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Linux 6.13 Very Exciting With New Feature Code For AMD EPYC Zen 5, Intel Panter Lake  Phoronix

The GNOME Mutter compositor has switched its KMS thread priority from a real-time value over to high priority to workaround a situation where the GNOME Shell / Mutter could crash or see its process killed...

The Linux 6.12 kernel is expected to be released this coming Sunday, 17 November, barring any last minute issues that would force the stable kernel to be diverted to the following Sunday. Linux 6.12 is delivering many exciting new features and beyond that it's all the more exciting with it expected to be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

Linux 6.12 Preps For Release With Real-Time, Sched_Ext, Stable Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5  Phoronix

How to use the W diff command  Network World

Google engineer Saravana Kannan has posted a set of patches to better optimize async device suspend and resume handling within the Linux kernel. With thesep atches there are "significant improvements" to async device suspend/resume with testing being done on a Google Pixel 6 smartphone but other devices stand to benefit too...

Google Posts Patches Further Speeding Up Linux Async Device Suspend & Resume  Phoronix

Red Hat Joins the Linux Foundation’s Margo Initiative to Deliver Edge Interoperability for Industrial Automation Ecosystems  ARC Advisory Group

AMD ZenDNN 5.0 was rolled out this morning as the newest version of this deep neural network library that is compatible with Intel's oneDNN APIs and infrastructure. ZenDNN 5.0 is now optimized for AMD Zen 5 processors such as the EPYC 9005 series. ZenDNN 5.0 also ships performance enhancements for generative large language models (LLMs) with its PyTorch plug-in...

GCC 15 feature development is soon wrapping up to focus on bug fixing before releasing GCC 15.1 as stable in the early months of 2025. One of the latest features to make it in the compiler codebase is code generation support around Arm Guarded Control Stack (GCS) functionality...

Patches posted on Thursday for the Linux kernel add support for the newest hotkey being found on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops... The "Phone Link" hotkey for launching the Microsoft Phone Link software for linking your Android/iOS smartphone to your laptop. This hotkey can be adapted for similar purposes on Linux...

A number of Steam Controller improvements have been merged for SDL, this widely-used hardware/software abstraction layer that is common to cross platform games. Among the latest Steam Controller improvements in SDL are enabling the support by default...

SDL3 Improves Steam Controller Support, Now Enabled By Default  Phoronix

EVERSPACE 2 fixes videos playback on Linux and Steam Deck with Proton  GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu Server: A Cheat Sheet  TechRepublic

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If you’re new to Linux, understanding how to manage services is an essential skill. Services are processes that run in

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Google Issues Chrome Security Update for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android Users  NTD

In addition to the release today of OpenMP 6.0 ahead of the SC24 supercomputing conference in Atlanta, over at The Khronos Group they have provided an update on upcoming SYCL improvements to benefit high performance computing (HPC) and scientific computing applications...

Automotive Grade Linux Launches New Expert Group to Enhance Open Source Collaboration  SDxCentral