AMD today announced the release of HIP RT 2.1, the newest version of its HIP ray-tracing library for use by Blender and other software…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Releases HIP RT 2.1 For Radeon Ray-Tracing

Linux 6.6 is set to be released as stable this weekend unless Linus Torvalds has reservations and decides to extend the cycle by one week. In any case there are some last minute fixes heading in to fix-up nine different Lenovo laptops with AMD Ryzen SoCs to make the hardware more usable under Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Last Minute Linux 6.6 Fixes Address Nine “Unusable” Lenovo AMD Laptops

Back in August Google Cloud announced the C3D instances powered by AMD EPYC 9004 “Genoa” processors while only last week was C3D promoted to general availability. Curious about the performance of C3D after being impressed by AMD EPYC Genoa bare-metal server performance at Phoronix as well as what I’ve seen with Genoa in the cloud at Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2 / AWS, here are some benchmarks of the new C3D up against other GCE instances.

Source: Phoronix – Google Cloud C3D Shows Great Performance With AMD EPYC Genoa

For those currently weighing between the (currently) nine different AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors for Linux use, here are fresh benchmarks of the Zen 4 desktop CPU line-up while testing with Ubuntu 23.10 and the Linux 6.5 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – 9-Way AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / Ubuntu 23.10

OpenSSL 3.2 is now available in beta form as the newest forthcoming feature update to this widely-used cryptographic library…

Source: Phoronix – OpenSSL 3.2 Reaches Beta With Client-Side QUIC, Zstd & Brotli Certificate Compression

Samuel Pitoiset on Valve’s Linux graphics driver team has wired up VK_EXT_image_compression_control support to the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) in order to workaround same game bugs being encountered with Steam Play / VKD3D-Proton…

Source: Phoronix – RADV Hooks Up Image Compression Control To Workaround Game Bugs

Intel’s FFmpeg Cartwheel is where the company continues to stage their latest FFmpeg multimedia library patches prior to upstreaming. FFmpeg Cartwheel ends up containing all the latest and greatest code for leveraging VA-API and Quick Sync Video (QSV) from Intel integrated graphics through their latest DG2/Alchemist class discrete graphics…

Source: Phoronix – Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q3 Released For Latest VA-API & QSV Code

While Fedora 39 was aiming for an ideal “early final” release on 18 October, that didn’t happen, it was delayed, and then delayed again. Now the earliest Fedora 39 will possibly shift is 7 November…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November

The Ubuntu 24.04 codename has been revealed as “Noble Numbat” while kicking off this next development cycle that is all the more exciting due to being the next long-term support (LTS) release…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu 24.04 “Noble Numbat” Opens For Development

Earlier this month Framework 13 began shipping out their AMD Ryzen powered modular laptop. Unfortunately though the launch-day testing of the Framework laptop under Linux was hampered by a BIOS issue. It’s taken longer, but this week a new BIOS is now available for testing that resolves the AMD Linux graphics issue. Here’s how to go about easily flashing the system BIOS with Fwupd and LVFS to get up and running well on Linux…

Source: Phoronix – AMD-Powered Framework Laptop Now Working On Linux With Latest BIOS

With the newly-started Mesa 24.0 development cycle a very exciting feature landed today… The ACO compiler integration for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver has appeared to effectively wrap up for optionally making use of this Valve-developed shader compiler as an alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM shader back-end…

Source: Phoronix – RadeonSI Completes ACO Compiler Support With Mesa 24.0

Tucked away within the October 2023 monthly status updates for the Linux Mint project is word they have begun working on their Wayland support…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Mint Starts Working On Wayland For Cinnamon, Likely Not Fully Ready Until 2026

Given the recent launch of the Intel Arc Graphics A580 for under $200, I’ve been working on a fresh round of Intel / AMD Radeon / NVIDIA GeForce Linux gaming/graphics and compute benchmark results. Next week that fresh arsenal of Linux graphics benchmarks on the very latest drivers will be published but for today is a look at the most surprising aspect: the OpenCL-focused GPU compute benchmarks.

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s Open-Source Compute Runtime Performing Increasingly Well Against NVIDIA’s Proprietary Linux Driver

The Servo open-source web browser engine continues progressing as a community project under the leadership of Linux Foundation Europe. Over the course of October more features were implemented and additional fixes merged…

Source: Phoronix – Servo Web Engine Made Some Nice Progress In October

Ubuntu desktop developer Daniel Van Vugt has been working on enabling zero-copy support for discrete GPUs within GNOME’s Mutter compositor to deliver faster performance. This appears to be working so far with the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver…

Source: Phoronix – Experimental Zero-Copy Support For Nouveau With GNOME Mutter

Adding to the long list of improvements to find with next year’s KDE Plasma 6.0 release is better file/folder searching with the “Recent Files” search area…

Source: Phoronix – File Searching On KDE Plasma 6.0 To Use Less CPU Resources & Better Usability

Blender 4.0 will be releasing in early November but already there is something to look forward to with Blender 4.1 next year…

Source: Phoronix – Blender 4.1 To Support Cycles Renderer On AMD RDNA3 APUs

Shortly after today’s Mesa 23.3 branching and opening Mesa 24.0-devel on Git main, Mesa 23.3-rc1 is now formally available as the first weekly release candidate for this quarter’s feature series…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3-rc1 Available For Testing With NVIDIA Vulkan Driver, Raspberry Pi 5 Support

For those wishing to interact with Steam from virtual reality (VR) headsets, today Valve promoted SteamVR 2.0 to stable…

Source: Phoronix – SteamVR 2.0 Officially Released With Many Improvements

Mesa 23.3 has now been branched in Git and in turn that opens up the mainline code to beginning feature work on what will become Mesa 24.0 when it releases in Q1’2024…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 24.0 Enters Feature Development For Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers