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Overnight the Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda submitted the big set of Rust infrastructure/toolchain updates for the Linux 6.13 holiday kernel...

In between managing all of the pull requests being submitted during this two week long merge window for the Linux 6.13 kernel, Linus Torvalds has merged some of his own code this cycle...

Linus Torvalds Improves Futex Code To Improve User-Space Accesses  Phoronix

PlaytronOS Alpha 2 brings expanded NVIDIA support, more handheld PC support and much more  GamingOnLinux

The RDMA subsystem updates were sent out last Friday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel cycle. Most notable with the RDMA updates is the NVIDIA Mellanox "MLX5" network driver introducing a new Data Direct Placement (DDP) feature to further help with performance...

Linux 6.13 RDMA Changes Headlined By NVIDIA's New Data Placement Ordering Feature  Phoronix

Steam Client Beta fixes up NVIDIA bugs on Linux with Game Recording and Remote Play  GamingOnLinux

AI-Powered Warp Terminal Does Away With Login Requirement!  It's FOSS News

SUSE unveils major rebranding  Fudzilla

The post Understanding Ubuntu’s Event-Driven System Architecture first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux, as we know, is a kernel and not a complete operating system, and it ships with a variety of

The post Understanding Ubuntu’s Event-Driven System Architecture first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Either due to a mistimed blog post or other factors, a big feature article is out talking up the new ROCm 6.3 features... But the updated ROCm 6.3 open-source GPU compute software doesn't appear to actually be released yet at all their usual sources. In any event there are new features and big performance gains being talked up for ROCm 6.3...

Playtron OS goes into alpha 2: Hardware support galore  Notebookcheck.net

Sent out today were the big set of PCI subsystem updates ready to be merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. Most notable of the PCI updates is PCI Express TLP Processing Hints (TPH) with that kernel support worked on by AMD engineers as part of one of the new hardware features found with the AMD EPYC 9005 server processors. Over on the Intel side is the new PCIe cooling driver and other changes...

Linux 6.13 PCI: AMD Enables PCIe TPH For Zen 5 Servers, Intel Adds PCIe Cooling Driver  Phoronix

5 ways to get the best Linux support, no matter your skill level  ZDNet

The KVM changes were merged yesterday for Linux 6.13 in further enhancing the open-source virtualization stack...

The GCC 15 code compiler that is releasing as stable in the early months of 2025 has removed all support for the Altera Nios II CPU target...

RHEL 9.5 debuts alongside AlmaLinux, Rocky, and Oracle updates  The Register

Open Networking & Edge Summit 2025 Heads to London, Alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, March 31 - April 1, 2025  Victoria Advocate

With my recent AMD EPYC 9005 1P 4U server build using a Supermicro H13SSL-N motherboard, SilverStone kindly sent over their two Socket SP5 cooling options for AMD EPYC processors: the XE04-SP5 4U-compatible heatsink fan and then the XE360-SP5 AIO liquid cooler with a triple 120mm fan radiator to allow effectively cooling up to the new 400~500 Watt EPYC Turin processors. Here is a look at these two high-end AMD EPYC cooling options for those carrying out 4U EPYC 9004/9005 server builds along with thermal and performance benchmark results.