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Most of my Intel Panther Lake benchmarking over the past two months for the new Core Ultra Series 3 hardware has been done with Ubuntu Linux given the pervasiveness of it, especially in the corporate/enterprise space. But for those looking at achieving even greater out-of-the-box Linux performance on Intel Panther Lake, the Arch Linux based CachyOS does a pretty fine job at further advancing the performance.

Windows Use Among Gamers Falls, Linux Tops 5% For the First Time  PCMag Australia

Race for “Machine Economy” heats up as big tech backs Linux Foundation’s AI payments  Cryptopolitan

Following an April Fools' Day tease of Gentoo claiming they were going to switch to GNU Hurd as their primary kernel moving forward, they have now acknowledged the joke but in fact also announcing there are now experimental Gentoo GNU/Hurd images available...

SteamOS propels Linux to record 5.33% share in latest Steam Survey  KitGuru

Coinbase Explores New Revenue Stream via Linux Foundation’s X402 Protocol  Tokenist

I've used Linux for 6 years—this is the simplest way to run virtual machines  How-To Geek

Ubuntu Raises CPU And RAM Requirements Above Windows 11 Amid Linux’s Steam Surge  HotHardware

With Linux 6.19 AMD GCN 1.1 and GCN 1.1 dGPUs now default to the AMDGPU driver rather than the legacy Radeon Linux driver. For these Southern Islands and Sea Islands graphics cards it means much better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other improved functionality in using this modern AMDGPU kernel graphics driver on Linux. One of the exceptions has been the GCN 1.1 APUs like Kaveri still defaulting to the older Radeon driver but a patch has been volleyed to make that change...

AMDGPU Driver Ready To Be The Default For Aging Kaveri / Kabini / Mullins APUs  Phoronix

Meta's great Linux engineering team have been working through some fresh performance optimizations recently from optimizing /proc/interrupts outputs to renewing their investment in jemalloc. A new Linux kernel patch this week provides another optimization to avoid a possible situation of throttling the TCP throughput unnecessarily on Linux systems...

A popular Linux distro now has higher system hardware requirements than Windows 11  Neowin

x402 Foundation Joins Linux Foundation with Backing from Google, Microsoft, and Amazon  unchainedcrypto.com

Developers working on the FreeBSD laptop initiative to make the FreeBSD operating system more suitable for running on modern laptop hardware have drafted their road-map of further action items they hope to accomplish in 2026...

FreeBSD Laptop Project Hopes To Port Newer Linux Graphics Drivers This Year  Phoronix

Rob Clark on Thursday sent out the batch of MSM DRM driver feature changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. This new work for DRM-Next includes enhancements to the Adreno X2-85 GPU support as found within the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs plus various enhancements to existing Qualcomm graphics/display hardware...

Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot  theregister.com

Vulkan 1.4.348 released this morning as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics and compute API. With Vulkan 1.4.348 comes four new extensions...

Coinbase & Linux Foundation Debut X402: HTTP-Native Standard  Cryptonews