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)

FEX 2408 Emulator For x86_64 Binaries On AArch64 Teases More Performance

([Free Software] 13 August 12:00 AM EDT FEX 2408)

FEX 2408 has been released as the newest update to this open-source emulator that allows for running x86/x86_64 games and application binaries on AArch64 (64-bit ARM) systems. There are some nice improvements to find with FEX 2408 while already the next release is being teased for even greater performance.


Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS Delayed To End Of Month

([Ubuntu] 12 August 03:57 PM EDT Ubuntu 24.04.1 Delay)

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS was scheduled to ship this week but has now been delayed to the end of August in order to address some high profile upgrade bugs.


Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.46 Released For High Performance JVM

([Programming] 12 August 03:05 PM EDT OpenJ9 v0.46)

A new version of Eclipse OpenJ9 is now available for this high performance Java Virtual Machine (JVM)


Linux Foundation Looks To Become More Involved With AI Models, Welcomes OMI

([Standards] 12 August 10:24 AM EDT Open Model Initiative + Linux Foundation)

With all the craze around "AI" and hoping to foster more open-source AI models, the Linux Foundation has welcomed the Open Model Initiative (OMI) into its umbrella of open-source initiatives to help foster high quality, openly-licensed AI models.


AMD Bus Lock Detect Positioned Ahead Of Linux 6.12

([AMD] 12 August 09:51 AM EDT AMD Bus Lock Detect)

Going back four years ago Intel engineers worked out bus lock detection for the Linux kernel to benefit their processors able to detect bus locks and then notify the kernel, given the negative performance implications associated with bus locks. That Intel support was merged in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 while now AMD has their equivalent ready for mainlining in the Linux kernel.


GNOME Developers New Code Takes On Cursor Stutters

([GNOME] 12 August 08:30 AM EDT Dynamic Deadline Evasion v3)

It's been one year since Canonical desktop engineer Daniel van Vugt, who is known for his upstream GNOME contributions, touched his patch-set implementing dynamic deadline evasion support. But this week brought the long-awaited third iteration of the patches that aim to eliminate cursor stutters from the Mutter compositor's KMS thread.


GCC 15 Merges Initial Support For Intel AVX10.2 Support

([GNU] 12 August 06:48 AM EDT GCC 15)

As a follow up to the article from a few weeks ago of Intel publishing the AVX10.2 specifications and posting GCC compiler patches for that next iteration of AVX10, the initial support was merged today into the GNU Compiler Collection.


Updated XZ Code For The Kernel Looks Like It's Ready For Linux 6.12

([Linux Kernel] 12 August 06:41 AM EDT Linux Kernel XZ Update)

The past few months have seen patches for updating the XZ (de)compression code within the Linux kernel that's been a lengthy process in part due to the XZ backdoor situation earlier this year and the reputable XZ developers in turn being busy cleaning up that mess. In any event it appears that the updated XZ code for the Linux kernel is now on track for mainlining come Linux 6.12.


GTK Making Progress On HDR & Supporting More Color Spaces

([GNOME] 12 August 06:05 AM EDT GTK HDR Display)

Colors within the GTK toolkit have been represented to date using sRGB but developers have been working on supporting other color spaces like Display-P3 and BT.2100-PQ as they work to better support High Dynamic Range (HDR) displays on the Linux desktop.


Linux 6.11-rc3 Released - Boosts Intel EMR Performance, Fixes 32-bit PTI For Meltdown

([Linux Kernel] 11 August 05:39 PM EDT Linux 6.11-rc3)

Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.11-rc3 a few minutes ago as the latest weekly release candidate.


Intel Raptor Lake 0x129 CPU Microcode Performance Impact On Linux

([Processors] 11 August 01:16 PM EDT 26 Comments)

Motherboard vendors have begun releasing updated BIOS versions for Intel Core 13th/14th Gen motherboards that offer the new "0x129" CPU microcode that is intended to address the Raptor Lake stability issues that have been causing instability problems and crashing errors for a growing number of Intel Core 13th/14th Gen processors. Intel reported in their (Windows) testing that the 0x129 CPU microcode should offer negligible performance impact but I was curious to run my benchmarks under Linux of this new CPU microcode.


FFmpeg Merges Vulkan Video Encode Support

([Vulkan] 11 August 08:47 AM EDT Vulkan Video Encoding)

Since the release of FFmpeg 6.1 last year there has been accelerated Vulkan Video decoding support while being merged to FFmpeg Git this weekend is the Vulkan Video encode support.


NVIDIA EGL-Wayland 1.15 Brings Stability Fixes For Explicit Sync

([NVIDIA] 11 August 06:33 AM EDT NVIDIA EGL-Wayland)

There's a new release of NVIDIA's EGL-Wayland project for an EGL External Library Platform library implementing EGL on top of EGLDevice and EGLStream extensions. This week's NVIDIA EGL-Wayland 1.15 release is primarily centered on delivering Wayland explicit sync fixes.


Wayland Merges New Screen Capture Protocols

([Wayland] 11 August 06:43 AM EDT ext-image-capture-source-v1)

Nearly three years in the making, the ext-image-capture-source-v1 and ext-image-copy-capture-v1 protocols have been merged into the Wayland Protocols repository for vastly improving screen capture support on the Wayland desktop.


Wine-Staging 9.15 Adds Fixes For Lotus Approach & Need For Speed: Underground

([WINE] 11 August 06:22 AM EDT Wine-Staging 9.15)

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 9.15, Wine-Staging 9.15 is now available with 376 patches currently being applied atop the upstream codebase.


Reimplementing A Linux Rust Scheduler In eBPF Shows Very Promising Results

([Linux Kernel] 10 August 03:27 PM EDT From Rust To eBPF)

NVIDIA software engineer Andrea Righi has implemented his "scx_rustland" Linux Rust scheduler within eBPF for very promising performance results.


Wine 9.15 Brings A Lot Of Work On MSHTML, More Windows ODBC Driver Support

([WINE] 10 August 02:51 PM EDT Wine 9.15)

Wine 9.15 is out this Saturday as the newest bi-weekly development release for enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux systems and other environments.


Niri 0.1.8 Compositor Implements Gradient Borders, Output Management Protocol

([Wayland] 10 August 08:47 AM EDT Niri 0.1.8)

Niri as a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by PaperWM is out with a new feature release. Niri 0.1.8 is the new release out today and it also marks the project's one year birthday.


GNOME Continues Working On systemd-homed Integration, Better Web Browser

([GNOME] 10 August 06:45 AM EDT This Week In GNOME)

This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue that details the latest improvements being made thanks to their Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) funding along with other development efforts squeezing into next month's GNOME 47 desktop release.


Mesa 24.3 Sees "Substantial Improvement" To AMD Clear/Copy-Buffer Compute Shader

([Mesa] 10 August 06:27 AM EDT Optimized Clear / Copy Buffer Shader)

Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák continues relentlessly optimizing the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver and related code for ensuring the AMD graphics stack can reach peak performance.


More

The Minnesota Board of Education voted to consider requiring all
students to do some "volunteer work" as a prerequisite to high school
graduation.
Senator Orrin Hatch said that "capital punishment is our society's
recognition of the sanctity of human life."
According to the tax bill signed by President Reagan on December 22,
1987, Don Tyson and his sister-in-law Barbara run a "family farm." Their
"farm" has 25,000 employees and grosses $1.7 billion a year. But as a "family
farm" they get tax breaks that save them $135 million a year.
Scott L. Pickard, spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of
Public Works, calls them "ground-mounted confirmatory route markers." You
probably call them road signs, but then you don't work in a government agency.
It's not "elderly" or "senior citizens" anymore. Now it's "chrono-
logically experienced citizens."
According to the FAA, the propeller blade didn't break off, it was
just a case of "uncontained blade liberation."
-- Quarterly Review of Doublespeak (NCTE)