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Demystifying llm-d and vLLM: The race to productionAs organizations accelerate the journey to production for large language model (LLM) workloads, the ecosystem of open source tools is growing fast. Two powerful projects—vLLM and llm-d—have recently emerged to tackle the complexity of inference at scale. Learn more Forbes - Open Source And Orchestration Will Define Enterprise AI Leadership In 2026Red Hat’s CEO Matt Hicks discusses how enterprise AI leadership in 2026 will hinge on open source adoption and orchestration capabilities. This shifts the focus from model performance to contr

An acquisition announcement that flew under the radar yesterday but then I only noticed today with a GCC MAINTAINERS file update, "with the acquisition of Ventana Microsystems by Qualcomm..." Qualcomm has acquired Ventana as a RISC-V high performance CPU start-up...

Linux Kernel 6.19 Slab Regression Fixed After NUMA Changes Slow Module Loading  WebProNews

Glibc Enables Default 2MB THP in malloc for AArch64 Linux Performance Boost  WebProNews

Linux 6.19 Achieves 4x Networking Speed Boosts in Heavy Workloads  WebProNews

GPU Confidential Computing using Oracle Linux 9  Oracle Blogs

ShaRPiKeebo pocket Linux computer will start shipping soon (3 years after crowdfunding)  Liliputing

Back in October System76 announced a planned release date for Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and the COSMIC Desktop... And they've made it! The new Pop!_OS 24.04 is now available for download as the long-awaited update atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base while using their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment...

System76 Launches Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS With COSMIC Desktop  Phoronix

NVIDIA 580.119.02 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Various Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

The D7VK project recently started as the Direct3D 7 API implemented atop the Vulkan API akin to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton with newer versions of Microsoft Direct3D. Today marks the D7VK 1.0 release for this project in now declaring itself "production ready" for Linux gamers...

D7VK 1.0 Released For "Production Ready" Direct3D 7 On Vulkan  Phoronix

With the NVIDIA 590 Linux driver series removing GeForce 900 series "Maxwell" and GeForce 10 series "Pascal" as part of punting it off to the latest legacy driver branch, it's time for a last look at how the mainline NVIDIA Linux driver is performing with these aging graphics cards relative to the current state of the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux drivers. In this article is a look at how the open-source and upstream Nouveau kernel driver with Nouveau/NVK Mesa drivers are performing relative to the NVIDIA 580 series with its Maxwell and Pascal support. For further perspective is also tossing in newer graphics cards too for providing a end-of-year GeForce 980 / 1080 / 2080 / 3080 / 4080 / 5080 series comparison between these different Linux drivers.

NVIDIA GTX 980 Through RTX 5080: Open-Source Nouveau/Mesa Drivers vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Drivers  Phoronix

Early this year AMD announced the open-source GAIA project for "Generative AI Is Awesome" as a showcase of AI support atop their Ryzen AI NPUs and other hardware. That began as a Windows-only project but in September AMD added Linux support to GAIA but only using Vulkan acceleration for AI on Radeon GPUs. Now today GAIA 0.14 is available with "native" support for both macOS and Linux...

AMD GAIA 0.14 Released With Native Support For Linux & macOS  Phoronix

7 reasons I never distro-hop: I just stick with Debian  How-To Geek

Creating User-Friendly Installers Across Operating Systems  Hackaday

Cisco joins Linux Foundation's new Agentic AI Foundation  Fierce Network

It was just at the end of month that Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 1 ISOs were published for the first "Resolute Raccoon" milestone. Out already is now Snapshot 2 with Canonical releasing these images ahead of their engineers having time off for end-of-year holidays...