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Here's another reason why Linux is way cooler than your operating system  ZDNet

The CentOS ISA special interest group (SIG) has been evaluating the performance of CentOS Stream in the event its x86_64 baseline were to be raised from x86-64-v2 to x86-64-v3. Currently CentOS Stream 9 targets x86-64-v2 but in upping the support requirements to x86-64-v3, it would allow the ability to engage AVX/AVX2 by default and make use of other newer instruction set features. The x86-64-v3 baseline roughly correlates to Intel / AMD CPUs from 2015 and newer...

How to Install and Run Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Kernel 6.5 Released, This is What’s New  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Kernel 6.5 Released, This is What's New  OMG! Ubuntu!

Mozilla Firefox 117 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Get Ready to Linux and Roll: Explore the Top Distributions of 2023!  Gizchina.com

Back in April AMD Linux engineers posted enabling a new CPU feature called Dynamic Boost Control to be found with some unspecified Ryzen SoCs for tuning the processor cores for optimal performance. The Dynamic Boost Control functionality depends upon the AMD Cryptographic Co-Processor (CCP) / Platform Security Processor (PSP) and this functionality was submitted today as part of the crypto updates for Linux 6.6...

UbuntuDDE weds Deepin Desktop with the latest Ubuntu for a beautiful, user-friendly distro  ZDNet

Respawn begin unbanning various Apex Legends Linux and Steam ...  GamingOnLinux

Linux Kernel 6.5 Released: Supports WiFi 7, USB 4 v2, And More  Beebom

Linux Software Market Size, Share Future Growth, New Developments, And Forecast To 2031  Benzinga

Building off yesterday's release of Linux 6.5, GNU Linux-libre 6.5-gnu is now available for this downstream kernel maintained by the Free Software Foundation Latin America crew that removes support for binary-only kernel modules and stripping out other kernel code that depends on non-free-software microcode/firmware and other elements not deemed in the interests of pure free software...

Roblox support returns to Linux with Wine  GamingOnLinux

You Don't Have to Leave Windows: 8 Ways to Start Using Linux  How-To Geek

Thanks to this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a student developer took the initiative in working on an automated Gentoo Linux system updater to help begineers and ease the roll-out of security updates to users...

An Automated Gentoo Linux System Updater Developed Via GSoC  Phoronix

As part of the Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) updates submitted today for the Linux 6.6 kernel is adding a quirk/workaround for dealing with current AMD Zen systems where a processor bug could lead to erroneously increased error severity and unneeded kernel panics...

In addition to the fchmodat2 system call, another early pull request submitted by Microsoft's Christian Brauner even before the Linux 6.5 kernel was released is one to introduce multi-grained timestamps with Linux 6.6. Multi-grained timestamps are intended to address an issue exhibited with NFS around caching and the current coarse-grained timestamp handling used for (in)validating caches...

Sipeed unveils RISC-V tablet, portable Linux console, and cluster  CNX Software