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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 26th, 2025  9to5Linux

In a blog post dated for this past Thursday but only being made public on Sunday night, Microsoft issued an announcement open-sourcing their new NoSQL database... Where it gets weirder is that it's named DocumentDB. Amazon also has a database offering named DocumentDB albeit proprietary...

While many Linux distribution vendor kernels are already using SHA-512 for signing modules by default rather than the default SHA-1, the upstream Linux 6.14 kernel is also now switching the default over to using SHA-512 for better security...

For those looking for a heatsink fan to cool a custom build of an Ampere Altra / Altra Max server or workstation, the ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M ends up being a very potent option that offers similar performance to more expensive Ampere Altra heatsinks while providing similar performance.

8 Best Steam Games That Work On Linux  GameRant

You Can Use These Apps on Both Windows and Linux  How-To Geek

Hacking truely with Kali Linux Quick  The Branding Iron

Cozy: A Super Useful Open Source Audiobook Player for Linux  It's FOSS News

Researchers claim Linux kernel tweak could reduce data center energy use by 30%  TechSpot

While the main feature pull of new and updated kernel graphics/accelerator drivers were merged already for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window, an additional set of AMDGPU changes were sent out this week for squeezing into this next kernel release...

AMD Squeezes In More RDNA4 Changes For Linux 6.14 - Enables Cleaner Shader On GFX12  Phoronix

Linux kernel source expands beyond 40 million lines – it has doubled in size in a decade  Tom's Hardware

Linux Patches Allow Sharing PTEs Between Processes - Can Mean Significant RAM Savings  Phoronix

A set of patches being worked on by Oracle engineers allow for optionally sharing page table entries (PTEs) between processes. For some workloads this can equate to very significant memory savings...

Sick of Microsoft Windows? Solus 4.7 could finally get you to switch to Linux  BetaNews

A half-year-old merge request from Igalia's Karmjit Mahil has been merged for Mesa 25.0 that is a Vulkan layer allowing for optionally limiting the amount of video memory reported to games/applications...

Merged this week for the Linux 6.14 kernel were the various sound/audio driver updates. In addition to core API enhancements for better supporting the MIDI 2.0 specification, there is also support for some new audio hardware...

New Sound Hardware Supported By The Linux 6.14 Kernel  Phoronix

The RDMA subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel with a light set of changes overall and the most significant being support for the ROCEv2 protocol within the ERDMA driver...

Linux 6.14 Adds ROCEv2 Support For The Alibaba Cloud  Phoronix