Phoronix
Libva 2.20 Released For Video Acceleration API

Libva 2.20 was released today as the newest update to this common Video Acceleration API (VA-API) library that sits in front of the various hardware-specific VA-API driver implementations...

Phoronix
AMD Posts Linux Graphics Driver Patches Enabling SMU 14.0 IP

AMD's Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be busy working on enabling next-generation graphics processors with their upstream open-source driver...

Phoronix
Benchmarks: AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Performance Boosted With Ubuntu 23.10

With Ubuntu 23.10 due for release on Thursday, I've been benchmarking a number of systems to look at the Ubuntu 23.10 performance against prior releases like Ubuntu 23.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Besides the open-source graphics driver performance for Intel and AMD Radeon graphics always being a stand-out improvement, one area that is particularly exciting with Ubuntu 23.10 is for those with newer AMD processors where there are some nice performance gains to find with this new Ubuntu Linux release. Here are side-by-side benchmarks of an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktop along with an Intel Core i9 13900K desktop while testing Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS / Ubuntu 23.04 / Ubuntu 23.10.

Phoronix
TuxClocker 1.1 Released With Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring, NVML Fan Control

Following the release last month of TuxClocker 1.0 as a GUI overclocking solution currently for NVIDIA graphics cards on Linux, this years-in-development open-source utility is up to version 1.1 and with some new capabilities...

Phoronix
Wayland's Weston 13 Compositor Planned For Release Next Month

Plans have been drafted to release the Weston 13.0 reference compositor for Wayland next month...

Phoronix
AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Spun Up An Eighth Time

While the AMD P-State driver is working quite well for Ryzen systems already with the default on Linux 6.5, one of the additions we are still waiting to land is the AMD "Preferred Core" functionality. An eighth version of those patches were posted on Monday for inching this feature closer to the mainline kernel...

Phoronix
HTTP/2 "Rapid Reset" DDoS Attack Disclosed By Google, Cloudflare & AWS

Google, Cloudflare and AWS today disclosed a new zero-day vulnerability called the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack. This attack that is being seen in the real-world relies on a weakness in the HTTP2 protocol for carrying out "hyper volumetric" Distributed Denial of Service attacks...

Phoronix
Qt 6.6 Toolkit Released With More Robust Wayland, Qt Graphs Module

The Qt 6.6 toolkit has been released as the newest six-month update to this open-source, cross-platform toolkit...

Phoronix
Another Bug Found That Limits GNOME's Performance For Secondary GPU Setups

Daniel van Vugt of Canonical's desktop team for Ubuntu Linux has been on a spree recently tackling various GNOME bugs -- often performance issues -- while also continuing to work on the dynamic triple buffering support and other GNOME desktop enhancements. His latest discovery is around finding another performance bottleneck for multi-GPU setups...

Phoronix
AMD EPYC 8324P / 8324PN Siena 32-Core Siena Linux Server Performance

Last month AMD launched the EPYC 8004 "Siena" 4th Gen EPYC processors to round out their Zen 4 server processors with the expansive Genoa, Genoa-X, Bergamo, and Siena product portfolios. The new EPYC 8004 series are designed to maximize the power efficiency for server deployments from the data center to edge, teclo, and other non-traditional server environments. Up for testing today is an initial look at the Siena performance in the form of the EPYC 8324P and EPYC 8324PN 32-core parts for seeing how they stack up against 32-core Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" performance.

Phoronix
Intel Formally Announces The Arc Graphics A580

Intel has formally announced the Arc Graphics A580 as their latest graphics processor to fit between the low-end A380 and higher-end A750/A770 graphics cards...

Phoronix
AMD Makes A New Open-Source AI Software Acquisition

It was just a few weeks ago that AMD acquired AI software company Mipsology to help their AI software efforts on FPGAs. Today AMD announced another notable AI software acquisition: open-source AI software vendor Nod.ai...

Phoronix
O3DE 23.10 Released With Many Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine

Back in July of last year the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) engine launched as part of the Open 3D Foundation and initially was a spin-out of Amazon's Lumberyard game engine. Out this week is O3DE 23.10 as the newest half-year update to this project...

Phoronix
Raspberry Pi OS Now Based On Debian 12 "Bookworm" + Wayland

For going along with the recently announced Raspberry Pi 5 speedy single board computer, an updated Raspberry Pi OS is now available that has re-based against Debian 12 "Bookworm"...

Phoronix
Linux Patched For A New AMD Zen 4 CPU Bug - Erratum #1485

Merged today to Linux 6.6 Git is a new patch for fixing an AMD erratum CPU bug affecting Zen 4 based processors like the Ryzen 7000 series and EPYC 8004/9004 series...

Phoronix
Red Hat Continues Hiring For Experienced Linux Graphics Driver Engineers

Red Hat continues hiring for additional help on their open-source Linux graphics driver team that does stellar work for enabling open-source graphics hardware support in cases like NVIDIA hardware with Nouveau, optimizing performance of existing drivers, and making other infrastructure improvements...

Phoronix
Ardour 8.0 Digital Audio Workstation Released

In addition to the recent PreSonus Studio One 6.5 debut for Linux, the open-source Ardour digital audio workstation software this week released its big "8.0" milestone...

Phoronix
Curl 8.4 Released For Addressing A Big Security Vulnerability

Following the news from a few days ago that Curl was prepping for its worst security flaw in a long time affecting the project, Curl 8.4 is now available and with new light on this issue...

Phoronix
Intel Enables FCV Optimization For Gen12.5+ Graphics On Linux To Boost Performance

Intel has enabled a fast clear optimization "FCV" for their Gen12.5 graphics and newer under Linux with the open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver. This can help games like F1 22 with improving performance as much as 45%...

Phoronix
New Intel DG2/Alchemist GPU PCI IDs Posted For Their Linux Driver

Intel submitted a new i915 DRM Linux kernel driver patch for adding four additional device PCI IDs for DG2/Alchemist graphics processors...