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Ubuntu's Great Mainline Kernel PPA Hasn't Been Working Since Mid-September

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

One of the very convenient features for Ubuntu Linux users who want to run the very newest upstream kernel releases or simply test a new kernel build for verifying bug fixes or functionality has been the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA. It's been around for years, backed by Canonical, and very convenient for fetching pre-built AArch64 / ARM / POWER / RISC-V / x86_64 kernel binaries as Debian packages... With options of stable/test kernel versions as well as daily packages. Sadly, it's been broken once again and has been in that manner since mid-September...

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Valve Engineer Fixes Massive Performance Issue For RADV Driver With AMD FSR2

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

With the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release there is a huge improvement coming for those using the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver with games leveraging AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2...

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Google Chrome/Chromium Lands linux_drm_syncobj_v1 For Wayland Explicit Sync

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

The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser code has merged support for linux_drm_syncobj_v1 as the modern Wayland protocol for explicit buffer synchronization...

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New Intel Diamond Rapids Patch For GCC Confirms AVX10.2-512, APX & Other ISA Features

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

Intel software engineers have been very busy recently with upstreaming various elements of support into the Linux kernel, open-source compilers and more for the next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. Following the recent GCC prep patches for Diamond Rapids to work on the ISA additions around AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AMX-FP32, and others, a new patch was posted today for actually exposing the "-march=diamondrapids" compiler target and in turn confirming all of the new ISA capabilities...

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Intel Arrow Lake, AMD EPYC Turin & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Interesting October

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

October is now in the books after writing 247 original news articles and another 24 Linux hardware reviews / featured multi-page benchmark articles. From the launches of Intel Arrow Lake and AMD EPYC 9005 to other interesting new hardware, the Russian Linux kernel drama, Linux 6.12 developments and early Linux 6.13 patches queuing in "-next" branches, October was an interesting month both for hardware and open-source software...

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Ubuntu Hoping To Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

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

Ubuntu developer Simon Quigley laid out the plans for hoping Ubuntu packages will move from Qt 5 to Qt 6 so that by the time of the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle in early 2026 that the older version of this graphical toolkit can be removed...

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Miriway 24.10 Compositor Adds systemd Integration, DE-Specific Configurations

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

Miriway 24.10 was released on Halloween as the newest version of this Mir-based Wayland compositor. Miriway is developed by Canonical/Ubuntu developers as a compositor for other desktops like Xfce, MATE, LXQt and others as a way to ease their migration path to Wayland...

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Bcachefs Reigning In Bugs: Test Dashboard Failures Drop By 40% Over Last Month

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

As part of the latest Bcachefs fixes pull request, lead developer Kent Overstreet has provided an update on the bug situation for this advanced copy-on-write open-source file-system...

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Academy Software Foundation Releases OpenVDB 12.0 Under New License

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

The Academy Software Foundation that is made up of many different vendors released OpenVDB 12.0 as the newest major release to this sparse volume data structure library and tooling that is an Academy Award winning library started by DreamWorks Animation...