AMD last week launched the Radeon PRO W7500 and Radeon PRO W7600 professional graphics cards built on RDNA3. Due to AMD’s unique position with their open-source Linux graphics driver stack, I decided to see how these new Radeon professional GPUs compare to FirePro hardware from 13 years ago for the raw performance and power efficiency.

Source: Phoronix – How The Radeon Professional Graphics Performance Changed Over 13 Years

Following Canonical deciding to pull in control of the LXD project and LXD maintainership being limited to Canonical employees, the Linux Containers project has announced the forking of LXD as Incus…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Containers Forks LXD Project As “Incus”

Last year Google decided to deprecate JPEG-XL image support within their Chrome/Chromium web browser. They expressed not enough interest and other factors for so quickly removing JPEG-XL support from their browser. They went ahead and removed the support for this next-gen JPEG standard while now a half-year later they may be having second thoughts…

Source: Phoronix – Google May Reconsider JPEG-XL Image Support Within Chrome

For those that have fond memories of the NeXTSTEP days and in particular its graphical user interface during the pre-Apple times, Window Maker 0.96 was released this weekend for that X11 window manager inspired by the NeXTSTEP GUI…

Source: Phoronix – Window Maker 0.96 Released For Window Manager Inspired By NeXTSTEP UI

Sourceware.org that provides the open-source hosting for projects like GCC, Cygwin, and more had long been sponsored by Red Hat and a rather opaque organization. Earlier this year SourceWare.org became part of the Software Freedom Conservancy. In addition to now calling the SFC home, they are planning other changes ahead to expand their hosting services, diversifying hardware and software partners, and other changes…

Source: Phoronix – Sourceware Looking To Expand Services, Diversify Partners

AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 is out this morning as the first update to AMD’s official open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver since mid-June…

Source: Phoronix – AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 Released With Phoenix APU Support, Performance Tuning

The Linux kernel’s “dimmtemp” driver allows for reporting memory temperatures with capable memory modules and when exposed by the Intel processor’s PECI (Platform Environment Control Interface). Currently though the DIMM temperature driver is hard-coded to only allow reporting up to 32 DIMMs while a change queued for Linux 6.6 will extend that limit…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Will Be Able To Handle Temperature Reporting When Having More Than 32 DIMMs

Recently merged to GNOME’s Mutter compositor development code is implementing a dedicated kernel mode-setting (KMS) thread and allows for pointer motions to bypass the main thread during cursor sprite movements. Ultimately this effort is around lower-latency cursor movements…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME 45’s Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread

Google’s open-source BBR TCP congestion control algorithm is widely used within Google and its v3 iteration is already proving a success within the company and they are working toward upstreaming BBRv3 into the mainline Linux kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Google’s BBRv3 TCP Congestion Control Showing Great Results, Will Be Upstreamed To Linux

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.5-rc5 as the newest test candidate aiming for the stable Linux 6.5 kernel around the end of August…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5-rc5 Released: Things Looking Under Control

Available now for testing is the release candidate of Python 3.12 ahead of its formal release later this year…

Source: Phoronix – Python 3.12 RC1 Available For Testing – Better Performance, Linux Perf Integration

The open-source FEX-Emu project continues advancing as an emulator to run x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on 64-bit ARM (AArch64), even for games, Valve’s Steam Play / Proton, and other complex software. FEX-Emu 2308 is out today with more performance optimizations and other features implemented for this emulator…

Source: Phoronix – FEX-Emu 2308 Continues Striving To Be “The Greatest x86/x86-64 Emulator On Linux”

In addition to Loongson preparing Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) for LoongArch to help with MIPS / x86 / Arm binary translation on this domestic Chinese CPU architecture, additional LoongArch features are also now slated for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle…

Source: Phoronix – LoongArch Implementing More Kernel Features For Linux 6.6

Tagged on Saturday was GTK 4.12 as the newest version of this open-source toolkit…

Source: Phoronix – GTK 4.12 Released With Many Vulkan Backend Improvements

Intel’s open-source ConnMan software that is an Internet connect manager focused on embedded Linux devices is out with a new release…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s ConnMan 1.42 Released With Fixes, New Time Zone Options

The newest motherboard port to land in mainline Coreboot Git is for enabling the HP EliteBook 820 G2 laptop…

Source: Phoronix – Coreboot Lands Support For The HP EliteBook 820 G2

Yesterday KDE developer Nate Graham outlined the progress with the Plasma 6 desktop while out today he’s out with his usual blog post that highlights the various KDE changes to have been merged over the past week…

Source: Phoronix – More KDE Plasma Wayland Fixes Land, Continued Improvements For Plasma 6

The NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver has finally been merged into mainline Mesa for easing development of this driver moving forward…

Source: Phoronix – Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver “NVK” Merged Into Mesa 23.3

Back in Linux 6.4 there were Intel HD audio additions for Lunar Lake processors, ACE2.x integration with Lunar Lake has also been worked on as part of the SoundWire support, and also early preparations on the Sound Open Firmware side. With Linux 6.6 there are more audio bits coming together for Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Sound Support Ongoing With Linux 6.6

For those making use of the open-source, cross-platform ClamAV anti-virus/anti-malware software backed by Cisco, the first release candidate of ClamAV 1.2 is now available for testing…

Source: Phoronix – ClamAV 1.2 Adding Support For UDF Partitions, New systemd Timer