Weston 13.0 Alpha was released today as the next iteration of this reference Wayland compositor…

Source: Phoronix – Weston 13 Alpha Released With New Backends, Other Improvements

Hours after Ubuntu 23.10 was released last Thursday it was discovered Ubuntu 23.10 ISOs contained malicious user translations for those using the Ukranian translations within the Ubuntu Linux desktop installer. Canonical suspended the desktop ISOs until the translations could be fixed and ISOs re-spun. That’s now happened and this afternoon Ubuntu 23.10 images are back online…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop ISOs Re-Released Following Translation Snafu

While Ubuntu 23.10 isn’t a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, for those curious about the evolution of Ubuntu Linux performance for Intel Xeon Max (Sapphire Rapids with HBM2e) on this new release just six months out from the all-important Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, here are some benchmarks showing the dual Intel Xeon Max 9480 performance on a Supermicro X13DEM platform while comparing Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu 23.04, and the brand new Ubuntu 23.10.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Xeon Max / Sapphire Rapids Riding Higher On Ubuntu 23.10

While Friday’s release of ROCm 5.7.1 hadn’t mentioned any Radeon family GPU support besides the aging Radeon VII, it turns out AMD’s newest open-source GPU compute stack is ready to go now with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and is complete with working PyTorch support…

Source: Phoronix – AMD ROCm + PyTorch Now Supported With The Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 7.4 today as the open-source BSD operating system project’s 55th release…

Source: Phoronix – OpenBSD 7.4 Released With New Hardware Support, Security Improvements

A set of patches to the community-developed MSI-EC Linux kernel driver would allow toggling MSI’s Cooler Boost functionality under Linux for enhancing laptop cooling performance…

Source: Phoronix – MSI-EC Linux Driver Patches Allow Enabling “Cooler Boost” For MSI Laptops

Intel engineers are proposing that full support for the SYCL programming model be added to upstream LLVM. This is part of their broader oneAPI effort and embracing Khronos’ SYCL standard for single-source C++ heterogeneous programming from CPUs to GPUs, FPGAs, and other accelerators…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Proposes Adding Full SYCL Programming Model Support To Upstream LLVM

Intel continues to do a splendid job at ensuring the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang upstream compilers have support for their new processor cores well in advance of products shipping. Beyond already having Sierra Forest, Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake support already in upstream GCC, today one of the Intel compiler engineers sent out patches for enabling the Clear Water Forest and Panther Lake cores…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Posts GCC Compiler Patches For Clear Water Forest & Panther Lake

The USB I2C / SPI / GPIO drivers for Intel’s La Jolla Cove Adapter (LCJA) are set to be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.7 kernel merge window opening at the end of the month…

Source: Phoronix – Intel La Jolla Cove Adapter “LJCA” Drivers Coming With Linux 6.7

Released on Sunday was uutils 0.0.22 as the open-source software aiming to be a drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils while being written in the Rust programming language for memory safety, better performance, and a modernized codebase…

Source: Phoronix – Rust-Written Coreutils Increases GNU Compatibility, Adds NetBSD Support

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.6-rc6 and expressed his intention of releasing Linux 6.6 stable in two weeks unless anything wild happens as we approach the end of this kernel cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6-rc6 Released: Plan For 6.6 Stable In Two Weeks

Queued up this week as part of the HID subsystem fixes ahead of today’s Linux 6.6-rc6 kernel test release has been a rather embarrassing bug: unplugging Logitech USB receivers has for the past several months been causing the Linux kernel to crash. After a number of bug reports around this issue from unplugging Logitech keyboard/mice receivers to simply switching away on a USB switch with the device(s) attached, the Linux 6.6-rc6 kernel is carrying the fix and it’s also marked for back-porting to existing stable Linux kernel series…

Source: Phoronix – Unplugging Logitech USB Receivers Has Been Causing The Linux Kernel To Crash

Over the past two weeks there has been a pleasant uptick in new commits to Coreboot as part of enabling EPYC 9004 “Genoa” series platform support…

Source: Phoronix – More AMD EPYC Zen 4 “Genoa” Code Heads Into Coreboot

Next week in DRM-Next will hopefully see the patch promoting Intel Meteor Lake graphics to stable in time for the upcoming Linux 6.7 merge window. Ahead of that an i915 drm-intel-next pull request on Friday sent out more Meteor Lake patches while concurrently working on more driver enablement code for Lunar Lake…

Source: Phoronix – Intel i915 Driver Prepares Finishing Touches For Meteor Lake, More Lunar Lake Enabling

While Python 3.12 was just released earlier this month, already the first alpha release of Python 3.13 is now available for early-stage testing and evaluation…

Source: Phoronix – Python 3.13 Alpha Kicks Off The Cycle With New Deprecations

On Friday AMD sent in another batch of feature patches that are ready for DRM-Next to in turn be upstreamed with the quickly approaching Linux 6.7 merge window. Most notable with this latest round of feature patches is enabling more next-generation graphics processor IP…

Source: Phoronix – More Patches For Next-Gen AMD GPU Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.7

Released on Friday was Wine 8.18 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Now available is Wine-Staging 8.18 as the more experimental blend of Wine that integrates just shy of 500 extra patches atop Wine…

Source: Phoronix – Wine-Staging 8.18 Brings Patch For An 8 Year Old Bug Report

Merged to Mesa 23.3 this weekend is initial support in the V3D Gallium3D (OpenGL) and V3DV Vulkan drivers for the Broadcom VideoCore 7.1.x graphics IP that is found within the new Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa Merges Initial OpenGL/Vulkan Support For Raspberry Pi 5’s GPU

Similar to the Radeon RADV driver recently implementing software-based decoding for Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC), the Intel “ANV” Vulkan driver within Mesa has also now wired up ASTC LDR emulation…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Vulkan Driver Lands ASTC LDR Emulation For Latest GPUs

AMD on Friday released ROCm 5.7.1 as their latest tagged release to this open-source GPU compute stack that continues progressing to better take on NVIDIA CUDA and Intel oneAPI…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Releases ROCm 5.7.1 With rocBLAS-GEMM-Tune & Bug Fixes