An Intel engineer on Friday posted a set of Linux kernel patches that are working to refine the Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) mitigation handling for the Linux kernel to better protect some kernel data and also some very subtle performance benefits…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Optimizing Its MDS Mitigation Handling To Avoid Possible Kernel Data Leaking

Ever since the release of TuxClocker 1.0 last month, this open-source community software project for enhancing overclocking controls under Linux has been living up to the “release early, release often” mantra. Out today is TuxClocker 1.2…

Source: Phoronix – TuxClocker 1.2 Released With AMD GPU Thermal Monitoring, CPU Governor Controls

FreeBSD 14.0 is preparing for release in early November as a big update to this leading BSD operating system. It’s going to be a great release and Friday’s FreeBSD 14.0-RC2 milestone landed some last minute updates…

Source: Phoronix – FreeBSD 14.0-RC2 Pulls In OpenZFS 2.2, OpenSSH 9.5p1

Back in September GNOME developer Christian Hergert noted how Linux terminal emulators have the potential of being much faster based on his experiments. While at the time he didn’t plan to pursue it further, in the weeks since he’s been making enhancements to GNOME’s VTE code that is used by GNOME Console and other apps…

Source: Phoronix – More Optimizations Made For Making GNOME/VTE Terminals Go Faster

Thursday marked the 18th birthday of the Geany open-source text editor / lightweight integrated development environment (IDE) project. In celebrating Geany turning 18, the Geany 2.0 release was made available. Geany 2.0 continues to strive toward the project goal of being a fast and easy to use text editor for coding…

Source: Phoronix – Geany 2.0 Lightweight IDE / Text Editor Released

With the newest AMD Ryzen 7040 series laptops there is “Ryzen AI” as a dedicated AI engine based on Xilinx IP to help accelerate machine learning with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow. Sadly though this Ryzen AI with their new Zen 4 laptops is only supported under Microsoft Windows at this point. But it could change with sufficient customer interest…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Wants To Know If You’d Like Ryzen AI Support On Linux

Raptor Computing Systems as the company behind the open-source friendly, POWER-based Talos II server and Blackbird microATX desktop has continued leveraging POWER9 given the binary blobs and challenging state around POWER10. But looking ahead to next year it looks like they’ll be debuting some new hardware platforms…

Source: Phoronix – Raptor Computing Developing New Secure BMC & New OpenPOWER ISA 3.1 Based Systems

As shown already the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U works out well on Linux and is very speedy as shown with that prior benchmarking on Linux 6.3, but for those moving to Linux 6.5 or newer the performance and power efficiency is even better. Like for those moving to the newly-released Ubuntu 23.10 with Linux 6.5, there are some nice performance gains to find with this laptop — similar to the experience seen with various AMD Ryzen desktops on the new kernel.

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5+ Is Great For The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 / AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

System76 engineers working on their COSMIC desktop environment for their Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution continue to be quite busy working on this Rust-written desktop code…

Source: Phoronix – COSMIC Desktop Rolls Out Lock/Login Screen, More Wayland Protocols

Vulkan 1.3.269 released this morning with new extensions from Arm and NVIDIA…

Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.3.269 Released With New Extension For Launching CUDA Kernels

Karol Herbst at Red Hat who leads development on Mesa’s Rust-written OpenCL “Rusticl” driver presented to share the progress made over the course of the year on this modern alternative to Gallium3D’s Clover as well as some of the work still being pursued by this open-source OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D drivers…

Source: Phoronix – Rusticl OpenCL Still Striving For Better Performance, SYCL & HIP Features

For going along with the initial GFX11.5 kernel support that is set to be introduced in Linux 6.7 along with other portions of new AMD Radeon graphics IP enablement, this quarter’s Mesa 23.3 release will also bring initial GFX11.5 graphics support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3 Merges Initial Support For RDNA3 Refresh “GFX11.5” Graphics

Lutris 0.5.14 is out today as the newest feature update to this Python-written open-source solution for managing your games on Linux whether they be native titles or via Steam Play / Wine as well as integrating into popular gaming services like Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and EA App. With Lutris 0.5.14 this centralized Linux game launcher has picked up some additional capabilities…

Source: Phoronix – Lutris 0.5.14 Released For Better Managing Your Games On Linux

It was just over one week ago that AMD announced plans to acquire Nod.ai to enhance their open-source AI software capabilities. Today already they announced that acquisition has completed…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Completes Nod.ai Acquisition To Enhance Open-Source AI Capabilities

Sent out today were a new batch of drm-misc-next changesi ntended for Linux 6.7. There’s various fixes to the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers, DRM VM_BIND async documentation, and other small changes. Plus the DRM_GPUVM code has been re-licensed from being GPLv2-only to now GPLv2 or MIT…

Source: Phoronix – Linux’s DRM GPUVM Code Relicensed From GPLv2-Only To GPLv2 Or MIT

AMD today published a new CPU microcode revision for Family 19h processors, which include Zen 3 / Zen 3+ / Zen 4 processors. As is sadly standard, no change-log is provided…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Family 19h CPU Microcode Updated (2023-10-19 Rev)

With the pending changes set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.7 kernel, all known issues/limitations around the i915 kernel driver support for upcoming integrated graphics with Intel Meteor Lake laptop processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Meteor Lake Graphics Declared Stable With Linux 6.7

During XDC 2023 this week in Spain, Faith Ekstrand with Collabora provided a status update on the NVK Vulkan driver that continues to be developed inside Mesa for providing open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver support…

Source: Phoronix – Even Though It’s Currently Slow, The Mesa NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan Driver Has Been Making Good Progress

In addition to AMD announcing the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series / Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series, AMD also used today for announcing the Radeon RX 7900M for what they are calling their fastest Radeon laptop graphics ever developer…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Introduces Radeon RX 7900M Laptop Graphics

AMD today announced the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX Series as the company’s long-awaited Threadripper update that brings up to 96 Zen 4 cores, RDIMM memory is now required for Threadripper platforms moving forward, and catering to both HEDT enthusiasts and professionals. Here is an initial overview of the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series while the benchmark/review embargo isn’t being lifted until a later date.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Launches The Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series: Up To 96 Cores, DDR5 RDIMMs, PRO & HEDT CPUs