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Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8 Powered By Linux 6.12 LTS

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 08:40
Oracle today debuted the newest version of their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel "UEK" designed to be paired with their RHEL-derived Oracle Linux operating system as a heavily-patched version of the Linux kernel. With today's release of UEK 8 they have rebased atop the current Linux 6.12 long-term support codebase...

GNOME Shell Frippery Makes It Into Debian Unstable For A GNOME2-Like Experience

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 04:18
After nearly one and a half decades after the packaging request was made, GNOME Shell Frippery extensions have finally worked their way into Debian via the unstable archive for offering a GNOME2-like desktop experience...

Manjaro Summit Now In Alpha For Semi-Immutable, Atomically Updated Arch Linux Distro

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 03:43
For fans of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution, the distribution team announced the public alpha release of Manjaro Summit: a new semi-immutable flavor along similar lines to Fedora Silverblue, Nitrux, Aeryn OS, openSUSE Aeon, and others...

Intel Engineer Preparing To Land Change For Cleaning Up 32-bit x86 Linux Kernel Code

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 02:20
The work talked about back in January for improving the 32-bit PAE Linux kernel code for Physical Address Extensions to better jive with the code around Page Table Isolation (PTI) for mitigating the Meltdown vulnerability could soon be merged...

Intel Lunar Lake On Linux Can Roughly Match Windows 11 Xe2 Graphics - When Not Stuck At 400MHz

Phoronix - Mon, 04/14/2025 - 23:35
Earlier this month I looked at the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics with Strix Point between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.04 Linux. The testing showed the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics on the open-source Linux driver up to around 96% the performance of Radeon Software on Windows. The most frequent question that came up from that most recent round of benchmarking was wondering how the Intel Xe2 graphics on Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" now compares between Windows 11 and Linux given that both drivers have been maturing the past several months. Here's the story of the Xe2 graphics between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.04 while using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop.

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