Melissa Wen with consulting firm Igalia continues working with AMD and Valve engineers on supporting AMD driver-specific color management properties for Linux to benefit the Steam Deck but ultimately to benefit all AMD Linux users as well…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Color Management Improvements For Linux & The Steam Deck Continue

LibreOffice 7.6 is now available as the latest major release to this leading open-source office suite that is widely used on the Linux desktop and elsewhere…

Source: Phoronix – LibreOffice 7.6 Now Available For This Best Free Software Office Suite

The new nvidia-drm-kmod is a FreeBSD port of Linux’s nvidia-drm.ko open-source kernel module…

Source: Phoronix – FreeBSD Experimenting With A Port Of NVIDIA’s Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver

Following last Friday’s release of Wine 8.14 following a summer holiday, Wine-Staging 8.14 is out today with its re-base for this testing/experimental flavor of Wine…

Source: Phoronix – Wine-Staging 8.14 Released – Less Than 500 Patches Atop Upstream

Mesa has landed GPUVis integration with a focus on CPU side tracing for help to uncover where games are blocking on the GPU. This GPU Trace Visualizer integration for Mesa was spearheaded by RADV developer Bas Nieuwenhuizen…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa Adds GPUVis Integration – GPU Trace Visualizer

Budgie 10.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this Linux desktop environment…

Source: Phoronix – Budgie 10.8 Linux Desktop Released

The linux-firmware.git Git repository on the kernel.org Git repository has been the de facto location for collecting all of the microcode/firmware files needed by upstream Linux kernel drivers. The linux-firmware.git repository is the centralized repository for all firmware files, including the GPU/DRM graphics drivers. Now though a dedicated DRM firmware repository is being established as a staging area for new GPU firmware prior to being picked up by linux-firmware.git…

Source: Phoronix – Linux DRM Firmware Repo Established For Queuing New GPU Firmware

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.5-rc7 test kernel today, a few hours ahead of schedule…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5-rc7 Released: Stable Linux 6.5 Expected Next Week

A new release of Box64 is now available, the Linux x86_64 emulator for running programs and games on non-x86_64 architectures like ARM/AArch64 and RISC-V…

Source: Phoronix – Box64 0.2.4 Released – Some x86-64 Games Now Playable On RISC-V

Intel ISPC 1.21 is now available as the newest feature update to this Implicit SPMD Program Compiler for a C language variant focused on single program, multiple data (SPMD) programming for exploiting the full potential of modern CPUs and GPUs…

Source: Phoronix – Intel ISPC 1.21 Released With Meteor Lake Xe-LPG Support

Last week the FreeBSD 14 alpha phase kicked off and available today is the second weekly alpha release for this upcoming major BSD operating system update…

Source: Phoronix – FreeBSD 14 Alpha 2 Available For Testing – The Last Series For 32-bit Platforms

The DeviceTree additions to allow the Orange Pi 5 64-bit ARM single board computer (SBC) to work on the upstream Linux kernel are working their way closer to mainline…

Source: Phoronix – Orange Pi 5 Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel

Earlier this month the AMD Inception vulnerability was disclosed and quickly mitigated within the mainline Linux kernel and back-ported to the stable kernels. In the rush to get the code merged and the mitigation being under embargo until the disclosure date, some bugs and clean-ups with the mitigation code were discovered. That revised code was now submitted today for merging ahead of the Linux 6.5-rc7 kernel release this weekend…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Inception “SRSO” Mitigation Cleanup & Fixes Head To Linux 6.5-rc7

Nate Graham is out with his weekly KDE development summary to highlight all of the interesting changes to this open-source desktop environment with Plasma 6 development continuing at full-speed ahead…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6 Default Behavior Is Now Double-Click For Opening Files/Folders

It’s been nearly one month since Wine 8.13 was released while today marked the debut of the Wine 8.14 development milestone…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 8.14 Released Following Summer Holiday

For those that happen to have a Google Stadia gaming controller from the days of Google’s cloud gaming service, the Linux 6.6 kernel is adding a new driver to enable force feedback (rumble) support with these controllers…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 To Support Rumble / Force Feedback On Google Stadia Controllers

Over the past month I’ve been delivering a number of Linux laptop tests with the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U for that Zen 4 “Phoenix” SoC within an Acer Swift Edge 16. One of the requests that has come up with my ongoing testing has been how well the default Microsoft Windows 11 installation compares to loading up Linux on this 8-core AMD Zen 4 laptop. Well, in this article is a look at the Linux performance compared to Windows 11, including when making use of the Linux 6.5 development kernel where AMD P-State is now the default and also for seeing what workloads are impacted by the recent AMD Inception vulnerability.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Windows 11 vs. Linux CPU Performance

Linux 6.4 or newer paired with the latest cryptsetup development code has landed support for the OPAL specification for self-encrypting drives…

Source: Phoronix – Cryptsetup Lands Support For OPAL Self Encrypting Drives

Given all the interest this week in Firefox outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider, I decided to run some fresh Linux desktop web browser benchmarks on my end. For today’s comparison is a look at the newly-released Chrome 116 up against Firefox 117b8 that will be released as stable in just over one week…

Source: Phoronix – Firefox 117 Beta 8 vs. Google Chrome 116 Linux Browser Performance

For those still managing to resist systemd, SysVinit 3.08 was released on Thursday as the newest update to this init system…

Source: Phoronix – SysVinit 3.08 Released With A Couple Patches