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Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code

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Following Red Hat’s decision earlier this month to limit access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code and that leading to downstreams scrambling to figure out their paths forward to avoid tracking CentOS Stream instead and still aiming to offer 1:1 RHEL compatibility without being restricted by the Red Hat Customer Portal, the Rocky Linux distribution today expressed a few of the ideas they are considering…

Source: Phoronix – Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code

Alibaba T-Head TH1520 RISC-V CPU & A Few New Arm SoCs Ready For Linux 6.5

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The Arm (and RISC-V) SoC updates have been submitted for merging to the Linux 6.5 kernel. Additions this cycle include an exciting RISC-V processor now supported, NVIDIA Tegra234 “Orin” upstream additions, and other new SoCs and devices/boards being upstreamed…

Source: Phoronix – Alibaba T-Head TH1520 RISC-V CPU & A Few New Arm SoCs Ready For Linux 6.5

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme: Windows vs. Linux CPU Performance

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As part of our Linux-focused look at the ASUS ROG Ally handheld, last week I provided a number of Windows 11 vs. Linux gaming performance on this gaming handheld with RDNA3 graphics found on the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC. Today’s testing is not about the gaming but looking more at the general CPU performance for this Zen 4 powered SoC.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme: Windows vs. Linux CPU Performance

GIMP 3.0 Release Candidates Hoped For This Year

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There’s been hopes of seeing the GIMP 3.0 release in 2023 or at least release candidates. GIMP developers recently finished a week-long meet-up and it’s looking like they may be on track for at least beginning the GIMP 3.0 release candidate phase this year. GIMP 3.0 has remained quite elusive and in the works for the past decade as the much anticipated port to GTK3 and a host of other enhancements to this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop…

Source: Phoronix – GIMP 3.0 Release Candidates Hoped For This Year

Qualcomm Adreno 700 Series GPU Support Published For Open-Source Linux Driver

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Linaro engineers have been working out support for the latest-generation Qualcomm Adreno 700 series graphics processors found in the newest Snapdragon SoCs. Published on Wednesday were the initial MSM DRM kernel driver patches for bringing up the A700 series open-source graphics support…

Source: Phoronix – Qualcomm Adreno 700 Series GPU Support Published For Open-Source Linux Driver

AMD ROCm 5.6 Released With A Focus On Improving AI

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It was just one month ago that ROCm 5.5.1 debuted while overnight AMD has promoted ROCm 5.6 to stable with more improvements and a particular focus on enhancing the AI capabilities for Radeon GPUs and Instinct accelerators. The ROCm 5.6 release also arrives just two weeks after AMD CEO Lisa Su re-affirmed their support for ROCm and working with the community to further enhance it…

Source: Phoronix – AMD ROCm 5.6 Released With A Focus On Improving AI

Intel Pushes New Meteor Lake-S Driver Code Into Linux 6.5

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For months there have been rumors whether Intel would cancel Meteor Lake-S desktop processors and leave next-generation Core desktop CPUs solely to a Raptor Lake Refresh or rumors as well Meteor Lake-S would be just for lower-end Core i3 and Core i5 level processors. Whatever Intel ends up doing, their Linux engineers continue pushing Meteor Lake-S related code into the Linux kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Pushes New Meteor Lake-S Driver Code Into Linux 6.5

Intel Xeon Max 9480/9468 Show Significant Uplift In HPC & AI Workloads With HBM2e

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Today is a very fun and interesting round of benchmarking… Recently Supermicro sent over their Hyper SuperServer SYS-221H-TNR and Intel supplied the Xeon Max 9468 and Xeon Max 9480 for finally being able to benchmark Xeon Max processors, the Sapphire Rapids parts featuring 64GB of HBM2e memory. For this initial benchmarking article is a look at the Xeon Max 9468/9480 dual socket performance when running in HBM-only mode and HBM-caching mode for showing some of the workloads where Xeon Max can deliver significant uplift compared to when running in flat (1LM) mode without assigning anything to the HBM memory for seeing the impact when the specialized memory goes unused.

Source: Phoronix – Intel Xeon Max 9480/9468 Show Significant Uplift In HPC & AI Workloads With HBM2e

Linux 6.5 Brings WiFi & Bluetooth Support For The MIPS Creator CI20

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Nearly a decade ago when there was more hope for the MIPS open-source ecosystem and the initial growth of lower-cost single board computers the MIPS Creator CI20 was launched by Imagination Tech. It wasn’t too successful and MIPS development has since reached the end of the road, but finally with Linux 6.5 is the Bluetooth and WiFi on this MIPS single board computer going to finally be supported by the mainline kernel…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Brings WiFi & Bluetooth Support For The MIPS Creator CI20

Oracle Developing "bpftune" For BPF-Based, Automatic Tuning Of Linux Systems

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Well, here is something nifty being worked on by Oracle. Oracle engineers have been developing “bpftune” as a new always-on, automatic tuning of Linux systems — in particular, the many different Linux kernel tunables available and this tuning system leverages the kernel’s Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) observability features to carry out its work…

Source: Phoronix – Oracle Developing “bpftune” For BPF-Based, Automatic Tuning Of Linux Systems