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How to run Android apps on Linux  ZDNet

GenBook RK3588 is modular Linux laptop with an upgradeable design (crowdfunding)  Liliputing

Red Hat Expands Automation, Security, with RHEL 9.5  ADT Magazine

Apple M4 Mac Mini With macOS vs. Intel / AMD With Ubuntu Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon. The new Mac Mini in particular is interesting for under $600 starting out with the all re-designed Mac Mini with 10-core M4 and now the base model having 16GB of memory. It will take some time before there is any reasonable Linux support on the M4 hardware with Asahi Linux, but for those curious about how the M4 Mac Mini with macOS compares to AMD Ryzen and Intel Core CPUs under Linux, here are some preliminary benchmarks.

Canonical's Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop, Oliver Smith, has shared some early roadmap plans for the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle...

Ubuntu 25.04 To Further Enhance Its Installer, Aims For Linux 6.14 Kernel  Phoronix

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Released with Sudo System Role and Podman 5.0  9to5Linux

Framework Computer has been promoting a RISC-V motherboard option for their Framework Laptop 13 to complement their existing Intel Core and AMD Ryzen motherboard options. This RISC-V motherboard is being developed in cooperation with DeepComputing. Early access pricing and more details on this quad-core StarFive JH7110 powered mainboard for the Framework 13 have now been announced...

RISC-V Motherboard For Framework 13 Pricing Starts At $368 In Early Access, $928 For Laptop  Phoronix

Back in Linux 6.11 support for getrandom() in the vDSO was upstreamed for much better performance in providing speedy yet secure random number generation (RNG) needs. Since Linux 6.11 getrandom in the vDSO has expanded to more CPU architectures and now there's a notable user-space user ready to go: the GNU C Library "glibc" support was merged...

The Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) found in various Xeon SKUs since Sapphire Rapids can be of big benefit to Linux servers/workstations with a Linux kernel patch series that has been in the works to provide Zswap IAA compress batching...

Intel's Zswap IAA Compress Batching Work Is Very Interesting For Linux Performance  Phoronix

New Chrome Warning For 3.2 Billion Windows, Mac, Linux, Android Users  Forbes

The NVIDIA MLX5 driver for NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-5 network adapters is preparing to introduce a new Data Direct Placement "DDP" feature with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window...

NVIDIA MLX5 Introducing Data Direct Placement "DDP" In Linux 6.13 For Boosting Bandwidth  Phoronix

As covered last week Linux I/O expert Jens Axboe has been taking a fresh pursuit of uncached buffered I/O for Linux. This "RWF_UNCACHED" work was originally started back in 2019 while a renewed effort around it is showing ~65% faster read/write performance and so far has been extended to work across EXT4, Btrfs, and XFS file-systems...

The AlmaLinux operating system project that was started from the fallout of the RHEL/CentOS development shift several years ago has once again courted AMD as a sponsorship of this community enterprise Linux operating system...

AMD Continues Backing AlmaLinux For Community Enterprise Linux OS  Phoronix

Fedora 42 to Port the Anaconda Installer to Wayland, Default to Anaconda WebUI  9to5Linux