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Following my Linux benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor performance where it ended up being rather disappointing but then with finding great success with the integrated Arc Graphics on Meteor Lake, like I you may be left wondering how much of a role Linux is playing with these results compared to Windows... Well, this article will shed some light on that aspect with looking at the Microsoft Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux performance on the Acer Swift Go 14 Meteor Lake laptop.

KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing  GamingOnLinux

Fedora Asahi Remix 39 brings Linux to Apple Silicon Macs  GamingOnLinux

Explore 20+ Fun Linux Command Line Tools  Ostechnix

OpenSUSE is now providing builds of openSUSE Tumbleweed and microOS that are making use of systemd-boot as its bootloader rather than GRUB and also leveraging full disk encryption via systemd...

Back in January I wrote about Intel working on a Timed I/O driver for Linux with PPS (Pulse Per Second) to help with time synchronization between multiple devices. There hasn't been much external talk about this Timed I/O / PPS functionality while today as we approach the end of the year a new set of Linux kernel patches were posted for wiring up this Intel PPS Generator functionality...

Intel Revises Work On Timed I/O PPS Functionality For Linux  Phoronix

Understanding QEMU’s Role in Linux System Emulation Security  Security Boulevard

Understanding QEMU's Role in Linux System Emulation Security  Security Boulevard

Among the newly-proposed features for Fedora 40 is enabling WiFi MAC address randomization by default to yield better user privacy...

Asahi's Fedora remix dazzles and baffles on Apple Silicon  The Register

How to install Vim on Ubuntu  XDA Developers

Intel's new Xe kernel graphics driver is set for merging into Linux 6.8 as an experimental option. While it's being added to the next kernel cycle, it's not yet used by default for any existing Intel GPUs and its features have yet to be fully implemented and the performance has yet to be fully optimized. Among the features currently missing is Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support but a patch series posted today aims to address that functionality...

Intel Posts SVM Patches For Xe Kernel Graphics Driver  Phoronix

The Bcachefs file-system has landed some additional fixes ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.78 stable release...

Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.7 Stable Debut  Phoronix

With AI being all the rage these days and each vendor working on getting their wares to market with AI acceleration, besides Intel now having out their Meteor Lake CPUs that feature their Intel AI Boost (NPU), Intel is rather positioned well with their prolific open-source software contributions. One of the AI-related software contributions over the past week has been improvements to the FFmpeg multimedia library's "DNN detect" filter for object detection within videos...

Asahi's Fedora remix dazzles and baffles on Apple Silicon  The Register

Exploring rsync, tar, and Other Backup Solutions  Linux Journal

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H Tested in Linux; Slower than AMD?  Beebom