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Merged back in Linux 6.9 was AMD Preferred Core support for Linux for the concept of "preferred cores" with newer Zen processors that are communicated via ACPI CPPC for select cores able to reach a higher maximum frequency or should otherwise be preferred over other cores on the system in the name of maximizing performance. That was a nice step forward for better handling newer Ryzen processors on Linux and matching functionality that had already been working under Microsoft Windows. Of focus more recently has been working on enabling more dynamic Preferred Core support for where the priority of the preferred cores may change at run-time...

AMD Preferred Core Support For Linux Revised To Better Handle Dynamic Rankings  Phoronix

Yesterday brought the newest update to Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux. The Azure Linux 3.0.20250402 brought many package updates mostly in the name of shipping security fixes plus brought new instructions on making use of the AMD graphics driver stack under this Microsoft Linux distribution along with various other updates...

Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds AMD GPU Driver Install Instructions  Phoronix

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When your Ubuntu system suddenly freezes, it can be very frustrating, especially if you’re working on something important project. Although

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The release of the GNU C Library 2.41 at the end of January ended up inadvertently breaking some Steam games, Discord, Julia, MATLAB, and other select user-space software. A workaround was merged today for Glibc to workaround the problem...

Ardour, the free and open DAW, is better than ever – and Ardour 9 is coming  CDM Create Digital Music

The PostgreSQL open-source database server has been on an exciting spree of recent changes... IO_uring support was recently merged for PostgreSQL 18 along with AVX-512 acceleration of CRC32 computations for up to a 3x improvement. Merged today to PostgreSQL is initial support for NUMA awareness for helping with the PostgreSQL performance for multi-node/socket servers...

How to use the groupdel comand  Network World

UALink as the open standard alternative to NVIDIA NVLink that is backed by Intel, AMD, and other vendors has published the UALink 200G 1.0 specification...

Asahi Linux M4 support hits a roadblock because of Apple Silicon changes  AppleInsider

How to start using the new Linux terminal on your Android device  ZDNet

How I automate basic tasks on Linux with bash scripts - and why you should try it  ZDNet

AMD RDNA 3.5 runs better on Linux than Windows in certain tasks  Club386

Linux 6.15 Features Deliver A Lot For Intel & AMD, Many Other Changes  Phoronix

The Linux 6.15 merge window ended on Sunday with the release of Linux 6.15-rc1. There is a lot of exciting features and updates that were merged during the two-week merge window. Here is a look at all of the most prominent changes to be found with Linux 6.15.

With the recent release of Blender 4.4 it brought many improvements to its Vulkan back-end but is still being treated as experimental. But they hope to make their Vulkan renderer production-ready this year and in order to do that they need more help from the community in testing it...

Turning Old Cellphones Into SBCs  Hackaday

OpenSSL 3.5 released today as the newest feature update to this widely-used library for SSL and TLS protocol handling...

Wayland Protocols 1.43 is out this morning with one new protocol: xdg_toplevel_tag_v1...