KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games

Xaver Hugl who has been leading much of the KDE KWin feature development in recent years has opened up a preliminary merge request for allowing high dynamic range (HDR) enabled games to work on KDE...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Initial-HDR-Gaming-MR

Google Rewriting Android's Binder In Rust With Promising Results

Google engineers on Wednesday posted an initial "request for comments" set of patches that re-implement Android's Binder code within the Linux kernel in the Rust programming language rather than C...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Linux-Binder-In-Rust

Linux 6.7 Networking Adds New Hardware Support, A ~20% Perf Boost For Single TCP Flow

As with each kernel cycle, the networking subsystem updates for Linux 6.7 are heavy with a wide assortment of core networking infrastructure improvements, (e)BPF features continue to be tacked on, and new wired and wireless network hardware is supported...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Networking

ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Improving UEFI Boot, DirectX Work & NT6+ API Prep

The ReactOS project today published their latest newesletter that outlines development progress made in recent months for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows device drivers and application/user-space software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-November-2023

Mozilla Firefox Development Finally Moving Entirely To Git

"FIREFOX DEVELOPMENT IS MOVING FROM MERCURIAL TO GIT," began the email today from Mozilla announcing Firefox is finally shifting over to Git!..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Going-Git

systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs

Systemd 255-rc1 is out this morning and it's packed with even more features for this dominant Linux init system and a growing list of other system utilities. Systemd 255 even is introducing systemd-bsod as a "Blue Screen of Death" for displaying important error messages during boot failure, systemd-vmspawn as a new tool to spawn virtual machines, and other new features...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-255-rc1

Linux 6.7 Perf Adds Support For Zen 4 Unified Memory Controller Events

Going back to early last year saw AMD Linux engineers posting PerfMonV2 patches in preparation for Zen 4 processors. The PerfMonV2 updated performance monitoring capabilities with Zen 4 were merged last year and are supported with the latest EPYC 8004/9004 series processors. Coming only now though to Linux 6.7 is support for Unified Memory Controller (UMC) events as part o…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Perf-Events

Open-Source AMD OpenSIL Continues Making Progress To Eventually Replace AGESA

Back at the OCP Summit in Prague earlier this year AMD detailed openSIL for advancing open-source system firmware by opening up the CPU siliccon initialization process. An update was provided at the OCP San Jose event in October around the AMD OpenSIL effort...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-OpenSIL-Autumn-2023

More FUTEX2 Bits Land In The Linux 6.7 Kernel

Last week's locking set of changes for the Linux 6.7 kernel add new interfaces for the FUTEX2 system call ABI. This work is making FUTEX2 more extendable and addressing some of the prior limitations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Locking-FUTEX2

Mesa 24.0 Gets Asahi AGX Gallium3D To OpenGL 3.3 For Apple Silicon Hardware

A set of 53 patches were upstreamed on Monday for syncing Mesa 24.0-devel against the latest Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver changes carried by Asahi Linux. This in turn is a big push for getting more of the open-source OpenGL functionality into Mesa for enjoying Linux on Apple M1 and M2 hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Asahi-OpenGL-3.3

IO_uring FUTEX Support In Linux 6.7 For A Nice Performance/Efficiency Boost

In addition to the continued FUTEX2 improvements that landed in Linux 6.7, another pull request merged last week for the new kernel bring FUTEX support to IO_uring...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/IO_uring-FUTEX-Linux-6.7

Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers

While delayed by several weeks compared to their initial release goals, today marks the availability of Fedora 39 as a wonderful upgrade to this popular Linux distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-39-Released

Ubuntu's Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For Other Desktops

In addition to Canonical continuing to invest in developing Mir as a platform now built atop Wayland, over the past year Canonical developers have been quietly working on Miriway as a Mir-based Wayland compositor and it's becoming iteratively more useful...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Mir-Miriway-2023

OpenZFS Lands Sync Parallelism To Drive Big Gains For Write Performance Scalability

A very enticing performance optimization was merged yesterday into the OpenZFS codebase to enhance the write performance scalability...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Sync-Parallelism

Bcachefs Lands Big Scalability Improvement, Disables Debug Option By Default

Following last week's merging of the Bcachefs file-system into Linux 6.7, a secondary set of updates were merged today for adding a few new features as well as some fixes for this newly-merged Linux file-system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Updated-Linux-6.7

GIMP 2.10.36 Released As GIMP 3.0 Might Finally Be Close

GIMP 2.10.36 was released on Tuesday for this long-running stable series of this open-source Adobe Photoshop alternative while GIMP 3.0 has been very slow to materialize...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-2.10.36-Released

New Set Of 86 Patches Overhaul The Linux Kernel's Preemption Model

Ankur Arora of Oracle on Tuesday sent out a set of 86 patches for making the Linux kernel preemptible. This is based on earlier work by prominent Linux kernel engineer Thomas Gleixner...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Overhaul-Linux-Preemptible-RFC

KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha Released With KDE Frameworks 6 & KDE Gear Updates Too

Today marks the on-time alpha release of the "KDE 6th Megarelease" -- this encompasses the KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop, KDE Frameworks 6 libraries, and KDE Gear applications...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Alpha

In Development Since 2019, NetBSD 10-RC1 Released As A Huge Update

NetBSD 10 has been in development since late 2019 and the beta release is already a year old while now it's up to the release candidate phase with the availability of NetBSD 10-RC1...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-10-RC1

OpenZFS Lands Exciting RAIDZ Expansion Feature

In addition to the OpenZFS code this week landing sync parallelism to improve write performance scalability, another shiny new feature was also merged: RAIDZ expansion...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-RAIDZ-Expansion

Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon HD 6000 Series

While AMD officially supports a much narrower range of more recent Radeon hardware with their official graphics drivers for Windows (and Linux - as it pertains to their Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver and AMDVLK official Vulkan driver), thanks to the open-source community around AMD's open-source driver code there are always nifty things that come…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Terakan-Does-Triangles-HD-6000

Intel Posts Latest AVX10.1-256 & AVX10.1-512 Compiler Patches For GCC

Since announcing AVX10 earlier this year, Intel compiler engineers have been quite busy preparing the open-source compiler toolchains like GCC and LLVM/Clang for this next iteration of Advanced Vector Extensions. On Thursday night the latest AVX10.1 work was posted for the GNU Compiler Collection ahead of its upcoming feature freeze...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-AVX10.1-256-512-GCC

AOMedia Announces Royalty-Free IAMF Audio Container Specification

Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) is known for their work on the AV1 video codec and AVIF image file format while now they have released their first royalty-free audio specification...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AOMedia-IAMF-Audio-Spec

RISC-V With Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks

In addition to the many x86/x86_64 and AArch64 improvements this round for Linux 6.7, on the RISC-V architecture side are some exciting kernel advancements too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-RISC-V

KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland By Default, Initial Support For HDR-Capable Games

It's been an exciting week in the KDE space as along with releasing Plasma 6.0 Alpha, they have also committed to shipping Plasma 6.0 with the Wayland session being enabled by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.0-Wayland-Default

FFmpeg 6.1 Released With Vulkan Video Decoding, VA-API AV1 Encode

While it was supposed to ship back in H1'2023, FFmpeg 6.1 finally released last night as the newest feature update to this widely-used multimedia library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-6.1-Released

Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver

One of the great aspects of Intel integrated and discrete graphics is the broad support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV). Intel "Gen12" graphics back to Tigerlake can handle SR-IOV when there aren't any firmware woes or other issues at play. There is SR-IOV support currently with the i915 kernel driver but Intel engineers are working to architect optim…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Driver-SR-IOV-Plans

Intel Talks Up Granite Rapids, Falcon Shores & Their Open Software Stack @ SC23

With the SC23 Super Computing conference kicking off today in Denver, Intel has just lifted the embargo on a number of disclosures.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-supercomputing-sc23

AMD Radeon PRO W7700 Launches As $999 GPU With Fully Open-Source Upstream Linux Drivers

AMD today is announcing what they call "the most powerful PRO GPU under $1,000" with the Radeon PRO W7700 that has a suggested price of $999. Like the rest of the Radeon PRO W7000 series, the W7700 enjoys fully upstream and working open-source Linux graphics driver support for launch day. I received an AMD Radeon PRO W7700 and have been putting it through…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-radeon-pro-w7700

Intel's Aurora Supercomputer Debuts On TOP500 In Spot #2

The Aurora supercomputer originally was supposed to be completed by Intel and Cray/HPE for the Argonne National Laboratory back in 2018. Now at the end of 2023, it's made its first debut on the TOP500 list... But only as a partial deployment and is coming in at spot number two...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TOP500-H2-2023-List

Intel's Mesa Shader Compiler Backend Scheduling Now ~30% Faster

With newly-merged optimizations to Mesa 24.0-devel, the Intel shader compiler back-end is seeing its scheduling code execute around 30% faster. This big speed-up comes due to overhauling how they store pass information and reusing that for multiple pre-RA scheduling modes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Shader-Compiler-Sched-30p

Blender 4.0 Released For This Incredible Open-Source 3D Modeling Software

After a one week delay, Blender 4.0 is now available as the latest major update to this leading open-source and cross platform 3D modeling software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.0-Released

Rust-Written NAK Compiler Merged For Nouveau/NVK In Mesa 24.0

Merged overnight to Mesa 24.0 is the Rust-written NAK compiler back-end for the Nouveau Gallium3D driver and NVK Vulkan driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NAK-Merged-Mesa-24.0

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration

The Canonical-developed Netplan has served for Linux network configuration on Ubuntu Server and Cloud versions for years. With the recent Ubuntu 23.10 release, Netplan is now being used by default on the desktop. Canonical is committing to fully leveraging Netplan for network configuration with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release and in turn also marking the Net…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-LTS-Fully-Netplan

Fwupd 1.9.8 Released With Firmware Updating For New DP Converters, Wacom Cintiq Pro

Just two weeks since Fwupd 1.9.7 was released, Fwupd 1.9.8 is now available for this open-source solution that facilities firmware updating on Linux systems for system firmware as well as various devices/peripherals...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-1.9.8-Released

PCI-SIG Announces "CopprLink" PCI Express Cable Name

From SC23 going on in Denver, the PCI-SIG team sent out a news release that they have announced the naming for their next-generation PCI Express cabling... CopprLink...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PCI-CopprLink-PCIe-Cables

GCC COBOL Compiler Support Continues To Be Worked On

While not as popular as Rust or other languages these days, for COBOL enthusiasts and those continuing to maintain codebases in this 50's programming language, the out-of-tree GCC COBOL compiler support continues to be worked on in late 2023...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-COBOL-2023

Microsoft Achieves OpenGL 4.5 Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa

Hours after writing about Microsoft's Direct3D 12 back-end for Mesa seeing OpenGL 4.4 support, the in-review OpenGL 4.5 code mentioned in that article happened to land in Mesa...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenGL-4.5-D3D12-Mesa

Wine Wayland Driver Lands Improved HiDPI Support

The newest Wine Wayland driver code to be merged is improved HiDPI support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-HiDPI-Merged

GTK 4.14 Adding Graphics Offloading Capabilities Under Wayland

The GNOME GTK toolkit is introducing support for graphics offloading within the toolkit. This new GTK "GraphicsOffload" support is Wayland-only at this time and not working either for non-Linux platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK4-Graphics-Offloading

Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes For A Great Linux Laptop

For those in the market for an AMD Ryzen 7040 series (Zen 4) laptop, the Framework 13 laptop is a great option for those wanting a Linux-friendly device and is a rare breed in being a completely upgradeable laptop similar to Framework's Intel laptop models. I've been testing out the Framework Laptop 13 the past month and after a BIOS update has been working out wonderfully on…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-13-amd

Fedora 40 Looking To Change Linker To Error Out On Security Issues

A change proposal currently undergoing discussion for Fedora 40 would change their toolchain's (BFD) linker to error out on potential security issues. Currently BFD is emitting warnings on potential security problems but the F40 proposal is to instead error out so the program being built will fail to link when hitting recognized security issues...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-BFD-Linker-Errors

Louvre Is A New C++ Library Helping To Build Wayland Compositors

While the KDE Plasma and GNOME Shell desktops are running on Wayland well, there are still many smaller desktops that haven't yet been ported over to Wayland or still in the early stages. There's also no shortage of passionate open-source developers toying around with their own desktops / compositors. Louvre is now the latest library out there like WLROOTS and libweston aiming …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Louvre-Wayland-Library

Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.8

An initial set of drm-misc-next changes has been sent out today to DRM-Next of the very first feature patches to begin queuing until the Linux 6.8 merge window opens up around the start of the new year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-DRM-V3D-RPi5

Initial OpenACC Code Begins Landing In The LLVM Clang Compiler

As noted a few weeks back, NVIDIA is working to add OpenACC support to the upstream LLVM Clang compiler for this parallel computing standard. Today that work began landing in LLVM/Clang's development codebase...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenACC-Clang-Starts

Linux 6.7 Features Include Bcachefs, Stable Meteor Lake Graphics, NVIDIA GSP & More Next-Gen Hardware

With the Linux 6.7 merge window having closed on Sunday, here's a recap of all the interesting new features to find with this new kernel. Linux 6.7 stable will be out either in the final days of 2023 or more than likely in the early days of next year.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-67-features

Inkscape Celebrates 20 Years With New Release

The Inkscape open-source graphics editor application that is popular among Linux users and has evolved into a viable alternative to the likes of Adobe Illustrator is celebrating its 20th anniversary...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Inkscape-1.3.1-For-20-Years

Microsoft Enables OpenGL 4.6 Support Over Direct3D 12

The week began with Microsoft taking its Mesa Direct3D 12 code from OpenGL 4.3 to OpenGL 4.4 and then a short time after that reaching OpenGL 4.5. Microsoft now closed out the week by managing to get OpenGL 4.6 implemented atop Direct3D 12...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-OpenGL-4.6-D3D12

Open-Source Graphics DevRoom Returning For FOSDEM 2024

Luc Verhaegen has announced the return of the Graphics DevRoom for FOSDEM 2024 taking place in early February in Brussels...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Graphics-DevRoom-FOSDEM-24

Etnaviv NPU Open-Source Driver Now Twice As Fast For Image Classification Workloads

Tomeu Vizoso has been leading the effort for supporting Vivante's NPU IP within the Etnaviv driver that began as a reverse-engineered driver for Vivante graphics. The Vivante NPU architecture ends up being close to the graphics cores and Vizoso has been making good progress for enabling the NPUs on this open-source stack. The latest achievement is image classifi…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Etnaviv-NPU-2x-Fast

Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default

Ahead of the official release announcement due out tomorrow, the Mozilla Firefox 120.0 release binaries are now available...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-120-Available

Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver Is Now Conformant For Vulkan 1.0

Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver atop the Nouveau DRM kernel driver is now officially Vulkan 1.0 conformant for passing all the necessary Vulkan 1.0 conformance test suite cases. Though don't get your hopes too high for this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver as the performance is still overall slow and the driver stack remains a work-in-progress, but at least it's a step in the right …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Vulkan-1.0-Conformant

FreeBSD 14.0 Released: Supports Up To 1,024 CPU Cores, OpenZFS 2.2 & Adds Fwget

FreeBSD 14 has been released as stable today as the newest major release of this leading open-source BSD operating system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.0-Released

wlroots 0.17 Adds New Wayland Protocols, Continued Vulkan Renderer Work

Released on Tuesday was a new version of wlroots, the Wayland compositor support library that was born out of the i3-inspired Sway compositor project. With this new release are new Wayland protocols, continued work on their Vulkan renderer, and the ability for the Wayland back-end to embed a wlroots compositor inside an existing Wayland client...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/wlroots-0.17

The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers

Back during the Linux 6.3 kernel support for a number of legacy DRM drivers was removed and now patches have been volleyed for taking things one step further by now eliminating the infrastructure for supporting these older user-space mode-setting graphics/display drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drop-Old-UMS-DRM-Infra

Xen 4.18 Hypervisor Released With Support For New AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPU Features

The Linux Foundation today announced the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.18 for this open-source hypervisor that serves as an alternative to Linux KVM use...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xen-4.18-Hypervisor

OpenSSL 3.2 Released With Client-Side QUIC, SSL/TLS Security Level 2 Default

OpenSSL 3.2 was released this morning as the latest major update to this widely-used cryptography and SSL/TLS project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-3.2-Released

Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver To Be Introduced In Linux 6.8

It's been well over a decade since many were wanting open-source Imagination PowerVR graphics when their graphics IP was more common among SoCs, but with the Linux 6.8 kernel in early 2024 there will finally be an upstream, open-source PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver! But before getting your hopes too high, this is the effort that's only around the newer Power…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Imagination-PVR-Linux-6.8-DRM

GIMP 3.0 Is Hoping To Release In May

GIMP 3.0 could be finally released in a few months if all goes very well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-May-2024-Schedule

Atomic Async Page Flips Expected To Land For Linux 6.8

Following yesterday's week drm-misc-next pull that added the new Imagination PowerVRM DRM driver, the three patches for atomic DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC were queued into drm-misc-next. Now that this atomic async page flip support is in drm-misc-next, next week it should appear in DRM-Next and in turn make it for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Atomic-Async-Flips

LACT Is The Newest AMD Radeon GUI Control Panel For Linux

While the open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver is well received by the community, one of the longest sought features has been an official GUI control panel for managing the driver settings and the like under Linux with ease. AMD for their part exposes much of the same tunables available under Windows but is left to just command-line controls or software to poke differen…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-LACT-GUI-Control-Panel

Arrow Lake Support Added To The Intel Graphics Compiler

Intel on Thursday committed Arrow Lake "ARL" support to their open-source Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by their Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and Level Zero while on Windows IGC is additionally used as their graphics shader compiler as well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Arrow-Lake-IGC

Noctua NH-U14S & NH-D9 Air Cooling For The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X

For those wondering about the air cooling prospects for DIY builds with the new 350 Watt AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors, here's a brief look at the new Noctua heatsink options for the Socket sTR5 processors and the results in use with a Threadripper 7980X 64-core / 128-thread workstation.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/noctua-threadripper-7980x

Mesa 23.3-rc5 Released With The Latest Open-Source GPU Driver Fixes

Eric Engestrom on Friday released the fifth weekly release candidate of Mesa 23.3 with this quarterly stable release hopefully debuting in the next week...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-rc5-Released

KDE Is Down To Just One Wayland Showstopper Bug Remaining

The KDE Plasma 6.0 feature freeze is quickly approaching and the Plasma Wayland showstopper bug list is nearly cleared out for being able to endorse the Plasma Wayland session over X11...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-One-Wayland-Showstopper

Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default

Firefox 121 is aiming to ship with Wayland support enabled by default rather than falling back to XWayland on modern Linux desktops. So far things are looking up for this indeed remaining the case for next month's Firefox 121 stable release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-121-Wayland-Good

OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 Released: Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Their Last Release On Plasma 5

Over four years after the debut of OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 and in the interim since also working on the ROME rolling-release platform, OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 finally debuted today...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-Lx-5.0

Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation Code

While much of the modern graphics world these days is focused on the Vulkan API, there's no signs of Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers losing optimization focus with their OpenGL Linux driver by way of the Iris Gallium3D code. Merged this holiday week was a rather significant rework to its buffer object allocation system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-G3D-Improved-Bucket-Cache

Linux Kernel Developers Debate Priority-Based Shutdown Support

A Linux kernel mailing list discussion this holiday weekend that is seeing polarized views on the matter is around a new patch series proposed priority-based shutdown support for drivers/hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Priority-Based-Shutdown

AMD Has A Nice Performance Optimization Coming With Linux 6.8

Queued up into tip/tip.git's x86/cpu branch ahead of the Linux 6.8 merge window opening in a month is an optimization that should prove helpful in cloud/VM scenarios...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-AMD-No-Serialize-MSR

PowerVR Binary Blob Added To Linux-Firmware.Git For New Graphics Driver

With the Imagination PowerVR open-source kernel graphics driver expected for Linux 6.8, the necessary firmware binary blob has now been accepted into linux-firmware.git...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerVR-Firmware-Blob

Mir 2.16 Released With Seamless Boot Integration, Improved X11 Client Support

Canonical this morning released Mir 2.16 as the latest version of this open-source software for helping to build out Wayland compositors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.16-Released

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Dropping The X.Org Server Except For XWayland

Red Hat has formally confirmed what many were thinking: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 will be doing away with X.Org Server support aside from XWayland...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RHEL10-Removing-X.Org

Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards

A new release of Coreboot is available today as the increasingly popular open-source system firmware solution that's used by Chromebooks, increasing hyperscaler / data center industry interest due to increased code transparency and security, System76 laptops, and more. Coreboot 4.22 is the new release and brings initial AMD OpenSIL code integration, 17 new motherboar…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-4.22-Released

Roundcube Open-Source Webmail Software Merges With Nextcloud

The open-source Roundcube webmail software project has "merged" with Nextcloud, the prominent open-source personal cloud software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Roundcube-Nextcloud

Red Hat Developing New xwayland-run & wlheadless-run Utilities

As part of Red Hat's plans to avoid shipping the X.Org Server in RHEL10, Olivier Fourdan of Red Hat's graphics team announced their work on a new xwayland-run helper utility along with wlheadless-run and xwfb-run utilities...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/xwayland-run

AMD EPYC 8534P / EPYC 8534PN Benchmarks - Siena Delivers Incredible Value & Energy Efficiency For Linux Servers

Back in September AMD rounded out their Zen 4 server product line-up with the EPYC 8004 "Siena" processors that are optimized for delivering excellent energy efficiency with leading performance-per-Watt and maximizing value both for initial server costs and ultimately the TCO. These single-socket server chips are quite interes…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-8534p-benchmarks