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Newer Lenovo ThinkPads are adding the ability to detect and report varying degrees of hardware damage. The Lenovo ThinkPad ACPI driver for Linux is being adapted for being able to communicate said hardware damage to user-space Linux software...

Linux Exposing Support For Lenovo ThinkPads Being Able To Detect Hardware Damage  Phoronix

One of the exciting Intel innovations to the Linux kernel this year has been around the Cache Aware Scheduling for helping to deliver better performance on modern CPUs with multiple last level caches. The kernel patches have yet to be upstreamed but testing has shown to be quite promising for grouping tasks sharing data to the same LLC domain to help reduce cache misses and cache bouncing. Those wishing to learn more about Cache Aware Scheduling, there was a presentation on it last week by Intel engineers Tim Chen and Chen Yu at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 in Tokyo...

Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Presentation At LPC 2025  Phoronix

I've tried nearly every Linux package manager - these remain my favorite  ZDNET

As part of my various year-end comparison benchmarking, I recently ran some tests looking at how the Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA 4 performance has evolved since its debut near the beginning of the year. The Vulkan ray-tracing performance in particular was standing out this year as having evolved quite nicely while for conventional OpenGL and Vulkan performance the performance has been largely stable this year with its great at-launch support.

These 6 Linux apps let you monitor system resources in style  How-To Geek

Mozilla Corporation has named its new CEO in replacing interim CEO Laura Chambers...

Vampire Crawlers from the Vampire Survivors dev gets a fun new trailer  GamingOnLinux

How we reduced Linux boot time on iMX93 to 1.8s  Hackster.io

There's no such thing as a beginner Linux distro (and there never will be)  How-To Geek

7 Reasons Windows Subsystem for Linux Works For Me  How-To Geek

Last year Red Hat acquired Neural Magic as part of their AI acquisitions and to bolster the open-source AI ecosystem. Today they announced another AI acquisition...

Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 Is Now Available Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”  9to5Linux

The 5 best Linux apps for students  How-To Geek

After Decades, Linux Finally Gains Stable GPIB Support  Hackaday

Dual-PCB Linux computer with 843 components designed by AI boots on first attempt — Project Speedrun was made in just one week and required less than 40 hours of human work  Tom's Hardware

Poly Bridge developer’s next game is Poly Bricks - a LEGO-like cozy, creative brick-building game  GamingOnLinux

I use these 5 grep options to find anything fast  How-To Geek

The ZLUDA open-source project that has been through several incarnations but ultimately about getting CUDA software up and running on non-NVIDIA GPUs now supports the AMD ROCm 7 series...