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Counting individual characters on Linux  Network World

AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs are Mostly Faster than Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake Chips in Linux Gaming  Hardware Times

Work carried out by Google engineers and others around the Linux kernel's read-copy update (RCU) synchronization mechanism to make it "lazier" is helping with 5~10% power-savings for idle or lightly-loaded systems. This "Lazy RCU" work is likely to be merged for the Linux 6.2 kernel merge window in December...

Linux 6.2 Likely To Enjoy Measurable Power-Savings While Idle Or Lightly Loaded  Phoronix

Rakuten Symphony Telecom and CIQ Bring Open Source and Open Community to Open RAN Deployments with Rocky Linux - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC  insideHPC

Microsoft's Lennart Poettering proposes tightening up Linux boot process  The Register

Vanilla OS is a brilliant take on the Linux desktop  TechRepublic

CD PROJEKT RED announce The Witcher Remake in Unreal Engine 5  GamingOnLinux

Teen dream team reboots Rolling Rhino into Rhino Linux  The Register

JSAUX cancels current Steam Deck Dock with RGB, after competitor pinched it  GamingOnLinux

Last week Intel began shipping their 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processors. As noted in that launch-day article last week, unfortunately I wasn't able to deliver my usual Linux performance review in time due to hitting some DDR5 issues with my test platform, but those have now been resolved with a new Z790 motherboard. So as the first of my Raptor Lake Linux benchmarks, here is a look at how the top-end Core i9 13900K performs against the AMD Ryzen 7000 series on Ubuntu Linux along with the older Intel/AMD processors.

Intel Core i9 13900K Linux Benchmarks - Performing Very Well On Ubuntu Review  Phoronix

Lemonduck Cryptojacking Botnet Reveals Ongoing API  Security Intelligence

Debian-Based SparkyLinux 2022.10 Rolling ISOs Updated with Linux Kernel 6.0 by Default  9to5Linux

How to Use Your Android Phone as a Speaker for Your Windows, Mac, or Linux Computer  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Use Your Android Phone as a Speaker for Your Windows, Mac, or Linux Computer  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Use Your Android Phone as a Speaker for Your Windows, Mac, or Linux Computer  MUO - MakeUseOf

KDE Plasma 5.26.2 Disables Animated Wallpaper Feature on X11 Due to Severe Memory Leak  9to5Linux

In recent months there has been a lot of RADV ray-tracing optimizations and improvements for maturing the ray-tracing support by this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa. The RADV ray-tracing performance is about to take another step forward with a pending merge request providing a PLOC BVH builder that can improve the Quake II RTX performance by around 33%...

EA begins swapping out Origin for EA app on Steam  GamingOnLinux