Just days after the FreeCAD 0.21-rc release, FreeCAD 0.21 is now available for this popular open-source CAD software…

Source: Phoronix – FreeCAD 0.21 Released For Advancing Open-Source CAD

After six years as serving as the XFS file-system maintainer, Darrick Wong announced he’ll be stepping down from this role and that really multiple developers need to step up to maintain XFS and help with testing and other responsibilities…

Source: Phoronix – XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down

Intel has published their latest quarterly update to the Intel Media Driver open-source VA-API implementation as well as to their oneVPL video processing layer library…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Media Driver 2023Q2 Preps More For Meteor Lake, More Arc Graphics Fixes

The Steam Survey results for July 2023 were just published and it points to a large and unexpected jump in the Linux gaming marketshare…

Source: Phoronix – Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS

Canonical has aimed to ship Linux kernel stable release updates (SRU) for Ubuntu releases on a three week cycle. That has worked out well overall but has led to delays at times in getting down CVE security fixes and other urgent customer requests. Moving forward Canonical is aiming for a new “4/2” week cycle for kernel SRUs…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu Shifting To A “4/2” Week Cycle For Shipping Stable Kernel Updates

Linux’s cpupower utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reading and tuning various CPU power settings rather than poking at sysfs files directly or other means of adjusting your processor power-related tunables. With the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle the cpupower utility is adding support for adjusting new AMD P-State driver features…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6’s cpupower Utility Enables New AMD P-State Features

The “v1” patches were posted today for a new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver to be used for display purposes with the StarFive JH7110, a low-cost RISC-V SoC found in the VisionFive boards, PINE64 Star64, and other low-cost RISC-V single board computers…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Display Driver Worked On For A Popular & Low-Cost RISC-V SoC

Since last year Intel Linux engineers have been busy working on FRED support for the Flexible Return and Event Delivery specification that will be found with future-generation processors. FRED overhauls how CPU transitions are handled between privilege levels and a design goal of lowering transition latencies and allow for more robust software use-cases…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s FRED Getting Ready To Meet The Linux Kernel

Over the past month on Phoronix were 223 original news articles along with 17 multi-page featured articles / Linux hardware reviews, all written by your’s truly. When it came to the hardware testing in July, AMD processor tests easily dominated from the Ryzen Z1 Extreme within the new ASUS ROG Ally over to the AMD EPYC Genoa-X and Bergamo server processors to close out the month…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Linux CPU Benchmarks Dominated July From The Z1 Extreme To EPYC Genoa-X & Bergamo

Back in March Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal finally released for this community-developed smartphone/tablet OS that finally migrated from an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS base to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This past weekend Ubuntu Touch OTA-2 Focal was released as the first update this lineage of being based off the newer Ubuntu Long-Term Support state…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu Touch OTA-2 Focal Expands Support For Additional Smartphones

Intel today released Embree 4.2 as the newest feature update to this open-source and high performance ray-tracing library. While Embree has long offered fast CPU-based ray-tracing support, Embree 4.0 introduced GPU acceleration via SYCL. With the Embree 4.2 release, the GPU SYCL support is no longer being treated as beta…

Source: Phoronix – Intel’s Embree 4.2 Promotes Its SYCL GPU Support Out Of Beta

Following the release this weekend of GNU Binutils 2.41, another important GNU software project just issued their latest update: the GNU C Library 2.38…

Source: Phoronix – GNU C Library 2.38 Released With More C2X Features, x86_64 GNU Hurd Support

Ahead of the official announcement tomorrow, Mozilla Firefox 116 builds are available today for those wanting this latest open-source web browser…

Source: Phoronix – Mozilla Firefox 116 Now Available – Capable Of Wayland-Only Builds

With the upcoming Intel Meteor Lake processors is the introduction of the Versatile Processing Unit “VPU” IP block for computer vision and deep learning use-cases to provide better performance. Earlier this year with Linux 6.3 the iVPU driver was merged. Meteor Lake processors haven’t even officially launched yet while already Intel’s open-source engineers have begun enabling the next-gen VPU to be found with Lunar Lake processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Prepares Linux Driver For Next-Gen VPU With Lunar Lake

One of the latest feature additions for next quarter’s Mesa 23.3 release of these open-source user-space graphics driver components is adding support for the EGL explicit device extension…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3 Adds EGL Explicit Device Support

Qualcomm engineers have begun rolling out a new open-source V4L2/media driver for a new Qualcomm “Iris” video accelerator hardware for video encode and decode on Qualcomm SoCs…

Source: Phoronix – Qualcomm Rolling Out “Iris” Video Encoder/Decoder Driver For Linux

Alpine Linux remains one of the most popular lightweight Linux distributions built atop musl libc and Busybox. Alpine Linux has found significant use within containers and the embedded space while now sadly the most prolific maintainer of packages for the Linux distribution has decided to step down from her roles…

Source: Phoronix – The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away

Linux creator Linus Torvalds is growing frustrated with AMD fTPM hardware random number generator bugs on recent Ryzen systems plaguing the kernel and has expressed a desire in potentially disabling its use…

Source: Phoronix – Linus Torvalds: “Let’s Just Disable The Stupid [AMD] fTPM HWRND Thing”

RISC-V is now an official Debian architecture for the Debian 13 “Trixie” release to happen in about two years time. Over the weekend a brief status update was issued surrounding this newest CPU architecture to be supported by the Debian GNU/Linux team. Arguably most interesting is how they are currently building out the Debian RISC-V packages…

Source: Phoronix – Building Debian For RISC-V Currently Relies Upon Nine HiFive Unmatched Boards

FreeCAD 0.21 is nearing release as this wonderful open-source CAD solution…

Source: Phoronix – FreeCAD 0.21-rc Brings Improvements To This Great Open-Source CAD Solution