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Intel Battlemage, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Linux Kernel Excitement From January

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February, 2025

During the month of January on Phoronix were 292 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 13 featured-length Linux hardware reviews and other multi-page benchmark specials. Here's a look back at the most exciting Linux/open-source news and content over the past month...

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Linux 6.14 RISC-V Kernel Adds Support For T-Head Vector Extensions, GhostWrite

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February, 2025

The RISC-V CPU architecture feature updates have now been submitted and merged for the nearly-over Linux 6.14 merge window...

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KDE Plasma 6.3: "It's Looking Pretty Good!"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February, 2025

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly recap of all the interesting KDE Plasma changes for the past week. With less than two weeks until the Plasma 6.3 stable release, Nate Graham began his weekly update by remarking that the Plasma 6.3 desktop is "looking pretty good!"..

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Wine Wayland Merge Request Opened For Clipboard Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February, 2025

While Wine 10.0 recently debuted with the initial Wine Wayland driver, that native Wayland support is still in early form with various limitations and yet-to-be-implemented features... One of the newly-opened merge requests for filling in another gap is clipboard support for the Wine Wayland driver...

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"NOVA-Core" Patches Propose Building New NVIDIA Driver Piece-By-Piece In The Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February, 2025

Red Hat engineers have been working on Nova as an open-source driver successor to the Nouveau driver for upstream NVIDIA GPU support within the Linux kernel that can be used with the Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan drivers. Unlike the prior larger RFC patch series, sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today were some small patches for introducing "NOVA-Core" that would serve as the initial base for this modern NVIDIA Linux kernel DRM driver. Over time and succeeding kernel releases, the NOVA code would be built up until ultimately becoming a usable state for end-users...

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TLB Flushing Scalability Optimizations Merged For Linux 6.14 To Benefit AMD / Intel CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January, 2025

While we are approaching the end of the Linux 6.14 merge window with Linux 6.14-rc1 expected on Sunday, the fun isn't over quite yet... Among other last minute pull requests today were a set of patches to work on better optimizing the TLB flushing scalability for modern Intel and AMD x86_64 processors...

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GNOME 48 Switches Over To "Adwaita Sans" As Default Font

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January, 2025

As another last minute change for GNOME 48 ahead of its feature freeze this weekend, the default font of the GNOME desktop has changed...

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The Compelling AVX-512 Performance Advantage On AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January, 2025

Back in October following the launch of the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors I ran an AVX-512 performance comparison for the EPYC 9755 with 512-bit data path vs. 256-bit data path vs. AVX-512 disabled. That was interesting for showing the benefits of Zen 5's full 512-bit data path support compared to the "double pumped" approach with Zen 4 or optionally used via a BIOS option on Zen 5. AVX-512 continues to prove to be very performant and power efficient with AMD Zen 5 processors unlike with the early generations of AVX-512 on Intel processors. Here is a fresh look at the AVX-512 performance on a Supermicro server with an AMD EPYC 9655 processor.

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Servo Aims For Shadow DOM & Improved Embedding API In 2025

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January, 2025

The Servo open-source browser engine written in Rust has published some of their development statistics and other figures for 2025. Additionally they have shared their planned roadmap for 2025...