While the winter holidays are approaching so far it hasn’t led to any reduced effort in the GNOME camp. In fact, fresh off the €1M in funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund, there are several new exciting initiatives moving forward along with other ongoing enhancements driven by GNOME developers…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME’s €1M Funding Is Help Advance Work On systemd-homed Home Encryption

Wine 8.21 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of Wine and the final one prior to the feature freeze coming up in two weeks…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 8.21 Released With HiDPI Scaling & Initial Vulkan Code For The Wayland Driver

For those wondering about the air cooling prospects for DIY builds with the new 350 Watt AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors, here’s a brief look at the new Noctua heatsink options for the Socket sTR5 processors and the results in use with a Threadripper 7980X 64-core / 128-thread workstation.

Source: Phoronix – Noctua NH-U14S & NH-D9 Air Cooling For The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X

Intel on Thursday committed Arrow Lake “ARL” support to their open-source Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by their Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and Level Zero while on Windows IGC is additionally used as their graphics shader compiler as well…

Source: Phoronix – Arrow Lake Support Added To The Intel Graphics Compiler

In time for any holiday gaming, Valve has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.11 as its Direct3D 12 on Vulkan implementation that is used by Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying the latest Windows games on Linux…

Source: Phoronix – VKD3D-Proton 2.11 Released With DXR Now Enabled By Default & DirectX Ultimate

While the open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver is well received by the community, one of the longest sought features has been an official GUI control panel for managing the driver settings and the like under Linux with ease. AMD for their part exposes much of the same tunables available under Windows but is left to just command-line controls or software to poke different ioctls directly. LACT is now the newest open-source option for those wanting an AMD graphics driver control panel for Linux…

Source: Phoronix – LACT Is The Newest AMD Radeon GUI Control Panel For Linux

Following yesterday’s week drm-misc-next pull that added the new Imagination PowerVRM DRM driver, the three patches for atomic DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC were queued into drm-misc-next. Now that this atomic async page flip support is in drm-misc-next, next week it should appear in DRM-Next and in turn make it for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year…

Source: Phoronix – Atomic Async Page Flips Expected To Land For Linux 6.8

GIMP 3.0 could be finally released in a few months if all goes very well…

Source: Phoronix – GIMP 3.0 Is Hoping To Release In May

Released on Thursday were the Linux v6.7-rc2-rt1 real-time “PREEMPT_RT” patches that now re-bases the RT patches against the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel series…

Source: Phoronix – Real-Time “RT” Patches Updated Against Current Linux 6.7 Development

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.41 debuted this week as the newest version of this OpenJDK JVM focused on a small footprint and fast performance…

Source: Phoronix – Eclipse OpenJ9 0.41 Released With OpenSSL 3.x Support & Performance Improvements

PHP 8.3 is out today as the latest major annual update to the PHP programming language…

Source: Phoronix – PHP 8.3 Released With Typed Class Constants & Override Attribute

It’s been well over a decade since many were wanting open-source Imagination PowerVR graphics when their graphics IP was more common among SoCs, but with the Linux 6.8 kernel in early 2024 there will finally be an upstream, open-source PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver! But before getting your hopes too high, this is the effort that’s only around the newer PowerVR graphics and not the prior generation hardware from many years ago…

Source: Phoronix – Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver To Be Introduced In Linux 6.8

OpenSSL 3.2 was released this morning as the latest major update to this widely-used cryptography and SSL/TLS project…

Source: Phoronix – OpenSSL 3.2 Released With Client-Side QUIC, SSL/TLS Security Level 2 Default

LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 was just tagged in Git as the first development snapshot toward this next major release of this open-source office software…

Source: Phoronix – LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Brings Many New Features

The Qt Company today released Qt Creator 12 as the latest major update to this C++ and Qt focused integrated development environment. Most significant with Qt Creator 12 is integrating the Compiler Explorer while there are also many smaller changes for this Qt/C++ optimized IDE…

Source: Phoronix – Qt Creator 12 Released With Godbolt Compiler Explorer Integration

The very convenient Archinstall for quickly deploying new Arch Linux installations with some level of defaults and making it effortless to setup an Arch Linux desktop is out with a new release…

Source: Phoronix – Archinstall 2.7 Brings Unified Kernel Image Support To The Arch Linux Installer

The crew at System76 published a US Thanksgiving themed status update to their work on the open-source, Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment that will soon be powering their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution…

Source: Phoronix – System76 Stuffing More Features Into COSMIC Desktop Ahead Of The Holidays

As a nice US Thanksgiving surprise, AMD engineers on Wednesday posted their initial patches for adding the GFX1200 and GFX1201 targets to the LLVM compiler…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Begins Preparing LLVM For RDNA4 With GFX1200/GFX1201 Targets

While Ubuntu 23.10 isn’t a long-term support (LTS) release and thus won’t see too much exposure in the enterprise space, it’s worthwhile today looking at the AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon server performance. It’s interesting for a look ahead being just a few months until Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and with Ubuntu 23.10 incorporating GCC 13 that will also be the default compiler of Ubunu 24.04 among other close software package versions, the kernel not too far off from what will be in this next LTS release, and with Ubuntu 23.10’s Linux 6.5 kernel bringing some nice performance optimizations. So with that said I recently wrapped up some fresh benchmarks looking at the current generation Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids performance against AMD EPYC 9004 Bergamo, Genoa, and Genoa-X processors.

Source: Phoronix – AMD EPYC Genoa/Genoa-X & Bergamo vs. Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids On Ubuntu 23.10

The Linux Foundation today announced the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.18 for this open-source hypervisor that serves as an alternative to Linux KVM use…

Source: Phoronix – Xen 4.18 Hypervisor Released With Support For New AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPU Features