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Box64 0.2.8 Released With Support For 16K Page Size - Allowing Games On Apple Silicon

([Linux Gaming] 22 May 05:56 AM EDT Box64 0.2.8)

Box64 is out as the newest version of this Linux user-space x86_64 emulator for running on ARM64 Linux devices. There is also an updated version of Box86 too for that x86 32-bit version on ARM.



ASRock Rack Releases BIOS Update For EPYC 4004 Support With AM5 Ryzen Boards

([AMD] 21 May 01:30 PM EDT ASRock Rack EPYC 4004)

As a follow-up to this morning's AMD EPYC 4004 review and benchmarks, Supermicro, ASRock Rack, Giga Computing, Tyan, and others have announced new motherboards/servers for these entry-level EPYC servers. In addition with the likes of ASRock Rack they have already published BIOS updates enabling existing AM5 Ryzen server boards to officially support the EPYC 4004 series processors.



NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware Used By Default

([NVIDIA] 21 May 10:25 AM EDT NVIDIA 555.42.02)

It's coming a week later than anticipated but the NVIDIA R555 Linux driver beta has been released! This is the NVIDIA proprietary Linux driver update that brings Wayland explicit sync support along with a host of other important improvements.



AMD EPYC 4004 Benchmarks: Outperforming Intel Xeon E-2400 With Performance, Efficiency & Value

([Processors] 21 May 09:00 AM EDT 20 Comments)

Over the past several years we have seen AMD Ryzen processors being used for low-cost servers, budget web hosting platforms, game servers, and more. Since the Ryzen 5000 series we have seen the likes of ASRock Rack and Supermicro putting out interesting budget-friendly Ryzen servers and that has ramped up even more with AMD Ryzen 7000 series server performance being stellar thanks to AVX-512 and other improvements making it more practical for such workloads. AMD has now solidified its positioning for entry-level servers with the introduction of the EPYC 4004 series processors. The EPYC 4004 series is derived from the Ryzen 7000 series offerings to facilitate cost conscious server options and putting the Intel Xeon E-2400 series in the crosshairs. In this review is a look at the EPYC 4004 series along with benchmarks of nearly the entire EPYC 4004 product stack compared to Intel's current top-end Xeon E-2400 series processor, the Intel Xeon E-2488 Raptor Lake.



LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released

([LibreOffice] 21 May 08:26 AM EDT LibreOffice 24.8)

Ahead of the planned release in August, the first alpha release of the LibreOffice 24.8 open-source office suite is now available for testing.



Hangover 9.9 Adds Support For Using The NTSYNC Driver

([WINE] 21 May 06:51 AM EDT Hangover 9.9)

André Zwing continues hacking on the Hangover project as a means of running Windows applications on AArch64 Linux by leveraging Wine and pairing it with emulators like QEMU, FEX, or Box64. Besides the initial AArch64/ARM64 focus, Hangover can be important for bring Windows game/application on Linux support eventually to other architectures like POWER and RISC-V.



F2FS With Linux 6.10 Delivers Better Performance On Zoned Storage

([Linux Storage] 21 May 06:58 AM EDT F2FS)

There's a lot of file-system activity going on for the Linux 6.10 merge window: Bcachefs safety improvements, better OCFS2 write performance, continued XFS online repair, and even a "mail-in merge request" from prison for ReiserFS. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) has also seen some new feature work this cycle and has now been merged.



GCC 13.3 Compiler Released With Tons Of Bug Fixes

([GNU] 21 May 06:23 AM EDT GCC 13.3)

While GCC 14 recently debuted as stable in the form of GCC 14.1, for those relying on the GCC 13 compiler that debuted last year there is now a new point release available with many bug fixes.



Qt 6.7.1 Released With 400+ Fixes - Including Several Wayland Fixes

([Qt] 21 May 06:03 AM EDT Qt 6.7.1)

The Qt Company today released Qt 6.7.1 as the first point release for the cross-platform Qt 6.7.1 toolkit. Since releasing Qt 6.7 just under two months ago, they have fixed more than 400 bugs.



Linux 6.10 Adds Support To Reset CXL Devices

([Hardware] 21 May 06:12 AM EDT Resetting CXL Devices)

In addition to the CXL updates for Linux 6.10 that were sent in last week, the PCI subsystem updates this week bring a notable addition for Compute Express Link (CXL) devices.



Linux 6.10 Adds eDP/DisplayPort Support For The Snapdragon X Elite

([Arm] 21 May 07:12 AM EDT Linux 6.10 DisplayPort)

Qualcomm and their partners at Linaro have been busy working on the Linux support for the Snapdragon X Elite as the high-end Arm SoC beginning to roll-out for laptops. The latest Snapdragon X Elite upstreaming is Embedded DisplayPort and DisplayPort support for the Snapdragon X Elite.



XFS Expanding Its Online Repair Capabilities In Linux 6.10

([Linux Storage] 20 May 08:40 PM EDT Linux 6.10 XFS)

The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel.



Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made By Hans Reiser

([Linux Storage] 20 May 04:55 PM EDT ReiserFS README)

While ReiserFS is obsolete and will eventually be dropped from the upstream Linux kernel in Linux 6.10 is one last ReiserFS change that was requested by former lead developer Hans Reiser.



RFC Patches Posted For Rust-Written NVIDIA "Nova" GPU Driver

([Nouveau] 20 May 03:37 PM EDT Nova GPU Kernel Driver)

Red Hat engineers have been developing Nova as a new, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA kernel graphics driver as the eventual successor to the Nouveau kernel driver and is designed around NVIDIA's GPU System Processor (GSP) thus making the driver relevant for RTX 20 / Turing GPUs and newer. Today they posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series of the Nova driver and Rust DRM abstractions.



Intel Announces Q3'2024 Arrival For Lunar Lake

([Intel] 20 May 02:18 PM EDT Intel Lunar Lake)

Intel previously indicated that Lunar Lake processors would launch by the end of 2024 and leading to anticipation of a Q4 launch... Intel today announced that Lunar Lake will actually launch in Q3.



Many x86 Laptop Improvements In Linux 6.10 Plus Acer ARM Laptop

([Hardware] 20 May 01:58 PM EDT x86 Platform Drivers)

The x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.10 merge window. The platform-drivers-x86 changes continue to primarily revolve around x86 Intel/AMD laptops but also some other desktop/platform drivers. Now in Linux 6.10 there is also a new "ARM64" sub-section of the platform drivers.



Fedora Miracle Spin Approved To Ship As Part Of Fedora Linux 41

([Fedora] 20 May 10:33 AM EDT Fedora 41 Miracle Spin)

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved of the newest Fedora desktop ISO spin: Fedora Miracle.



Farewell Intel Xeon Phi: Support Removed In The GCC 15 Compiler

([Intel] 20 May 09:40 AM EDT GCC 15 Drops Xeon Phi)

Last week I wrote about Intel aiming to remove Xeon Phi support in GCC 15 with the products being end-of-life and deprecated in GCC 14. While some openly wondered whether the open-source community would allow it given the Xeon Phi accelerators were available to buy just a few years ago and at some very low prices going back years so some potentially finding use still out of them especially during this AI boom (and still readily available to buy used for around ~$50 USD), today the Intel Xeon Phi support was indeed removed.



AMDGPU ISP Firmware Upstreamed In linux-firmware.git

([Radeon] 20 May 08:36 AM EDT Image Signal Processing)

It was just earlier this month that AMD Linux kernel graphics driver patches appeared for introducing a new ISP hardware block for Image Signal Processing with new AMD APUs. Already the AMDGPU ISP firmware has appeared in linux-firmware.git indicating that this "ISP" block may be coming in hardware quite soon if not already quietly found within some products.



OCFS2 File-System Seeing Improved Write Performance On Linux 6.10

([Linux Storage] 20 May 06:42 AM EDT Oracle Cluster File System)

It's not often having anything to write about on the Oracle Cluster File-System v2 (OCFS2), but with Linux 6.10 it's seeing a rather significant performance optimization.



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"Multiply in your head" (ordered the compassionate Dr. Adams) "365,365,365,
365,365,365 by 365,365,365,365,365,365". He [ten-year-old Truman Henry
Safford] flew around the room like a top, pulled his pantaloons over the
tops of his boots, bit his hands, rolled his eyes in their sockets, sometimes
smiling and talking, and then seeming to be in an agony, until, in not more
than one minute, said he, 133,491,850,208,566,925,016,658,299,941,583,225!"
An electronic computer might do the job a little faster but it wouldn't be
as much fun to watch.
-- James R. Newman, "The World of Mathematics"