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Linux Powers AI and Reshapes Modern IT Careers  findarticles.com

Goodbye, VirtualBox - I found a better, more reliable VM manager for Linux  ZDNET

This OS quietly powers all AI - and most future IT jobs, too  ZDNET

Linux Finally Retiring HIPPI: The First Near-Gigabit Standard For Networking Supercomputers  Phoronix

While the Linux kernel has been seeing preparations from NVIDIA for 1.6 Tb/s networking in preparing for next-generation super-computing, the kernel has still retained support to now for the High Performance Parallel Interface. HIPPI was the standard for connecting supercomputers in the late 1980s and a portion of the 1990s with being the first networking standard for near-Gigabit connectivity at 800 Mb/s over distances up to 25 meters. But HIPPI looks like it will be retired from the mainline kernel with Linux 7.0...

Adobe Photoshop sneaks onto Linux through a back door  TechRadar

Slimbook One is a Linux mini PC with up to AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370  Liliputing

Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list this afternoon were a set of 19 patches in preparing for some new CPU features presumably to be found with AMD's next-generation EPYC "Venice" processors...

NexPhone is a phone you can use as a desktop PC with Android, Linux, and Windows 11 support  Liliputing

Back at CES earlier this month AMD talked up features of the ROCm 7.2 release. ROCm 7.2 though wasn't actually released then, at least not for Linux. That ROCm 7.2.0 release though was pushed out today as the latest improvement to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack and officially extending the support to more Radeon graphics cards...

AMD ROCm 7.2 Now Released With More Radeon Graphics Cards Supported, ROCm Optiq Introduced  Phoronix

Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 26.0-rc1 with the code for this quarter's Mesa feature release now branched and under a feature freeze leading up to the stable release in February...

Linux environment KDE releases first beta of Plasma Next  BetaNews

Linux desktop environment LXQt achieves first release  BetaNews

Win8DE brings Windows 8 look to Linux desktops  findarticles.com

Debian vs. Arch vs. Fedora: Which Linux distro base is right for you  ZDNET

[Last chance for Free] Kali Linux Cookbook: Third Edition (worth $35.99)  Neowin

This Linux project proves you can bring back Windows 8 - but not why you should  ZDNET

PyTorch 2.10 is out today as the latest feature update to this widely-used deep learning library. The new PyTorch release continues improving support for Intel GPUs as well as for the AMD ROCm compute stack along with still driving more enhancements for NVIDIA CUDA...

The Return of Windows Phone? This New Device Runs Android, Linux, Windows 11  PCMag