GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled (www.phoronix.com)
For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support. This Mutter merge request landed today that allows compiling Mutter with X11 support disabled. That landed today along with...
Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)
A lot of people here seemed excited for these chips. It’ll be very interesting to see the gaming performance as this could bring in an entire new segment of portable devices running Linux if powerful enough to deliver solid battery life and CPU performance.
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To NVIDIA On Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away (www.phoronix.com)
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To NVIDIA On Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
VKD3D-Proton 2.13 Brings OpenVR/OpenXR Interop & Performance Improvements (www.phoronix.com)
Full changelog here: github.com/HansKristian-Work/…/v2.13
Blumenkrantz "Massively Improves" Mesa's glReadPixels Performance With 7 Lines Of Code (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr Performance for Blazblue Centralfiction using Zink should be greatly improved once this MR is merged...
“Systemd is the future” (www.phoronix.com)
Initially the bug report was shot down by systemd developer Luca Boccassi of Microsoft with:...
Fedora 41 Looks To Offer A KDE Plasma Mobile Spin - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks (www.phoronix.com)
Fedora 41 Looks To Offer A KDE Plasma Mobile Spin - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks (www.phoronix.com)
Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" In Action (www.phoronix.com)
Wine Staging 9.11 Released With A Patch For A 17 Year Old Bug Report (www.phoronix.com)
NVIDIA Exploring Ways To Better Support An Upstream Kernel Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Nvidia hope to include their open source kernel driver in the stock kernel in the future. This would mean no more need to make sure that Nvidia driver modules are in sync with the running kernel. And is hopefully a good sign for future open sourcing of the various parts of the driver as a whole.
One-Line Patch For Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up To 72% Better Performance, +7% Geo Mean (www.phoronix.com)
Covered last week on Phoronix was a new patch from Intel that with tuning to the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver was showing big wins for Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” performance and power efficiency. I was curious with the Intel claims posted for a couple benchmarks and thus over the weekend set out to run many Intel...
Intel Low Power Mode Daemon v0.0.4 Released To Optimize Hybrid CPUs On Linux (www.phoronix.com)
Linus Torvalds Throws Down The Hammer: Extensible Scheduler "sched_ext" In Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)
Redox OS With COSMIC Apps Is Looking Quite Nice (www.phoronix.com)
Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0 Preview (www.phoronix.com)
Updated Intel Meteor Lake Tuning For Linux Shows Huge Performance/Power Improvements (www.phoronix.com)
Updated AMD GPU Firmware Makes Valve's Steam Deck More Robust Against Buggy Apps (www.phoronix.com)
"Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver (www.phoronix.com)
"Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Moving forward the plan is to implement more features needed for DXVK and VKD3D-Proton. Eventually the hope is to get to the point of being able to enjoy nice Windows games on Apple Silicon using Wine / Steam Play and an x86 emulator.