The staging changes for Linux 6.7 are on the heavier side in part due to many new contributors from Outreachy mailing in their first kernel patches with various minor fixes. But staging is also lightened up a bit by dropping a wired Ethernet and wireless driver as part of the ongoing kernel effort to remove unused and old WiFi drivers…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Staging Drops The QLGE Ethernet & rtl8192u WiFi Drivers

With Linux 6.7 the EROFS read-only file-system intended primarily for mobile devices and containers is considering their MicroLZMA compression support as stable…

Source: Phoronix – EROFS No Longer Treating MicroLZMA Compression As Experimental

Microsoft yesterday published CBL-Mariner 2.0.20231106 as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution that is used for a variety of services from Azure to WSL…

Source: Phoronix – Microsoft’s CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Issues A Big Update For November

FEX 2311 is out today as the newest version of this emulator for running x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on AArch64 systems…

Source: Phoronix – FEX 2311 Brings More AVX Optimizations, Preparations For Better Performance

Ankur Arora of Oracle on Tuesday sent out a set of 86 patches for making the Linux kernel preemptible. This is based on earlier work by prominent Linux kernel engineer Thomas Gleixner…

Source: Phoronix – New Set Of 86 Patches Overhaul The Linux Kernel’s Preemption Model

GIMP 2.10.36 was released on Tuesday for this long-running stable series of this open-source Adobe Photoshop alternative while GIMP 3.0 has been very slow to materialize…

Source: Phoronix – GIMP 2.10.36 Released As GIMP 3.0 Might Finally Be Close

Following last week’s merging of the Bcachefs file-system into Linux 6.7, a secondary set of updates were merged today for adding a few new features as well as some fixes for this newly-merged Linux file-system…

Source: Phoronix – Bcachefs Lands Big Scalability Improvement, Disables Debug Option By Default

A very enticing performance optimization was merged yesterday into the OpenZFS codebase to enhance the write performance scalability…

Source: Phoronix – OpenZFS Lands Sync Parallelism To Drive Big Gains For Write Performance Scalability

Following last month’s launch of the Intel Arc Graphics A580 for a sub-$200 graphics card backed by an open-source Linux driver stack I ran some benchmarks looking at the Intel Arc Graphics compute performance against NVIDIA’s proprietary driver stack. In today’s article is a fresh look at the 1080p Linux gaming/graphics performance across Intel Arc Graphics, AMD Radeon, and NVIDIA GeForce GPUs while using the latest Linux drivers.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Arc Graphics vs. AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce For 1080p Linux Graphics In Late 2023

The Rust-written Servo browser engine that started at Mozilla but now developed by Linux Foundation Europe with contributors from Igalia and other organizations has been enjoying a fruitful 2023…

Source: Phoronix – Servo Browser Engine Receives Funding To Work On HTML <table> Support

In addition to Canonical continuing to invest in developing Mir as a platform now built atop Wayland, over the past year Canonical developers have been quietly working on Miriway as a Mir-based Wayland compositor and it’s becoming iteratively more useful…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu’s Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For Other Desktops

While there is now the 4th Gen EPYC processors with the exciting and vast line-up from the very powerful general purpose Genoa(X) processors and Bergamo for CSPs and very dense servers to Siena for telco/edge, the 3rd Gen EPYC “Milan(X)” processors remain very viable. Especially for those seeking to minimize hardware costs, seeking very mature platforms, or looking to upgrade existing EPYC SP3 servers, the EPYC 7003 series remains quite competitive. Today AMD formally announced six new Milan processors…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Releases Six New EPYC 7003 “Milan” Processors

While delayed by several weeks compared to their initial release goals, today marks the availability of Fedora 39 as a wonderful upgrade to this popular Linux distribution…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers

Ahead of the all-important Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cycle dubbed the “Moble Numbat”, Canonical is making a technology preview of Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) available for Ubuntu 23.10…

Source: Phoronix – Canonical Brings Intel TDX Tech Preview To Ubuntu 23.10

The HID subsystem updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel don’t bring any shiny new features or notable hardware support additions, but there is a clean-up to the Logitech HID++ (logitech-hidpp) driver probing code as well as some notable quirks/fixes to different hardware…

Source: Phoronix – Dell & Lenovo Keyboard Quirks Addressed In Linux 6.7

In addition to the continued FUTEX2 improvements that landed in Linux 6.7, another pull request merged last week for the new kernel bring FUTEX support to IO_uring…

Source: Phoronix – IO_uring FUTEX Support In Linux 6.7 For A Nice Performance/Efficiency Boost

A set of 53 patches were upstreamed on Monday for syncing Mesa 24.0-devel against the latest Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver changes carried by Asahi Linux. This in turn is a big push for getting more of the open-source OpenGL functionality into Mesa for enjoying Linux on Apple M1 and M2 hardware…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 24.0 Gets Asahi AGX Gallium3D To OpenGL 3.3 For Apple Silicon Hardware

Last week’s locking set of changes for the Linux 6.7 kernel add new interfaces for the FUTEX2 system call ABI. This work is making FUTEX2 more extendable and addressing some of the prior limitations…

Source: Phoronix – More FUTEX2 Bits Land In The Linux 6.7 Kernel

Back at the OCP Summit in Prague earlier this year AMD detailed openSIL for advancing open-source system firmware by opening up the CPU siliccon initialization process. An update was provided at the OCP San Jose event in October around the AMD OpenSIL effort…

Source: Phoronix – Open-Source AMD OpenSIL Continues Making Progress To Eventually Replace AGESA

Going back to early last year saw AMD Linux engineers posting PerfMonV2 patches in preparation for Zen 4 processors. The PerfMonV2 updated performance monitoring capabilities with Zen 4 were merged last year and are supported with the latest EPYC 8004/9004 series processors. Coming only now though to Linux 6.7 is support for Unified Memory Controller (UMC) events as part of PerfMonV2…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Perf Adds Support For Zen 4 Unified Memory Controller Events