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How to Use Tio — Connecting to Serial Devices with Linux  Tom's Hardware

No, Linux didn't eat your RAM, here's what's actually happening  XDA

DAMON is a nifty data access monitoring solution for the Linux kernel developed by Amazon and other parties for system monitoring and performance/efficiency optimizations and more. But it's not so ground-breaking that it's worth enabling by default in all Linux kernel builds, Linus Torvalds has decided...

LibreOffice Says It's Time to Ditch Windows 10 and Microsoft Office  How-To Geek

Linux Malware Authors Attacking Cloud Environments Using ELF Binaries  CybersecurityNews

5 MacOS-like Linux distros that can rescue your old Intel Mac before support ends  ZDNET

Platform Profile Power/Performance Impact For ThinkPad T14s G6 + AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360  Phoronix

Ultra Ethernet Consortium Publishes UEC 1.0 Specification  Phoronix

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium today published the UEC Specification 1.0 release. Nearly two years ago the Ultra Ethernet Consortium was started by Intel, AMD, Meta, HPE, and others and hosted by the Linux Foundation for open and high performance networking with an emphasis on AI and HPC...

Library will begin ‘upcycling’ old computers  Daily Journal Online

Ubuntu 25.10 Adopts Wayland as Default Display Server  WebProNews

DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Graphics Drivers With New GPU Support But Still Years Behind  Phoronix

DragonFlyBSD has updated its Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver code that it ports over from what's available in the upstream Linux kernel. The latest revision to the DragonFlyBSD kernel graphics driver code enables support for some new hardware platforms but remains woefully behind the latest generation dGPUs/iGPUs and what is found in the upstream Linux kernel...

Third-Party Apps Made Easy — Simplify Linux App Installations Using Deb-Get  Tom's Hardware

Quantum Tiny Linux SBC features an Allwinner H3 SoC, WiFi, a small Display, and more  CNX Software

Boot Up in Style — Design Your Own GRUB Menu for Linux  Yahoo

Boot Up in Style — Design Your Own GRUB Menu for Linux  Tom's Hardware

Nexus Mods new app gets more UI improvements, performance upgrades and a Linux fix  GamingOnLinux

Taking AMD Ryzen AI Max Performance To The Max With Clear Linux & CachyOS Review  Phoronix

With the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop sporting the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics it offers incredible performance potential as shown in my many benchmarks over the past month on Ubuntu Linux. But if wanting to push the Ryzen AI Max even further, with performance-optimized Linux distributions like CachyOS and Intel's Clear Linux it's possible to tap some additional performance out of this 16-core Zen 5 laptop.