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You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Here’s How  9to5Linux

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS has been released as the first point release of the current Long Term Support series that began in April with the "Noble Numbat" debut...

You can run a minimal Linux distro on Raspberry Pi’s new RP2350 microcontroller  Liliputing

Make the switch from Microsoft Windows 11 to Ubuntu Linux 24.04.1 for a magical open-source experience  BetaNews

LinkedIn Dumps CentOS In Favor of Azure Linux  WebProNews

Microsoft's Unexpected Move to Hand Over an Open-Source Project to the Wine Team: A Generous Shift?  It's FOSS News

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

How to Wirelessly Transfer Files Between Windows, macOS, Linux, and Mobile  How-To Geek

EmuDeck team announce Linux-powered EmuDeck Machines  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.12 To Optionally Display A QR Code During Kernel Panics  Phoronix

Submitted today via DRM-Misc-Next to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window in mid-September is optional support for displaying a QR code within the DRM Panic handler infrastructure when a Linux kernel panic occurs...

Earlier this week I began with AmpereOne A192-32X benchmarks and will continue for the next several weeks in finally having hands-on with the 192-core AArch64 server processor using a Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD 2U server platform. In today's next phase of AmpereOne performance benchmarking is looking at how AmpereOne scales across 32, 64, 96, 128, 160, and 192 core counts plus seeing core-for-core at 128 cores how AmpereOne compares to the Ampere Altra Max M128-30 processor. Plus these AmpereOne benchmarks at varying core counts against the AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon competition.

How is Linux Powering the AI Moment?  AIM

Intel Enables Xe2 Lunar Lake & Battlemage Graphics By Default With Linux 6.12  Phoronix

If Ubuntu Exists, Why Use Another Ubuntu-Based Distro? Here Are 5 Reasons  How-To Geek

It's happening! The upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel cycle will be enabling the Xe2 graphics in Lunar Lake and Battlemage out-of-the-box / by-default. The Xe2 support within the open-source "Xe" kernel graphics driver appears to be stable enough now for enabling the support by default for Lunar Lake and Battlemage hardware with the next kernel version. The patches have been submitted...

Following the AMDVLK 2024.Q3.1 driver release from earlier in the month, AMDVLK 2024.Q3.2 is now available as the latest update to this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems...

With the Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) and Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) introduced first with Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors, they can be a big performance win for some workloads but can be a pain to setup and with limited software support. It also turns out that since a security advisory issued earlier in the year, current Intel IAA and DSA accelerators aren't safe for use within virtual machines (VMs) and that issue doesn't appear to be resolved until Diamond Rapids and Granite Rapids D processors...

Intel's Current IAA & DSA Accelerators Aren't Safe For VMs Due To A Security Issue  Phoronix

It's crazy that Gallium Nine is already a decade old for providing a Direct3D 9 (D3D9) state tracker implementation for Gallium3D hardware drivers. Gallium Nine was useful years ago for speeding up Direct3D 9 support when using Wine on Linux for Windows games/applications but it hasn't been well maintained in years with DXVK pretty much taking over for efficiently mapping Direct3D atop the Vulkan API. It's time to unset Gallium Nine...