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Linux Patches Aim To Further Lower Intel Sierra Forest Idle Power Use  Phoronix

Most current AI tech is 90 percent marketing, says Linus Torvalds  TechSpot

Thanks to Valve's Linux graphics team, VK_EXT_device_generated_commands is now supported by the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver with the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release...

Google's open-source and cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit has been forked by community developers as Flock...

David Rosca working for AMD has continued to improve their open-source video acceleration support within Mesa. Merged today for Mesa 24.3 is the code within the Gallium3D video acceleration front-end and the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for handling AV1 still picture encode...

Lynx Software Technologies Unveils Linux Solutions | Trending From Our Network  Chicago Star Media

Lynx Software Technologies Unveils Comprehensive Linux Solutions for Mission-Critical Edge Applications in Aerospace and Defense  WV News

Lynx Software Technologies Unveils Comprehensive Linux Solutions for Mission-Critical Edge Applications in Aerospace and Defense  PR Newswire

How to Install Notepad++ on Linux (and 5 Alternatives to Try)  How-To Geek

Linux’s Creator Linus Torvalds Believes AI Right Now Is “90% Marketing”, Saying That He Chooses To Completely Ignore It  Wccftech

KDE developer Vlad Zahorodnii is out with an insightful blog post today on how XWayland window resizing has been enhanced for Plasma 6.3 so that resizing X11 clients will now appear much more polished than the status quo...

Virtualization has long been the backbone of IT infrastructure that, at its core, is an exercise in modernisation, efficiency and value. When paired with a hybrid cloud strategy, which sees workloads live on-premise, in the cloud, and in edge environments, it transformed how enterprises manage IT resources. It helps enterprises innovate faster and adapt to increasingly complex IT ecosystems.Right now, we are seeing the virtualization landscape change rapidly, driven by new dynamics and vendor acquisitions. With this, enterprises are experiencing challenges like rising costs and struggling to r

Linux lead dev says we're only getting 10% reality of the oversold AI hype  Windows Central

GNOME 48 Desktop Environment Release Date Slated for March 19th, 2025  9to5Linux

Techrights — GNU/Linux Started as Platform About Liberation, Freedom, Autonomy; Linux Foundation Tries to Redefine It as "Open Software" and Pretend It Started in the 90s  LXer

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Memory DDR5 Performance Testing  Phoronix

Following last week's launch testing of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 5 245K Arrow Lake desktop processors, the next area I've been exploring deeper has been the DDR5 memory performance including with CUDIMMs. Here's a closer look at the Core Ultra 9 285K performance under Linux while testing several different sets of memory and running Ubuntu 24.10.

Intel preps for PCIe 6.0 inferno with PCIe cooling driver for Linux — mechanism reduces SSD bandwidth when the drive gets too hot  Tom's Hardware

Going back to earlier in the year AMD Linux engineers have been prepping the kernel for PCI Express TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support that allows for hints that can be injected to improve latency and lowering traffic congestion when there are several possible cache locations on the server with the TPH noting the optimal location of a Transaction Layer Packet (TLP). This PCIe TPH support is set to be merged upstream with the forthcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...

PCIe TPH Coming With Linux 6.13 To Further Enhance 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance  Phoronix