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)

Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation

([Free Software] 21 November 10:00 AM EST Zrythm 1.0)

Zrythm 1.0 released today as a big milestone for this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software that caters from professional users down to beginners.



Khronos Announces Slang Initiative From Open-Source NVIDIA Code

([Standards] 21 November 09:42 AM EST Slang Initiative)

On top of an exciting Vulkan spec update out today, The Khronos Group has announced the Slang Initiative based on NVIDIA's open-source Slang compiler code.



VKD3D 1.14 Released With Initial Metal Shading Language Output

([Vulkan] 21 November 08:35 AM EST VKD3D 1.14)

Ahead of the upcoming freeze for Wine 10.0, VKD3D 1.14 is now available for this prominent Wine component that allows Direct3D 12 to be implemented over the Vulkan API for enhancing Windows games/apps running on Linux and other platforms.



Linux 6.13 EDAC Preps For Panther Lake H & Missing Support For Old Kabylake S CPUs

([Hardware] 21 November 06:34 AM EST Linux 6.13 EDAC)

The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates landed this week for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel merge window.



PHP 8.4 Released With Property Hooks, Lazy Objects & Other New Features

([Programming] 21 November 06:24 AM EST PHP 8.4)

PHP 8.4 is out today as the newest annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language.



Vulkan 1.3.302 Published With AV1 Encode & NVIDIA Display Stereo Extensions

([Vulkan] 21 November 05:50 AM EST Vulkan 1.3.302)

Vulkan 1.3.302 was published this morning with a handful of new extensions, including AV1 encode support for Vulkan Video.



Bcachefs Changes Rejected Reportedly Due To CoC, Kernel Future "Uncertain"

([Linux Storage] 20 November 10:34 PM EST Bcachefs)

While the Bcachefs feature changes for Linux 6.13 were already submitted even before the Linux 6.12 stable kernel was released, merging these changes are supposedly on hold due to the kernel's Code of Conduct (CoC) board.



Linux 6.13 Adds Support For Ultra Capacity SD Cards "SDUC" For 2TB To 128TB Storage

([Hardware] 20 November 08:22 PM EST Secure Digital Ultra Capacity)

Linux 6.13 has merged support for the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity "SDUC" standard for 2TB to 128TB storage capacity SD cards.



Linux 6.13 "MM" Patches Bring Some Enticing Performance Optimizations

([Linux Kernel] 20 November 02:42 PM EST Memory Management)

Andrew Morton on Monday submitted all the memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 6.13 merge window. As usual there's a lot of interesting performance optimizations and other low-level refinements.



Many Networking Changes In Linux 6.13 - One Line Of Code Helping WireGuard Performance

([Linux Networking] 20 November 01:22 PM EST Linux 6.13 Networking)

The abundance of networking subsystem updates have been mailed in for the Linux 6.13 kernel from wired and wireless driver enhancements to core networking code improvements.



8 vs. 12 Channel DDR5-6000 Memory Performance With AMD 5th Gen EPYC

([Memory] 20 November 11:40 AM EST 21 Comments)

As I wrote about last week within the Supermicro H13SSL-N EPYC Turin motherboard review, one of the factors leading me to purchasing that EPYC 9005 series motherboard was that this board offered support for full 12 channel DDR5-6000 memory performance compared to some of the other lower-cost Socket SP5 motherboards offering just 8 memory channels. For those wanting to quantify the performance difference between eight and twelve memory channels with AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors, here are some benchmarks for showing the workloads that can really benefit from all 12 memory channels and other workloads where eight memory channels can be largely sufficient if looking to minimize costs.



Raspberry Pi Camera Front End "CFE" Video Capture With Linux 6.13

([Raspberry Pi] 20 November 10:32 AM EST RP1 Camera Front End CFE)

Following the initial Raspberry Pi 5 upstream support in Linux 6.12 providing basic support, an exciting Raspberry Pi addition with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is introducing a Raspberry Pi Camera Front-End "CFE" driver.



Many AMD CPU Feature Additions Land In Linux 6.13

([AMD] 20 November 10:18 AM EST Linux 6.13 + AMD)

The in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is bringing a lot of exciting improvements for AMD Linux customers.



OpenVINO 2024.5 Released With More Intel Optimizations, Better LLM/GenAI Coverage

([Intel] 20 November 08:34 AM EST OpenVINO 2024.5)

Intel's open-source software developers released today OpenVINO 2024.5 as the newest major feature release for this cross-platform AI toolkit.



Faster CRC32C & AEGIS-128 Crypto Performance On Linux 6.13 With Intel/AMD CPUs

([Linux Kernel] 20 November 06:34 AM EST CRC32C + AEGIS128 Optimizations)

The crypto subsystem updates were merged yesterday for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel. Among other crypto improvements are new optimizations for some algorithms when running on Intel and AMD x86_64 processors.



Multigrain Timestamps Try Again For Linux 6.13 - Now With Less Performance Impact

([Linux Kernel] 20 November 06:10 AM EST VFS Multigrain Timestamps)

Merged last year for Linux 6.6 was multi-grain(ed) timestamps to address the current coarse-grained timestamps when updating creation time and modification time that a lot of I/O activity can happen in the once-per-jiffy timestamp. Just a few weeks in the Linux 6.6 kernel, multi-grain timestamps were removed due to bugs. The multigrain code went back to be reworked and now just over one year later the code has been re-merged into the mainline Linux kernel.



Corsair Void Headset & Kysona M600 Lightweight Gaming Mouse Support In Linux 6.13

([Hardware] 20 November 06:00 AM EST Linux 6.13 HID)

The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle.



Lazy Preemption Merged Along With Other Scheduler Improvements For Linux 6.13

([Linux Kernel] 19 November 08:43 PM EST Lazy Preemption)

All of the scheduler feature changes were merged today for the Linux 6.13 kernel, including the introduction of the lazy preemption model.



FLTK 1.4 Released With Wayland & HiDPI Display Support

([Programming] 19 November 04:53 PM EST FLTK 1.4)

FLTK 1.4 is out as the newest version of the Fast Light Toolkit that has been around since the late 90's.



New Linux Patch Lets You Force CPU Bugs/Mitigations Even When Not Vulnerable

([Linux Security] 19 November 02:29 PM EST force_cpu_bug=)

While most users frown upon the increasing number of CPU security mitigations in part due to the additional overhead commonly introduced, a new Linux kernel patch by a Google engineer would allow users/developers to opt-in to forcing CPU bugs and their mitigations even if the system in use isn't known to be vulnerable.



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