driver that is being upstreamed in Linux 6.8…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 24.0 PVR Vulkan Driver Adds Support For New PowerVR Kernel Driver

On Friday another round of fixes were merged for the Bcachefs file-system for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Bcachefs Lands Another Round Of Fixes For Linux 6.7

Vulkan 1.3.272 was published on Friday as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API…

Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.3.272 Published With Two New Extensions

Two years ago Cloudflare rolled out their “Gen 11” server fleet built around AMD EPYC Milan processors and on Friday the company began talking about their forthcoming “Gen 12” server designs that will soon be rolling out across their data centers for powering this widely-used web infrastructure…

Source: Phoronix – Cloudflare Teases Next-Gen Server Design, Benefits Going From 1U To 2U Servers

With this week’s release of the Plasma 6.0 beta and beta milestones for KDE Frameworks 6 and the latest Gear apps, KDE has now entered the bug-fixing phase ahead of the stable releases coming up in February. But prior to that bug-fixing shift, a few more features were merged…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Lands NVIDIA Hardware Cursor Support & Other Last Minute Plasma 6.0 Features

Steam on Linux enjoyed a various nice boost in popularity during the course of November at least as it concerns Valve’s Steam Survey…

Source: Phoronix – Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November

Miriway is an effort for bringing Wayland to desktops not currently having native Wayland support and is made possible via the Canonical-developed Mir. Miriway has been a side-project of Alan Griffiths as the lead Mir developer and today he published a blog post with more details for users interested in making use of it…

Source: Phoronix – Using Miriway For Empowering Xfce / MATE / LXQt & Other Desktops With Wayland