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I automated my entire Linux desktop — and I didn’t have to touch the terminal once  MakeUseOf

For helping with thread placement on modern AMD Zen systems with multiple CPU core complexes, Google has been developing "BPF CCX" that leverages the Linux kernel's eBPF capabilities paired with a user-space agent for fine-grained thread control. Google has found very positive performance results out of their use of this alternative means of high performance scheduling for achieving even greater performance on AMD processors under Linux...

Google Taps More Performance Out Of AMD Zen CPUs With BPF-CCX Scheduling  Phoronix

Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's open-source Linux graphics team has landed improvements for the Mesa 260 RADV driver to support new performance counters in conjunction with AMD's Radeon GPU Profiler 2.6 release...

Intel Advances Linux Xe Drivers with Multi-Queue for AI Efficiency  WebProNews

Intel APX Doubles x86 Registers: Linux KVM Patches Boost VM Performance  WebProNews

Linux Kernel 7.0 Drops Support for AMD’s Unreleased NPU2  WebProNews

Linux Kernel Permanently Adopts Rust in 2025 for Better Security  WebProNews

Linux 6.19 Boosts Legacy AMD Radeon GPUs with AMDGPU Driver Upgrade  WebProNews

Mirantis Joins Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation as Silver Member  01net

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.3 Improves Drive Filtering and AppImage Bundle on Linux  9to5Linux

This Linux app for cooperative controller gaming just got a big update  How-To Geek

Thirteen months after the release of Elementary OS 8.0, Elementary OS 8.1 is now available for this Ubuntu 24.04 LTS based Linux distribution that focuses on ease of use and usability. With Elementary OS 8.1 they have transitioned to using the Wayland session by default...

Elementary OS 8.1 Switches Over To Wayland Session By Default  Phoronix

NordVPN Releases Open-Source NordLynx Package for OpenWrt Routers  WebProNews

Elementary OS 8.1 is Here  Thurrott.com

elementary OS 8.1 Released with Wayland Session by Default, ARM64 Support  9to5Linux

Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable scripting language...

The Amiga's filesystem is now on Linux and Mac, thanks to an emulated driver  How-To Geek

Mirantis Joins Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation as Silver Member  Business Wire