Tag Archives: Phoronix

Lubuntu 24.04 LTS Aiming For Optional Wayland Session, Default in 24.10

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Lubuntu as the Ubuntu Linux spin featuring the lightweight LXQt desktop has shared some of their plans for the upcoming Lubuntu 24.04 LTS release. As part of this release due out in April they are aiming to have an optional Wayland session in place although they don’t expect to make it the default until Lubuntu 24.10…

Source: Phoronix – Lubuntu 24.04 LTS Aiming For Optional Wayland Session, Default in 24.10

OBS Studio 30.0.1 Released With Crash Fixes

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Released last month was OBS Studio 30 with Intel QSV AV1 acceleration on Linux, WHIP/WebRTC output, YouTube Live Control Room Panel support, and a variety of other features for this software popular with game streamers and live-casting. Out today is OBS Studio 30.0.1 with some crash fixes and other refinements for last month’s update…

Source: Phoronix – OBS Studio 30.0.1 Released With Crash Fixes

Improved Sound Open Firmware On The Way For Valve's Steam Deck OLED

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Earlier Phoronix reporting on the “Valve Galileo” as a new Steam Deck device proved accurate and that is the new Steam Deck OLED gaming console. Further improving the upstream Linux kernel support is a set of patches to further refine the Sound Open Firmware (SOF) support for this new platform…

Source: Phoronix – Improved Sound Open Firmware On The Way For Valve’s Steam Deck OLED

Intel Graphics With Linux 6.8 To Add FDINFO Memory Stats, More Meteor Lake Workarounds

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In addition to Intel preparing to merge their new Xe kernel graphics driver into the mainline kernel potentially for Linux 6.8, their existing open-source Intel kernel graphics driver code continues to be improved upon and receiving new features…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Graphics With Linux 6.8 To Add FDINFO Memory Stats, More Meteor Lake Workarounds

W4 Games Raises $15M To Help Push Open-Source Video Game Development With Godot

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Last year W4 Games was formed by Godot game engine developers as part of an effort to strengthen the open-source Godot ecosystem as well as work on commercial products and services, such as integrating with the proprietary game console/cloud platforms. They started out with $8.5 million dollars last year while this week announced a series A funding round of $15M…

Source: Phoronix – W4 Games Raises M To Help Push Open-Source Video Game Development With Godot

Intel Striving To Overhaul Their Multiple Ethernet Linux Drivers: "The Great Code Dedup"

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Intel engineers maintain multiple Ethernet drivers in the Linux kernel for their wide-range of networking hardware from consumer to high-end data center wares. There’s been an ongoing effort to overhaul their Ethernet driver management to reduce code duplication between the different drivers for better code sharing and with an end goal of more unification…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Striving To Overhaul Their Multiple Ethernet Linux Drivers: “The Great Code Dedup”

Linux Dealing With x86 32-bit Software Security Issue For Intel TDX & AMD SEV

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AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) are intended to help provide better security for virtual machines and are key elements to both companies investments around confidential computing. It turns out they have a common enemy in their VM security goals: x86 32-bit software…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Dealing With x86 32-bit Software Security Issue For Intel TDX & AMD SEV

Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6

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Canonical’s Multipass software that is advertised as “cloud-style VMs at your fingertips” and making it easy to spin-up “Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation”, is out with a new test release adding snapshots support and other new features…

Source: Phoronix – Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6

PoCL 5.0-RC1 Released With Experimental OpenCL For Networked Systems

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PoCL 5.0-RC1 is out today as the newest feature release being brewed for this “Portable Computing Language” implementation that allows for OpenCL code to run on CPUs as well as running OpenCL code on other back-ends such as atop NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm and other LLVM back-ends…

Source: Phoronix – PoCL 5.0-RC1 Released With Experimental OpenCL For Networked Systems

Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion

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Friday’s release of Wine 8.22 is expected to be the last bi-weekly feature release before shifting focus to the code freeze and making Wine 9.0 ready for release in early 2024. It’s coming down to the finish line how much more Wine Wayland driver functionality will be merged in time…

Source: Phoronix – Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion

Intel Will Submit New Xe Kernel Graphics Driver Soon – Likely For Linux 6.8

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It looks like Intel will soon be submitting their first Xe Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver pull request to DRM-Next for mainlining this modern, current and future hardware focused kernel graphics driver to be added to the mainline Linux kernel. It looks like this mainlining is set to still happen in time for the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Will Submit New Xe Kernel Graphics Driver Soon – Likely For Linux 6.8