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AMD's Epic Performance Gains From The Original EPYC 7601 To EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965 Review  Phoronix

Last week I published fresh benchmarks showing how AMD's EPYC 4005 series for budget servers can outperform the original EPYC 7601 flagship processor when EPYC first launched during the Zen 1 period. Even with lower core counts and fewer memory channels, the modern EPYC 4005 "Grado" processors were able to outpace that original EPYC "Naples" flagship processor from 2017. With carrying out the fresh re-testing of the AMD EPYC 7601 on a modern 2025 Linux software stack, in today's article is a look at how the EPYC 7601 Zen 1 performance compares to the EPYC 9005 "Turin" series with today's flagship EPYC 9755 and EPYC 9965 processors.

Linux Foundation Adopts A2A for AI Agent Interoperability  WebProNews

Red Hat this morning went public with RHEL for Business Developers, an expansion of their RHEL Developer Program to make it easier for business developers to make use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux at no-cost for their development efforts...

Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers  Phoronix

Miracle-WM 0.6 is out today as a mega release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor by Canonical/Ubuntu developer Matthew Kosarek. Miracle-WM provides tiling window manager support inspired by i3 and Sway while being one of the most pronounced users of the Mir code...

Red Hat just expanded free access to RHEL for business developers  ZDNet

New Transparent Tribe attacks target Indian defense sector’s Linux systems  SC Media

Red Hat introduces Enterprise Linux for Business Developers  Help Net Security

Simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4 released  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat offers free and simple self-serve access to RHEL for application developers  SiliconANGLE

Intel discontinued Graphics Virtualization Technology (GVT-G) support several generations ago in favor of supporting SR-IOV for graphics virtualization with Iris Xe and newer integrated/discrete graphics hardware. But with the transition as well from the Linux i915 to Xe kernel graphics drivers, the official SR-IOV support state on Intel graphics is in a bit of an awkward state...

Intel SR-IOV Support Ready For Panther Lake Graphics But Some Current Platforms Left Behind  Phoronix

Linux Kernel Security in 2025: New Features and Emerging Threats  ITPro Today

The Mesa 25.2 code is expected to be branched next week to kick off the release process for this quarter's iteration of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. As such, there's going to be a mad dash over the next week to land lingering features and other improvements for Mesa 25.2. Making it into Mesa Git today was a big set of 42 patches for the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver...

Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia "Graphite" as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by default. Skia Graphite aims to deliver much better performance within the Chrome/Chromium web browser...

Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 on Tuesday as the newest monthly update to this in-house Linux distribution used throughout the company and by external parties...

Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 Brings Many Security Fixes  Phoronix

The first alpha release of PHP 8.5 was issued last week in kicking off the release cycle in working toward the official PHP 8.5.0 release later in the year...

Red Hat introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux for business developers  ZAWYA