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AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance  Phoronix

This Tool Automatically Syncs Files Between My Linux and Windows PC  How-To Geek

Ahead of the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series graphics "Blackwell" and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series "RDNA4" later in the quarter, I figured it would be worthwhile having a dedicated article looking at the latest upstream Linux graphics/gaming performance for current generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 and AMD Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards. On the AMD side was the near-final Linux 6.13 kernel along with Mesa 25.0-devel for the latest RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL driver support while on the NVIDIA side was their current 565 driver release branch.

Vitalik Buterin's Transition to Linux and Its Impact on Ethereum Development  Blockchain.News

Vitalik Buterin on Early Adoption of Ubuntu and Linux Influence  Blockchain.News

Vitalik Buterin's Early Experience with Linux Influences Ethereum Development  Blockchain.News

Wine 10.0, the latest Windows compatibility layer for Linux, has a stable release  Tom's Hardware

An unexpected surprise today are AMD Linux software engineers announcing a new project a bit further outside the scope of their open-source graphics drivers... The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" is for delivering new advanced features atop Wayland for bettering the Linux desktop display capabilities...

AMD Announces The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" For Advanced Linux Desktop Features  Phoronix

Google engineer Vinay Banakar sent out a patch this week for the Linux kernel's memory management code to optimize TLB flushes during page reclaim and are showing very promising results...

These Linux Distributions Are the Most Similar to Windows 10  How-To Geek

Better power management, security, and scheduling in Linux kernel 6.13  The Register

Changing Linux code could cut data center energy use by 30%, researchers claim  DatacenterDynamics

Rimini Street Announces Rimini Protect™ Advanced Hypervisor Security for VMware, Nutanix and All Other Linux-Based Hypervisors, Powered by Vali Cyber®, to Safeguard Against Ransomware and Other Vulnerabilities  Financial Post

Surprisingly a change not made years ago, the Linux Kernel Unit Testing "KUnit" framework with the Linux 6.14 kernel is set to use hardware acceleration by default for faster testing where available...

This lightweight Linux distro is the easiest way to revive your old computer. How it works  ZDNet

Linux kernel developers are working to make it easier to debug early boot issues such as Kexec failures as currently dealing with such situations can be a frustrating and time consuming headache for figuring out the problems prior to the kernel being fully brought online...

Wine 10.0 Arrives With Powerful Upgrades  It's FOSS News

Back in April 2022 was the announcement by AMD's GPUOpen team of Orochi as a library for HIP/CUDA API run-time switching. Making use of Orochi allows for dynamically targeting either AMD HIP or NVIDIA CUDA at run-time to ease the distribution/usage of apps wanting to target both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs from the same software build. Today Orochi 3.0 was released...

Merged this week into the LLVM compiler codebase is initial support for "arch15" within the SystemZ back-end. Arch15 likely correlates to the IBM z17 mainframes with Telum II processors...