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Amazon Linux 2 Expires in 2026: Red Hat Urges Migration Planning  igor´sLAB

Jean Baptiste Lallement of the Canonical Desktop Team today posted a roadmap of many development items they are hoping to tackle for Ubuntu 26.10 due out in October. Some of these desktop plans are more ambitious and will take multiple release cycles to fully realize, but it goes to show their continued investment into the Ubuntu desktop...

Gothic Remake Performance Review: 500+ Benchmarks with 62 CPUs, 40 GPUs and Linux  PCGH

New Gafgyt Variant Targets Multiple Linux Architectures With Modular Propagation  CyberSecurityNews

New Gafgyt Variant Targets Multiple Linux Architectures With Modular Propagation  Cryptika Cybersecurity

This Linux distro looks so much like Windows 11 that it's unsettling  MakeUseOf

Hyprland on Nvidia isn't as broken as everyone says  MakeUseOf

Windows 10 Support Ended: 5 Options for Older PCs  TechRepublic

Azure Linux 4.0 Preview Opens for Azure VM Customers  WinBuzzer

Last month CUDA-Oxide was introduced as an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler. From pure Rust programming language code, one can write CUDA GPU kernels in a "safe(ish)" manner with the CUDA-Oxide compiler emitting NVIDIA PTX output directly. Out today is the second update to CUDA-Oxide...

Ardour 9.7 Open-Source DAW Improves MIDI Editing, Adds New Vertical Summary  9to5Linux

Linux Falls Hard on Steam After Record 5% Milestone  Linuxiac

Ubuntu 26.10 Promises a Simplified Installation and New Onboarding Experience  9to5Linux

These 5 Linux terminal commands save me hours every week  MakeUseOf

GNOME 50.2 Adds Rate Control to the VA-API H.264 Screencast Pipelines  9to5Linux

KVM virtual machine software review  TechRadar

New Gafgyt Variant Targets Linux Systems With Modular Spread Tactics  gbhackers.com

I switched to a tiling window manager on Linux and can't believe I wasted years dragging windows around  How-To Geek

ARM Linux Server Performance Up More Than 7x Geo Mean In 8 Years, As Much As 15x With NVIDIA Vera CPU  Phoronix

NVIDIA's Vera CPU is delivering the fastest ARM performance I have ever seen. For putting it into perspective how far the ARM server CPU hardware has come in just the last decade and for some "fun" benchmarks as part of Phoronix marking 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and benchmarking, here are some benchmarks showing the Ampere eMAG from September 2018 to the performance now with NVIDIA Vera. Not even factoring in the many software optimizations across the stack over the period, from simply the hardware side the ARM server CPU performance has advanced by more than 7x in eight years and in some workloads nearly 15x faster.