With today’s release of kmod 31, Linux’s modprobe utility for loading kernel modules can finally allow arbitrary paths to allow loading new kernel modules from anywhere on the file-system…

Source: Phoronix – Linux’s modprobe Adds The Ability To Load A Module From Anywhere On The File-System

Intel’s Linux graphics driver engineers have begun submitting their feature changes to DRM-Next of new i915 kernel driver feature material they are preparing for the Linux 6.7 cycle this winter…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 To Support New Intel DG2-G12 Stepping, More Raptor Lake IDs

With the Intel Arrow Lake NPU being very similar to Meteor Lake for this neural processing unit, the patches enabling that NPU for next-gen Intel Core CPUs was submitted as a “fix” for the ongoing Linux 6.6 cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Arrow Lake NPU Support Slides Into Linux 6.6 IVPU Driver

AMD announced today that the Windows games Immortals of Aveum and Forspoken are available today with their FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) upscaling technology. More games making use of FSR 3 are on the way and the open-source code drop of FSR 3 is coming at a later date…

Source: Phoronix – AMD FSR 3 Now Available – Open-Source Code To Come Soon

After a month and a half delay from AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 to AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2, the AMDVLK 2023.Q3.3 driver is out today after just one week. This AMD Vulkan driver update finally enables Radeon RX 7700 / RX 7800 series support and delivers on other improvements…

Source: Phoronix – AMDVLK 2023.Q3.3 Released With Radeon RX 7700 / 7800 Series Support

For those using the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution, there is now experimental support for booting it using systemd-boot…

Source: Phoronix – openSUSE Tumbleweed Adds systemd-boot Support

Sound Open Firmware 2.7 released overnight and adds AMD Van Gogh platform support, presumably to be used by the Valve Steam Deck or some future refresh of the device or related platform like for VR hardware…

Source: Phoronix – Sound Open Firmware 2.7 Released With AMD Van Gogh Support

With my Raspberry Pi 5 review and benchmarks I focused on the CPU performance of the quad-core Cortex-A76 2.4GHz Broadcom SoC powering this new single board computer, but the graphics upgrade are just as equally impressive. Here is a look at the open-source driver support and performance for the Raspberry Pi 5’s VideoCore VII GPU.

Source: Phoronix – Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4

After being delayed by many weeks, Mesa 23.2 has been released as the quarterly feature release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used by AMD Radeon, Intel graphics, Apple Silicon, Qualcomm Adreno (Freedreno), Nouveau (open-source NVIDIA), Broadcom / Raspberry Pi, Arm Mali and other hardware…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.2 Stable Released For Improved Open-Source Vulkan & OpenGL Drivers

In addition to Mesa 23.3-devel today seeing Intel Vulkan sparse support finally land, another notable merge request that landed is beginning to plumb in pipeline caching support for the open-source NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan driver…

Source: Phoronix – Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Begins Working On Pipeline Caching

While OpenZFS 2.2 is nearing release, OpenZFS 2.1.13 was released on Wednesday as the latest stable point release for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems…

Source: Phoronix – OpenZFS 2.1.13 Brings Linux 6.5 Kernel Compatibility

In addition to KDE Plasma 6.0, another exciting desktop milestone we can look forward to in 2024 is the COSMIC desktop from System76 when they end up releasing the next Pop!_OS based upon Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The Pop!_OS / COSMIC developers continue making great progress on their Rust-written desktop environment…

Source: Phoronix – System76’s COSMIC Desktop Adds New Window-Swapping Mode, Dynamic Settings

Intel engineers have merged to Mesa 23.3 the initial open-source “ANV” Vulkan driver support for sparse resources! This is the important feature needed for running a number of newer Direct3D 12 games with Steam Play (Proton) via VKD3D-Proton with Intel graphics hardware…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3 Lands Initial Intel Vulkan Driver Sparse Support – Needed For Many Newer Games

After a difficult few years of global supply chain woes leading to limited available and heightened retail pricing on the Raspberry Pi single board computers, today there is finally an update to the family. Four years after the Raspberry Pi 4 shipped, today the Raspberry Pi 5 is launching with a much improved SoC leading to significant performance gains. Additional improvements with the Raspberry Pi 5 make this a very nice generational upgrade.

Source: Phoronix – Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O

Following the Counter-Strike 2 limited test since March, Counter-Strike 2 is now officially released and there is also a SteamOS/Linux build now available…

Source: Phoronix – Counter-Strike 2 Now Available With An Initial Linux Build

As some complementary data points to yesterday’s Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 AMD Linux laptop review, here is a look at how the out-of-the-box Microsoft Windows 11 Pro performance compares to that of the upcoming Ubuntu 23.10 on this AMD Ryzen 7 7840U “Phoenix” laptop.

Source: Phoronix – Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.10 Performance On The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4

CodeWeavers — in addition to contributing significantly to upstream Wine and being involved with Valve on Proton for Steam Play — continues to offer CrossOver as a premium Wine-based software solution for enjoying Windows games and applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe products on Linux, macOS, and Chrome OS. Out today is CrossOver 23.5 as the latest evolution of this Wine-based commercial software…

Source: Phoronix – CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 23.5 With A Focus On Boosting macOS Gaming

The Servo browser engine has been seeing renewed development activity and interest since it was transferred to the Linux Foundation Europe and has attracted contributions from the likes of the Igalia consulting firm. Last week at the Open Source Summit Europe, an update on Servo was presented…

Source: Phoronix – The Servo Browser Engine Has Been Making Great Progress In 2023

Ahead of the planned stable release in October, the openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Beta was published today for this lightweight Linux operating system built for containers and virtualized workloads…

Source: Phoronix – openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Beta Published For This Container & VM Focused Distro

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6 has been released as the latest version of this Linux Mint derivative that is based on upstream Debian rather than Ubuntu…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Released