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Last week Friday the unfortunate news came down that Intel was discontinuing their Clear Linux project effective immediately. For the past ten years Intel software engineers have been crafting Clear Linux as a high performance distribution that is extensively optimized for x86_64 processors via aggressive compiler tuning, various patches to the Linux kernel and other packages, and a variety of other optimizations throughout the operating system. For years Clear Linux has led Linux x86_64 performance not only on Intel desktop/mobile/server hardware but on AMD systems too. Here is a final look at the Clear Linux performance on the Intel side compared to the performance of the latest Ubuntu 25.04 release.

Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box  Phoronix

Benchmarks show AMD is still the best for Linux gaming, but ray tracing holds it back - and it's not the only thing  PC Guide

NVIDIA reveal more GPU driver security issues for July 2025  GamingOnLinux

Last month AMD detailed the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series as the new Zen 5 Threadrippers. After the Threadripper PRO 9000WX Series debuted this week, AMD announced today that the Threadripper 9000 series will begin hitting retailers next week...

CachyOS Leads Linux Gaming with 10-15% FPS Gains and Low Latency  WebProNews

Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything  theregister.com

New AI-assisted Linux malware uses panda JPEGs  SC Media

Given that non-UEFI BIOS systems are quite old at this point and Intel/AMD systems for the past number of years have all supported UEFI, another change proposal being considered this week by Fedoa Linux is limiting the release-blocking status of various (non-UEFI) BIOS systems...

Fedora Considers Reducing The Scope That BIOS Systems Can Hold Up A Release  Phoronix

Beware of Fake Error Pages That Linux and Windows Systems With Platform-Specific Malware  CyberSecurityNews

Someone is developing a Windows-to-Linux migration tool  gHacks Technology News

Sophisticated Koske Linux Malware Developed With AI Aid  SecurityWeek

Ayn is a Chinese brand of handheld gaming devices that have included Arm-based devices shipping Android as well as AMD Ryzen powered handhelds with Windows 11 or even the option of installing Ubuntu. Better support for the Ayn x86 gaming handheld devices is on the way with patches posted for a new Ayn platform driver for the Linux kernel...

Ayn Gaming Handhelds To See Better Linux Support With New Open-Source Driver  Phoronix

Greenboot is a generic health check framework for systemd on RPM-OSTree based Linux distributions. Red Hat engineers have worked on Greenboot as part of the likes of Fedora IoT and their other RPM-OSTree initiatives for checking on the overall system health with ease...

Red Hat Has Been Rewriting Bash-Based Greenboot In Rust  Phoronix

Koske, a new AI-Generated Linux malware appears in the threat landscape  Security Affairs

Fedora 43 is looking to offer packages to support the Hare system programming language...

Fedora 43 Looks To Offer Support For The Hare Programming Language  Phoronix