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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Enters RC Phase With New Installer, Xfce On Wayland Option

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 09:31
Working toward the stable openSUSE Leap 16.0 release in late 2025, the release candidate period has begun for this Linux distribution aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 sources...

F2FS Sees New Improvements Merged For Linux 6.17 While Bcachefs Languishes

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 08:21
Sent out today for the Linux 6.17 merge window and already merged hours later were the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) feature updates...

Git 2.51-rc0 Makes More Preparations For Git 3.0 Where It Will Use SHA-256 By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 02:40
Junio Hamano announced the release of Git 2.51-rc0 to kick off the new week and the first step toward Git 2.51 as the next milestone for this open-source distributed version control system...

AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 "Krackan Point" Offers Outstanding Value In Sub-$500 Laptops

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 01:25
Over the past three months we have been excitedly testing AMD's Strix Halo SoC with the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 flagship model as well as the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 as one step below. Strix Halo offers excellent CPU and GPU performance capabilities at the top-end if your budget allows. But at the opposite end and a step below the Strix Point SoCs that have been available the past year is Krackan Point. Krackan Point is for the mid-range offerings in the Ryzen AI 300 series. Recently I've been testing an AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 laptop that offers pretty impressive performance/value when considering it can be found brand new for as little as $449 USD with the HP OmniBook 5.

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