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      Linus Torvalds Rejects MMC Changes For Linux 7.0 Cycle: "Complete Garbage"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 hours ago

    The Linux MultiMediaCard "MMC" subsystem was set to see some new hardware support, optimized support for secure erase/trim on some eMMCs, and a variety of other improvements. But all of the MMC changes are rejected and will be for the duration of the Linux 7.0 cycle due to an apparent lack of testing and vetting via linux-next that led Linus Torvalds to calling it "complete garbage" and "untested crap"...
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      Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Development Now Experimenting With AI Code Review

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    Well known open-source Linux graphics driver developer David Airlie of Red Hat, who is the co-maintainer of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers and accelerator "accel" drivers, announced experimental work on AI-drive code/patch review for these open-source kernel drivers...
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      Sabayon Linux Creator Now Developing Gentoo-Based, Immutable matrixOS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    Longtime Linux users may recall the Sabayon Linux distribution that was Gentoo-based and focused on a nice out-of-the-box experience from the mid 2000s through 2019 before fading away after 2018. Sabayon Linux creator Fabio Erculiani wrote in to Phoronix today to announce he's begun working on a new Linux distribution called matrixOS...
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      Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    Mesa 26.0 was just officially released as this quarter's new feature release for these open-source OpenGL / Gallium3D and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems and elsewhere like within the confines of Microsoft's WSL...
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      Chrome 146 Now In Beta With WebNN Origin Trial For Neural Networks In The Browser

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    Following yesterday's Chrome 145 release with JPEG-XL support, Chrome 146 today was promoted to the beta channel to help facilitate broader testing of the next round of Chrome/Chromium browser improvements...
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      Intel Arc B390 Panther Lake Generational Performance Since The Gen9 Graphics Era

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    Last week on Phoronix we provided initial Linux graphics benchmarks for the new Xe3-based Arc B390 graphics found with the higher-end Panther Lake SoCs with 12 Xe cores. Those benchmarks showed great gains over recent generations of Intel graphics like with Lunar Lake, Meteor Lake, and even Alder/Raptor Lake... But what if you hold onto your laptop for even longer? In this article is an Intel integrated graphics comparison looking at the general performance and power efficiency going all the way back to the Gen9 graphics era for what seemed like an eternity of Gen9-derived graphics during the Skylake era.
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      AMD ROCm TheRock 7.11 Released, Ubuntu Making Progress On Shipping ROCm Packages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    Two useful bits of ROCm news today for those interested in AMD's open-source GPU compute stack...
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      Linux Mint Developing New Wayland-Compatible Screensaver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    The Linux Mint developers have been hard at work continuing to develop new features following their recent Mint 22.3 release. There is continued enhancements around keyboard support, a new administration tool for users, and there are also considerations being made around moving to a longer development cycle between Linux Mint releases...
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      Linux 7.0 Now Defaults To Intel TSX Auto Mode For Performance Benefits On Newer CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    The x86/cpu changes have been merged for Linux 7.0 and include finally setting the default Intel TSX mode to "auto" rather than being off by default...