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Linux Kernel's gconfig Finally Ported From GTK2 To GTK3

Phoronix | June 24, 2025, 2:05 p.m. | Original

While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3.

Linux developer Masahiro Yamada posted a set of 66 patches today for enhancing the xconfig and gconfig kernel configuration (Kconfig) utilities within the Linux kernel source tree. Most notable with these patches is finally migrating the gconfig utility from GTK

Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork

Phoronix | June 24, 2025, 1:45 p.m. | Original

In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLibre fork.

Recently opened is a change proposal for using XLibre as the X11 server beginning on Fedora 43. The change proposal argues:

"Replace the X.Org X11 Xserver (xorg-x11-xserver) with the X

mmc-utils 1.0 Released For Managing MMC Storage On Linux

Phoronix | June 24, 2025, 11:30 a.m. | Original

Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux.

Ulf Hansson who is the Linux kernel maintainer for the MMC subsystem and related code today issued the mmc-utils 1.0 release. The mmc-utils 1.0 tool can be used for managing MMC storage devices with reading CSD registers, setting the write protect status for a device, setting write protect configurations for specified regions of a device, setting temporary write protection,

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Performing Well, Achieving Faster Results On AMD EPYC 9005 Series

Phoronix | June 24, 2025, 10:15 a.m. | Original

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It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use. Jiving with what I had seen out of RHEL 10 beta performance and general expectations considering the plethora of software upgrades from RHEL 9 to RHEL 10, the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 release is helping tap additional performance out of modern servers.

The past few weeks I have been trying out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 on a

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Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 Continues Baking Panther Lake, More Optimizations

Phoronix | June 24, 2025, 8:44 a.m. | Original

Building off this morning's release of the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 is now the updated Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 as their June 2025 feature release.

Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 brings all of the improvements that have been baking over the month of May and early June. There is a lot in store and comes one month after the prior Compute Runtime release that was

Fedora 44 Looks To Drop i686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-bit Packages

Phoronix | June 24, 2025, 6:43 a.m. | Original

Fedora Linux for a while already stopped building i686 kernel releases and dropped their dedicated i686 repositories while now for the Fedora 44 release there is a proposal to take things further: finish gutting the i686 support. The new change proposal seeks to no longer include packages built for the i686 architecture and thereby dropping multi-lib support for 32-bit packages on 64-bit hosts. There wouldn't be any packages built any longer for i6

Cryptsetup 2.8 Released With Support For Inline Hardware Metadata Space

Phoronix | June 24, 2025, 6:16 a.m. | Original

Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more.

Most prominent with Cryptsetup 2.8 is adding support for inline mode for makingu se of hardware sectors with additional hardware metadata space. This inline mode currently works with select enterprise NVMe SSDs and can be used for overcoming the performance bottleneck of the DM-INTEGRITY journal.

RadeonSI Lands Shared Virtual Memory "SVM" Support For Mesa 25.2

Phoronix | June 24, 2025, 6:06 a.m. | Original

Adding to the many graphics driver features to look forward to with next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release is now Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver.

Shared Virtual Memory allows for sharing of pointers and pointer-containing data structures easily between host and device code with it being an important feature of OpenCL 2.0+. SVM also provides memory model consistency guarantees for greater coherency.

Back in May the Mesa Rust-based Rusticl OpenCL driver merged support for SVM and since

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 Brings Fixes, C++20 Compatibility Updates

Phoronix | June 24, 2025, 5:40 a.m. | Original

The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics driver.

The Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 release succeeds their prior IGC 2.11.7 release from mid-May. Today's release announcement sums up IGC 2.12.5 as delivering just a few fixes:

- Fixed ForceOCLSIMDWidth

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Some "Random Bits & Pieces" For CDNA Accelerators

Phoronix | June 23, 2025, 8:40 p.m. | Original

The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa supports GFX9/Vega graphics cards but not the later CDNA-based Instinct accelerators. However, some patches merged today for Mesa 25.2-devel did introduce some "random bits and pieces" for CDNA but not a full implementation.

RADV co-creator Bas Nieuwenhuizen today landed several patches for the RDNA Vulkan API driver for CDNA. This included adding the CDNA register settings, adapting the RADV driver to hanlde devices not having graphics queues, and other changes

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