AMD today is announcing what they call “the most powerful PRO GPU under $1,000” with the Radeon PRO W7700 that has a suggested price of $999. Like the rest of the Radeon PRO W7000 series, the W7700 enjoys fully upstream and working open-source Linux graphics driver support for launch day. I received an AMD Radeon PRO W7700 and have been putting it through its paces successfully under Linux.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Radeon PRO W7700 Launches As 9 GPU With Fully Open-Source Upstream Linux Drivers

With the SC23 Super Computing conference kicking off today in Denver, Intel has just lifted the embargo on a number of disclosures.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Talks Up Granite Rapids, Falcon Shores & Their Open Software Stack @ SC23

Valve’s Steam Deck is a heavy user of relying on pre-compiled shaders to yield quicker start times and a more efficient handheld gaming experience. But in cases where bugs happen and a shader compiler fix needs to be back-ported, there isn’t a straight-forward means of properly handling that for the Steam Deck. But with new knobs being added to the Mesa RADV driver code, there will be some options for better dealing with this moving forward…

Source: Phoronix – RADV Adds Knobs To Force Shader Re-Compilation – Helping Games On The Steam Deck

Following the recent talk of XWayland’s rootful mode becoming more useful, Red Hat’s Olivier Fourdan has continued enhancing the XWayland rootful support. Last week he opened up the merge request for adding HiDPI support to this mode…

Source: Phoronix – XWayland Rootful HiDPI Support Under Review

Ahead of Supercomputing SC23 week, a new version of OpenBLAS has been published for this leading open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library. OpenBLAS 0.3.25 brings new improvements for Intel and AMD x86_64 CPUs as well as a number of general improvements, and continued tuning for other architectures like ARM64, POWER, and LoongArch…

Source: Phoronix – OpenBLAS 0.3.25 Adds New AVX-512 Optimizations For Sapphire Rapids & More

After some time spent in testing, TuxClocker 1.3 with its new AMD GPU features was released as stable overnight…

Source: Phoronix – TuxClocker 1.3 Released With New AMD GPU Tuning Capabilities

After a very exciting two weeks, the merge window for Linux 6.7 is now wrapped up and Linus Torvalds has published Linux 6.7-rc1 as the first release candidate leading up to the stable release around the end of the calendar year…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7-rc1 Released With NVIDIA GSP & Bcachefs While Itanium IA-64 Retired

The Linux 6.7 merge window has been downright exciting with additions like Nouveau GSP support and the Bcachefs file-system being added. It’s also been downright massive as one of the largest merge windows in recent history in terms of code changes. Here’s some statistics of the Linux 6.7 merge window ahead of today’s Linux 6.7-rc1 release…

Source: Phoronix – The Linux 6.7 Merge Window Is Massive With Many New Features

The USB/Thunderbolt subsystem udpates were merged a few days ago for Linux 6.7. As Greg Kroah-Hartman put it in the pull request, “nothing really major in here, just lots of constant development for new hardware.”..

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 USB/Thunderbolt Adds DP Alt Mode 2.1 Support, Intel LJCA

While Intel hasn’t released a new Atom SoC in years, thanks to the work by Red Hat engineers and others in the open-source community, even drivers for aging Intel Atom platforms continue to receive improvements. One of the areas of ongoing work has been the Linux kernel driver for the Atom ISP camera interface for image signal processing in supporting the web camera on some of these old devices. With Linux 6.7 there is yet more work on the Intel Atom ISP driver…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Atom ISP Camera Driver Continues Being Cleaned Up In The Linux Kernel

OBS Studio 30.0 was released as stable this evening as the latest version of this cross-platform software that is popular for screen-casting and widely-used by game streamers…

Source: Phoronix – OBS Studio 30.0 Released With Intel QSV AV1 On Linux, WHIP/WebRTC Output

The Intel-developed Turbostat Linux CLI utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics is seeing a number of feature updates for Linux 6.7 as well as new hardware support…

Source: Phoronix – Linux’s Turbostat Adds Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Support, Table-Based Feature Enumeration

One of the great aspects of Intel integrated and discrete graphics is the broad support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV). Intel “Gen12” graphics back to Tigerlake can handle SR-IOV when there aren’t any firmware woes or other issues at play. There is SR-IOV support currently with the i915 kernel driver but Intel engineers are working to architect optimal SR-IOV integration into their forthcoming Xe DRM kernel driver…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver

While it was supposed to ship back in H1’2023, FFmpeg 6.1 finally released last night as the newest feature update to this widely-used multimedia library…

Source: Phoronix – FFmpeg 6.1 Released With Vulkan Video Decoding, VA-API AV1 Encode

It’s been an exciting week in the KDE space as along with releasing Plasma 6.0 Alpha, they have also committed to shipping Plasma 6.0 with the Wayland session being enabled by default…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland By Default, Initial Support For HDR-Capable Games

Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers has introduced their first Ryzen 7040 series “Zen 4” Linux laptop in the form of the Pulse 14 Gen 3…

Source: Phoronix – TUXEDO Computers Launches Zen 4 Linux Laptop With 32GB RAM & 3K Display

Wine 8.20 is out today and it takes care of quite a vintage bug report… A feature request from 2010 to be able to register URL protocol handlers under Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 8.20 Closes 13 Year Old Bug To Register URL Protocol Handlers On Linux

In addition to the many x86/x86_64 and AArch64 improvements this round for Linux 6.7, on the RISC-V architecture side are some exciting kernel advancements too…

Source: Phoronix – RISC-V With Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks

With recently picking up the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 powered by the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U and given the recent release of Fedora 39, I found it to be a nice time to provide a Lenovo ThinkPad retrospect of how the AMD Ryzen laptop Linux performance has evolved the past few generations. In today’s article is a look at how the AMD Ryzen 7 mobile series laptop performance has evolved going back to Zen 2 for various ThinkPad models while all testing was carried out on the brand new Fedora Workstation 39 Linux release.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Ryzen Lenovo Laptop Linux Performance For Zen 2 / Zen 3 / Zen 3+ / Zen 4

Slint as a reminder is a Rust-written open-source graphical toolkit that on Linux uses Qt currently underneath. Slint has been making good progress on its goals and today marks the availability of Slint 1.3…

Source: Phoronix – Rust-Written GUI Toolkit Slint 1.3 Brings Initial Android Port, Native Styles On Windows