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Over the past month I've been delivering a number of Linux laptop tests with the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U for that Zen 4 "Phoenix" SoC within an Acer Swift Edge 16. One of the requests that has come up with my ongoing testing has been how well the default Microsoft Windows 11 installation compares to loading up Linux on this 8-core AMD Zen 4 laptop. Well, in this article is a look at the Linux performance compared to Windows 11, including when making use of the Linux 6.5 development kernel where AMD P-State is now the default and also for seeing what workloads are impacted by the recent AMD Inception vulnerability.

StarLite is a 12.5" tablet for Linux lovers  Boing Boing

Linux 6.4 or newer paired with the latest cryptsetup development code has landed support for the OPAL specification for self-encrypting drives...

Debian, the grandaddy of Linux operating systems, turns 30  TechSpot

SteamVR Beta gets some improvements for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux specialist SUSE goes private at €2.7-billion valuation  TechCentral

MAR-10459736.r1.v1 WHIRLPOOL Backdoor  CISA

OBS Studio 30.0 Beta 1 released supporting Intel QSV on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Investigations are Underway for NVIDIA 535 Driver Series Issues on ...  Game Is Hard

Given all the interest this week in Firefox outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider, I decided to run some fresh Linux desktop web browser benchmarks on my end. For today's comparison is a look at the newly-released Chrome 116 up against Firefox 117b8 that will be released as stable in just over one week...

Firefox 117 Beta 8 vs. Google Chrome 116 Linux Browser Performance  Phoronix

For those still managing to resist systemd, SysVinit 3.08 was released on Thursday as the newest update to this init system...

Star Labs reveal their new StarLite, a Surface-like Linux tablet  GamingOnLinux

Even Linux users can get a Microsoft Surface-alike now  Windows Central

The GNOME 45 Beta is out today as the latest development milestone ahead of its stable debut in September...

SUSE To Flip Back Into Private Ownership - Slashdot  Slashdot

Linux Malware: What To Know About the Malware Threat  ITPro Today

The Future of Open Source is Still Very Much in Flux  Slashdot

How to install Alpine Linux  AddictiveTips

Bootlin offers Embedded Linux course for BeaglePlay  LinuxGizmos.com