Eric Engestrom with Igalia just released Mesa 23.3 as the much anticipated quarterly update to this set of open-source 3D drivers principally focused on OpenGL and Vulkan API support…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3 Released With Initial NVK Vulkan Driver, AMD RDNA3 Refresh & Raspberry Pi 5

The Linux Mint crew led by Clement Lefebvre released Cinnamon 6.0 today as the latest version of their customized desktop stack…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Mint’s Cinnamon 6.0 Brings Initial — Still Experimental — Wayland Session

KDE today announced their first beta of the “KDE 6th Megarelease” as the Plasma 6.0, KDE Frameworks 6, and latest Gear applications…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 1 Released With Frameworks & Gear Updated

Back in September AMD rounded out their Zen 4 server product line-up with the EPYC 8004 “Siena” processors that are optimized for delivering excellent energy efficiency with leading performance-per-Watt and maximizing value both for initial server costs and ultimately the TCO. These single-socket server chips are quite interesting for a range of workloads form the edge to networking and more. In today’s article are benchmarks of the top-end AMD EPYC 8534P and EPYC 8534PN 64-core server processors and showing how they can take on Intel Xeon Platinum “Sapphire Rapids” in raw performance and blow the competition out of the water when it comes to the incredible performance-per-Watt and value.

Source: Phoronix – AMD EPYC 8534P / EPYC 8534PN Benchmarks – Siena Delivers Incredible Value & Energy Efficiency For Linux Servers

Given the interest in the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX Linux performance and the benchmarks of Ubuntu Linux vs. Windows 11 on this 96-core / 192-thread workstation processor, I’ve extended that comparison to now feature five Linux distributions up against Microsoft Windows on this HP Z6 G5 A workstation for greater perspective into the results.

Source: Phoronix – Benchmarking Five Linux Distros Against Windows 11 On The Threadripper PRO 7995WX / HP Z6 G5 A

As part of Red Hat’s plans to avoid shipping the X.Org Server in RHEL10, Olivier Fourdan of Red Hat’s graphics team announced their work on a new xwayland-run helper utility along with wlheadless-run and xwfb-run utilities…

Source: Phoronix – Red Hat Developing New xwayland-run & wlheadless-run Utilities

If you are looking for a CPU heatsink-fan combination that will fit within 4U rackmount server height requirements while being capable of cooling the latest high-end Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC / Threadripper processors while not being too expensive nor noisy, the Arctic Freezer 4U-M is a rare solution that can cross off all those checkboxes.

Source: Phoronix – Arctic Freezer 4U-M Is A Nice 4U Cooler Capable Of Cooling High-End AMD & Intel CPUs

The open-source Roundcube webmail software project has “merged” with Nextcloud, the prominent open-source personal cloud software…

Source: Phoronix – Roundcube Open-Source Webmail Software Merges With Nextcloud

Ampere Computing has sent out its latest patch attempt at increasing the number of Arm CPU cores supported by the mainline Linux kernel. As it stands at the moment the 64-bit ARM mainline Linux kernel build supports 256 cores, which can be exceeded with Ampere’s new AmpereOne processors in a multi-socket configuration…

Source: Phoronix – Ampere Preparing The ARM64 Linux Kernel To Support Higher CPU Core Counts

Coming up for the Linux 6.8 kernel the Btrfs file-system is preparing to make use of the newer Linux file-system mounting API…

Source: Phoronix – Btrfs Slated To Make Use Of New Mount API In Linux 6.8

Generalized Memory Management “GMEM” has been proposed as a new solution to be developed for the Linux kernel to deal with memory management for external memory devices like the growing number of accelerators coming to market…

Source: Phoronix – “GMEM” Proposed To Deal With Memory Management For Accelerators, External Memory Devices

A new release of Coreboot is available today as the increasingly popular open-source system firmware solution that’s used by Chromebooks, increasing hyperscaler / data center industry interest due to increased code transparency and security, System76 laptops, and more. Coreboot 4.22 is the new release and brings initial AMD OpenSIL code integration, 17 new motherboard ports, and more. Coreboot 4.22 will be succeeded next year by Coreboot 24.02…

Source: Phoronix – Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards

Intel today published Compute-Runtime 23.35.27191.9 as their latest update to this open-source GPU compute stack enabling OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support on Linux and Windows. With this being their first tagged release since September, it’s coming in heavy on changes…

Source: Phoronix – Intel CR 23.35.27191.9 Released As A Big Update To Their Open-Source GPU Compute Stack

It was just last week NVK developers were celebrating Vulkan 1.0 conformance while now this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa is preparing to expose Vulkan 1.1 support…

Source: Phoronix – NVK Driver Nearing Vulkan 1.1 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 & Newer

Red Hat has formally confirmed what many were thinking: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 will be doing away with X.Org Server support aside from XWayland…

Source: Phoronix – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Dropping The X.Org Server Except For XWayland

Canonical this morning released Mir 2.16 as the latest version of this open-source software for helping to build out Wayland compositors…

Source: Phoronix – Mir 2.16 Released With Seamless Boot Integration, Improved X11 Client Support

With the Imagination PowerVR open-source kernel graphics driver expected for Linux 6.8, the necessary firmware binary blob has now been accepted into linux-firmware.git…

Source: Phoronix – PowerVR Binary Blob Added To Linux-Firmware.Git For New Graphics Driver

Corsair this month released the MP700 PRO NVMe SSD as the company’s newest PCI Express Gen5 NVMe SSD. After the initial issues encountered with the Corsair MP700, I was eager to see how well this PCIe 5.0 solid-state drive would perform. Corsair rates their MP700 PRO SSD as capable of reaching up to 12,400 MB/s sequential reads and 11,800 MB/s sequential writes.

Source: Phoronix – Corsair MP700 PRO 2TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD

Weston 13.0 has been released as the latest major update to this reference Wayland compositor that attracts various experimental features and other innovations as developers experiment in the post-X11 world…

Source: Phoronix – Wayland’s Weston 13.0 Released With Multi-Backend Support & Overlapping Outputs

Queued up into tip/tip.git’s x86/cpu branch ahead of the Linux 6.8 merge window opening in a month is an optimization that should prove helpful in cloud/VM scenarios…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Has A Nice Performance Optimization Coming With Linux 6.8