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Happy Holidays & A Year End Phoronix Premium Special
24 December 09:09 AM EST - Premium - Merry Christmas - 5 Comments

Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to those celebrating any end-of-year holidays. In case you missed last month's cyber week special for a discounted rate on going ad-free, native dark mode, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits, it's back for Christmas week.

AMD AXI 1-Wire Host Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8
AMD AXI 1-Wire Host Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8
24 December 06:26 AM EST - AMD - AMD AXI 1W - Add A Comment

While the Linux 6.7 release is being pushed back by one week due to the holidays and in turn the Linux 6.8 merge window not officially opening until 8 January, some pull requests do end up getting submitted early. The 1-wire bus driver changes for Linux 6.8 were sent out this week and most notably includes adding the AMD AXI 1-wire host driver.

23 December

22 December

ASRock Launches AI QuickSet Software For Linux
ASRock Launches AI QuickSet Software For Linux
22 December 06:30 AM EST - Hardware - AI QuickSet For Linux - 11 Comments

Here's a pleasant Christmas present and one I certainly wasn't expecting... Motherboard manufacturer ASRock has announced software for Linux! Well, not any motherboard management/configuration software for their desktop motherboards or anything like that but rather a Linux port of their AI QuickSet software that is intended to help users "experience AI in one click."

Plymouth Boot Splash Screen Sees First Update In Nearly Two Years
Plymouth Boot Splash Screen Sees First Update In Nearly Two Years
22 December 06:02 AM EST - Free Software - Plymouth - 26 Comments

One of the often overlooked pieces of the Linux desktop software stack is Plymouth that for the past 15 years or so has been providing a graphical boot splash screen that succeeded Red Hat's former RHGB software or having no graphical boot splash screen at all on some Linux distributions. This week marked the first new release of Plymouth in nearly two years.

Intel Fixes Up Baldur's Gate 3 On Linux With Arc Graphics
Intel Fixes Up Baldur's Gate 3 On Linux With Arc Graphics
22 December 05:50 AM EST - Intel - Broken Rendering - 8 Comments

For those with Intel Arc Graphics on Linux and wanting to enjoy the game Baldur's Gate 3 thanks to the power of Valve's Steam Play software, an important fix has been merged to Mesa 24.0-devel and set for back-porting to Mesa 23.3. This should take care of rendering issues being reported for Baldur's Gate 3 with Intel graphics on Linux when using the Vulkan renderer.

21 December

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The Intel Core Ultra 7 Meteor Lake
21 December 09:00 PM EST - Computers - 35 Comments

Following my Linux benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor performance where it ended up being rather disappointing but then with finding great success with the integrated Arc Graphics on Meteor Lake, like I you may be left wondering how much of a role Linux is playing with these results compared to Windows... Well, this article will shed some light on that aspect with looking at the Microsoft Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux performance on the Acer Swift Go 14 Meteor Lake laptop.

Intel Revises Work On Timed I/O PPS Functionality For Linux
21 December 06:18 AM EST - Intel - Pulse Per Second - 7 Comments

Back in January I wrote about Intel working on a Timed I/O driver for Linux with PPS (Pulse Per Second) to help with time synchronization between multiple devices. There hasn't been much external talk about this Timed I/O / PPS functionality while today as we approach the end of the year a new set of Linux kernel patches were posted for wiring up this Intel PPS Generator functionality.

Intel Posts SVM Patches For Xe Kernel Graphics Driver
21 December 04:58 AM EST - Intel - Shared Virtual Memory - 1 Comment

Intel's new Xe kernel graphics driver is set for merging into Linux 6.8 as an experimental option. While it's being added to the next kernel cycle, it's not yet used by default for any existing Intel GPUs and its features have yet to be fully implemented and the performance has yet to be fully optimized. Among the features currently missing is Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support but a patch series posted today aims to address that functionality.

Intel Improves FFmpeg's DNN Detect Filter For AI Object Detection
21 December 04:21 AM EST - Intel - vf_dnn_detect - Add A Comment

With AI being all the rage these days and each vendor working on getting their wares to market with AI acceleration, besides Intel now having out their Meteor Lake CPUs that feature their Intel AI Boost (NPU), Intel is rather positioned well with their prolific open-source software contributions. One of the AI-related software contributions over the past week has been improvements to the FFmpeg multimedia library's "DNN detect" filter for object detection within videos.

20 December

GRUB 2.12 Bootloader Brings SDL2 Support, Boot Loader Interface
20 December 03:48 PM EST - GNU - GRUB 2.12 - 43 Comments

GRUB 2.06 was released back in June of 2021 and today it's finally been succeeded by... GRUB 2.12. This latest GRUB stable release has been a long time coming but it's finally out before the new year and it's packing many features for this widely-used open-source bootloader.

KDE Plasma 6 Beta 2 Released For Testing
20 December 03:17 PM EST - KDE - Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 - 21 Comments

For those with some extra time on your hands around the holidays, the second beta of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop along with KDE Gear applications and KDE Frameworks 6.0 is now available for testing.

Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Continues Building Up Its Rust Infrastructure
20 December 05:42 AM EST - Operating Systems - Serpent OS - 19 Comments

Ikey Doherty who is known for his work starting Solus Linus as well as the Budgie desktop while also formerly working on Intel's Clear Linux and other open-source software contributions has most recently been working on his newest endeavour: Serpent OS. A end-of-year development summary has now been posted that outlines the latest work on this Linux distribution.

Sound Open Firmware 2.8 Released With New Intel & AMD Bits
20 December 04:57 AM EST - Multimedia - Sound Open Firmware 2.8 - 2 Comments

A new version of Sound Open Firmware is now available for this open-source audio DSP firmware and development tools. For what began as an Intel open-source project for open-source sound firmware is now seeing ongoing adoption by AMD, MediaTek, and other vendors. Sound Open Firmware 2.8 has been released ahead of the holidays.

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