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One of the many advantages with the newly announced EPYC 4005 series for entry-level servers is support for DDR5-5600 ECC memory compared to the current Xeon 6300 series being limited to DDR5-4800 memory. With the launch-day EPYC 4005 "Grado" benchmarks earlier this month of the AMD EPYC 4585PX and EPYC 4565P I was running with DDR5-5600 ECC memory modules. But for those wondering about the performance when using DDR5-4800 comparable to the Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series, here are some comparison benchmarks for reference.

The Linux 6.15 kernel arrives - and it's big a victory for Rust fans  ZDNet

The second beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.4 desktop is now available for testing ahead of the official release in June...

ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN launches today and works on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.16 Crypto Brings Faster AES-XTS On AVX-512 CPUs, Intel QAT Gen6 Support  Phoronix

The cryptography subsystem updates have been merged for the start of the Linux 6.16 cycle. Notable with the crypto updates this round are more performance optimizations for Intel and AMD CPUs with AVX-512 and also enabling next-generation Intel QAT accelerators...

Attacks with new Pumabot botnet hit Linux IoT devices  SC Media

While OpenH264 support coming to Fedora was widely celebrated as part of offering a better codec experience on Fedora Linux, an increasing number of Fedora users have grown frustrated with the OpenH264 packaging in that it's been out-of-date for several months with a high severity security vulnerability...

Linux Kernel 6.15 Boosts Virtualization, GPU, and CPU Performance  The New Stack

EROFS Lands Support For Tapping Intel QAT Accelerators  Phoronix

There is a lot of exciting file-system changes landing for the Linux 6.16 kernel... EXT4 brings a "really stupendous performance" change, Btrfs also brings some performance improvements, XFS landed atomic writes, and Bcachefs continues stabilizing. For the EROFS read-only file-system its changes have been merged and includes support for Intel QAT acceleration...

Canonical To Release Monthly Ubuntu Snapshots For Testing & Building Out Automation  Phoronix

Canonical is sticking to Ubuntu Linux releases every six months and a Long Term Support (LTS) release every two years, but a new change to their development process is that they are now working to release monthly Ubuntu snapshots of their testing stream...

Intel engineers have added yet more PCI graphics device IDs for Battlemage to their open-source driver code within Mesa for Iris OpenGL and ANV Vulkan driver support...

More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers  Phoronix

With the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates sent out this week for the Linux 6.16 kernel there is support for a number of newer Intel hardware platforms...

Intel Hardware Support Expanded In EDAC Drivers For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Microsoft Quietly Released a Dope New Terminal-based Editor  It's FOSS News

Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users  theregister.com

FOSS Weekly #25.22: Microsoft's Vim Alternative, Kernel 6.15, UBXI Desktop, End of Ubuntu 20.04 and More  It's FOSS