Richard Hughes of Red Hat has released Fwupd 1.9.7 as the newest version of this open-source software for applying firmware updates on Linux for system firmware to various peripherals and other components…

Source: Phoronix – Fwupd 1.9.7 Adds Support For More Logitech, Synaptics & Western Digital Hardware

The MMC memory card updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel have been submitted for Linux 6.7 that includes new hardware support as well as a core MMC optimization to enhance the performance in some scenarios…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 MMC To See Up To 4~5% Better 4K Random Write Performance

Xaver Hugl who has been leading much of the KDE KWin feature development in recent years has opened up a preliminary merge request for allowing high dynamic range (HDR) enabled games to work on KDE…

Source: Phoronix – KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games

Here is a look back at the most popular open-source and Linux news and featured articles/reviews for the month prior…

Source: Phoronix – Wayland Progress, Ryzen AI & Linux Benchmarks That Made For An Exciting October

Intel Arc Graphics on Linux can handle running the Diablo IV game via Valve’s Steam Play but only when it hides the fact that it’s Intel graphics in use via a game-specific driver workaround…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Arc Graphics Conceals Itself To Get Diablo IV Running On Linux

All of the power management related updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Adds Support For Intel Meteor Lake Workload Type Hints

Earlier this month Intel introduced the 14th Gen Core “Raptor Lake Refresh” processors led by the flagship Core i9 14900K. Unfortunately my review samples had arrived late but in any event today are the first Linux benchmarks of the new Core i5 14600K and Core i9 14900K processors compared to prior 13th Gen Core processors as well as the AMD Ryzen 7000 series competition. All of these Intel and AMD processors were freshly re-tested on the newly-launched Ubuntu 23.10 with the Linux 6.5 kernel.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Core i5 14600K & Intel Core i9 14900K Linux Benchmarks

Earlier this year Intel published x86-simd-sort as a very speedy sorting library that initially leveraged AVX-512 instructions for 10~17x faster sorts. Numpy was one of the first major projects to adopt x86-simd-sort and OpenJDK more recently adopted it. Since the initial release we’ve seen more features and performance optimizations added. Today marks the release of x86-simd-sort 4.0 and it’s delivering even greater performance while also adding an AVX2 code path to help those without AVX-512…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s x86-simd-sort 4.0 Delivers A 2x Boost For AVX-512 Performance, Adds AVX2 Code

Sent out this morning was the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) feature pull request of updated graphics/display drivers for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel. Notable this round is Intel Meteor Lake integrated graphics now being considered stable / enabled out-of-the-box, Intel Lunar Lake graphics support has started to get underway, and AMD continues working on their upcoming hardware platforms…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 GPU Drivers: Intel Meteor Lake Stable & AMD Works On Upcoming Hardware

Earlier this month NVIDIA published the R545 Linux driver beta while today it’s been promoted to the stable series with the NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux driver release…

Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Driver Released With Much Better Wayland Support

Lennart Poettering has been working on a new systemd feature called systemd-storagetm that is inspired by the Apple macOS “Target Disk Mode” feature…

Source: Phoronix – Systemd Working On “Storage Target Mode” Feature – Inspired By Apple macOS

The GCC 14 compiler has merged support for the Zhaoxin Yongfeng processors via the new -march=yongfeng and -mtune=yongfeng compiler options…

Source: Phoronix – Zhaoxin Yongfeng CPU Support Merged For The GCC 14 Compiler

Merged one year ago was the initial Rust code for the Linux kernel back in Linux 6.1. We’re now up to the Linux 6.7 development cycle and the enabling of more kernel functionality so it can be used/accessed from Rust code remains ongoing along with continuing to bump the base toolchain requirements and other functionality to make it more practical to write future Linux device drivers within this memory safe programming language…

Source: Phoronix – Rust WQ Abstractions, Rust Toolchain Upgrade & Android Kernel Builds For Linux 6.7

Less than twenty-four hours after Bcachefs was submitted for Linux 6.7, this new open-source file-system has been successfully merged for this next kernel version…

Source: Phoronix – Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel

The x86/cpu changes for the Linux 6.7 kernel have been merged and is highlighted by a small but useful change for propagating of the AMD SVM virtualization feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo…

Source: Phoronix – /proc/cpuinfo Will No Longer Show AMD SVM When It’s Been Disabled By The BIOS

Apple tonight announced the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max as what they are promoting as the “most advanced chips” for a personal computer and leverage the TSMC 3nm process…

Source: Phoronix – Apple Announces The M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max

While there has already been various open-source Linux driver upstreaming work around the AMD Instinct MI300 series both for the MI300X GPU-only solution and the MI300A APU-based accelerator, for Linux 6.7 more work is happening…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Makes More Preparations For The AMD Instinct MI300A APUs

While we wait to see if Bcachefs will be merged for Linux 6.7, there are other exciting enhancements landing for existing Linux file-systems. With Btrfs in Linux 6.7 comes three new features plus some performance optimizations and other improvements…

Source: Phoronix – Btrfs Picks Up New Features For Linux 6.7

While the original AMD Navi GPUs featured Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) support, it was borked for some GPUs and initially didn’t work out quite as well as planned for vertex and geometry processing. The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” has worked on the NGG code for years and with RDNA3 GPUs it’s finally been working out very well from the start and better than their legacy pipeline. All the while the RDNA1/RDNA2 experimental NGG stream-out support has continued to exist but hidden behind a feature/debug flag. That code is now being removed…

Source: Phoronix – RADV Driver Drops NGG Stream-Out Code For RDNA1/RDNA2 GPUs

GhostBSD 23.10.1 released this weekend as the newest version of this FreeBSD-based desktop-focused operating system that employs the GNOME2-forked MATE desktop by default…

Source: Phoronix – GhostBSD 23.10.1 For FreeBSD-Based MATE Desktop OS