AMD Color Management Improvements For Linux & The Steam Deck Continue (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa Adds GPUVis Integration - GPU Trace Visualizer (www.phoronix.com)
Wine 8.14 Released Following Summer Holiday (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.6 To Support Rumble / Force Feedback On Google Stadia Controllers (www.phoronix.com)
SUSE To Be Taken Private By Its Largest Shareholder (www.phoronix.com)
Marcel LUX III SARL (Marcel) as the largest shareholder in SUSE is planning to take the company private and delist it from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. SUSE will be merged with an unlisted Luxembourg entity. Marcel currently owns a 79% stake in SUSE....
Distrobox Adds Support For ChromeOS (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)
Devuan 5.0 Released For Debian 12 Without systemd (www.phoronix.com)
RADV Ray-Tracing To Become Much Faster With New Driver Code (www.phoronix.com)
RADV Ray-Tracing To Become Much Faster With New Driver Code (www.phoronix.com)
MR: gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/…/24587...
Casefolding For Bcachefs File-System Posted (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Wiring Up DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.1 Support For Linux (www.phoronix.com)
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...
AMD P-State Preferred Core Handling Being Enabled For Linux (www.phoronix.com)
AMD CPUs since the Ryzen 3000 series (Zen 2) have had the notion of “preferred cores” that via ACPI CPPC are communicated to the OS and could be shown under Windows with the likes of AMD Ryzen Master. Now we have AMD Linux engineers working on properly leveraging the “preferred cores” handling for the modern AMD P-State...
KDE Plasma 6 Wayland Session: "It's Been Working Great!" (www.phoronix.com)
blog.broulik.de/…/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-contd/
Linux Containers Forks LXD Project As "Incus" (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.5 Patches Merged For Intel GDS/DOWNFALL, AMD INCEPTION (www.phoronix.com)
This merge adds the kernel-side bits around mitigating AMD’s Speculative Return Address Stack (RAS) overflow vulnerability for Zen 3 and Zen 4. See this earlier article for details on this AMD INCEPTION disclosure....
Good news for AMD Linux users - fTPM RNG will soon be disabled (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2852886...
Intel DOWNFALL: New Vulnerability Affecting AVX2/AVX-512 With Big Performance Implications (www.phoronix.com)
AMD "INCEPTION" CPU Vulnerability Disclosed (www.phoronix.com)
AMD-SB-7005 “Return Address Security Bulletin” outlines this new speculative side channel attack affecting recent EPYC and Ryzen processors....
GNOME Shell & Mutter 45 Betas Released (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Gets Hogwarts Legacy Running On Linux Driver By Pretending Not To Be Intel Graphics (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Gets Hogwarts Legacy Running On Linux Driver By Pretending Not To Be Intel Graphics (www.phoronix.com)
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merged Into Mesa 23.3 (www.phoronix.com)
Good news for AMD Linux users - fTPM RNG will soon be disabled (www.phoronix.com)
For those out of the loop, some AMD users have been suffering from stuttering issues caused by the AMD fTPM random number generator. A firmware/BIOS update appears to fix the issue for some users, but not others, leading to more bug reports being sent in. Last week, Linus Torvalds said “let’s just disable the stupid fTPM...