Valve has just released Proton 8.0-4 as stable on the Steam client for enhancing the experience for running Windows games on Linux for this Wine-based software that powers Steam Play…

Source: Phoronix – Valve Releases Proton 8.0-4 As A Big Improvement For Windows Gaming On Linux

Ferrous Systems has made available open-source code for Ferrocene, their Rust compiler focused on safety-critical and mission-critical environments. The Ferrocene compiler is being made available under Apache 2.0 or MIT licensing…

Source: Phoronix – Ferrocene Safety-Critical Rust Compiler Code Published

A fix has made its way into the Linux PCI subsystem’s power management branch to address various AMD Ryzen Rembrandt and Phoenix generation laptops failing to resume from suspend when external USB devices are attached for initiating the system resume…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Fix Queued For Recent AMD Laptops Failing To Resume From Attached USB Devices

The latest Linux kernel patches for enabling the Milk-V Pioneer board have been posted, which is that interesting 64-core RISC-V micro-ATX board with two PCIe x16 slots and more…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Patches Updated For 64-Core RISC-V Milk-V Pioneer mATX Board

For those curious about the performance implications of using DDR5 ECC memory with AMD Ryzen 7000 series “Zen 4” processors, I ran some benchmarks with ECC memory with the Error Correction Code functionality enabled and then disabled for evaluating the impact.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Performance With ECC DDR5 Memory

WayVNC 0.7 was released today as the newest feature update to this VNC server for use with wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC will dynamically attach to running Wayland sessions and allow for convenient VNC server support…

Source: Phoronix – WayVNC 0.7 Released As VNC Server For Wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors

The Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC that can power fully-autonomous (Level 5) driving for vehicles and provide other assisted-driving technologies for a variety of automobiles could soon see mainline support in the Linux kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC Support Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel

A set of patches posted last week can improve the Linux kernel’s performance of accounted kernel memory allocations by around 30%…

Source: Phoronix – New Patches Speed-Up Linux’s Accounted Kernel Memory Allocations By ~30%

In addition to Vulkan sparse support that works with the existing i915 kernel driver, another exciting open-source Intel Vulkan driver development this week is landing a transfer queue implementation for DG2/Alchemist GPUs. This in turn can help with hybrid graphics systems and other situations…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Vulkan Driver Implements A Transfer Queue For DG2/Alchemist GPUs

Following discussions on the GCC mailing list in recent weeks, a GCC security policy was added for the GNU Compiler Collection codebase to outline the compiler project’s security process…

Source: Phoronix – GCC Security Policy Merged To GCC Git

With the much-delayed Mesa 23.2 finally having been released last week, Mesa 23.1.9 is out the door as the last planned maintenance release for that open-source driver series introduced back in Q2…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.1.9 Released To End Out The Series

Motivated by a 25% performance degradation seen on an Intel Xeon Scalable dual socket server due to Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS), Red Hat’s Waiman Long has been working on a patch series to update the IBRS handling in different conditions for affected Intel processors on Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 To Update Intel IBRS Mitigation Handling To Enhance System Performance

Redox OS, the open-source Rust-written operating system led by developer Jeremy Soller, has been drafting some exciting plans for the rest of this year and moving into 2024…

Source: Phoronix – Redox OS Planning A Server Version, Stable ABI & Better Performance

Google formally unveiled Android 14 today in New York City at its Made By Google event. With that, Google has also published the Android 14 Open-Source Project (AOSP)…

Source: Phoronix – Android 14 Open-Source Project Released

GNOME developer Christian Hergert recently demonstrated how Linux terminal emulators have the potential of running much faster. At the time it didn’t sound like he would pursue the matter further but more recently he’s begun working on folding some performance improvements into GNOME’s VTE for a faster terminal experience…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME’s VTE Seeing Improvements For Faster Terminal Performance

The newest open-source project hosted by the Linux Foundation is OpenPubkey, which is a collaboration with Docker and BastionZero and will be available for Docker container signing with zero-trust passwordless authentication…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Foundation’s Latest Open-Source Project: OpenPubkey

Vulkan 1.3.266 was published a few days ago with a handful of fixes and two new extensions. One of those extensions, VK_NV_low_latency2 is quite interesting…

Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA Introduces New Low-Latency Vulkan Extension For Gaming

When it comes to the BSD operating systems, DragonFlyBSD’s HAMMER2 is one of the most interesting innovations. HAMMER2 supports online deduplication, clustering, multiple mountable file-system roots, snapshots, compression, encryption, extensive checksumming, and other features. Over the past decade it’s evolved quite nicely and in recent days has seen further enhancements…

Source: Phoronix – DragonFlyBSD’s HAMMER2 File-System Seeing New Improvements, Initial Recovery Support

Currently when hibernating a Linux system LZO compression is used for preserving the memory contents while a new patch series posted today by Qualcomm allow for changing out the compression API used and makes LZ4 a new option during Linux hibernation…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Patches Allow Changing Hibernation Compression Format For Better Performance

A nasty vulnerability has been made public today concerning Glibc’s dynamic loader that can lead to full root privileges being obtained by local users. This affects Linux distributions of the past two years with the likes of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, 23.04, Fedora 38, and others vulnerable to this local privilege escalation issue…

Source: Phoronix – Glibc Dynamic Loader Hit By A Nasty Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability