Category Archives: Phoronix

AMD Advanced Media Acceleration "AMA" 1.0 SDK Released

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AMD has published the Advanced Media Acceleration (AMA) v1.0 SDK as a software stack aimed for hardware video acceleration and capable of high density real-time transcoding. The AMD AMA SDK integrates with the likes of the open-source FFmpeg and GStreamer projects for fitting nicely in the Linux software ecosystem as well as sporting its own C-based API…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Advanced Media Acceleration “AMA” 1.0 SDK Released

PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching

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Following last week’s PipeWire 1.0 release candidate, today a second release candidate was published as part of the project’s plan for reaching v1.0 before the end of the year for this widely-used Linux audio/video streams server that is a viable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK…

Source: Phoronix – PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching

Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon

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While some Linux distributions like Fedora and Arch are enabling the native Wayland back-end for Firefox by default, upstream Firefox continues to not enable this Wayland support as part of their default builds. But — at long last — that might finally change soon…

Source: Phoronix – Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox’s Wayland Backend Soon

Intel Xeon Max Enjoying Some Performance Gains With Linux 6.6

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In addition to Linux 6.6 delivering better results on AMD EPYC servers, Intel Xeon Max / Sapphire Rapids is also picking up some performance wins on this forthcoming version of the Linux kernel. Here are some comparison benchmarks looking at the Intel Xeon Max 9480 2S performance between Linux 6.5 stable and the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Xeon Max Enjoying Some Performance Gains With Linux 6.6

Ubuntu 23.10 Now Available With ZFS Desktop Install Option, Linux 6.5 Kernel

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Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur” is now officially available for download as the latest (non-LTS) Ubuntu Linux release with a wealth of updated packages, continued desktop installer improvements, and other refinements ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu 23.10 Now Available With ZFS Desktop Install Option, Linux 6.5 Kernel

AMD RDNA3 Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance Is Now Usable With Ubuntu 23.10

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With today’s release of Ubuntu 23.10 not only is the performance improved nicely for modern AMD Ryzen systems, but as usual the open-source graphics performance has enjoyed some nice performance improvements, new Vulkan extensions, and more particularly when it comes to the AMD Radeon and Intel graphics drivers…

Source: Phoronix – AMD RDNA3 Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance Is Now Usable With Ubuntu 23.10

FDBuild 0.1 Released To Make It Easier To Quickly Build Multiple Projects

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Roman Gilg who is known for his work on the KWinFT compositor project has spent the past few years quietly developing FDBuild as a new tool for developers to easily pull, configure, and build multiple software projects via a single command. This week he released FDBuild 0.1 as the first public release of this handy utility…

Source: Phoronix – FDBuild 0.1 Released To Make It Easier To Quickly Build Multiple Projects

Intel Racing Toward The Finish Line For Stable Meteor Lake Graphics With Linux 6.7

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While one month ago a Linux kernel patch was floated for advertising Meteor Lake graphics support by default to effectively mark it as stable and remove it from behind the “i915.force_probe” block, that has yet to be queued for the mainline kernel. Today another set of patches were submitted of new Intel kernel graphics driver changes slated for Linux 6.7 with this patch still missing — but it might squeeze in next week to still make it for the v6.7 cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Racing Toward The Finish Line For Stable Meteor Lake Graphics With Linux 6.7

Intel's OIDn 2.1 Released With Better GPU Support

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Released back in May was Intel’s open-source Open Image Denoise 2.0 that brought GPU support via SYCL for this denoising library intended for use with ray-tracing applications. Following that big release as part of the broader effort to make Intel’s oneAPI suite more supportive on GPUs/accelerators, OIDn 2.1 released on Wednesday with fixes and performance improvements to the GPU support…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s OIDn 2.1 Released With Better GPU Support

Intel Enables FCV Optimization For Gen12.5+ Graphics On Linux To Boost Performance

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Intel has enabled a fast clear optimization “FCV” for their Gen12.5 graphics and newer under Linux with the open-source “ANV” Vulkan driver. This can help games like F1 22 with improving performance as much as 45%…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Enables FCV Optimization For Gen12.5+ Graphics On Linux To Boost Performance