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Announced last summer was the Ultra Ethernet Consortium started by the Linux Foundation along with AMD, Intel, Cisco, Meta, Microsoft, Broadcom, and other organizations. Ultra Ethernet aims for high performance networking for the likes of AI and HPC. The group announced today they've courted an additional 45 organizations to become members of this consortium and they are on track for their v1.0 specification in Q3...

More Organizations Join The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, v1.0 Spec In Q3  Phoronix

Following last week's main set of power management updates for Linux 6.9 that saw AMD P-State Preferred Core support and tuning for Intel Meteor Lake, a secondary set of power management subsystem changes were sent out today for this new kernel...

ARM SCMI CPUFreq Driver Enabling Boost Support By Default With Linux 6.9  Phoronix

NVIDIA driver 550.67 released fixes for VKD3D (Proton), Wayland and more  GamingOnLinux

Playtron announces self-titled Linux OS and gaming handheld with hopes to unify storefronts  Tom's Hardware

NVIDIA 550.67 Linux Graphics Driver Brings Wayland Fixes, Better Support for VKD3D Games  9to5Linux

Mozilla Firefox 124 Released with Misc Improvements, Linux Fixes  OMG! Ubuntu!

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Products for Linux  It's FOSS

The x86 cache updates for Linux 6.9 offer an improved memory bandwidth throttling heuristic such as used by Intel Resource Director Technology (RDT) and also AMD EPYC CPUs with the resctrl code...

Improved Memory Bandwidth Throttling Behavior For Linux 6.9  Phoronix

WayDroid is the Easiest Way to Run Android Apps on Linux  How-To Geek

AMD adds Zen 5 support to GCC Linux compiler  ITC

Playtron's Distro is an Upcoming SteamOS Challenger for Linux Gaming  It's FOSS News

The Linux 6.9 kernel has a big rework to the CPU timer code that has been years in the making and has some power and performance benefits...

Suspected Russian Data-Wiping 'AcidPour' Malware Targeting Linux x86 Devices  The Hacker News

Linux kernel 4.14 gets a life extension, thanks to OpenELA  The Register

GNOME 45.5 Is Here with Small Updates for GNOME Shell, Mutter, and GNOME Tweaks  9to5Linux

Lynis: Open-source security auditing tool  Help Net Security

Merged today were all the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel...