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AI adoption and development have accelerated with generative and agentic AI reaching the masses. As new markets emerge, businesses have been struggling to take advantage of AI for real returns on investment. Although GPUs have dominated the infrastructure, increasing costs and decreasing availability due to demand have prompted leaders to seek alternatives that still meet performance requirements and customer satisfaction standards.Meanwhile, the developers and engineers working on AI face challenges in complex and time-consuming infrastructure setup and difficulty in building out software sta

Every organization piloting generative AI (gen AI) eventually hits the "inference wall." It’s the moment when the excitement of a working prototype meets the cold reality of production. Suddenly, that single model running on a developer’s laptop needs to serve thousands of concurrent users, maintain sub-50ms latency, and somehow not bankrupt the IT budget in cloud costs.The core challenge for enterprise AI is mainly operational: Solving the efficiency equation. It is no longer enough to just run a model, you must run it with precision performance. How do you maximize tokens per dollar? How

The general availability (GA) of SQL Server 2025 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) empowers enterprises to confidently deploy Microsoft SQL Server 2025 on Red Hat's latest enterprise Linux platform, combining Microsoft's modern, AI-ready database with the security, stability, and performance that RHEL is known for. Try it today on the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog.With SQL Server 2025 support on RHEL 10, organizations can run mission-critical SQL Server workloads on a platform built for hybrid cloud, edge, and AI-driven environments. This release reinforces our joint commitment to delivering a

This tiny Linux USB tool can save almost any broken PC  MakeUseOf

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 5, 2026 (Jan 26 – Feb 1)  Linuxiac

While typically the stable Linux kernel would come after the -rc7 release a week prior, for Linux 6.19 the release is being dragged out by an extra week not due to any scary bugs but rather due to the holiday downtime at the end of the year. As such Linux 6.19-rc8 is out today with the stable v6.19 release expected next Sunday...

Linux 6.19-rc8 Released Ahead Of Linux 6.19 Stable Next Week  Phoronix

5 things you can do on Linux but not on Windows  How-To Geek

After 34 years the Linux kernel finalizes a backup plan for leadership  TechRadar

Resources 1.10 can now monitor AMD NPU usage on Linux  OMG! Ubuntu

This is the one Linux distro I recommend to every Windows 11 user  MakeUseOf

Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared updates on GNU Hurd from the annual FOSDEM event while this year's was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd...

GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building  Phoronix

Liya Linux proves high performance doesn’t require a command line  The New Stack

European Open Source Awards 2026 Honor Linux Kernel Maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman  Linuxiac

Stop treating your daily driver Linux PC like a science experiment  How-To Geek

GNOME Resources 1.10 was christened today as the newest version of this modern system monitoring app for the GNOME desktop that is now used by default on the likes of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. With GNOME Resources 1.10 they have added AMD Ryzen AI NPU monitoring support and other new capabilities...

Linux has a price, it's just not money  How-To Geek

I’ve tested dozens of Linux distros, and these 3 are the only ones I’d put on a laptop  How-To Geek

The b4 tool used by Linux kernel developers to help manage their patch workflow around contributions to the Linux kernel has been seeing work on a text user interface to help with AI agent assisted code reviews. This weekend it successfully was dog feeding with b4 review TUI reviewing patches on the b4 tool itself...