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Back in July 2024, Ampere Computing announced AmpereOne M on their road-map for Q4'2024 to provide AmpereOne with 12 channel DDR5 memory compared to eight memory channels with the original AmpereOne processors. Then this past May the AmpereOne M SKUs were announced while Ampere Computing stated these "M" processors had been shipping since Q4 of last year. Since then we haven't seen or heard anything more about AmpereOne M nor the AmpereOne MX processors with up to 256 cores. Since then, the acquisition of Ampere Computing by SoftBank also was completed that made us wonder more about impacts to the roadmap and what hardware may or may not make it out to market. Well, today, we are finally seeing AmpereOne M availability in the public cloud with the new Oracle Cloud A4 instances...

Ubuntu Studio could get a new default visual design in 2026  How-To Geek

GNOME bans AI-generated extensions  The Verge

Following the Color Management protocol introduced in Wayland Protocols 1.41, out today is Wayland Protocols 1.47 with various revisions to that color management and HDR support...

Rust For Linux No Longer Experimental  i-programmer.info

Laying out the 404 Media Zine: Using WINE on Linux  Adafruit

Microsoft Recent Update Breaks VPS Access for Windows Subsystem for Linux Users  CybersecurityNews

5 signs you're becoming an advanced Linux user  How-To Geek

Cinnamon, Xfce, or Mate: Which Linux Mint edition should you download?  How-To Geek

There's another setback to the open-source driver code around Intel's Gaudi accelerator support on Linux...

Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code  Phoronix

Besides Valve funding FEX-Emu for x86_64 binaries to run on AArch64 Linux as part of their Steam Play (Proton) efforts in being able to get Windows x86/x64 games running on AArch64 SteamOS for the Snapdragon-powered Steam Frame, there is also work happening in kernel-space to help this emulated gaming experience on AArch64...

Igalia's Work Improving The Linux Kernel For Helping Steam Play Gaming On ARM64  Phoronix

Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code  devclass

Cyble Uncovers Sophisticated Linux Malware Campaign Combining Mirai-Derived DDoS Botnet with Fileless Cryptominer  CXOToday.com

7 Projects Killed by Ubuntu (But I Still Miss Them)  It's FOSS

You don’t need grep and sed for most Bash scripts, here’s what to use instead  How-To Geek

Even before the Linux 6.19 merge window wrapped up this weekend with the Linux 6.19-rc1 release, there was already the first pull request to DRM-Next of the first batch of new material to be queued for Linux 6.19's successor...

Free 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal, Klaus Veen's Treason added Linux support  GamingOnLinux

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers now have a need to set a policy whether AI / Large Language Model (LLM) generated patches will be accepted for this open-source compiler stack...