Today’s Coreboot code now has AMD Rembrandt SoC support by splitting it out from the Sabrina SoC support that has been in the works the past several months for this open-source firmware project…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Rembrandt SoC Support For Coreboot In Place – Based Off Existing “Sabrina” Code

A patch from TUXEDO Computers that is now queued into the input subsystem’s “next” branch for Linux 5.20 adds a number of quirks to fix several Clevo / TUXEDO laptops from touchpad and keyboard issues after suspending the system…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.20 To Fix Some TUXEDO/Clevo Laptops With Touchpad/Keyboard Issues After Suspend

Those making use of Ubuntu’s Chromium Snap for running the Google open-source web browser have been without VA-API support for GPU-based video acceleration within this sandboxed app. Fortunately, it looks like that will soon be crossed off the list for ensuring Ubuntu users can enjoy VA-API acceleration for lowering CPU resources and better power efficiency on Intel graphics and other Mesa Gallium3D drivers supporting VA-API…

Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu’s Chromium Snap Finally Seeing Progress On Supporting VA-API GPU Acceleration

It should be hardly surprising at all for longtime Linux users aware of how Fedora Linux tends to always ship with the most modern open-source compiler toolchain support possible, but for Fedora 37 this autumn they again are planning for the latest and greatest…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora 37 Planning For Binutils 2.38, GNU C Library 2.36

Being worked on the past several years by Google engineers and others has been the KernelMemorySanitizer (KMSAN) that has already found more than 300 kernel bugs even prior to being mainlined. Sent out prior to the US holiday weekend as the fourth iteration of these patches, building off the “request for comments” sent out in 2020…

Source: Phoronix – KernelMemorySanitizer v4 Published While Already Having Found 300+ Kernel Bugs

A week ago with Linux 5.19-rc4 there was concern over that weekly release being larger than normal, but this week with Linux 5.19-rc5 it’s smaller than normal, which is pleasing Linux creator Linus Torvalds…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.19-rc5 Released – “Slightly Smaller Than Normal”

Somewhat surprisingly, AMD engineers have been working on some new Linux kernel patches for their aging Jadeite platform…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Gets Back To Working On The “Jadeite” Platform For Linux In 2022

While GTK4 is still in its early stages and it will presumably be some years before “GTK5” even begins to take shape, GNOME developers are already thinking of ditching X11 support for that next major GTK release — effectively making it Wayland-only on Linux…

Source: Phoronix – When Time Comes For GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only On Linux

In addition to Intel this week releasing the VA-API 2.15 video acceleration library, their open-source engineers also published their newest quarterly feature release of their open-source Intel Media Driver that implements the VA-API interface for their graphics hardware…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Media Driver 2022Q2 Adds HDR10/HVS Support For DG2, Raptor Lake P Enabling

Back in 2018 Intel announced Sound Open Firmware (SOF) as their push for open-source sound firmware and looking to drive new software innovations in the audio DSP space. Out this week is Sound Open Firmware 2.2 for providing the newest features for this open-source software stack supporting Windows and Linux…

Source: Phoronix – Sound Open Firmware 2.2 Released With Optimizations. Continued Zephyr Porting

For those interested in the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver that provides reverse-engineered, open-source OpenGL support for Vivante graphics IP its newest feature is supporting GLSL asynchronous shader compilation…

Source: Phoronix – Etnaviv Gallium3D Lands Async Shader Compilation With ARB_parallel_shader_compile

For those enjoying some Linux gaming over the US holiday weekend, NVIDIA issued a rare Saturday driver update in the form of new Vulkan driver betas for Windows and Linux…

Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA 515.49.06 Linux Vulkan Beta Driver Released

Darktable 4.0 has debuted today as a major update to this open-source, cross-platform RAW photography software suite…

Source: Phoronix – Darktable 4.0 Released With Rewritten UI, Much Improved OpenCL Performance

After many months and a lot of work by the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver developers, Linux 5.20 looks like it will be the base kernel where the DG2/Alchemist Arc Graphics desktop GPUs and Arctic Sound M (ATS-M) server graphics card support will be ready in usable shape…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.20 Looks To Be Primed For Usable DG2/Alchemist Desktop Graphics & ATS-M Support

Linux Mint 21 is working its way toward release this summer as the latest version of this desktop OS that is being built atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Unlike Ubuntu 22.04 upstream that is now using systemd-oomd by default on the desktop to try to improve the low memory / system memory pressure experience, Linux Mint has now decided to avoid this daemon due to user criticism…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Mint 21 Is Going To Avoid systemd-oomd

It’s sadly been years since having anything major to report on for Xonotic, the open-source first person shooter game that started out many years ago as Nexuiz. Thankfully a new version of Xonotic was published this week and while it’s just a point release, it does come with many improvements…

Source: Phoronix – Xonotic 0.8.5 Improves This Prominent Open-Source Game

Firewalld 1.2 was released on Friday as the newest feature release for this Linux firewall daemon. Bug fix releases for existing stable series were released with Firewalld 1.1.2, 1.0.5, and 0.9.9…

Source: Phoronix – Firewalld 1.2 Released With New Services Added

The summer months aren’t slowing down KDE developers as it’s been another busy week of bug fixes and feature work for KDE developers to kick off July…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Kicks Off July With UI Polishing, Bug Fixing

Vulkan 1.3.219 released this week and in addition to a number of documentation clarifications/corrections there are two new extensions…

Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.3.219 Released With Two New Extensions

With the new month comes the latest figures from Valve regarding the Steam on Linux marketshare and other metrics for the past month as a result of the Steam Survey…

Source: Phoronix – Steam On Linux Marketshare Ticks Up To 1.18% For June