ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

New Wacom Drawing Tablet Driver Features With Linux 6.12

([Linux Kernel] 20 September 09:47 AM EDT Linux 6.12 HID)

The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. Notable this time around are some new feature additions for the popular Wacom drawing tablet support.



Proposal Seeks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB By Default For Ubuntu 25.04

([Ubuntu] 20 September 09:02 AM EDT Ubuntu 25.04)

Most Linux distributions have been defaulting to MariaDB as the default MySQL server for years. Ubuntu though has been a notable outlier still relying on Oracle MySQL for the default MySQL service. A proposal raised by an Ubuntu developer hopes to change that for Ubuntu 25.04 in the new year.



Gfxstream Merged Into Mesa For Vulkan Virtualization

([Mesa] 20 September 06:42 AM EDT Mesa Gfxstream)

After seven months under review, Google's Gfxstream code has been upstreamed into Mesa 24.3 as a Vulkan virtualization solution.



Haiku OS Working On USB 3 SuperSpeed Plus Support

([Hardware] 20 September 06:20 AM EDT Haiku)

The Haiku open-source operating project known for letting the BeOS spirit live on is out with their newest monthly progress report.



OpenZFS Merges Support For Direct IO

([Linux Storage] 20 September 06:30 AM EDT OpenZFS Direct IO)

The OpenZFS project has merged DirectIO (O_DIRECT) support for the ZFS file-system to bypass the ARC for reads and writes.



Dell XPS 9345 With Snapdragon X1 Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Speakers & Other Features

([Hardware] 20 September 06:11 AM EDT Dell XPS 9345)

Following the other recent work around Linux enablement for Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, yesterday patches were posted for getting the X1 Elite powered Dell XPS 9345 working with Linux but not all functionality is currently working.



Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support Merged For Linux 6.12

([Linux Kernel] 20 September 05:47 AM EDT PREEMPT_RT)

After many years in the making, it finally was merged overnight... The real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel support was merged a few hours ago into Linux Git for this year's Linux 6.12 kernel!



Wow! Microsoft DirectX Adopting SPIR-V Moving Forward

([Microsoft] 19 September 04:19 PM EDT SPIR-V Replacing DXIL)

Well this is a hell of a surprise... Microsoft announced today that DirectX will be adopting SPIR-V as the interchange format of the future. Microsoft's DirectX 12 will accept shaders compiled to SPIR-V, the intermediate representation defined by The Khronos Group and commonly associated with Vulkan / OpenGL / OpenCL drivers.



Valve's Proton 9.0-3 Brings Support For More Games On Linux, Many Fixes

([Valve] 19 September 03:56 PM EDT Proton 9.0-3)

After several weeks of testing Valve has released Proton 9.0-3 as the newest version of this Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for being able to enjoy Windows games on Linux.



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

([Ubuntu] 19 September 02:24 PM EDT Ubuntu 24.10 Development)

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 Desktop in Snap form.



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

([Processors] 19 September 01:17 PM EDT 21 Comments)

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 cores from different CCDs are cross-communicating. Some -- at least under Windows -- have reported performance improvements and thus several Phoronix readers have requested I run some of my tests with AGESA 1.2.0.2. Here are said comparison benchmarks using an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X on Ubuntu Linux.



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

([Linux Kernel] 19 September 10:16 AM EDT Linux 6.12 DRM)

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



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

([Intel] 19 September 09:54 AM EDT Linux 6.12 Perf)

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



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

([Intel] 19 September 08:50 AM EDT OpenVINO 2024.4)

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 finally adds official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.



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

([Microsoft] 19 September 06:46 AM EDT 66% Faster)

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.



Linux 6.12 Scheduler Code Adds SCHED_DEADLINE Servers & Complete EEVDF

([Linux Kernel] 19 September 06:55 AM EDT Linux 6.12 Scheduler)

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



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

([Linux Storage] 19 September 06:35 AM EDT XFS)

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.



Mesa's Zink Driver Now Supports OpenGL VR Extensions

([Mesa] 18 September 04:50 PM EDT Mesa OVR 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-Vulkan driver now supports the OpenGL VR (OVR) extensions.



Autodesk Contributes Mesa Vulkan WSI Support For Apple's Metal

([Mesa] 18 September 03:51 PM EDT Software Vulkan To Apple 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.



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

([Multimedia] 18 September 01:08 PM EDT FFmpeg + Vulkan Video)

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.



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