Red Hat engineers have been developing Initoverlayfs as a scalable initial file-system. The code is currently in early form and the developers are still looking for feedback from the community as well as figuring out whether it properly belongs in kernel or user-space…

Source: Phoronix – Red Hat Looks For Feedback On Its New Initoverlayfs File-System Proposal

Following Canonical pulling on control of LXD and maintainership being limited to Canonical employees, LXD 5.20 was released today where they have also decided to change its license moving forward to AGPLv3 by default…

Source: Phoronix – LXD 5.20 Released With Canonical Changing It To AGPLv3 Licensing

ONNX in collaboration with AMD have announced TurnkeyML as a new open-source machine learning toolchain focused on agile model development and deployment…

Source: Phoronix – ONNX Releases TurnkeyML In Collaboration With AMD For An “AI Insights Toolchain”

With Linux 6.7 there’s now support for enabling/disabling 32-bit program support at boot-time. The “ia32_emulation=” argument can be used for enabling/disabling 32-bit user-space program support and the ability to support 32-bit system calls. Right now when forcing off the x86 32-bit support it can be confusing if the user is unaware as no warning is currently provided, but that is about to change…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.8 Will Make It More Clear When x86 32-bit Support Is Disabled

The long-in-development work for a fully-functional multi-threaded FFmpeg command line has been merged! The FFmpeg CLI with multi-threaded transcoding pipelines is now merged to FFmpeg Git ahead of FFmpeg 7.0 releasing early next year. FFmpeg is widely-used throughout many industries for video transcoding and in today’s many-core world this is a terrific improvement for this key open-source project…

Source: Phoronix – FFmpeg Lands CLI Multi-Threading As Its “Most Complex Refactoring” In Decades

Linux 6.6 brought an initial Intel Visual Sensing Controller “IVSC” driver. The Intel IVSC drivers have long been out-of-tree for use with Alder Lake laptops and newer. Linux 6.7 brought the La Jolla Cove Adadpter driver code as part of the IVSC controller. With Linux 6.8 there’s yet more work landing on the IVSC front…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Visual Sensing Controller Enablement Work Continues For Linux 6.8

Cling 1.0 was released this week for this open-source interactive C++ interpreter that builds atop LLVM/Clang. Cling is implemented as an extension to LLVM/Clang to serve as an interpeter leveraging the read-eval-print loop (REPL) concept and relies on just-in-time (JIT) compilation…

Source: Phoronix – Cling 1.0 Released For Interactive C++ Interpreter

The feature work continues pouring in for Mesa 24.0 with new OpenGL and Vulkan driver features continuing to be enabled…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa Enables S3TC Support For 3D Textures

Of the many new features in Linux 6.7, one of the items exciting Phoronix readers the most is the merging of the long-in-development Bcachefs file-system…

Source: Phoronix – More Bcachefs Fixes Land In Linux 6.7

While it’s been three years now since Ampere Altra Q80 was first introduced and two years since first testing the 128-core Ampere Altra Max, this ARM server platform has aged rather well with more robust hardware platforms coming to market with better firmware, the AArch64 Linux/open-source software ecosystem as a whole improving a lot during this time and more open-source projects receiving ARM optimizations, and other improvements made. While we’re eagerly awaiting to see AmpereOne hardware, here is a look at how Ampere Altra Max M128-30 is standing up against current AMD EPYC Genoa(X) and Bergamo server CPUs along with Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids processors in raw performance and power efficiency.

Source: Phoronix – Ampere Altra Max Continues To Deliver Competitive Power Efficiency To AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon

A patch merged this weekend for Mesa 24.0-devel is helping the performance of the open-source NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs but the performance remains well short still of the proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack…

Source: Phoronix – One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle… To 18 FPS

WayVNC v0.8 is working its way toward release as a VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC continues to make it quite easy to have VNC support for Wayland desktops employing wlroots and this next release brings even more features…

Source: Phoronix – WayVNC 0.8 Preparing Transient Seats, Automatic Server-Side Resizing & Detached Mode

Storage company Kioxia that was spun off from Toshiba several years ago has donated a software development kit (SDK) to the Linux Foundation for establishing the Software-Enabled Flash SDK. This is for opening new doors and innovative uses around flash memory…

Source: Phoronix – Kioxia Donates SDK To Linux Foundation For Software-Enabled Flash SDK

Since earlier this year AMD has been working on Linux support for WBRF for mitigating WiFi radio frequency interference (RFI) with their latest Ryzen 7000 and forthcoming Ryzen 8000 series mobile processors. That work looks like it will be ready to land in Linux 6.8…

Source: Phoronix – AMD WBRF Ready For Linux 6.8 To Mitigate WiFi Radio Interference

Following a bumpy weekend due to the EXT4 data corruption bug, Linux 6.6.6 is out with just a sole change for dealing with another headache: WiFi regressions…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6.6 Released Due To WiFi Regression

Following Debian 12.3 being delayed due to an EXT4 data corruption bug briefly appearing in released Linux 6.1 LTS releases, Debian 12.3 has been replaced by Debian 12.4 and comes with dozens of bug fixes…

Source: Phoronix – Debian 12.4 Released With Dozens Of Fixes

Linus Torvalds just released the fifth weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 6.7 kernel. He’s happy with how things have been pacing this stage of the cycle, particularly as he’s been battling travels and a head cold this week…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7-rc5 Released: “Nothing Looks Particularly Scary”

Unvanquished has been a promising open-source first person shooter game in development for over a decade. It started out putting monthly alpha releases and quite a brisk development pace but in recent years the releases have been much less frequent. This year started out with Unvanquished 0.54 being released and in now approaching the end of the year is seeing a new point release…

Source: Phoronix – Unvanquished 0.54.1 Released With Rendering Fixes & Better Bots

Linux Mint 21.3 beta is now available for testing as this latest Ubuntu-based, desktop-focused Linux distribution…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Mint 21.3 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.0 Desktop

Due to a problematic patch back-ported from Linux 6.5 causing interference between EXT4 and iomap code, there’s the possibility of a data corruption bug on older kernels — most notably recent Linux 6.1 LTS point releases that can currently be found in the likes of Debian 12…

Source: Phoronix – Debian 12.3 Delayed Due To An EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Being Addressed