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Given the recent release of FreeBSD 15, I started off my testing in looking at how FreeBSD 15.0 improves performance versus FreeBSD 14.3. Now it's onto the next important question: how is FreeBSD 15.0 performing relative to Linux on servers? Here are some benchmarks exploring that topic today.

FreeBSD 15.0 vs. Ubuntu Linux For AMD EPYC Server Performance  Phoronix

A Linux-Powered Smartphone That Has Features You Won't Find on Most Phones  It's FOSS

Anthropic says MCP will stay 'open, neutral, and community-driven' after donating project to Linux Foundation  IT Pro

AMD FSR SDK 2.1 is now available that includes their "FSR Redstone" machine learning based upscaling tech for gaming..

How Linux Foundation Unifies Open Standards for AI Agents  AI Magazine

Quilter's AI just designed an 843‑part Linux computer that booted on the first try. Hardware will never be the same.  VentureBeat

Linux Foundation Partners With New Group to Standardize AI Agents  Windows Report

Linux Foundation's New Move: Will It Unite AI Agents?  KnowTechie

Microsoft wants to make Windows 'the best place to game' but, personally, I'm all in on SteamOS and Linux  PC Gamer

I brought my Linux desktop back to Christmas 1993  Yahoo! Tech

I brought my Linux desktop back to Christmas 1993  How-To Geek

Linux kernel's 'd_genocide' function removed to align with inclusive language guidelines  Neowin

Microsoft promises to make Windows "the best place" for gaming in 2026, in the face of Linux growth  PC Guide

PeerBlight Linux Malware Abuses React2Shell for Proxy Tunneling  GBHackers News

Turbostat is the Linux command-line utility for reporting CPU frequency / power / C-states and related performance / power management items namely for modern AMD and Intel processors. This CLI utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree and for Linux 6.19 has picked up a few new features...

Turbostat Introduces New Cache Statistics, Nova Lake + Wildcat Lake Support  Phoronix

In addition to approving Fedora Cloud switching /boot to a Btrfs subvolume, another change approved this week by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is for shipping the Budgie 10.10 desktop packages in Fedora 44...

The past several months Intel software engineers have been quite busy with LLM-Scaler as part of Project Battlematrix. LLM-Scaler is a Docker-based solution for AI workloads on Intel graphics hardware to ship an optimized vLLM stack and other AI frameworks. Out today is a new LLM-Scaler-Omni release to help enhance ComfyUI performance on Intel hardware...

Major AI Players Unite With Linux Foundation to Prevent Agent Technology Fragmentation  Technology Org