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Lossless Scaling benchmarked in Linux on a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and Radeon RX 6600 in 4K  GameGPU

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Ka-Ro QS93 and QS95 solder-down modules come with Linux evaluation boards  LinuxGizmos.com

For those having Linux systems with multiple swap devices, such as for swap tiering or layered swap handling, a set of patches posted today for the Linux kernel are looking to improve the situation...

I tested COSMIC's new Frosted Glass effect, and it's way better than MacOS' Liquid Glass  ZDNET

Putting Linux on the classic Atari Jaguar console  Adafruit

Black screen? Installing NVIDIA Drivers for Linux  YouTube

Ethereum is breaking up. But there's... no fighting?  YouTube

Following the recent GA of the AWS M9g series as the first instances powered by the new Graviton5 CPUs, I recently ran benchmarks looking at Graviton4 vs. Graviton5 CPU performance. There was very nice generational gains for the new AWS Graviton processors with the shift from Arm Neoverse-V2 to Neoverse-V3 cores and from DDR5-5600 to DDR5-8800 memory, among other improvements. For those wondering how the Graviton5 ARM server processors compare to AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon, here are some additional comparison data points from the Amazon EC2 cloud.

Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler  Engineering at Meta

These 5 distros prove that Linux isn’t immune to bloatware  How-To Geek

Rocky Linux Ships Januscape Patch: Two KVM CVEs Required for Full Protection  Tech Times

I installed Microsoft's own Linux distro and immediately understood why it exists  MakeUseOf

CLI apps aren't just for Linux—these 5 run fine on Windows too  How-To Geek

Alfonso Siciliano, who has been one of the FreeBSD developers leading the effort on adding a KDE-based desktop option to the FreeBSD installer, provided an update on recent work around adding integrating this desktop option...

They promised Linux Mint could replace Windows—here's 3 ways it falls short  How-To Geek

My Lil Afterlife Will Arrive on Windows and Linux Later This Month  COGconnected

GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or also tentatively called their "Test Center" to help in testing experimental applications/libraries in a modern Linux computing world with systemd-sysext, Buildstream, and other newer tech...

Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...

Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Driver Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix