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Ubuntu Core Desktop Seeing KDE Plasma Snap'ed Up, Other Ubuntu 24.10 Progress

Oliver Smith as the Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical is out with a new status update on Ubuntu 24.10 development and related ambitions. This also includes more details about bringing the KDE Plasma desktop to Ubuntu Core Des...

2024-09-19 14:24

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AMD AGESA PI 1.2.0.2 Performance With The Ryzen 9 9950X On Linux

There has been a lot of talk the past few days over the AMD AGESA PI 1.2.0.2 update that has begun rolling out to AMD AM5 motherboards with BIOS updates. The AGESA 1.2.0.2 is said to improve inter-core latency for Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" processors when cor...

2024-09-19 13:17

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Linux 6.12 Lands QR Code For DRM Panic Messages, Intel LNL & BMG Graphics Enabled

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates have been submitted and already merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...

2024-09-19 10:16

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Linux 6.12 Perf Updates Bring Intel Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake Additions

The core perf subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...

2024-09-19 09:54

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OpenVINO 2024.4 Prepares For Core Ultra Series 2, New Gen AI Models

Intel engineers today released OpenVINO 2024.4 as the newest version of their open-source AI toolkit. OpenVINO 2024.4 prepares for upcoming Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" processors, supports newer Gen AI models, now supports Python 3.12, and f...

2024-09-19 08:50

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Linux 6.12 Scheduler Code Adds SCHED_DEADLINE Servers & Complete EEVDF

The scheduler updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel and come with several notable enhancements...

2024-09-19 06:55

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Microsoft Optimizes Hyper-V Code To Boot Linux Faster When Having Many CPUs

The Microsoft Hyper-V updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel. They are mostly small changes but does bring work to optimize the boot time for large Hyper-V VMs...

2024-09-19 06:46

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XFS With Linux 6.12 Adds New Ioctls To Exchange Contents Of Two Files

The XFS file-system changes have been merged for the Linux 6.12 kernel and introduce new ioctls for being able to exchange the contents of two files...

2024-09-19 06:35

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Mesa's Zink Driver Now Supports OpenGL VR Extensions

For anyone still relying upon virtual reality (VR) applications written for the OpenGL API rather than the Vulkan API that has been dominant among VR apps (and other modern games / software) for years, the Mesa code and in particular the Zink OpenGL-on...

2024-09-18 16:50

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Autodesk Contributes Mesa Vulkan WSI Support For Apple's Metal

An interesting merge request opened this week and already merged for Mesa 24.3 comes from an Autodesk engineer adding Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI) around Apple's Metal API for use on macOS...

2024-09-18 15:51

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H.264/H.265 Vulkan Encoder Support Merged Into FFmpeg

The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged...

2024-09-18 13:08

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GNOME 47 Released With Accent Colors, Improved Apps & More

GNOME 47 is out today as the latest major update to this popular open-source desktop environment...

2024-09-18 11:35

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NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs. Radeon PRO Performance On Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS

For those wondering about the performance of the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation workstation performance on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the up-to-date NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers now relying on the open-source kernel modules, this article is for you in look...

2024-09-18 09:25

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Linux 6.12 Adds Build Options For Greater Control Over CPU Security Mitigations

Not to be confused with the proposal a few days ago by an AMD engineer for Attack Vector Controls for broader control over CPU security mitigation handling, the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel is adding new Kconfig options to allow for more build-time...

2024-09-18 08:00

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Many Intel & AMD Power Management Improvements For Linux 6.12

The big set of power management updates for Linux 6.12 have landed...

2024-09-18 07:00

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Intel Compute Runtime Offers "Preview" Support For Lunar Lake

Intel Compute Runtime 24.35.30872.22 released today as the newest tagged version of this open-source GPU compute stack providing oneAPI Level Zero and OpenCL support for Linux and Windows systems...

2024-09-18 06:00

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Linux 6.12 Landing Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" Module

Merged as part of the Linux Security Modules (LSM) updates for the Linux 6.12 kernel is the new Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE) module that has been years in the making. Integrity Policy Enforcement is an alternative to access controls...

2024-09-18 04:00

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Btrfs Sees Minor Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.12

The Btrfs file-system continues marching ahead with the Linux 6.12 kernel...

2024-09-18 01:11

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Patch Proposed For Adding x86_64 Feature Levels To The Kernel - But It's Likely D.O.A.

A patch was sent out on Sunday for adding new Linux kernel configuration options for tuning the kernel build to different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. The intent is on generating kernel builds that are faster for use on modern Intel and AM...

2024-09-17 15:30

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OpenJDK Java 23 Released With ZGC Generational Mode By Default

OpenJDK 23 is now generally available as the reference implementation to Java 23...

2024-09-17 12:30

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