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How to use Microsoft's Copilot AI on Linux  ZDNet

Linux 6.14 Looks To Land Rust PCI / Platform Device Driver Support  Phoronix

The patch series in the works for a while to provide the necessary kernel abstractions for the Rust programming language to actually implement real device drivers looks like it will finally premiere in the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

Serpent OS Enters Alpha with GNOME and COSMIC Spins, Powered by Linux 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

5 biggest Linux and open-source stories of 2024: From AI arguments to security close calls  ZDNet

What Is Linux Mint, and Why Would You Use It?  Yahoo! Voices

What Is Linux Mint, and Why Would You Use It?  How-To Geek

It's been a few months since hearing anything new out of Serpent OS, the original Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty, who started Solus Linux and also was involved with Intel's Clear Linux. As a Christmas surprise, Serpent OS has now reached the alpha stage of development...

Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux Distribution Goes Into Alpha  Phoronix

Eric Biggers of Google who has pursued countless CPU optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto subsystem over the years has some noteworthy optimizations coming for AMD processors with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14  Phoronix

Intel engineers are working on contributing upstream support to the GNU Debugger (GDB) for debugging software running on Intel GPUs...

Linux 6.13 cleared out more than 100k lines of old and unmaintained code while that end of year code cleaning isn't stopping... With Linux 6.14 at least another old and seemingly useless driver is being gutted from the input subsystem: evbug...

AMD has squeezed in one more open-source Vulkan driver update for the year to benefit Linux gamers and others wanting to use this official AMD Vulkan Linux driver option...

AMDVLK 2024.Q4.3 Brings Vulkan 1.4 Support, More Game Tuning  Phoronix

10 Best Linux Firewalls In 2025  CybersecurityNews

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 22nd, 2024  9to5Linux

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This past week Intel published an Intel Core Ultra 200S Series "Arrow Lake" performance status update following mixed reviews since launch around the Arrow Lake gaming performance that were inconsistent with Intel's internal findings. Among Intel's findings detailed in their report this past week were some new BIOS performance optimizations, some misconfigured performance settings in early/reviewer BIOSes, and also some Windows 11 updates being pushed down to help with different performance issues. ASUS already started releasing new BIOSes that incorporate the 0x114 Arrow Lake intended to help the situation. While it's been a Windows-focused issue, I couldn't help but to run Intel Arrow Lake performance comparison benchmarks on Linux with the new microcode / BIOS.