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AlmaLinux chair confirms foundation was never approached to be a ...  ITPro

FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds  The Register

Among the exciting early pull requests to land in the new Linux 6.6 kernel cycle are some nice improvements to the IOmap code that should yield some substantive I/O benefits with this new kernel...

Google is using their NEXT'23 conference today to announce that C3A instances are debuting in private preview form for these new AArch64 VMs powered by AmpereOne processors...

Mageia 9 Released With Linux Kernel 6.4 and PulseAudio Support  It's FOSS News

The EEVDF scheduler code has been merged for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel. EEVDF replaces the existing CFS scheduler code. There is the likelihood of some performance regressions initially though but the developers will be working to address them as they arise. Additionally, this scheduler pull also re-introduces cluster scheduling for Intel Core hybrid processors...

EEVDF Scheduler Merged For Linux 6.6, Intel Hybrid Cluster Scheduling Re-Introduced  Phoronix

Kaspersky launches specialized solution for Linux-based embedded devices  ZAWYA

ClamAV 1.2 was released on Monday as the newest version of this open-source, cross-platform anti-virus engine currently maintained by Cisco Systems...

What is Fedora? Everything you need to know about this popular Linux Distro  XDA Developers

What CentOS Discontinuation Means And The Impact On AppViewX  Security Boulevard

Linux kernel 6.5 released | GamingOnLinux  GamingOnLinux

The Intel-led SVT-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder is out with a major release that delivers on more performance improvements across the board...

Btrfs in Linux 6.5 brought various performance improvements and prior to that it was a busy cycle with Linux 6.4 while now with Linux 6.6 the Btrfs file-system driver is mostly centered on delivering fixes...

Linux 6.5 kernel arrives with exciting new features  ZDNet

The Alliance For Open Media has released libavif 1.0, the reference library for the AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) with image encode and decode support...

Amazon Linux 2023 Virtual Machine Images Still MIA - Slashdot  Slashdot

For HotChips 2023, Intel has made some new disclosures around Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest.

Over the summer AMD Linux engineers began sending kernel patches for Family 1Ah (Family 26) processors that almost surely are for next-gen Zen 5 processors. Among the initial bits sent out for this next-generation AMD CPU Family are HWMON temperature monitoring and EDAC reporting, which are now on their way for the Linux 6.6 kernel...

Ampere Opens the Door for 192-Core Linux Gaming Machines  Tom's Hardware