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Star Labs Unveils the Byte Mk II Mini Linux PC, Drops AMD for Intel CPU  9to5Linux

Similar to what I have shown with the Ryzen 9 7950X AVX-512 desktop performance and AMD EPYC 9004 series AVX-512 server performance, the new Ryzen 7040 series mobile processors are exhibiting great AVX-512 performance for laptops. In today's article is a look at the performance impact when toggling AVX-512 capabilities for a Ryzen 7 7840U "Phoenix" SoC compared to toggling AVX-512 with prior Intel Tiger Lake and Ice Lake laptops that offer AVX-512.

How to use Threads on desktop in Windows, Mac, Linux, and ...  XDA Developers

Fake PoC for Linux Kernel Vulnerability on GitHub Exposes Researchers to Malware  The Hacker News

After 30 years, Linux surpasses 3% market share  KitGuru

Intel Sends Out Initial Compiler Patches For Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake  Phoronix

Intel's Linux software engineers understand the annual GCC compiler release cadence well and acknowledge the importance of having tuned compiler support available at launch. Intel for years has tended to get their new CPU support and new ISA features upstreamed into GCC as well as LLVM/Clang well ahead of product launch so that by the time their new consumer and server CPUs are shipping, there tends to be support within compilers just not at their stable versions but already found in the likes of Ubuntu. With that said, today Intel engineers posted initial compiler patches for Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake processors...

Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux  The Register

While less than one week has passed since the Linux 6.5 merge window ended and 6.5-rc1 being issued, there is already the first set of drm-misc-next changes submitted to DRM-Next of early open-source graphics/display driver changes geared for Linux 6.6 later this year...

Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates Begin Queuing For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Mesa 23.2 feature development is now over with the code having been branched and the first release candidate tagged for what will be this quarter's stable release series...

Install Windows Server in VirtualBox on Linux  AddictiveTips

Intel this morning released their open-source Compute Runtime 23.22.26516.18 as their newest monthly update to this open-source compute stack used on Linux for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero usage...

Visual Studio Code stabilizes Remote Tunnels to WSL  InfoWorld

Embedded Linux Market Global Industry Share, Size, Revenue ...  Digital Journal

Linux has over 3% of the desktop market? It's more complicated than ...  ZDNet

Wayland may soon overtake X11 in Linux GUIs  The Register

Linux hits highest market share in decades, with 3% of desktops ...  TweakTown

Linux distributors, open source developers warned to update Ghostscript  Channel Daily News

Linux distributors, open source developers warned to update Ghostscript  IT World Canada