Wine Wayland Driver Updated With Basic Window Management Capabilities (www.phoronix.com)
Intel oneAPI Initiative Evolves Into The Unified Acceleration "UXL" Foundation (www.phoronix.com)
"The Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL Foundation) is intended to be a cross-industry group to delivering an open standard programming model that simplifies the development of performant and cross-platform applications. This open standards for compute accelerators is bolstered by Intel’s oneAPI and intended to garner...
Flatpak Lands Support For Wayland Security Context (www.phoronix.com)
The Flatpak open-source app sandboxing tech has merged support for the Wayland security context protocol.
Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Ryzen 9 7950X Performance With The New AMD P-State Default Of Linux 6.5 (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...
Fedora 40 Looks To Offer KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, Drop The KDE X11 Session (www.phoronix.com)
Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated (www.phoronix.com)
TuxClocker 1.3 Preparing Additional AMD GPU Voltage & Memory Controls (www.phoronix.com)
XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Details APX - Advanced Performance Extensions (www.phoronix.com)
Following Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and more recently Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for furthering the x86_64 CPU compute potential, Intel has now published initial details on APX: Advanced Performance Extensions....
Apple M2 On Linux Performance Against AMD Zen 4 Mobile SoCs (www.phoronix.com)
Trying Out & Benchmarking Bcachefs On Linux 6.7 (www.phoronix.com)
PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param (www.phoronix.com)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases....
Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver (www.phoronix.com)
The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away (www.phoronix.com)
Sound Open Firmware 2.7 Released With AMD Van Gogh Support (www.phoronix.com)
Mold 2.0 High Speed Linker Released: Moves From AGPL To MIT License (www.phoronix.com)
RadeonSI Completes ACO Compiler Support With Mesa 24.0 (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr ACO compiler support for OGL added, which should mean faster shader compilation times with OGL games on AMD gpu systems
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT Linux Performance (www.phoronix.com)
Casefolding For Bcachefs File-System Posted (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme Proves Very Versatile For Power/Performance - Benchmarks Against The Ryzen 7 7840U (www.phoronix.com)
LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees (www.phoronix.com)
Fake Sparse Support Being Worked On For Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver (www.phoronix.com)
For support of some D3D12 games that request sparse resource support but don’t actually need it.
