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AlmaLinux Comments On California Age Verification Law  Phoronix

CachyOS is the Arch Linux distro to try if you want serious speed and performance  ZDNET

Coming today as a big surprise -- one week after the new NTFS file-system driver was merged for Linux 7.1 and separately the existing NTFS3 kernel driver seeing some fixes -- is a new release of the NTFS-3G driver providing a FUSE-based user-space driver for NTFS on Linux and other platforms...

NTFS-3G FUSE Driver Sees First New Release In Four Years  Phoronix

Linux users claim they want mainstream adoption, but here's why they don't  How-To Geek

ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: New CircuitPython Release Candidate, Linux 7, Pi OS Update and More!  Adafruit

Colorado Age Attestation Bill May Exclude Open Source OSes and Apps  9to5Linux

VirtualBox 7.2.8 Released with Support for Linux 7.0, Guest Time Accounting  9to5Linux

5 open-source operating systems everyone mistakes for Linux  How-To Geek

Linux keeps getting faster and more stable, and this programming language is why  MakeUseOf

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Benchmarks: The Best Desktop Performance For Linux Developers, Creators Review  Phoronix

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Benchmarks: The Best Desktop Performance For Linux Developers, Creators Review  Phoronix

Today we can finally share performance benchmarks of the long-rumored AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor. This new halo product for the Ryzen 9000 series desktop line-up offers captivating performance for developers frequently compiling code, creators, technical computing workloads for students or hobbyists or those not able to afford a Threadripper / EPYC type workstation, or similar heavy computing use. With the 16 cores / 32 threads and both CCDs having 3D V-Cache, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 offers leading performance among current generation desktop processors.

The IRDMA driver as Intel's modern Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Linux driver for their high-end Ethernet network controllers is preparing support for new hardware...

Intel IRDMA Driver Adds Support For GEN4 Hardware In Linux 7.1  Phoronix

VirtualBox 7.2.8 Released With Linux Kernel 7.0 Support and Wayland Fixes  Linuxiac

Introduced back in 2023 with Vulkan 1.3.258 was VK_EXT_host_image_copy to copy data between host memory and images on the host processor without needing to stage the data through a CPU-accessible buffer. This direct CPU-to-GPU image data transfer path can reduce memory usage during asset loads and all around more efficiency and performance. Finally now the RADV open-source Radeon driver is enabling support by default...

RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust unveils tokenization standard lab  ledgerinsights.com

Canonical Brings Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to MediaTek's Genio 520, 720  Hackster.io