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