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Intel Lunar Lake sees up to 20% performance boost in Linux vs. Windows with iGPU caveats  Notebookcheck.net

Linux beats Windows 11 on Intel Lunar Lake with up to 20% performance boost and serious caveats  Notebookcheck.net

Linux beats Windows 11 on Intel Core Ultra 200 CPUs: up to 20% performance boost with serious caveats  Notebookcheck.net

While not a long-term support release, Ubuntu Server 24.10 is delivering an interesting proof-of-concept for supporting NVMe/TCP based installations...

Slipping under my radar until now was the Vulkan API 1.3.297 spec update released last week that introduces a new extension, VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready...

CIQ takes Rocky Linux corporate with $25K price tag  The Register

CIQ takes Rocky Linux corporate with $25K price tag  The Register

MX Linux: Hurricane Milton Will Affect Package Updates  LXer

Debian-based lightweight live Linux distro Gnoppix hits version 24.10  Notebookcheck.net

QANplatform joins Linux Foundation and its Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance  Cointelegraph

QANplatform Joins Linux Foundation and Its Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance  Newsfile

Following my recent Intel Core Ultra 7 200V "Lunar Lake" Linux benchmarks and looking at the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics (including Windows 11 vs. Linux already), you may be wondering about the Lunar Lake CPU performance between Windows and Linux... Here are some benchmarks of the ASUS Zenbook S 14 with Core Ultra 7 256V under Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24.10 Linux.

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake Review  Phoronix

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake Review  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds annoyed by passive language in commit messages  Network World

Microsoft Linux engineers have continued preparing the Linux kernel to support Hyper-V Dom0 for Linux to run as the root partition...

The long-in-development GNOME triple buffering support that is patched into the Ubuntu and Debian builds and available for years in patch form might need to undergo a redesign. That's to better accommodate the NVIDIA Linux driver and likely help other non-Mesa graphics drivers too...

Originally published last summer were patches from Intel for the Linux kernel to introduce a PCI Express bandwidth controller Linux driver to provide a PCIe cooling mechanism via bandwidth reduction to devices in order to prevent thermal issues. One year later this driver continues to be worked on and today brought the eighth iteration of these patches...

Intel Revs Linux Driver Patches To Fend Off PCIe Thermal Issues Via Bandwidth Reduction  Phoronix

The GCC 14 compiler marked Itanium IA-64 support as obsolete with plans to remove that Intel architecture in GCC 15. But for now at least the Itanium Linux compiler support has seen some reprieve with it being un-deprecated...