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Farewell Benchmarks Of Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Shows More Performance Left To Tap  Phoronix

Last week I ran the last planned benchmarks of Intel CPU performance on Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu with Intel having ceased development of Clear Linux following the restructuring at the company. In today's article is a final look at how the AMD EPYC performance compares on Clear Linux relative to Ubuntu Linux and AlmaLinux. An AMD EPYC 9965 "Turin" dual socket server was used for showing the strong out-of-the-box performance on Intel's Clear Linux even for this competing server processor.

This Linux app alerts you when an app tries to connect to the internet - and why that matters  ZDNET

Cisco Donates the AGNTCY Project to the Linux Foundation  The New Stack

Cisco gifts ‘Internet of Agents’ to Linux, anticipating ‘80 billion’ bandwidth blitz  SDxCentral

Cisco donates AI agent tech to Linux Foundation  Network World

Apple’s New Containerization Feature Seamlessly Integrates Kali Linux on macOS  Cyber Press

Big vendors back Linux Foundation agentic workflows project  TechTarget

The Year of the Linux Desktop? This Time, the Data Says Yes  LinuxInsider

Linux Foundation Welcomes the AGNTCY Project to Standardize Open Multi-Agent System Infrastructure and Break Down AI Agent Silos  Yahoo Finance

Want AI agents to work together? The Linux Foundation has a plan  ZDNet

Linux 6.16 Released – Optimized for Enhanced Performance and Networking  Cyber Press

Along with the better handling of multi-device file-systems such as Btrfs' native RAID capabilities and now allowing more efficient writing of zeroes to modern storage devices, the number of VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 also added some other extra goodies...

Linux 6.16 Released - Optimized for Better Performance and Networking  CyberSecurityNews

Apple Introduces Containerization Feature for Seamless Kali Linux Integration on macOS  gbhackers.com

One Year in With My Kubuntu Laptop, Here's What I've Learned  How-To Geek

The kernel locking changes submitted today for Linux 6.17 contain a temporary change worth discussion for yielding a 10x speed-up of a particular function call and as part of that yielding less network egress downtime until a better solution is developed...

Auto-Color Backdoor: How Darktrace Thwarted a Stealthy Linux Intrusion  Darktrace

For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning...

TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Strix Point  Phoronix