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Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 Adds Radeon GPU Analyzer Interoperability

([Radeon] 24 April 12:53 PM EDT Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1)

AMD's GPUOpen team today released the Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 software that now sports interoperability with the Radeon GPU Analyzer.



GCC 14 vs. LLVM Clang 18 Compiler Performance On Fedora 40

([Software] 24 April 11:02 AM EDT 34 Comments)

One of the leading-edge benefits of Fedora Linux is that it always ships with the most up-to-date open-source compiler toolchains at release. For their spring releases each year, it typically means shipping with a GCC compiler that isn't even officially released as stable yet. With this week's release of Fedora 40, it's shipping with GCC 14.0.1 as the development version that will culminate with the inaugural GCC 14 stable release in the coming weeks. Plus Fedora 40 has all of the other latest GNU toolchain components and then over on the LLVM side is with the current LLVM 18 stable series. For those curious how GCC 14 vs. LLVM Clang 18 performance is looking, here is a wide range of C/C++ benchmarks carried out on Fedora Workstation 40 using a System76 Thelio Major workstation powered by the Zen 4 AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X.



New AMD Linux Patch Acknowledges More Zen 5 CPU Models

([AMD] 24 April 10:08 AM EDT AMD Zen 5 CPU Model IDs)

A new AMD Linux kernel patch queued today via "x86/urgent" for routing into the Linux 6.9 development kernel expands the range of recognized CPU model IDs for upcoming Zen 5 processors.



Red Hat Releases DNF 4.20 In Preparation For DNF5

([Red Hat] 24 April 08:55 AM EDT DNF 4.20)

DNF 4.20 was released this morning by Red Hat as a stepping stone toward the upcoming DNF5 package manager.



Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6

([Hardware] 24 April 06:50 AM EDT Polychromatic)

Polychromatic is the open-source software package that serves as a GUI front-end to the OpenRazer drivers for allowing Razer devices to be configured under Linux for managing keyboard/mice RGB lighting and other options. With today's Polychromatic 0.9 release there is a port for the Qt6 toolkit.



Nginx 1.26 Released With Experimental HTTP/3 Support

([Free Software] 24 April 06:26 AM EDT Nginx 1.26)

Nginx 1.26 stable is out as the newest version of this popular alternative to the Apache web server while also able to work as a load balancer, reverse proxy, and HTTP cache. Nginx 1.26 incorporates the great work from the Nginx 1.25 mainline branch such as experimental HTTP/3 support.



TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform

([Operating Systems] 24 April 06:37 AM EDT TrueNAS 24.04)

The folks at iXsystems have released TrueNAS SCALEE 24.04 as the newest iteration of their Linux-based platform for network attached storage (NAS) devices. TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 brings better performance, new features, and additional hardware support.



Wine's Wayland Driver Will Finally Set The Window Title

([Wayland] 24 April 06:10 AM EDT Winewayland Fix)

A small but notable patch was merged to upstream Wine overnight: the window title for application windows is now actually set under Wayland.



QEMU 9.0 Released WIth True Multi-Queue Support For VirtIO Block Driver

([Virtualization] 23 April 09:35 PM EDT QEMU 9.0)

QEMU 9.0 is out tonight as the latest feature release for this prominent component to the open-source Linux virtualization stack.



FFmpeg Makes Progress On Dolby Vision Support

([Multimedia] 23 April 08:00 PM EDT Dolby Vision + FFmpeg)

The widely-used, open-source FFmpeg multimedia library has seen commits this week advancing its support for Dolby Vision.



Mozilla Has Been Rewriting Its Crash Reporter In Rust

([Mozilla] 23 April 03:45 PM EDT Rust-Based Crash Reporter)

Mozilla hopes you'll never have to see it, but they've been rewriting their crash reporting application for Firefox within the Rust programming language.



Intel Has Many Improvements For The Xe Graphics Driver In Linux 6.10

([Intel] 23 April 12:13 PM EDT Linux 6.10 Xe)

Intel today sent out more than one hundred new feature patches to DRM-Next of new "Xe" kernel graphics driver material they have readied for the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel merge window.



Framework Raises $18M In New Funding, More Collaborations Coming With Cooler Master

([Hardware] 23 April 10:55 AM EDT Framework Computer)

The folks behind the very popular Framework upgradeable/modular laptops announced today $18M in new funding and a few other interesting details.



Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade

([Fedora] 23 April 08:32 AM EDT Fedora 40)

It's Fedora 40 release day! Fedora 40 is now available for download from mirrors for this leading Linux distribution.



NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance

([Nouveau] 23 April 07:00 AM EDT NVK Implicit Pipeline Caching)

Adding to the impressive number of features to be found in this quarter's Mesa 24.1 release is now the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver supporting implicit pipeline caching.



CBD Proposed For The Linux Kernel: CXL Block Device

([Linux Storage] 23 April 06:42 AM EDT CXL Block Device)

The latest Compute Express Link (CXL) feature work being pursued for the mainline Linux kernel is a driver to create CXL block devices for storage. On Monday a "request for comments" patch series sent out the initial code for setting up CXL shared memory to be used as Linux block devices.



AMD Prepping Fixes & Enhancements For P-State CPUFreq Driver

([AMD] 23 April 06:21 AM EDT AMD P-State)

The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for Zen 2 and newer processors has been working out well in its roughly two years of being in the mainline Linux kernel. The AMD P-State driver has helped with ensuring modern Ryzen systems are delivering optimal performance and power efficiency. Recently AMD Linux engineers have been working on a few fixes and enhancements to this CPUFreq driver.



Bcachefs Sends In More Fixes For Linux 6.9: Recovery & Repair Issues Settling Down

([Linux Storage] 23 April 06:33 AM EDT Bcachefs Fixes)

Another week, another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes for the mainline Linux kernel.



NetBSD 9.4 Released With Security & Stability Fixes

([BSD] 23 April 06:01 AM EDT NetBSD 9.4)

NetBSD 10.0 debuted last month with a long list of improvements and other enhancements that built up over the past several years. For those not yet taking the leap to this big NetBSD update, NetBSD 9.4 is out today for those relying on the stable NetBSD 9 series.



Steam On Linux Changes The Default Scaling Factor For 4K Displays

([Valve] 22 April 08:20 PM EDT Steam On Linux)

With tonight's Steam client beta update they have reduced the default scaling factor for those running it on Linux with a 4K display.



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