While the AMD P-State driver is working quite well for Ryzen systems already with the default on Linux 6.5, one of the additions we are still waiting to land is the AMD “Preferred Core” functionality. An eighth version of those patches were posted on Monday for inching this feature closer to the mainline kernel…

Source: Phoronix – AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Spun Up An Eighth Time

Following the release last month of TuxClocker 1.0 as a GUI overclocking solution currently for NVIDIA graphics cards on Linux, this years-in-development open-source utility is up to version 1.1 and with some new capabilities…

Source: Phoronix – TuxClocker 1.1 Released With Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring, NVML Fan Control

AMD’s Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be busy working on enabling next-generation graphics processors with their upstream open-source driver…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Posts Linux Graphics Driver Patches Enabling SMU 14.0 IP

With Ubuntu 23.10 due for release on Thursday, I’ve been benchmarking a number of systems to look at the Ubuntu 23.10 performance against prior releases like Ubuntu 23.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Besides the open-source graphics driver performance for Intel and AMD Radeon graphics always being a stand-out improvement, one area that is particularly exciting with Ubuntu 23.10 is for those with newer AMD processors where there are some nice performance gains to find with this new Ubuntu Linux release. Here are side-by-side benchmarks of an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktop along with an Intel Core i9 13900K desktop while testing Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS / Ubuntu 23.04 / Ubuntu 23.10.

Source: Phoronix – Benchmarks: AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Performance Boosted With Ubuntu 23.10

The widely-used Curl project as a command-line tool and library for transferring data via a variety of protocols is preparing to roll-out Curl 8.4 early in order to address a particularly nasty vulnerability…

Source: Phoronix – Curl Preps For “Probably The Worst Curl Security Flaw In A Long Time”

A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support

In addition to Intel’s compiler engineers pushing a lot of code into GCC — and other open-source compiler components — around AVX10, over the weekend code began hitting the GCC 14 Git codebase for the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) functionality…

Source: Phoronix – Intel APX Code Begins Landing Within The GCC Compiler

Hangover 8.17 was released this weekend as the newest feature release for this open-source Wine-based software that aims to make it easy to run Windows x86/x64 binaries on 64-bit Arm Linux systems as well as potentially other architectures too like RISC-V and POWER…

Source: Phoronix – Hangover 8.17 Released With Updated Box64 & FEX Integration

Libva 2.20 was released today as the newest update to this common Video Acceleration API (VA-API) library that sits in front of the various hardware-specific VA-API driver implementations…

Source: Phoronix – Libva 2.20 Released For Video Acceleration API

As we approach the Linux 6.6 stable release in a few weeks, Linus Torvalds today released Linux 6.6-rc5 with everything looking “normal” for this week’s test release…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6-rc5 Released: “Things Are Back To Normal”

At the end of September PreSonus Audio Electronics announced Studio One 6.5 as the latest version of their premium Studio One music production software / digital audio workstation (DAW). While for years Linux has had options like Ardour, Stargate, REAPER and Zrythm, for the first time the commercial Studio One has seen native Linux support…

Source: Phoronix – PreSonus Studio One 6.5 Music Production Software Adds Wayland-Only Linux Support

Back in August Linux Containers forked the LXD project as Incus following Canonical’s decision to take in control of LXD. Released this weekend was the first formal release for the Incus software…

Source: Phoronix – Incus 0.1 Released As Linux Containers’ Fork Of LXD

The upcoming Linux 6.7 merge window is set to include a new AMD driver for supporting error detection and correct (EDAC) for their Versal SoCs…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Versal EDAC Driver Set For Introduction In Linux 6.7

Polychromatic continues evolving as the open-source management software for Razer peripherals on Linux that makes use of the independently-developed OpenRazer kernel drivers for improving the customization experience around Razer mice, keyboards, and other devices on Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Polychromatic 0.8.2 Released For Managing Razer Peripherals On Linux

Following the release of Debian 12.1 in July, Debian 12.2 was released this weekend to incorporate all of the latest security fixes and other stable back-ports for Debian 12 Bookworm…

Source: Phoronix – Debian 12.2 Released With Various Security Fixes, AMD Inception Microcode

The OpenZFS 2.2 release candidates are dragging on with the fifth test release having debuted on Saturday to provide some additional fixes and support for the Linux 6.5 stable kernel…

Source: Phoronix – OpenZFS 2.2-rc5 Released With More Fixes & Linux 6.5 Compatibility

In addition to x86-simd-sort 3.0 being released for speedy AVX-512 sorting, Friday also brought the release of oneDNN 3.3 as the deep neural network library that is part of oneAPI and focused on helping developers build out deep learning applications…

Source: Phoronix – Intel oneDNN 3.3 Brings More Performance Optimizations For Sapphire Rapids / AMX

Google engineers on Friday promoted Chrome 119 to its beta stage with some interesting features in tow…

Source: Phoronix – Chrome 119 Beta Released With CSS Relative Color Syntax, WebSQL Disabled

Dav1d 1.3 was released on Friday as the newest feature update to this widely-used, open-source AV1 video decoder…

Source: Phoronix – dav1d 1.3 Yields Lower Memory Use, More Arm NEON Optimizations

October is off to a great start as February inches closer for what’s expected to bring the much anticipated Plasma 6.0 desktop release…

Source: Phoronix – KWin Replaces KScreen For Handling Monitor Arrangement Under KDE Plasma Wayland