While the KDE Plasma and GNOME Shell desktops are running on Wayland well, there are still many smaller desktops that haven’t yet been ported over to Wayland or still in the early stages. There’s also no shortage of passionate open-source developers toying around with their own desktops / compositors. Louvre is now the latest library out there like WLROOTS and libweston aiming to help develop Wayland compositors…

Source: Phoronix – Louvre Is A New C++ Library Helping To Build Wayland Compositors

For those Ubuntu Linux users enjoying the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA for having the very latest kernel stable point releases or being able to test daily Git kernel builds with ease or weekly RCs, the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA returned this week after a month of downtime…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu’s Mainline Kernel PPA Is Back To Providing The Latest Linux Kernel Builds

Earlier this week Intel compiler engineers posted patches enabling Intel APX NDD support for the GCC compiler as the “New Data Destination” feature of the Advanced Performance Extensions. Those engineers are ending out their week by posting patches for enabling APX PPX for GCC, the new Push-Pop Acceleration of this forthcoming ISA addition…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Preparing APX PPX Support For GCC: Push-Pop Acceleration

Valve has released SteamOS 3.5.5 to its stable channel for Steam Deck users that brings Steam Deck OLED device support, HDR display settings if supported by the external display, the default color rendering for Steam Deck LCD now emulates the sRGB color gamut, and many other changes…

Source: Phoronix – SteamOS 3.5.5 Released To Stable With Steam Deck OLED Support & Many Other Changes

Ahead of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors becoming available, Noctua recently introduced the new NH-U14S TR5-SP6 and NH-D9 TR5-SP6 heatsinks. In addition to working with the Threadripper 7000 series, these CPUs fit as well for Socket SP6 introduced with the new AMD EPYC 8004 “Siena” processors. Here is a look at the cooling performance of these new Noctua TR5-SP6 heatsinks on AMD EPYC.

Source: Phoronix – Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 & NH-D9 TR5-SP6 4U Great For Cooling AMD EPYC 8004 “Siena” CPUs

Embedded Linux consulting firm Bootlin has announced they’ve developed open-source Linux kernel driver support for the H.264 video encoder found with Allwinner V3, V3s, and S3 SoCs…

Source: Phoronix – Open-Source H.264 Video Encode Coming For Allwinner V3/V3s/S3 SoCs

As was expected but now made official: this year’s Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel is Linux 6.6…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Formally Becomes This Year’s LTS Kernel

The uutils open-source project continues working on re-implementing the widely-used GNU Coreutils utilities within the Rust programming language for better security and a fresh take on rm, cd, cat, ls, and other commands…

Source: Phoronix – Uutils 0.0.23 Implements More GNU Coreutils Functionality In Rust

Intel has released OpenVINO 2023.2 as the newest version of their open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference. OpenVINO continues in its never-ending quest for maximizing deep learning performance and efficiency while continuing to expand in its model support and features…

Source: Phoronix – OpenVINO 2023.2 Released With More Generative AI Coverage & Broader LLM Support

Going back to May 2022, AMD Linux graphics driver engineers were working on AMDGPU driver patches to enable a new Light System DMA “LSDMA” IP block. Since then we haven’t heard much about LSDMA until some new patches surfaced yesterday for optionally enabling the LSDMA ring mode for the AMDGPU kernel driver…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Linux Graphics Driver Preparing For Enabling New LSDMA Ring Mode

Intel has rolled out a new quarterly update to QATlib, its QuickAssist Technology library for Linux systems to enjoy hardware acceleration of various crypto and compression algorithms on QAT Gen 4 hardware…

Source: Phoronix – Intel QATlib 23.11 Brings New Crypto Support

Dimitri John Ledkov of the Ubuntu kernel team has written about some of the improvements made for the default kernel build on Ubuntu 23.10. Ubuntu’s Linux kernel build is now using much less disk space, lower RAM use, and much faster initrd generation…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu 23.10 Is Maxing Out Zstd Compression For Its Kernel Build

Mesa 23.3 is gearing up for release in a week or two while out now is Mesa 23.3-rc4 for the latest weekly release candidate to this collection of open-source graphics drivers…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3-rc4 Released With More Fixes

With Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) continuing to prove popular mot only for end-users and independent developers but within organizations as well for having easy access to a Linux environment from the confines of Windows 11, Microsoft has added new enterprise-focused security options for WSL…

Source: Phoronix – Microsoft Adds Enterprise Security Features To WSL

Intel has released a new version of ISPC, their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler. The ISPC 1.22 release is clocking in a few percent faster across the board as with their release builds they are now making use of LLVM Clang’s link-time optimizations (LTO) for speeding up the binaries…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Speeds Up ISPC Via LLVM/Clang LTO

A change proposal currently undergoing discussion for Fedora 40 would change their toolchain’s (BFD) linker to error out on potential security issues. Currently BFD is emitting warnings on potential security problems but the F40 proposal is to instead error out so the program being built will fail to link when hitting recognized security issues…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora 40 Looking To Change Linker To Error Out On Security Issues

For those in the market for an AMD Ryzen 7040 series (Zen 4) laptop, the Framework 13 laptop is a great option for those wanting a Linux-friendly device and is a rare breed in being a completely upgradeable laptop similar to Framework’s Intel laptop models. I’ve been testing out the Framework Laptop 13 the past month and after a BIOS update has been working out wonderfully on Linux.

Source: Phoronix – Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes For A Great Linux Laptop

The GNOME GTK toolkit is introducing support for graphics offloading within the toolkit. This new GTK “GraphicsOffload” support is Wayland-only at this time and not working either for non-Linux platforms…

Source: Phoronix – GTK 4.14 Adding Graphics Offloading Capabilities Under Wayland

A new feature coming to next-generation Intel graphics display hardware has been revealed in new open-source Linux graphics driver patches: CMRR as an extension of the existing adaptive-sync variable rate refresh (VRR) functionality…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Lunar Lake Graphics Introducing “CMRR” Adaptive VRR Feature

As part of their work on enabling Advanced Performance Extensions, Intel compiler engineers today posted a set of GNU Compiler Collection patches for enabling the APX NDD…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Posts GCC Compiler Patches For APX NDD