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Xfce 4.20 Officially Released  WebProNews

How to Kill a Process by Port in MacOS and More  Built In

Queued up this past week within the Linux kernel's networking subsystem for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle is transmission handling for jumbo data packets as well as RACK-TLP support for managing packet loss and re-transmission. This is work toward supporting larger network transmission windows and higher data throughput...

Jumbo Data Packet Transmission & RACK-TLP Coming To Linux 6.14 Network Stack  Phoronix

Linux 6.13-rc3 fixes expensive CPUID handling on Sapphire Rapids CPUs — an issue resulting in Skylake CPUs being 4X faster for CPUID-related updates  Tom's Hardware

Red Hat Delivers Next Wave of Gen AI Innovation with New Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI Capabilities  WebWire

Why PorteuX Linux 1.8 is a faster and lighter alternative to Microsoft’s bloated Windows 11  BetaNews

Easily Run Windows Apps on Linux Using These Tools  Make Tech Easier

Preventing Critical Server Security Issues With Linux Live Patching  LinuxInsider

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Beta Performance Looks Great - Initial RHEL 9 vs. RHEL 10 Benchmarks On AMD EPYC Turin Review  Phoronix

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 now in public beta this month, I have begun testing out the RHEL 10 beta on a few systems in the lab. In this first look at RHEL 10 performance is seeing how well the RHEL 10 beta is performing relative to RHEL 9.5 stable on an AMD EPYC server.

I Don't See a Reason to Switch to Windows from Linux Anymore in 2025  It's FOSS

Kali Linux 2024.4 Released, Bids Farewell to 32-Bit Systems  info-mods.com

How to Share Files Between Mac and Linux  How-To Geek

Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.8 Is One of the First Distros to Ship with Xfce 4.20  info-mods.com

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 15th, 2024  info-mods.com

I converted this Mini PC from Windows to Linux, and it came alive. Here's how  ZDNet

Linux 6.14 Looks To Support AMD's Zen 5 RMPREAD Instruction & Segmented RMP Mode  Phoronix

For further enhancing the AMD EPYC virtualization experience on Linux, the upcoming Linux 6.14 looks like it will support Zen 5's new RMPREAD instruction and segmented RMP mode as part of Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP)...

Blaize BLZP1600 SoC Support Coming To Linux 6.14 For AI Edge Processing  Phoronix