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Canonical Now Offering Ubuntu Pro For WSL

Phoronix - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 21:24
Evidently Canonical has been pretty pleased with the uptake of Ubuntu on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) within enterprise/corporate environments as they are now offering Ubuntu Pro for WSL...

openSUSE Begins Rolling Out Intel NPU Support

Phoronix - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 19:21
Via the openSUSE Innovator Initiative, packaging of the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver for the openSUSE ecosystem has begun. This is helping to jump-start the Intel NPU support within the openSUSE space although user-space applications ready to leverage the Intel NPU still remains very limited...

Optimized NUMA Distances For Intel GNR & CWF, Other Scheduler Improvements In Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 19:03
The big set of kernel scheduler changes were merged on Monday for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

Kernel Credential Guards Merged For Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 18:50
Merged yesterday for the Linux 6.19 kernel were "substantial" improvements to the kernel's credential infrastructure to provide guard-based management that allows for kernel code simplification and avoiding manual reference counting across many subsystems...

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