Intel has released OpenVINO 2023.2 as the newest version of their open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference. OpenVINO continues in its never-ending quest for maximizing deep learning performance and efficiency while continuing to expand in its model support and features…

Source: Phoronix – OpenVINO 2023.2 Released With More Generative AI Coverage & Broader LLM Support

Going back to May 2022, AMD Linux graphics driver engineers were working on AMDGPU driver patches to enable a new Light System DMA “LSDMA” IP block. Since then we haven’t heard much about LSDMA until some new patches surfaced yesterday for optionally enabling the LSDMA ring mode for the AMDGPU kernel driver…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Linux Graphics Driver Preparing For Enabling New LSDMA Ring Mode

Intel has rolled out a new quarterly update to QATlib, its QuickAssist Technology library for Linux systems to enjoy hardware acceleration of various crypto and compression algorithms on QAT Gen 4 hardware…

Source: Phoronix – Intel QATlib 23.11 Brings New Crypto Support

Dimitri John Ledkov of the Ubuntu kernel team has written about some of the improvements made for the default kernel build on Ubuntu 23.10. Ubuntu’s Linux kernel build is now using much less disk space, lower RAM use, and much faster initrd generation…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu 23.10 Is Maxing Out Zstd Compression For Its Kernel Build

Mesa 23.3 is gearing up for release in a week or two while out now is Mesa 23.3-rc4 for the latest weekly release candidate to this collection of open-source graphics drivers…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3-rc4 Released With More Fixes

With Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) continuing to prove popular mot only for end-users and independent developers but within organizations as well for having easy access to a Linux environment from the confines of Windows 11, Microsoft has added new enterprise-focused security options for WSL…

Source: Phoronix – Microsoft Adds Enterprise Security Features To WSL

Intel has released a new version of ISPC, their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler. The ISPC 1.22 release is clocking in a few percent faster across the board as with their release builds they are now making use of LLVM Clang’s link-time optimizations (LTO) for speeding up the binaries…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Speeds Up ISPC Via LLVM/Clang LTO

A change proposal currently undergoing discussion for Fedora 40 would change their toolchain’s (BFD) linker to error out on potential security issues. Currently BFD is emitting warnings on potential security problems but the F40 proposal is to instead error out so the program being built will fail to link when hitting recognized security issues…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora 40 Looking To Change Linker To Error Out On Security Issues

For those in the market for an AMD Ryzen 7040 series (Zen 4) laptop, the Framework 13 laptop is a great option for those wanting a Linux-friendly device and is a rare breed in being a completely upgradeable laptop similar to Framework’s Intel laptop models. I’ve been testing out the Framework Laptop 13 the past month and after a BIOS update has been working out wonderfully on Linux.

Source: Phoronix – Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes For A Great Linux Laptop

The GNOME GTK toolkit is introducing support for graphics offloading within the toolkit. This new GTK “GraphicsOffload” support is Wayland-only at this time and not working either for non-Linux platforms…

Source: Phoronix – GTK 4.14 Adding Graphics Offloading Capabilities Under Wayland

A new feature coming to next-generation Intel graphics display hardware has been revealed in new open-source Linux graphics driver patches: CMRR as an extension of the existing adaptive-sync variable rate refresh (VRR) functionality…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Lunar Lake Graphics Introducing “CMRR” Adaptive VRR Feature

As part of their work on enabling Advanced Performance Extensions, Intel compiler engineers today posted a set of GNU Compiler Collection patches for enabling the APX NDD…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Posts GCC Compiler Patches For APX NDD

Thanks to prolific Mesa RADV contributor Samuel Pitoiset of Valve’s Linux graphics team, a fix is on the way for addressing various issues with Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5 games running on Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver “RADV” Works Around Bugs For Unreal Engine 4 & 5

The newest Wine Wayland driver code to be merged is improved HiDPI support…

Source: Phoronix – Wine Wayland Driver Lands Improved HiDPI Support

Hours after writing about Microsoft’s Direct3D 12 back-end for Mesa seeing OpenGL 4.4 support, the in-review OpenGL 4.5 code mentioned in that article happened to land in Mesa…

Source: Phoronix – Microsoft Achieves OpenGL 4.5 Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa

While not as popular as Rust or other languages these days, for COBOL enthusiasts and those continuing to maintain codebases in this 50’s programming language, the out-of-tree GCC COBOL compiler support continues to be worked on in late 2023…

Source: Phoronix – GCC COBOL Compiler Support Continues To Be Worked On

The latest software offering announced today by Canonical with an enterprise focus and their hopes of driving new Ubuntu Pro and support subscriptions is MicroCloud. Their MicroCloud software aims to make it easy to deploy a private cloud that is a “fully functional cloud in minutes” atop Ubuntu Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Canonical Launches MicroCloud To Deploy Your Own “Fully Functional Cloud In Minutes”

From SC23 going on in Denver, the PCI-SIG team sent out a news release that they have announced the naming for their next-generation PCI Express cabling… CopprLink…

Source: Phoronix – PCI-SIG Announces “CopprLink” PCI Express Cable Name

On 14 December is the previously-announced launch of 5th Gen Xeon Scalable “Emerald Rapids” and Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” processors via a webcast from NASDAQ that Intel is promoting as the “AI Everywhere” event. AMD meanwhile recently announced an “Advancing AI” event for the week prior. While details on the AMD Advancing AI event are light, it’s all the more interesting now with AMD teasing open standards and open-source around the event…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Talking Up Open-Source & Open Standards Ahead Of “Advancing AI” Event

Intel has released new CPU microcode this morning for mitigating a new CPU security vulnerability (INTEL-SA-00950). This new microcode drop also fixes various functional issues on recent generations of Intel processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Publishes “20231114” CPU Microcode For New Security Advisory & Functional Issues