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Intel Simplifies Its Firmware License For The Integrated Sensor Hub "ISH"

Sob, 04/19/2025 - 20:22
The Intel Integrated Sensor Hub "ISH" allows for offloading sensor polling and other tasks to a low-power co-processor to help reduce overall system power consumption for extending battery life with tablets, embedded devices, and 2-in1 laptops...

FFmpeg AV1 Vulkan Encoder Patch Posted

Sob, 04/19/2025 - 16:33
While the FFmpeg multimedia library merged Vulkan Video encode support last year, it was initially limited to H.264 and H.265 formats. With a new patch posted for review this week, AV1 encode support using the Vulkan Video API is now underway...

GCC 16 Adding Support For GNU/Hurd On RISC-V Targets

Sob, 04/19/2025 - 11:47
GNU/Hurd has long struggled with hardware support and is still working on its x86_64 support while having a host of various hardware limitations but it also appears they are eager to explore Hurd on RISC-V platforms...

Google Engineers Exploring Distributed ThinLTO Builds Of The Linux Kernel

Sob, 04/19/2025 - 11:28
Engineers from Google are proposing that distributed ThinLTO build support be introduced for LLVM/Clang when compiling the Linux kernel. The distributed ThinLTO mode for link-time optimizations can lead to quicker build times than the current in-process ThinLTO mode while also being more convenient and work with kernel live-patching solutions...

KDE Preps More Wayland Improvements, Addresses Another Possible KWin Crash

Sob, 04/19/2025 - 11:11
KDE developers continue to be very busy working toward the Plasma 6.4 desktop release and making other enhancements throughout this open-source desktop...

Linux 6.15-rc3 To Bring AMD Zen 5 Microcode Protection, Intel Bartlett Lake ID Addition

Sob, 04/19/2025 - 01:23
Merged today ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc3 kernel test release on Sunday were the set of "x86 fixes" for the week. Of these x86 fixes are two notable changes in particular...

Slightly Faster AES-XTS Performance For AVX-512 CPUs Expected With Linux 6.16

Pet, 04/18/2025 - 18:55
In recent kernel releases there have been performance enhancements to the AES implementations and other cryptographic subsystem code for speeding up the performance on modern Intel and AMD processors. With Linux 6.16 there will be at least some additional small gains to find with Intel and AMD processors bearing AVX-512 when employing AES-XTS...

Initial Linux Gaming/Graphics Performance For The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

Pet, 04/18/2025 - 15:30
Earlier this week the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti launched and there were launch-day Linux CUDA/OpenCL compute benchmarks on Phoronix. But for the Linux gaming performance tests we were waiting on a new supported driver release, which happened to be on launch day with the NVIDIA 575.51.02 Linux beta. Now that the gaming-ready Linux driver is available for the GeForce RTX 5060 series, here are some initial benchmarks of the PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB up against other NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards using the newly-released Ubuntu 25.04.

Intel Xe Driver Adds Fan Speed Reporting For Linux 6.16, BMG Instability Being Debugged

Pet, 04/18/2025 - 13:47
Back in the Linux 6.12 kernel cycle the Intel i915 kernel graphics driver added fan speed reporting support. Finally for the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle that fan speed reporting will also be working with the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver used by default with Intel's latest integrated and discrete graphics processors...

GCC 15.1 Compiler Release Candidate For Testing, GCC 15.1.0 Potentially Next Week

Pet, 04/18/2025 - 13:12
Following the GCC 15 code branching after working its way down to zero "P1" regressions of the highest priority, GCC 15.1 Release Candidate 1 is out today for testing...

Fedora 43 Eyes Changing CMake's Default Generator From Make To Ninja

Pet, 04/18/2025 - 11:42
With Fedora 42 having released earlier this week, more feature development work and planning around Fedora 43 is heating up. Another one of the early change proposals now filed for Fedora 43 is changing the CMake build system's default generator from Make to Ninja...

LVFS/Fwupd Is Hoping To Encourage More Hardware Vendors To Provide Financial Backing

Pet, 04/18/2025 - 11:33
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) with the Fwupd client makes it wonderfully easy to enjoy seamless system UEFI and device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux. LVFS is backed by a growing number of major OEMs/ODMs and serves up millions of firmware files. But they are in need of more financial resources from the biggest hardware vendors...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.13.33276.16 Brings New Performance Tweaks, More Xe3 Bits

Pet, 04/18/2025 - 11:20
Following this week's updated Intel Graphics Compiler release, a new version of the Intel Compute Runtime was also published in providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero GPU compute support on Windows and Linux systems...

Intel SST-TF Prepares For Future CPUs With More Cores

Pet, 04/18/2025 - 11:07
Patches for Linux posted on Thursday by Intel prepare for a new version of Speed Select Technology Turbo Frequency (SST-TF) handling for future processors with more cores...

Open-Source RADV Driver Begins Working To Improve AMD RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Performance

Pet, 04/18/2025 - 01:30
While the Radeon RX 9070 series as the first of the AMD RDNA4 graphics cards do perform well on Linux, the one area the performance has been less enticing remains with Vulkan ray-tracing while using the Mesa RADV driver. For example, AMDVLK vs. RADV on the RX 9070 series shows the Mesa driver struggling with ray-tracing compared to the official AMD driver. But the good news is there's a concerted effort now to improve the AMD RDNA4 ray-tracing performance with RADV...

Linux 6.15 Extending Thermal Control Support To More Alienware & Dell Systems

Čet, 04/17/2025 - 21:07
Upstreamed to the Linux kernel last year was the alienware-wmi-wmax driver for enabling thermal control support on various Alienware and Dell G-Series systems. Being merged today as a "fix" for Linux 6.15 is extending that thermal control support to a number of additional Dell/Alienware systems...

Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series "Strix Point" Makes For A Great Linux Laptop

Čet, 04/17/2025 - 16:00
Today the review embargo lifts on the Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" SoCs: wow, what an upgrade! I've spent the past week testing out the Framework 13 with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and it's been terrific. Framework 13's modularity continues to pay off and allows easily upgrading to the new Strix Point bearing motherboard with AMD Zen 5 CPU cores and the Radeon 890M (RDNA 3.5) integrated graphics. If you are on a fresh Linux distribution the support is in great shape and paired with great performance for delivering a great 2025 Linux laptop option.

Ubuntu 25.04 Now Available For Download With GNOME 48 + Linux 6.14, Better Performance

Čet, 04/17/2025 - 15:06
Ubuntu 25.04 ISO images are now available for download along with the various flavors of this newest six-month, non-LTS Linux distribution update...

Arch Linux Is The Latest Distribution Replacing Redis With Valkey

Čet, 04/17/2025 - 14:56
Arch Linux is the latest Linux distribution replacing its Redis packages with the Valkey fork...

GCC 15 Compiler Branched Ahead Of GCC 15.1 Stable Release

Čet, 04/17/2025 - 13:26
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) code was branched today to the releases/gcc-15 branch and GCC 16.0.0 is now the version on the main development branch...
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