KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Make For Compelling Budget Servers, Leading Performance & Value Over Xeon E Review (www.phoronix.com)
XWayland 23.2 Released With Tearing Control, Resizable Rootful, EI Support (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr support for disabling VSync on Wayland with X11 apps (most games)
NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance For August 2023 (www.phoronix.com)
In the end the new GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card ended out just slightly above the Radeon RX 7600 in terms of overall performance. The Radeon RX 6000/7000 series on their open-source Linux GPU driver stack continue to perform very competitively with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30/40 series and their respective proprietary driver...
KDE Neon Experimental Lets You Run Plasma 6 With KF6 Apps Today (www.phoronix.com)
Steam On Linux(1.96%) Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS(1.84%) (www.phoronix.com)
NVIDIA R545 Linux Beta Driver Brings HDMI Deep Color, Night Color & FB Consoles (www.phoronix.com)
There are a lot of good improvements and fixes in this release. As a remorseful Nvidia on Linux user, I am extremely excited that GAMMA_LUT is finally making its debut in the Nvidia driver. This means I can actually try to use Gnome Wayland at night with the night shift feature, assuming other Wayland issues are also resolved.
Mesa 23.2 Will Try To Release This Week (www.phoronix.com)
PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param (www.phoronix.com)
Btrfs Deprecating Its Integrity Checker Tool (www.phoronix.com)
Wayland Color Management Protocol Posted For Weston (www.phoronix.com)
The Wayland Color Management protocol has been years in the making and is needed for a client to specify the color space and HDR metadata of a surface. This color management protocol is ultimately needed for getting high dynamic range (HDR) support working out well within Wayland environments. This week an initial merge request...
Wine-Staging 8.16 Fixes A 16 Year Old Bug For Games Crashing (www.phoronix.com)
SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA (www.phoronix.com)
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa 23.3 Lands Optional Support For Allowing Game Tearing On Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Unveils The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D For Laptops With 3D V-Cache (www.phoronix.com)
AMD is releasing (what appears to be, still need all the reviews to come in) a beast of a mobile processor. 16 cores, 32 threads, and 128MB of L3 cache.
Radeon RADV Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Achieves 100% Pass Rate (www.phoronix.com)
Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support (www.phoronix.com)
NVIDIA 535.86.05 Linux Driver Fixes Excessive Memory Use, Kernel Panic On Full vRAM (www.phoronix.com)
SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains For The Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)
Intel DOWNFALL: New Vulnerability Affecting AVX2/AVX-512 With Big Performance Implications (www.phoronix.com)
KDE Making It Easier To Find Or Offer "Sponsored Work" (www.phoronix.com)
Wine 8.18 Released WIth Continued Work On Wayland Window Management (www.phoronix.com)
Wine 8.18 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source program for running Windows applications and games on Linux. Wine 8.18 is another step closer to Wine 9.0 stable that is due out in early 2024…
Mesa 23.1.8 Released While Waiting On Mesa 23.2 (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Arc Graphics Enjoy Nice ~10% Speedup With Recent Open-Source Linux Driver Review (www.phoronix.com)