XWayland has added a new “-glamor” command-line argument to allow specifically choosing between OpenGL or OpenGL ES use for acceleration…

Source: Phoronix – XWayland Now Allows For Better Choosing Between OpenGL & OpenGL ES

More Linux kernel code around Intel’s Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) has landed with the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – More Intel TDX Improvements Come With Linux 6.7

Valve just published their October 2023 stats for the monthly Steam Survey and they point to a nearly quarter point drop in the Linux usage after previously hitting its own highs…

Source: Phoronix – Steam Linux Usage Dropped Lower In October But With More Questionable Data

OpenRazer as the community-driven, open-source project providing driver support for Razer peripherals on Linux is out with a new feature release…

Source: Phoronix – OpenRazer 3.7 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux

Since Linux 6.6 we’ve been seeing work upstreamed for sysctl working to remove its sentinel, the final empty element on each sysctl array. This will cut-down on around 64 bytes of bloat per array, help with kernel build times, and an all-around improvement. With Linux 6.7 more of the sysctl changes are ready and hopefully for the v6.8 kernel cycle next year the effort will be completed…

Source: Phoronix – Sysctl With Linux 6.7 Continues Work To Remove Kernel Bloat

Eric Engestrom has put out another on-time Mesa release candidate for what’s culminating with the Mesa 23.3 release in the coming weeks…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3-rc2 Released With Fixes For Zink, Rusticl, RADV & Other Drivers

Following Google’s plans for removing Theora codec format support from the Chrome/Chromium browser, Mozilla is also eyeing a similar move for retiring Theora from Firefox…

Source: Phoronix – Mozilla Eyes Removal Of Theora Support In Firefox

Bcachefs was merged for Linux 6.7 and Btrfs is seeing some shiny new features with this next kernel version. But Linux 6.7 isn’t just about leading-edge file-system fun: the three decade old IBM Journaled File-System (JFS) is even seeing some minor changes…

Source: Phoronix – JFS File-System Seeing Minor Stability Improvements With Linux 6.7

Richard Hughes of Red Hat has released Fwupd 1.9.7 as the newest version of this open-source software for applying firmware updates on Linux for system firmware to various peripherals and other components…

Source: Phoronix – Fwupd 1.9.7 Adds Support For More Logitech, Synaptics & Western Digital Hardware

The MMC memory card updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel have been submitted for Linux 6.7 that includes new hardware support as well as a core MMC optimization to enhance the performance in some scenarios…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 MMC To See Up To 4~5% Better 4K Random Write Performance

Xaver Hugl who has been leading much of the KDE KWin feature development in recent years has opened up a preliminary merge request for allowing high dynamic range (HDR) enabled games to work on KDE…

Source: Phoronix – KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games

Here is a look back at the most popular open-source and Linux news and featured articles/reviews for the month prior…

Source: Phoronix – Wayland Progress, Ryzen AI & Linux Benchmarks That Made For An Exciting October

Intel Arc Graphics on Linux can handle running the Diablo IV game via Valve’s Steam Play but only when it hides the fact that it’s Intel graphics in use via a game-specific driver workaround…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Arc Graphics Conceals Itself To Get Diablo IV Running On Linux

All of the power management related updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Adds Support For Intel Meteor Lake Workload Type Hints

Earlier this month Intel introduced the 14th Gen Core “Raptor Lake Refresh” processors led by the flagship Core i9 14900K. Unfortunately my review samples had arrived late but in any event today are the first Linux benchmarks of the new Core i5 14600K and Core i9 14900K processors compared to prior 13th Gen Core processors as well as the AMD Ryzen 7000 series competition. All of these Intel and AMD processors were freshly re-tested on the newly-launched Ubuntu 23.10 with the Linux 6.5 kernel.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Core i5 14600K & Intel Core i9 14900K Linux Benchmarks

Earlier this year Intel published x86-simd-sort as a very speedy sorting library that initially leveraged AVX-512 instructions for 10~17x faster sorts. Numpy was one of the first major projects to adopt x86-simd-sort and OpenJDK more recently adopted it. Since the initial release we’ve seen more features and performance optimizations added. Today marks the release of x86-simd-sort 4.0 and it’s delivering even greater performance while also adding an AVX2 code path to help those without AVX-512…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s x86-simd-sort 4.0 Delivers A 2x Boost For AVX-512 Performance, Adds AVX2 Code

Sent out this morning was the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) feature pull request of updated graphics/display drivers for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel. Notable this round is Intel Meteor Lake integrated graphics now being considered stable / enabled out-of-the-box, Intel Lunar Lake graphics support has started to get underway, and AMD continues working on their upcoming hardware platforms…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 GPU Drivers: Intel Meteor Lake Stable & AMD Works On Upcoming Hardware

Earlier this month NVIDIA published the R545 Linux driver beta while today it’s been promoted to the stable series with the NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux driver release…

Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Driver Released With Much Better Wayland Support

Lennart Poettering has been working on a new systemd feature called systemd-storagetm that is inspired by the Apple macOS “Target Disk Mode” feature…

Source: Phoronix – Systemd Working On “Storage Target Mode” Feature – Inspired By Apple macOS

The GCC 14 compiler has merged support for the Zhaoxin Yongfeng processors via the new -march=yongfeng and -mtune=yongfeng compiler options…

Source: Phoronix – Zhaoxin Yongfeng CPU Support Merged For The GCC 14 Compiler