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      GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

    The GNOME Shell and Mutter release candidates ahead of this month's GNOME 44 desktop update are now available for testing...
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      AMD's Suballocator Helper Gets Ready To Help Intel's New Xe Linux Graphics Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

    With the Linux 6.3-rc1 kernel now out and that closing the Linux 6.3 merge window, the open-source Linux graphics driver developers are turning their attention to feature work they want to accomplish for Linux 6.4 this summer. Already the first drm-misc-next pull request has been submitted to DRM-Next with some of those early changes that will target the v6.4 kernel...
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      Coreboot Adds Support For An ASRock Sandy/Ivy Bridge Era Mini ITX Board

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

    For those that happen to have an ASRock B75M-ITX in their collection or have just been looking for an old Intel Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge era system that can run the open-source Coreboot firmware, this mini-ITX desktop motherboard can run upstream Coreboot with the latest changes made this week...
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      Intel Preparing Sapphire Rapids C0.2 Idle State Support For Better Energy Efficiency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

    Posted today were a set of Linux kernel patches for enabling Sapphire Rapids C0.x idle states support, which can provide a nice bump to the energy efficiency of the latest-generation Xeon Scalable servers while also helping out with possible turbo boost benefits for the busy CPU cores to enhance overall system performance...
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      FEX 2303 Released For Improving Linux x86_64 Gaming On ARM64

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

    FEX-Emu 2303 was published today as the newest version of this open-source software for enjoying x86 64-bit Linux software to run gracefully on 64-bit ARM (ARM64 / AArch64) including the likes of Linux games and Valve's Steam client with Steam Play (Proton)...
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      Linux 6.3 Features: AMD Auto IBRS To Steam Deck Controller Interface, IPv4 BIG TCP & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

    Now that the Linux 6.3 merge window is over with Linux 6.3-rc1 having been released last night, here is a look at all of the interesting changes, new features, and hardware support coming with this next major kernel version.
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      Debian APT 2.6 Released With Updates For Non-Free Firmware Handling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

    Debian developers today released APT 2.6 as the newest version of this package manager that will ship as part of the upcoming Debian 12 "Bookworm" release...
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      openSUSE Tumbleweed Sets Great Example With x86-64-v3 HWCAPS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

    The rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed recently began rolling out optional x86-64-v3 optimized packages for those on roughly Intel Haswell or newer systems and wanting to squeeze out maximum performance from their hardware. The selection of x86-64-v3 packages built by openSUSE Tumbleweed is currently rather limited, but hopefully this major Linux distribution joining the HWCAPS party will lead other Linux distributions to follow suit...
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      Intel Continues With More Big-Time Optimizations To The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March, 2023

    I love Linux kernel patches that mention "massively", use exclamation points when talking about performance, and/or simply mention big speed-ups. Quite often such patches come out of Intel and last week they sent out another great performance optimization patch series to improve additional low-level bits of the kernel...