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Russian linux kernel maintainers removed due to sanctions  Boing Boing

For the recently launched AMD EPYC 9005 series "Turin" processors there is good support out-of-the-box running on the likes of Linux 6.8 as found with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The one exception is if wanting to engage CPU power monitoring you need a RAPL/PowerCap patch that was just upstreamed in v6.12. But what about using a newer kernel for greater performance in light of all the upstream optimizations to the kernel in general? Here are some Linux 6.8 vs. 6.11 vs. 6.12 kernel benchmarks on a dual AMD EPYC 9755 server...

AMD EPYC 9755 Performance On The Linux 6.11 & Linux 6.12 Kernels  Phoronix

Linux partnering with Task 53 of the IEA on bidirectional EV charging  Renewable Energy Magazine

Linux: Several Russian maintainers kicked out  heise online

Linux starts banning Russian leading kernel developers  Mezha.Media

Intel today released the Intel Media Driver 2024Q3 release to provide updated Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support for Linux systems along with an updated oneVPL GPU Runtime...

Going back to 2016 we've known of NVIDIA beginning to use RISC-V to replace their Falcon micro-controller and other micro-controllers within their graphics processors to using this common open-source ISA. That use has continued to grow and an unofficial estimate now puts it at around one billion RISC-V cores shipping in 2024 NVIDIA chips...

NVIDIA Shipping Around One Billion RISC-V Cores In Their 2024 Products  Phoronix

Following the launch of the Raspberry Pi AI Kit back during the summer with up to 13 TOPS performance for AI inference, the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ was announced today with up to 26 TOPS capabilities...

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.6 officially out with improved performance, Mura Compensation, lots more  GamingOnLinux

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All of us might have faced a situation at some point of time or another while using Linux tar.gz, tar.bz2,

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Hardening Linux Servers Against Threats and Attacks  Linux Journal

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FOSS Weekly #24.43: Coreboot Fiasco, Joplin Tips, Android-Linux Connect, Fedora Offline Update and More  It's FOSS

Linux creator names and shames Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD for having 'buggy hardware'  TweakTown

OpenBoxLab Launches New RaiDrive for Linux  Kilgore News Herald

OpenBoxLab Launches New RaiDrive for Linux  PR Newswire

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers  The Register

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers  The Register