Joining the likes of the Aquacomputer and NZXT water/liquid cooling hardware monitoring/control “HWMON” kernel drivers, an Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO Coolers Linux driver is being developed…

Source: Phoronix – Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO Coolers Linux Driver Being Developed

The PVR Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa for modern PowerVR graphics hardware has now landed support for using the upcoming PowerVR DRM kernel driver that is being upstreamed in Linux 6.8…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 24.0 PVR Vulkan Driver Adds Support For New PowerVR Kernel Driver

On Friday another round of fixes were merged for the Bcachefs file-system for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Bcachefs Lands Another Round Of Fixes For Linux 6.7

Vulkan 1.3.272 was published on Friday as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API…

Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.3.272 Published With Two New Extensions

Two years ago Cloudflare rolled out their “Gen 11” server fleet built around AMD EPYC Milan processors and on Friday the company began talking about their forthcoming “Gen 12” server designs that will soon be rolling out across their data centers for powering this widely-used web infrastructure…

Source: Phoronix – Cloudflare Teases Next-Gen Server Design, Benefits Going From 1U To 2U Servers

With this week’s release of the Plasma 6.0 beta and beta milestones for KDE Frameworks 6 and the latest Gear apps, KDE has now entered the bug-fixing phase ahead of the stable releases coming up in February. But prior to that bug-fixing shift, a few more features were merged…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Lands NVIDIA Hardware Cursor Support & Other Last Minute Plasma 6.0 Features

Steam on Linux enjoyed a various nice boost in popularity during the course of November at least as it concerns Valve’s Steam Survey…

Source: Phoronix – Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November

Miriway is an effort for bringing Wayland to desktops not currently having native Wayland support and is made possible via the Canonical-developed Mir. Miriway has been a side-project of Alan Griffiths as the lead Mir developer and today he published a blog post with more details for users interested in making use of it…

Source: Phoronix – Using Miriway For Empowering Xfce / MATE / LXQt & Other Desktops With Wayland

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series offer great performance out-of-the-box for Linux desktop/workstation users as shown in my Ryzen Threadripper 7970X and 7980X benchmarks along with the Threadripper PRO 7995WX. While a more common tunable on the EPYC side, the Threadripper 7000 series can also benefit from Nodes Per Socket (NPS) / Sub-NUMA Clustering (SNC) tuning for enhancing the performance of some workloads. In this article is a look at dozens of benchmarks while looking at the performance impact of SNC2/SNC4 adjustments for the Zen 4 Threadripper.

Source: Phoronix – SNC/NPS Tuning For Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series To Further Boost Performance

November was very busy on Phoronix with all of the benchmarking around the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series, the much anticipated Framework 13 laptop review, a lot of Wayland accomplishments being made this week, excitement building around the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release, and the Linux 6.7 kernel getting underway with new features like the Bcachefs file-system…

Source: Phoronix – Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights

Following good progress in October and this former-Mozilla browser engine project receiving funding recently for “table” support, Servo developers continued implementing more functionality over the course of November…

Source: Phoronix – Servo Browser Engine Continues On Its Path To Be Embed-Friendly

Following a rare but nasty data corruption issue, OpenZFS 2.2.2 and OpenZFS 2.1.14 were released this evening to address the problem…

Source: Phoronix – OpenZFS 2.2.2 & OpenZFS 2.1.14 Released To Fix Data Corruption Issue

For the past number of months AMD has been actively working on enabling AMD P-State Preferred Core functionality for Linux so that their modern processors can communicate “preferred” cores to the Linux kernel scheduler for making better decisions around task placement and ultimately ensuring best performance of Ryzen and EPYC processors running on Linux. This week they are up to their 11th take on these kernel patches…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of P-State Preferred Core Patches For Linux

It’s been a number of years since many in the Linux/open-source space have been excited by the Jolla smartphone efforts with their failed smartphone/tablet devices and more recently focusing their Linux-based Sailfish OS devices for running on existing devices. The latest chapter in Jolla is the former management acquiring the Jolla business…

Source: Phoronix – Jolla’s Former Management Acquires The Business

Gigabyte (Giga Computing) recently sent over their G242-P36 HPC/AI Arm server platform built for Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors. This 2U server platform can accommodate up to four graphics cards or a mix of GPUs and DPUs if so desired, for maxing out the AI possibilities on Arm. I’ll have up a full review on the G242-P36 soon while in this article is a look at the direction of the Ubuntu Server Arm performance from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to now with Ubuntu 23.10 ahead of the important Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cycle.

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu 23.10 Showing Nice Performance Improvements On Ampere Altra Max

The third and final part of the Vulkan enablement code for allowing Vulkan API graphics use within the Wine Wayland driver has been merged to Wine Git…

Source: Phoronix – Wine Wayland Driver’s Vulkan Support Is Now Usable

The LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 builds for Linux, Windows, and macOS are now available for testing of this leading open-source office suite…

Source: Phoronix – LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Builds Available For Testing

The year began with Godot 4.0 making its much anticipated debut and now this open-source game engine project is ending out 2023 with Godot 4.2 as the second revision to the Godot 4.x engine…

Source: Phoronix – Godot 4.2 Released With More Stability Improvements, Improved Rendering & AMD FSR 2.2

The Free Software Foundation this week published their 2023 holiday shopping guide for services and products that comply with their pure free software standards, such as computer hardware devices that “respect your freedom” regardless of hardware age…

Source: Phoronix – Holiday Shopping 2023: FSF Endorses 802.11n WiFi, Opteron Boards & USB To Parallel Printer Cable

Immediately after the Bcachefs file-system was upstreamed into the Linux 6.7 kernel I began running some benchmarks on this new copy-on-write file-system. Shortly thereafter some scalability improvements and disabling a debug option by default were merged. So with the Bcachefs work for Linux 6.7 settling down the past few weeks, here’s a fresh look at how Bcachefs is performing against the likes of EXT4, XFS, F2FS, and Btrfs.

Source: Phoronix – Another Look At The Bcachefs Performance on Linux 6.7