This past week at the Linux Foundation’s Embedded Open-Source Summit in Prague, Sony engineer Tim Bird who is prominent in the embedded Linux community provided another insightful presentation to sum up the current state of the embedded Linux ecosystem…

Source: Phoronix – The 2023 State of The Embedded Linux Ecosystem

In a move similar to GCC’s implementation, LLVM Git landed this week initial support for fat LTO objects. This “-ffat-lto-objects” support will be found with the LLVM/Clang 17 release this autumn…

Source: Phoronix – LLVM Lands Initial Support For Fat LTO Objects

The visually-stunning Unigine Engine that these days is most commonly used in commercial simulation applications recently published Unigine 2.17 where they have finally made their Vulkan and Direct3D 12 renderers production-ready…

Source: Phoronix – Unigine 2.17 Brings Production-Ready Vulkan & DX12 Support

The IBM PowerPC feature updates were merged on Friday to the Linux 6.5 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – IBM POWER10 Receives DEXCR Support In Linux 6.5, Big Endian Improvements

Valve has shared their Steam Survey results for the month of June which shows the Steam on Linux marketshare holding steady…

Source: Phoronix – Steam On Linux Use Steady For June, ~40% Of Linux Gamers Are Using The Steam Deck

This week NVIDIA and their AIB partners began shipping the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card with pricing starting out at $299 USD. Like the recently-launched Radeon RX 7600, the RTX 4060 is geared mostly for 1080p gaming but how does it compare against the RX 7600 that is priced starting at $249? Here are some initial Linux gaming benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 4060 against the Radeon RX 7600.

Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7600 Linux Gaming Performance

An independent developer has posted an open-source Linux driver for review in order to handle the Apple Studio Display backlight control under Linux. The Apple Studio Display uses a Thunderbolt (DP) interface for display but lacks any hardware controls. Thus a USB interface is used by the monitor for controlling attributes like the display backlight brightness…

Source: Phoronix – Apple Studio Display Linux Driver Published To Control The Backlight

Lavapipe as the software-based Vulkan implementation within Mesa has now landed support for Vulkan descriptor extensions and in turn this CPU-based Vulkan implementation can begin running some Direct3D 12 games with VKD3D-Proton. Keep in mind, however, the performance is severely limited…

Source: Phoronix – Lavapipe Lands Vulkan Descriptors Support, Can Run Some VKD3D-Proton Games

Currently most avionics real-time operating systems for airplanes are proprietary and very specialized for safety assurance reasons. Using Linux though and other open-source software would ease development, open more developers to being able to work on said avionics platforms, have much better documentation, and lower other barriers, but there are challenges currently involved…

Source: Phoronix – The Current Challenges With Using Linux On Airplanes

Linux creator Linus Torvalds doesn’t write as much actual kernel code these days as he used to. These days he’s often busy overseeing the upstream kernel development community with reviewing code, managing releases, and chiming in on mailing list discussions. Once in a while though he gets down and dirty with some low-level kernel hacking just as he’s done now for Linux 6.5 with improving the user-mode stack expansion code…

Source: Phoronix – Linus Torvalds Gets Coding To Improve Linux’s User-Mode Stack Expansion

The Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement in the Linux kernel remains ongoing and with the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel are yet more features now being enabled for this exciting industry standard…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Adds CXL Device Sanitization, Secure Erase, CXL 3.0 Performance Monitor

KDE developers finished out June on a high note with many features and new fixes landing for Plasma 6.0 development as well as refinements for later Plasma 5.27 point releases…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma Fixes A “Major Performance Issue” Seen With Intel Graphics On Wayland

With the first-half of the year amazingly already in the books, here is a look back at what’s captivated Linux/open-source fans the most from all the content on Phoronix. So far this year I have personally written 1,407 original news articles on software/hardware topics and another 74 original Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles…

Source: Phoronix – What’s Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So Far In 2023

While OpenZFS 3.0 has been talked about for a few years with macOS support, it doesn’t appear to be on the immediate horizon and the OpenZFS 2.2 release is being worked on currently for providing a few new features to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation on Linux and FreeBSD systems…

Source: Phoronix – OpenZFS 2.2-rc1 Brings Linux Container Support, BLAKE3 Checksums, Block Cloning

Following the path of SLOB, Linux’s SLAB memory allocator is now officially deprecated beginning with the Linux 6.5 kernel series…

Source: Phoronix – Linux’s SLAB Allocator Is Officially Deprecated

The Linux 6.5 networking subsystem changes include more preparations around the ongoing WiFi 7 wireless standard as well as bringing up support for a number of newer network adapters…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Continues Making Preparations For WiFi 7, Enabling New Hardware

Sound Open Firmware 2.6 was released on Thursday for this Intel-started open-source software project for having a fully open audio DSP firmware stack and related development tooling. While initially limited to Intel hardware support, SOF has since grown and seen support from the likes of Mediatek, Realtek, NXP, and even recent AMD SoCs…

Source: Phoronix – SOF 2.6 Released: Intel Already Preparing Sound Open Firmware For Lunar Lake

China’s Loongson continues preparing the software support for their upcoming 3A6000 processors that will feature several new capabilities over their inaugural LoongArch-based 3A5000 series…

Source: Phoronix – LoongArch Adds Simultaneous Multi-Threading, SIMD/Vector Extensions

Cloud Hypervisor has advanced quite nicely in the half-year it’s been around since Intel software engineers began writing this Rust-based cloud-focused virtualization hypervisor. This VMM project has since become more independent and regularly receiving code contributions from the likes of Arm, Microsoft, and Tencent while also gaining the support of companies like AMD and Ampere. On Thursday marked the release of Cloud Hypervisor 33…

Source: Phoronix – Cloud Hypervisor 33 Released With TDX Fix, New D-Bus API

The PCI subsystem updates have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.5 development…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Should Spend Less Time Waiting On PCIe Devices