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Lutris 0.5.18 Linux Game Manager Brings Many Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 December, 2024

Lutris 0.5.18 is out today as the newest version of this open-source game manager for Linux systems to help with installing and playing a variety of games whether they be native Linux titles, emulated Windows games with the likes of Wine / Proton, or console emulated games and more. Lutris also continues integrating with the likes of Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and other online game services for providing a nice Linux gaming experience...

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Linux 6.13-rc1 Released With Many New Features

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 December, 2024

As expected, this evening Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.13-rc1 to cap-off the two-week Linux 6.13 merge window. With Linux 6.13 comes many new features...

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Xfce 4.20 Pre2 Released For Testing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 December, 2024

Following the Xfce 4.20 Pre1 release from one month ago, Xfce 4.20 Pre2 is ready for testing ahead of the planned desktop release in two weeks...

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Turbostat Utility Lands New Features With Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 December, 2024

The turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reporting CPU frequency/idle statistics and other metrics is gaining some new capabilities as part of the Linux 6.13 cycle...

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Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 December, 2024

November was filled with interesting Linux benchmarks ranging from the Apple M4 testing kicking off to ongoing AMD Zen 5 benchmarks both for desktops and servers, a lot of exciting upstream kernel activity (and some drama...), and more. Even with the end of year holidays around, there remains new and original content on Phoronix each and every day. During November there were 250 original news articles on Phoronix along with another 14 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured-length benchmark articles...

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NVIDIA's New Linux Patches For GPU Direct RDMA For Device-Private Pages

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 December, 2024

NVIDIA engineer Yonatan Maman posted a set of "request for comments" patches this Sunday to implement GPU Direct RDMA "P2P DMA" for device private pages. This is the latest in the effort by multiple vendors to allow more efficient data sharing between GPUs/accelerators and other devices like network adapters...

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Linux Fixes Issue Where Applying AMD Zen1/Zen2 Microcode Updates Could Slow Boot Times

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 December, 2024

Submitted today for the Linux kernel ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc1 release as part of the "x86/urgent" material is a fix for aging Zen 1 and Zen 2 processors where for the past year and a half they could potentially find very slow boot times...

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Clang AutoFDO + Propeller Optimization Support Merged For Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 December, 2024

Last night when writing about the Clang AutoFDO and Propeller optimization patches sent in for Linux 6.13 I had wondered whether Linus Torvalds would go through with the pull request given some of his past commentary around aggressive compiler optimizations... But to much delight, this evening Linus Torvalds has merged the Kbuild pull request that introduces Clang-based AutoFDO and Propeller compiler optimization support for allowing greater kernel performance out of tailored (profiled) workloads...

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Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Finally Be Close To Merging

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 November, 2024

In what could be a wonderful holiday for the Linux desktop, it looks like the Wayland color management protocol might finally be close to merging after four years in discussion...