Merged for this quarter’s Mesa 23.3 release is the ability to have the Rusticl Rust-written OpenCL driver running atop Zink, the Gallium3D driver known for OpenGL-on-Vulkan. With Rusticl on Zink this now means getting this OpenCL 3.0 driver working atop Vulkan hardware drivers…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3 Lands Support For Rusticl On Zink To Have OpenCL Atop Vulkan Drivers

The release candidate is out this weekend for FreeBSD 14.0 as the developers work toward releasing FreeBSD 14 stable in early November…

Source: Phoronix – FreeBSD 14 Nears Release With Support For Up To 1024 CPU Cores, Updated Drivers

It was another exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 space with a number of notable new features being merged…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6 Has New Role For “F10”, Kate/KWrite Text-To-Speech & Smooth Scrolling

The PXN V900 gaming racing wheel is supported now by the mainline Linux kernel as of last night with the latest merged changes for the v6.6 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – PXN V900 Racing Wheel Support Added To Linux 6.6

Wine 8.18 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source program for running Windows applications and games on Linux. Wine 8.18 is another step closer to Wine 9.0 stable that is due out in early 2024…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 8.18 Released WIth Continued Work On Wayland Window Management

OpenZFS 2.2 was promoted to stable today as the latest major update to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems. With OpenZFS 2.2 comes many exciting new features, performance improvements, and other enhancements for this evolution of open-source ZFS…

Source: Phoronix – OpenZFS 2.2 Released With Block Cloning, Linux Container Support & Better Performance

While the Linux kernel tends to keep around drivers for even very old hardware, once there are no known users left that would still be updating to new Linux kernel versions or the drivers pose a significant maintenance burden, it’s eventually time to let them go. We’ve seen the WiMAX wireless code removed and now the latest on the Linux wireless networking side inching close to the chopping block are old WiFi drivers…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Looks Toward Dropping Very Old WiFi Drivers

For those using the stock kernel and Mesa drivers when running Ubuntu Linux, the upgrade from Ubuntu 23.04 to the newly-released Ubuntu 23.10 can mean some nice graphics performance improvements for Intel Arc Graphics users. Here is a look at some Arc Graphics A770 benchmarks on Ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10 plus the gains that are coming up when moving to Linux 6.6 and Mesa 23.3-devel.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10

The newest Blender alpha builds of the past week have enabled Vulkan API support as an experimental option on Windows and Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Blender Alpha Builds Enable Experimental Vulkan Option

OpenWrt 23.05 has been released as the newest feature release for this embedded Linux distribution that is popular for use on networking devices…

Source: Phoronix – OpenWrt 23.05 Released With Rust Package Support, MbedTLS Replaces WolfSSL

AMD has published the Advanced Media Acceleration (AMA) v1.0 SDK as a software stack aimed for hardware video acceleration and capable of high density real-time transcoding. The AMD AMA SDK integrates with the likes of the open-source FFmpeg and GStreamer projects for fitting nicely in the Linux software ecosystem as well as sporting its own C-based API…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Advanced Media Acceleration “AMA” 1.0 SDK Released

Following last week’s PipeWire 1.0 release candidate, today a second release candidate was published as part of the project’s plan for reaching v1.0 before the end of the year for this widely-used Linux audio/video streams server that is a viable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK…

Source: Phoronix – PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching

While some Linux distributions like Fedora and Arch are enabling the native Wayland back-end for Firefox by default, upstream Firefox continues to not enable this Wayland support as part of their default builds. But — at long last — that might finally change soon…

Source: Phoronix – Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox’s Wayland Backend Soon

Following this week’s release of Qt 6.6, the Qt Creator 12 beta has been released for this Qt and C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE)…

Source: Phoronix – Qt Creator 12 Beta Brings Integrated Compiler Explorer

OpenSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 is now available as the latest community version of SUSE Linux’s Enterprise Micro. openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 is a great choice for a lightweight Linux OS particularly for VMs and containers…

Source: Phoronix – openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Released For Lightweight Environments & Containers

Hours after the release of Ubuntu 23.10, Canonical has pulled the ISOs and is re-spinning them after user-submitted translations for the Ubuntu installer turned out to contain hate speech…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations

It was a busy day for the GCC 14 (GNU Compiler Collection) development with Intel landing three separate noteworthy contributions just today for this next major open-source compiler release…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Lands A Few Noteworthy Improvements Today Into The GCC 14 Compiler

In addition to Linux 6.6 delivering better results on AMD EPYC servers, Intel Xeon Max / Sapphire Rapids is also picking up some performance wins on this forthcoming version of the Linux kernel. Here are some comparison benchmarks looking at the Intel Xeon Max 9480 2S performance between Linux 6.5 stable and the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Xeon Max Enjoying Some Performance Gains With Linux 6.6

Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur” is now officially available for download as the latest (non-LTS) Ubuntu Linux release with a wealth of updated packages, continued desktop installer improvements, and other refinements ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu 23.10 Now Available With ZFS Desktop Install Option, Linux 6.5 Kernel

For those making use of GPU-accelerated AV1 video encoding with the latest AMD Radeon graphics hardware on Linux, the upcoming Mesa 23.3 release will support the high-quality AV1 preset for offering higher quality encodes…

Source: Phoronix – Higher Quality AV1 Video Encoding Now Available For Radeon Graphics On Linux