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