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On Sunday prior to releasing Linux 6.15-rc1, one of the last feature pulls was merging updates for the Turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree. The Turbostat tool provides CPU frequency and power statistics along with the ability to query temperatures and other CPU metrics on AMD and Intel processors...

Summary:Meta released its newest version of the Llama model family this weekend–Llama 4As a leading commercial contributor to the vLLM project, Red Hat collaborated with the Meta team to help enable Day Zero support for Llama 4 inference with vLLMFurthermore, the Red Hat OpenShift AI team has enabled our customers to experiment with Llama 4 using the latest release of vLLM inside their OpenShift AI environments.Read on to get started with inferencing the Llama 4 Heard inside OpenShift AI!Over the April 5 weekend, Meta released its newest version of the Llama model family–Llama 4, enabling

The Linux 6.15 merge window has been capped off with the Linux 6.15-rc1 test kernel having been just released...

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.15 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

My Linux Install Took 8 Hours Because I Missed This Simple Fix  Yahoo

My Linux Install Took 8 Hours Because I Missed This Simple Fix  How-To Geek

Nvidia engineer breaks and then quickly fixes AMD GPU performance in Linux  Tom's Hardware

As a win for the open-source community from NVIDIA, the company recently announced they are making their PhysX and Flow GPU-accelerated source code open-source...

As we close out the Linux 6.15 merge window this weekend culminating with the Linux 6.15-rc1 release, the input driver updates were merged that include introducing the new Apple Z2 driver...

Apple Z2 Touchscreen / Touch Bar Driver Lands In Linux 6.15  Phoronix

How to Install and Optimize Obsidian on Linux  Yahoo

How to Install and Optimize Obsidian on Linux  How-To Geek

In addition to the recent optional IO_uring support for the PostgreSQL database server on Linux and async I/O batch mode, another exciting performance improvement was merged this week. Landing in the PostgreSQL database server this week was support for using AVX-512 instructions for CRC32C computations...

One of the early pull requests for Linux 6.15 that I've been meaning to highlight are the VFS iomap updates sent in by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner. In particular, the VFS iomap pull brings preparations for large atomic writes and its upcoming usage by the XFS and EXT4 file-systems...

Merged a few days ago for the Linux 6.15 kernel were all of the performance events updates for which there are a few notable patches on the AMD and Intel side this cycle...

Linux 6.15 Performance Events Adds Support For AMD Zen 5 Load Latency Filtering  Phoronix

Among the pull requests coming in at the tail end of the Linux 6.15 merge window with 6.15-rc1 expected tonight are all of the Kbuild updates as the infrastructure for building out the kernel...

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.14 on Ubuntu 24.10, Here’s How  9to5Linux

Why Linux Rules the World of Science  How-To Geek

Three Chips Should Be Enough for Anyone  Hackster.io