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Intel Lands A Nice Memset Performance Optimization In Glibc

([Intel] 31 May 08:56 AM EDT Glibc Optimization)

Intel engineer Noah Goldstein has landed another nice performance optimization in the GNU C Library "glibc" for benefiting newer Intel processors.



Linux 6.10 Is Making It Much Easier To Deal With Quirky Touchscreens

([Hardware] 31 May 07:02 AM EDT i2c_touchscreen_props)

Right now when dealing with quirky/buggy touchscreens a C file needs to be manually manipulated and the Linux kernel recompiled. With a new "i2c_touchscreen_props" kernel command line option on its way to the mainline kernel, the process of overriding touchscreen properties is dramatically easier for those dealing with Linux on touchscreen-enabled devices.



More AMDGPU Linux Firmware Published For RDNA 3+

([Radeon] 31 May 06:28 AM EDT RDNA 3+)

Last month we began seeing AMDGPU driver firmware files published for the rumored "RDNA3+" hardware as an RDNA3 refresh (also as "RDNA 3.5") for upcoming APUs. More firmware files have now landed public in linux-firmware.git for these forthcoming RDNA3 refresh products.



Bcachefs Preparing For New Features In Linux 6.11

([Linux Storage] 31 May 06:37 AM EDT Disk Accounting Rewrite)

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet sent in a batch of file-system fixes on Thursday for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel. In that pull request he teased features that are set to arrive with the Linux 6.11 kernel later in the summer.



Kdenlive 24.05 Brings Multi-Format Rendering, Automatic Subtitle Translations

([KDE] 31 May 06:19 AM EDT Kdenlive 24.05)

If the recent release of Flowblade 2.16 video editor wasn't of interest to you due to being GTK-based software, the Qt/KDE-aligned Kdenlive video editor is out this week with its Kdenlive 24.05 feature release.



Wayland 1.23 Released With OpenBSD Support

([Wayland] 30 May 03:46 PM EDT Wayland 1.23)

Simon Ser today released Wayland 1.23 for this core Wayland code that brings some minor enhancements, bug fixes, and Wayland protocol clarifications.



Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" Features For 2024

([Microsoft] 30 May 02:43 PM EDT Windows Subsystem For Linux)

Given Microsoft's recent BUILD conference, Microsoft has announced a number of sizable updates to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).



AMD EPYC 4124P Benchmarks: A Quad-Core $149 Server CPU

([Processors] 30 May 12:55 PM EDT 29 Comments)

Last week with the AMD EPYC 4004 review and benchmarks I tested nearly the entire product stack for these new AM5-based server processors with the EPYC 4244P (6 cores), EPYC 4344P (8 cores), EPYC 4364P (8 cores), EPYC 4464P (12 cores), EPYC 4484X (12 cores + 3D V-Cache), EPYC 4564P (16 cores), and EPYC 4584PX (16 cores + 3D V-Cache). The only EPYC 4004 class processor I wasn't able to finish testing in time was the entry-level EPYC 4124P as a 4-core processor with $149 retail price. I've now had the time to finish benchmarking that budget-focused Zen 4 server processor as well as seeing how it compares to the 4-core Skylake Xeons that were prolific for years.



Fedora's New Web-Based Installer UI Delayed Yet Again... Now In 2025 With Fedora 42

([Fedora] 30 May 11:10 AM EDT Anaconda Web UI)

It's been more than two years now talking about the Anaconda installer for Fedora/RHEL shifting to a web-based UI. Going back to Fedora 37 have been previews and plans for getting this modern user interface up to parity but it's been a long road. With repeated delays, there's at least one more delay: the Anaconda web UI was just shifted from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42.



Real-Time Kernel Now Available On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

([Ubuntu] 30 May 10:37 AM EDT Ubuntu 24.04 LTS + Real-Time)

Similar to the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Canonical announced today the availability of their new real-time "RT" kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. But like with the existing Ubuntu RT kernels, this real-time support is limited to Ubuntu Pro subscriptions.



Servo Web Engine Continues Advancing But Seeing Just $1.6k In Monthly Donations

([Free Software] 30 May 10:26 AM EDT Servo Engine)

The Rust-written Servo web engine as a reminder was started as a Mozilla project but then abandoned and now developed by multiple organizations as part of Linux Foundation Europe. The Servo project has put out a new status update that highlights the work accomplished in recent weeks.



Yocto 5.0 LTS Released - Now Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Boeing Joins The Project

([Operating Systems] 30 May 10:09 AM EDT Yocto 5.0)

Yocto 5.0 LTS has been released as the newest version from the Yocto Project that is popular for organizations assembling their own embedded/IoT-minded custom Linux distributions. The Linux Foundation also announced today that Boeing has become a Platinum Member with Yocto.



AMD & Intel Team Up For UALink As Open Alternative To NVIDIA's NVLink

([Standards] 30 May 08:00 AM EDT Ultra Accelerator Link)

It's rare for an advanced media briefing to involve representatives from both AMD and Intel, but that happened yesterday. AMD and Intel along with Broadcom have formed the Ultra Accelerator Link "UALink" as a new open standard they are hoping to use to take on NVIDIA's proprietary NVLink interface.



Intel Improving NMI Source Reporting On Linux With FRED

([Intel] 30 May 06:24 AM EDT NMI Source Reporting)

As part of Intel's Flexible Return Event Delivery (FRED), Intel open-source software engineers are now working on improving Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) source reporting for the Linux kernel.



Intel Battlemage Platform Support Begins Landing In Mesa 24.2

([Intel] 30 May 06:33 AM EDT Intel Battlemage)

The Intel Battlemage discrete graphics support is beginning to come together for the open-source Linux graphics driver stack as the successor to DG2/Alchemist. In addition to all the Xe2 work for what's found with Lunar Lake, more Battlemage Linux kernel and user-space driver work has been appearing recently. The milestone crossed today is the initial Battlemage "BMG" platform support being merged for the Mesa 24.2 OpenGL/Vulkan drivers.



Google Enabling PowerVR Rogue GX6250 Open-Source Support With The MediaTek MT8173

([Hardware] 30 May 06:14 AM EDT PowerVR Rogue GX6250)

Building off the PowerVR kernel driver merged in Linux 6.8 and PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa 24.0 that are both focused on Imagination's newer PowerVR Rogue architecture, Google engineers are working on enabling open-source driver support for the PowerVR Rogue GX6250 as found within the MediaTek MT8173 SoC.



KDGpu v0.5 Vulkan Wrapper Released, KDXr Begins Wrapping OpenXR

([Vulkan] 30 May 05:57 AM EDT KDGpu 0.5)

Last year the KDAB consulting firm typically associated with Qt work published KDGpu as a thin Vulkan wrapper to make it easier leveraging this graphics API. Out today is KDGpu v0.5 with many improvements to this Vulkan wrapper.



VKD3D 1.12 Released With Support For Directly Outputting SPIR-V & D3D Shader Assembly

([WINE] 29 May 08:23 PM EDT VKD3D 1.12)

While VKD3D-Proton that is bundled with Valve's Steam Play (Proton) is the most common source for mapping Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API for Windows games on Linux, Wine's VKD3D upstream continues to be developed. Out today is VKD3D 1.12 as the newest feature release for this open-source D3D12-on-Vulkan implementation.



XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed

([Free Software] 29 May 04:14 PM EDT XZ 5.6.2)

It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin is back at the helm and has been auditing the prior XZ commits and today released XZ 5.6.2 with the backdoor completely removed.



Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors

([Fedora] 29 May 03:49 PM EDT 5 Million More Systems)

A massive uptick in traffic to Fedora's package mirrors is causing problems for the Linux distribution. Some five million additional systems have started putting additional strain on Fedora's mirror resources since March and appear to be coming from Amazon's cloud.



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