Last year Intel announced Project Amber as an effort to verify the trustworthiness of clouds. Project Amber was talked up as “an innovative service-based security implementation” for the remote verification of the trustworthiness of compute assets. Project Amber is now rolling out as the Intel Trust Authority…

Source: Phoronix – Project Amber Officially Launches As The Intel Trust Authority

There’s just under one month to go now until the X.Org Developers’ Conference (XDC) returns to A Coruña, Spain for the annual development conference focused on open-source graphics drivers (Mesa), Wayland, and related Linux display/graphics infrastructure although the X.Org Server itself hasn’t received much attention in recent years. Here’s a look at some of the planned talks for the exciting XDC 2023…

Source: Phoronix – XDC 2023 To Provide Update On AMD HDR For The Steam Deck, Rusticl & Wine Wayland

When it comes to Glibc HWCAPs for allowing the C library to load optimized libraries based upon the CPU features at run-time, it’s mostly been focused on the x86_64 world for targeting higher x86-64 levels or being able to load optimized libraries for systems with AVX support. Loongson though has now contributed initial LoongArch HWCAPs support…

Source: Phoronix – Glibc Lands HWCAPs Support For LoongArch

While Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) isn’t as common on Arm SoCs as it is in the x86 and POWER worlds, there are some SMT-capable designs like with the HiSilicon Kupeng 930 for Arm servers. HiSilicon engineers are working now to extend Linux’s SMT run-time controls to work on ARM64 (AArch64)…

Source: Phoronix – HiSilicon Posts SMT Run-Time Control Patches For ARM64 Linux

In addition to Oracle releasing OpenJDK 21 / Java 21 on Tuesday, their GraalVM team also carried out a same-day release of GraalVM with the new Java 21 features and more…

Source: Phoronix – GraalVM Updated For Java/JDK 21, Great Performance Results

NVIDIA’s latest patches intended for the upstream Linux kernel are over on the networking side of the house with their Mellanox wares as they prepare 800Gb/s (XDR) support within the RDMA/InfiniBand code…

Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA Preparing Their Linux InfiniBand Driver For 800Gb/s XDR

As a continuation of last week’s article looking at Linux 6.6 bringing some impressive gains for AMD EPYC Bergamo, over the past few days I’ve also tested Linux 6.5 stable and Linux 6.6 Git on Genoa and Genoa-X processors as well as Intel Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” in looking at this next kernel version’s performance. The Sapphire Rapids performance was largely flat while for an interesting class of workloads the Linux 6.6 performance drives the AMD EPYC server performance much higher.

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Looks To Be Very Lucrative For AMD Server Performance

Intel is kicking off their Innovation 2023 conference in San Jose with many exciting announcements. Freed from embargo this morning is news around their upcoming mobile and server processors, lots of AI talk, Intel’s continued software advancements to complement their hardware, and more…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Innovation 2023 Kicks Off With Meteor Lake & Emerald Rapids Launch Date: 14 Dec

Java 21 and the JDK 21 release under a general availability (GA) status occurred a short time ago as the newest major update to the Java programming language…

Source: Phoronix – Java 21 / JDK 21 Reaches GA With Virtual Threads, Generational ZGC

The beta release of Fedora 39 is now available for testing ahead of its planned stable release prior to the end of October…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora 39 Beta Released With Faster DNF, GNOME 45 Desktop

Here’s a surprise announcement I was briefed on last week and now made public by the Linux Foundation and Intel… The Linux Foundation is forming the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation that is an evolution of Intel’s oneAPI initiative and has the potential to make the compute accelerator ecosystem as a whole more open and unified across vendors.

Source: Phoronix – Intel oneAPI Initiative Evolves Into The Unified Acceleration “UXL” Foundation

In addition to Fedora 40 planning to ship KDE Plasma 6.0 and without any X11 session support, Fedora stakeholders are also looking at shipping GNOME for the Fedora Workstation 40 release without any X11 session support…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support

The LLVM 17 compiler stack has been released as stable as LLVM 17.0.1 — a slight mistake leaving the 17.0.0-rc tag meant the original v17.0.0 tag was skipped. This LLVM 17.0.1 stable release along with sub-projects like the Clang 17 C/C++ compiler bring many new features and improvements…

Source: Phoronix – LLVM 17.0 + Clang 17.0 Released With Many New Compiler Features

Hours after posting a large patch series for enabling the Nouveau kernel driver to use NVIDIA’s GSP for improving the support for RTX 20/30 series hardware and finally enabling accelerated graphics support on RTX 40 “Ada Lovelace” GPUs, the Red Hat maintainer has resigned from his duties…

Source: Phoronix – The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source “Nouveau” Linux Kernel Driver Resigns

Microsoft has published a big feature update to Windows Subsystem for Linux “WSL” for running Linux binaries within the confines of Windows 11…

Source: Phoronix – Microsoft Releases A Big Update To Windows Subsystem For Linux, New Experimental Options

The long-awaited patches for allowing the open-source NVIDIA “Nouveau” upstream Linux kernel driver to leverage NVIDIA’s GPU System Processor “GSP” firmware for handling GPU re-clocking and other hardware tasks with RTX 20 GPUs and newer have been posted. With this set of 44 patches also comes the initial GPU hardware accelerated support for the GeForce RTX 40 “Ada Lovelace” GPUs that is built upon this new GSP driver code path…

Source: Phoronix – Nouveau Patches Posted For Running On NVIDIA GSP-RM Firmware, Initial RTX 40 Ada Support

Since March of 2022 the ReiserFS file-system has been deprecated and with Linux 6.6 ReiserFS is marked outright as “obsolete” with plans to remove the file-system from the mainline kernel code-base in 2025. In stepping toward that eventual milestone, a new kernel patch series begins removing ReiserFS from the default kernel configurations…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Patches To Begin Removing ReiserFS From Default Kernel Builds

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 is out today as the newest stable release for this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech. Flatpak’s XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 adds yet more features for this cross-distribution solution for software deployment and package management…

Source: Phoronix – XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals

Released late on Friday was the much anticipated SteamOS 3.5 preview for the Steam Deck with ongoing work around HDR and enhancing color management, VRR for external USB-C displays, various platform issues resolved, auto-mounting external storage, and more. With SteamOS 3.5 it also means some lower-level OS upgrades too like moving to the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel. For those wondering about the performance impact of going from SteamOS 3.4 stable to the SteamOS 3.5 preview release, here are some early benchmarks on the Steam Deck.

Source: Phoronix – SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains For The Steam Deck

Last November AMD introduced the first of the 4th Gen EPYC series with the EPYC 9004 “Genoa” processors and that was then complemented earlier this year by the July launch of the Genoa-X processors for sporting AMD 3D V-Cache to help technical computing workloads and as well launching Bergamo for the Zen 4C based processor designs that allow up to 128 cores / 256 threads per socket. While AMD has a very robust portfolio for the high-end server space with 4th Gen EPYC, today AMD is introducing the EPYC 8004 “Siena” processors for “intelligent edge” servers. Siena is a step below Genoa but still very capable offering and coming in at a lower price point while being geared more for maximizing power efficiency and opening up EPYC to more deployments outside of the data center.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Launches The EPYC 8004 “Siena” 4th Gen EPYC Processors