While Intel’s Linux engineers were very timely in enabling much of the Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” support for the upstream Linux kernel well ahead of the processor launch at the beginning of the year, one patch series that has continued on post-launch has been working to get the new C0.x idle states supported…

Source: Phoronix – Work Continues For Supporting Intel Sapphire Rapids C0.x Idle States On Linux

Linus Torvalds just declared the first release candidate of Linux 6.5 that also marks the end of new feature code being introduced for this cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5-rc1 Released With Initial USB4 v2 Support, Cachestat, AMD RDNA3 Overclocking

GIMP 2.99.16 is out this Sunday as the GIMP 3.0 release candidate finally nears…

Source: Phoronix – GIMP 2.99.16 Released As GIMP 3.0 RCs Near

The Hangover open-source project has been working on supporting Windows apps and games on other CPU architectures like AArch64 running Linux. RISC-V and POWER9 are other CPU architectures of interest for enabling Hangover support. Besides leveraging the Wine software, Hangover to date has relied on the QEMU emulator as part of the implementation while now they have begun integrating FEX support too…

Source: Phoronix – Wine-Based Hangover 8.11 Begins Integrating FEX Emulator Support

The latest iteration of Intel’s cluster scheduling support for x86 hybrid P/E-core CPUs were posted on Friday in seeking to enhance the performance of some workloads under Linux when running on recent Intel Core processors…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Updates x86 Hybrid CPU Cluster Scheduling For The Linux Kernel

Today the Linux 6.5 merge window is expected to be closed and one of the lingering issues has been whether the BCacheFS file-system driver will be merged following its pull request having been finally sent in…

Source: Phoronix – It’s Looking Like Bcachefs Won’t Be Merged For Linux 6.5

HarfBuzz 8.0 was released on Saturday as the newest feature release for this text shaping library used by many open-source software projects from GUI toolkits to desktop environments and other prominent applications…

Source: Phoronix – HarfBuzz 8.0 Released – Introduces Shaper For WebAssembly Within Font Files

Last month The RADV ray-tracing pipelines support was enabled by default but then later disabled for VanGogh APUs, notably the Steam Deck. Now though with the latest ray-tracing code in Mesa 23.2-devel the RADV driver is no longer blocking the support for VanGogh…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa RADV Driver Re-Enables Ray-Tracing Pipelines For AMD VanGogh APUs / Steam Deck

Last week all of the x86 platform driver feature updates were merged for the Linux 6.5 merge window which is wrapping up tomorrow…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Speed Select Updates, x86 Android Tablet Updates For Linux 6.5

Red Hat’s Karol Herbst who has done a remarkable job on Rusticl as a modern OpenCL implementation written in Rust for Mesa Gallium3D drivers has another achievement under his belt: OpenCL subgroups are now in place for Mesa…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa’s Rusticl Implements OpenCL Subgroups

The Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for the Linux kernel has received a fix to an issue that could lead to inadequate CPU frequency scaling behavior when running on a hybrid processor with E cores disable…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Lands Fix For Intel Hybrid CPU Frequency Scaling When Disabling E-Cores

Konstantin Komarov of Paragon Software has submitted the NTFS(3) file-system driver updates for the nearly-closed Linux 6.5 merge window…

Source: Phoronix – NTFS Driver For Linux 6.5 Brings Small Optimizations & Fixes

KDE developers remain quite busy working on the Plasma 6.0 desktop development as well as making other enhancements and fixes to their open-source desktop stack…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma Wayland Fixes “Severe Screen Distortion” For Some Multi-GPU Systems

While Solus is still working toward its new approach based on Serpent OS and other significant fundamental changes to the Linux distribution, shipping today is Solus 4.4 as the latest incremental update to this Linux distro popular with enthusiasts…

Source: Phoronix – Solus Linux 4.4 Released – Powered By Linux 6.3, Latest Budgie Desktop

Wine 8.12 is available today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 8.12 Released With Additional Wayland Enablement

Meta has published the Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL) as a new cross-platform library to provide a single low-level interface that works atop native graphics APIs from OpenGL and Vulkan to Apple’s Metal…

Source: Phoronix – Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library “IGL” Built Atop Vulkan, OpenGL

A new system call found in Linux 6.5 is “cachestat” that allows user-space to query page cache statistics for a file in order to make more informed decisions…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Brings New “cachestat” Syscall For Querying Page Cache Stats Of A File

In addition to Fedora 39 aiming to use the Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation, shipping the latest and greatest open-source compiler toolchain components, enhance Linux gaming compatibility, eliminate Flathub filtering, and dozens of other improvements, there are also plans for a more mundane change: a colored bash prompt…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora 39 Aims For A Colored Bash Prompt

The Intel Xeon Max 9480 flagship Sapphire Rapids CPU with HBM2e memory tops out at 56 cores / 112 threads, so how can that compete with the latest AMD EPYC processors hitting 96 cores for Genoa (or 120 cores with the forthcoming Bergamo)? Besides the on-package HBM2e that is unique to the Xeon Max family, the other ace that Xeon Max holds with the rest of the Sapphire Rapids line-up is support for the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). In today’s benchmarks of the Intel Xeon Max performance is precisely showing the impact of how HBM2e and AMX in order to compete — and outperform — AMD’s EPYC 9554 and 9654 processors in AI workloads when effectively leveraging AMX and the onboard HBM2e memory.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Xeon Max Performance Delivers A Powerful Combination With AMX + HBM2e

Ubuntu’s NVIDIA Unified Device Architecture (UDA) driver package intended for GPU compute acceleration has enabled the NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel driver support in their packages since the end of last year. Now with the new NVIDIA Enterprise Ready Driver “ERD” Ubuntu package hitting Ubuntu LTS users, they are also supporting the NVIDIA open GPU kernel driver option there…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu’s NVIDIA “Enterprise Ready” Driver Package Now Enables Open GPU Kernel Driver