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Last week the a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-LLVM-Enablement">initial AMD Zen 5 "znver5" enablement for LLVM/Clang was posted by an AMD compiler engineer. That code has since undergone review and merged for LLVM 20 Git and yesterday then back-ported for LLVM 19...

Fedora Linux 41 Beta brings DNF 5, Nvidia driver support, and Redis replacement  BetaNews

The printk changes to finish the NBCON consoles work has been merged for Linux 6.12! This is the last remaining blocker on real-time "PREEMPT_RT" support from being upstreamed. We're now tantalizing close to seeing the real-time kernel support merged after many years of being out-of-tree patches...

AWS is bringing OpenSearch to Linux  TechRadar

LLVM 19.1 is out today as the first stable version of the LLVM 19 compiler stack including the Clang 19 C/C++ compiler...

Linus Torvalds advises open-source developers to pursue meaningful projects, not hype  Network World

Linus Torvalds advises open-source developers to pursue meaningful projects, not hype  Network World

Grand Theft Auto V gets BattlEye anti-cheat, breaks online play on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Fedora Linux 41 Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux Kernel 6.11 and GNOME 47  9to5Linux

Bridging the Gap: The First Enterprise-Grade Linux Solution for the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum  Linux Journal

Fedora 41 Beta Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Enhancements  Phoronix

The beta of Fedora 41 is out today ahead of the planned stable release in October for this leading-edge Linux distribution with many new features...

Canonical today shipped Mir 2.18 as the latest version of this set of open-source libraries for assembly Wayland-based shells. Mir 2.18 brings a number of new features including Wayland server-side decorations...

Ahead of the Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops beginning to ship starting next week, the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 is now available as the latest software update for embracing the Intel NPU for AI offloading...

Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 Released Ahead Of Lunar Lake  Phoronix

Windows Users Can Get a Taste of Linux With These 5 Distros  MUO - MakeUseOf

SDesk 2024.09.16 launches with new drivers while shifting from Calamares to the GNOME first-run wizard  Notebookcheck.net

These Linux distributions are best for developers - here's why  ZDNet

Jakub Kicinski submitted the networking subsystem updates over the weekend for the Linux 6.12 merge window. Most notable this cycle is Device Memory TCP for zero-copy receive of TCP payloads to DMA-BUF regions...

Wind River Unveils Game-Changing Enterprise Linux Offering for AI and Critical Workloads  Business Wire