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The Linux System Call Execution Model: An Insight  Open Source For You

OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 released last week with RAIDZ expansion, fast deduplication, and direct IO support among other changes for this ZFS file-system implementation for use on Linux and FreeBSD systems. OpenZFS 2.3-rc2 is out today with a few more interesting changes...

OpenZFS 2.3-rc2 Brings CPU Pinning & Optimized Kernel Same-Page Merging  Phoronix

Upgrading to Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole: Step-by-Step Guide  LinuxInsider

New FASTCash malware Linux variant helps steal money from ATMs  BleepingComputer

How to turn on ChromeOS Developer Mode on your Chromebook  Wi-Fi Planet

Why this lightweight Linux distro won't win any popularity contests but is perfect for power users  ZDNet

Asahi Linux distro can now run AAA games like Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3 on Apple Silicon chips  TechSpot

NVIDIA Is Helping To Improve Linux's Dynamic Display Mux Support For Laptops  Phoronix

In addition to NVIDIA engineers being at XDC 2024 in Montreal last week for talking about their Wayland driver plans, there was also a presentation by NVIDIA's Daniel Dadap around current Linux challenges in supporting dynamic display mux hardware on modern laptops with iGPU/dGPU combinations and their hopes for improving the support...

With the newly-launched AMD EPYC 9005 series processors continuing to use Socket SP5, there is drop-in upgrade compatibility for existing EPYC 9004 series motherboards/servers. That's assuming, of course, the vendor provides a BIOS update for enabling the EPYC 9005 series "Turin" support and there may be limitations on the maximum CPU/TDP supported given power/thermal constraints. But in going from EPYC 9004 to EPYC 9005 is also upping the maximum memory speed from DDR5-4800 to DDR5-6000 (or DDR5-6400 in validated configurations). For those trying to weigh the benefits of also upgrading your memory if on an existing EPYC 9004 Genoa/Bergamo server to DDR5-6000, here are some memory performance comparison benchmarks for some reference points.

MangoBoost and WorldTech IT join The Linux Foundation's Open Programmable Infrastructure Project  WV News

MangoBoost and WorldTech IT join The Linux Foundation's Open Programmable Infrastructure Project  PR Newswire

Richard Biener of SUSE published a GCC 15.0.0 status report for outlining the current development state of the GCC 15 open-source compiler as it works its way toward the stable GCC 15.1 release in the early months of 2025...

Asahi Linux lets you play Windows games on Apple MacBooks  Club386

Android will soon let you run Linux apps with refreshed Terminal app  TechSpot

CodeWeavers Working On Better Input Device Support For Proton Gaming  Phoronix

The Wine developers at CodeWeavers who also collaborate with Valve on Steam Play's Proton have been working to enhance input device support for Proton/Wine gaming. In particular, for various gaming input devices that were never designed with Linux support in mind and various nuances around properly supporting them under Linux with different limitations from (X)Wayland to kernel driver handling...

Corsair Void Headset Driver Expected For Linux 6.13  Phoronix

For those that happen to have a Corsair Void headset or are looking for a new gaming headset this upcoming holiday season, the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle is expected to merge a new driver for these wired and wireless PC gaming headsets...