Merged today to Linux 6.6 Git is a new patch for fixing an AMD erratum CPU bug affecting Zen 4 based processors like the Ryzen 7000 series and EPYC 8004/9004 series…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Patched For A New AMD Zen 4 CPU Bug – Erratum #1485

Red Hat continues hiring for additional help on their open-source Linux graphics driver team that does stellar work for enabling open-source graphics hardware support in cases like NVIDIA hardware with Nouveau, optimizing performance of existing drivers, and making other infrastructure improvements…

Source: Phoronix – Red Hat Continues Hiring For Experienced Linux Graphics Driver Engineers

In addition to the recent PreSonus Studio One 6.5 debut for Linux, the open-source Ardour digital audio workstation software this week released its big “8.0” milestone…

Source: Phoronix – Ardour 8.0 Digital Audio Workstation Released

Following the news from a few days ago that Curl was prepping for its worst security flaw in a long time affecting the project, Curl 8.4 is now available and with new light on this issue…

Source: Phoronix – Curl 8.4 Released For Addressing A Big Security Vulnerability

Back in July of last year the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) engine launched as part of the Open 3D Foundation and initially was a spin-out of Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine. Out this week is O3DE 23.10 as the newest half-year update to this project…

Source: Phoronix – O3DE 23.10 Released With Many Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine

Last month AMD launched the EPYC 8004 “Siena” 4th Gen EPYC processors to round out their Zen 4 server processors with the expansive Genoa, Genoa-X, Bergamo, and Siena product portfolios. The new EPYC 8004 series are designed to maximize the power efficiency for server deployments from the data center to edge, teclo, and other non-traditional server environments. Up for testing today is an initial look at the Siena performance in the form of the EPYC 8324P and EPYC 8324PN 32-core parts for seeing how they stack up against 32-core Intel Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” performance.

Source: Phoronix – AMD EPYC 8324P / 8324PN Siena 32-Core Siena Linux Server Performance

Intel has formally announced the Arc Graphics A580 as their latest graphics processor to fit between the low-end A380 and higher-end A750/A770 graphics cards…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Formally Announces The Arc Graphics A580

It was just a few weeks ago that AMD acquired AI software company Mipsology to help their AI software efforts on FPGAs. Today AMD announced another notable AI software acquisition: open-source AI software vendor Nod.ai…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Makes A New Open-Source AI Software Acquisition

Google, Cloudflare and AWS today disclosed a new zero-day vulnerability called the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack. This attack that is being seen in the real-world relies on a weakness in the HTTP2 protocol for carrying out “hyper volumetric” Distributed Denial of Service attacks…

Source: Phoronix – HTTP/2 “Rapid Reset” DDoS Attack Disclosed By Google, Cloudflare & AWS

The Qt 6.6 toolkit has been released as the newest six-month update to this open-source, cross-platform toolkit…

Source: Phoronix – Qt 6.6 Toolkit Released With More Robust Wayland, Qt Graphs Module

Daniel van Vugt of Canonical’s desktop team for Ubuntu Linux has been on a spree recently tackling various GNOME bugs — often performance issues — while also continuing to work on the dynamic triple buffering support and other GNOME desktop enhancements. His latest discovery is around finding another performance bottleneck for multi-GPU setups…

Source: Phoronix – Another Bug Found That Limits GNOME’s Performance For Secondary GPU Setups

Plans have been drafted to release the Weston 13.0 reference compositor for Wayland next month…

Source: Phoronix – Wayland’s Weston 13 Compositor Planned For Release Next Month

While the AMD P-State driver is working quite well for Ryzen systems already with the default on Linux 6.5, one of the additions we are still waiting to land is the AMD “Preferred Core” functionality. An eighth version of those patches were posted on Monday for inching this feature closer to the mainline kernel…

Source: Phoronix – AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Spun Up An Eighth Time

Following the release last month of TuxClocker 1.0 as a GUI overclocking solution currently for NVIDIA graphics cards on Linux, this years-in-development open-source utility is up to version 1.1 and with some new capabilities…

Source: Phoronix – TuxClocker 1.1 Released With Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring, NVML Fan Control

AMD’s Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be busy working on enabling next-generation graphics processors with their upstream open-source driver…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Posts Linux Graphics Driver Patches Enabling SMU 14.0 IP

With Ubuntu 23.10 due for release on Thursday, I’ve been benchmarking a number of systems to look at the Ubuntu 23.10 performance against prior releases like Ubuntu 23.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Besides the open-source graphics driver performance for Intel and AMD Radeon graphics always being a stand-out improvement, one area that is particularly exciting with Ubuntu 23.10 is for those with newer AMD processors where there are some nice performance gains to find with this new Ubuntu Linux release. Here are side-by-side benchmarks of an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktop along with an Intel Core i9 13900K desktop while testing Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS / Ubuntu 23.04 / Ubuntu 23.10.

Source: Phoronix – Benchmarks: AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Performance Boosted With Ubuntu 23.10

The widely-used Curl project as a command-line tool and library for transferring data via a variety of protocols is preparing to roll-out Curl 8.4 early in order to address a particularly nasty vulnerability…

Source: Phoronix – Curl Preps For “Probably The Worst Curl Security Flaw In A Long Time”

A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support

In addition to Intel’s compiler engineers pushing a lot of code into GCC — and other open-source compiler components — around AVX10, over the weekend code began hitting the GCC 14 Git codebase for the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) functionality…

Source: Phoronix – Intel APX Code Begins Landing Within The GCC Compiler

Hangover 8.17 was released this weekend as the newest feature release for this open-source Wine-based software that aims to make it easy to run Windows x86/x64 binaries on 64-bit Arm Linux systems as well as potentially other architectures too like RISC-V and POWER…

Source: Phoronix – Hangover 8.17 Released With Updated Box64 & FEX Integration