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Google engineer Eric Biggers who has been responsible for many great Linux cryptography subsystem performance optimizations in recent years has another exciting patch series. Biggers has done some great work for optimizing various functions for modern Intel/AMD CPUs especially around AVX-512 implementations and now he has another big optimization coming for the CRC32 checksum performance...

Linux Kernel Patches Speed-Up CRC32 Performance For CPUs With "Good" AVX-512  Phoronix

With the Debian 13.0 release planned for 9 August, one of the notable fundamental features with this Debian "Trixie" release is now supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecture. This is the first release where RISC-V 64-bit is officially supported by Debian Linux albeit with limited board support and the Debian RISC-V build process is handicapped by slow hardware...

Debian 13.0 Ready To Introduce Formal RISC-V Support But Still Bound By Slow Hardware  Phoronix

SFrame is the lightweight stack trace format that can overcome some of the performance obstacles for tracing ELF files compared to frame pointers. In addition to the SFrame support coming together in the GNU toolchain, the SFrame support for LLVM/Clang is beginning to reach upstream...

In addition to Mesa's open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" making some nice performance improvements for modern AMD GPUs with hardware ray-tracing, the emulated ray-tracing code path in RADV for primarily older GPUs has seen some improvements merged this weekend. In fact, so significant that from one merge request is around 40% faster performance for the Quake II RTX game with the emulated RT handling...

Linux Just Hit a Big Milestone in the Desktop OS Race  PCMag UK

I switched from Windows to Linux and made these 4 rookie mistakes - don't be like me  xda-developers.com

Linux Just Hit a Big Milestone in the Desktop OS Race  MSN

Linux Just Hit a Big Milestone in the Desktop OS Race  PCMag

Recording Your Screen on Linux Is Easy With This App  How-To Geek

The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 "Trixie" that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time...

Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9  Phoronix

Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends development and support, effective immediately  Yahoo! Tech

2025 could finally be the year of the Linux desktop as the OS attains 5% US desktop market share for the first time  Notebookcheck

Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17  Phoronix

For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more AMD graphics driver features too, the NOVA driver for modern open-source NVIDIA driver support is continuing to be further built out in this next kernel version...

Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends support, effective immediately  Tom's Hardware

This Linux distro is built for home theatres, and is "just enough OS for Kodi"  xda-developers.com

Intel Shuts Down Clear Linux OS After a Decade of High-Performance Innovation  Vocal