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      GCC 13.1 Compiler Likely Releasing Next Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 April, 2023

    The GNU Compiler Collection 13 codebase has no more P1 bugs, which are regressions of the highest priority, and as such the GCC 13 codebase was branched today with plans of issuing GCC 13.1-rc1 likely in the next day and hopefully releasing GCC 13.1 as the first stable release of the GCC 13 series next week...
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      AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 Linux Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 April, 2023

    With the recent launch of the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, several Phoronix Premium supporters expressed interest in seeing how well the Windows 11 vs. Linux performance compared for this Zen 4 3D V-Cache processor. Given those requests, here are some CPU/system benchmarks looking at the performance of Windows 11 Professional against Ubuntu 23.04 in its near-final state on the 7800X3D desktop.
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      Chinese GPU Vendor Moore Threads Contributing To VA-API, FFmpeg

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 April, 2023

    Moore Threads was established in 2020 to create domestic GPU solutions in China with their first products having been announced last year. Most of the talk around Moore Threads "MThreads" GPUs have been for Windows but they are working on Linux support to at least some extent...
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      Apple M1/M2 Keyboard Backlight Support Set For The Linux 6.4 Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 April, 2023

    In addition to Linux 6.4 bringing some early work around the Apple M2 device support that isn't yet ready for end-users but begins laying the foundation for supporting the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini, another set of Apple changes have now been submitted ahead of this next kernel cycle...
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      Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop's New Installer Set To Ship Without OpenZFS Install Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 April, 2023

    It was just four years ago in Ubuntu 19.10 that Ubuntu's desktop installer added OpenZFS support for carrying out root file-system installations atop this ZFS file-system. Since then the Canonical/Ubuntu interest has waned. Ahead of the Ubuntu 23.04 release this week, I tried out the Ubuntu Lunar Lobster daily snapshot this weekend to find the OpenZFS install support with Ubuntu's new desktop installer to still be missing...
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      Linux 6.3-rc7 Released - Hoping For A Calm Week Ahead

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 April, 2023

    Linux 6.3-rc7 was just released and if the next week remains calm, it would mean that Linux 6.3 is shipping next weekend...
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      AMD Squeezes In AMDGPU Fixes, FPO/FAMS Display Power Savings For Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 April, 2023

    While we are basically past the cut-off of new feature material to into DRM-Next that wants to be part of the upcoming Linux 6.4 merge window, this week AMD sent in a fixes-oriented set of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver updates that does include some minor feature updates...
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      Linux Fix On The Way For A Scheduler Imbalance Overflow Issue

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 April, 2023

    Sent in this morning for Linux 6.3 is a Linux CPU scheduler fix to deal with an imbalancing issue that's been present in the mainline kernel since a scheduler rework that landed back in late 2019...
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      Microsoft Continues Building Out Its Linux Distribution With More Packages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 April, 2023

    Microsoft has published its latest CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230407 Linux distribution images this weekend as their in-house open-source OS that is used for a variety of purposes, mostly around Azure infrastructure...