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While Intel's upcoming Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" laptop processors are doing away with Hyper Threading (HT) and instead focusing more on additional E cores. AMD has asserted Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is still beneficial and supported across both their Zen 5 and Zen 5C cores. For those curious about the SMT performance and power efficiency impact, here are some SMT on/off comparison benchmarks using the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" laptop processor.

Linux / Steam Deck user share on Steam stays flat for July 2024  GamingOnLinux

Canonical Adds Microchip's New PIC64GX to Its List of Ubuntu-Supported RISC-V Platforms  Hackster.io

Why Do I Use Linux? It's the Apps, and Here Are 7 of My Favorites  How-To Geek

Azure Linux 3 hits general availability – but don't expect any frills  The Register

SLUBStick Linux Vulnerability Let Attackers Gain Full System Control  CybersecurityNews

5 Linux terminal apps that are better than your default  ZDNet

The free game Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense added Linux support  GamingOnLinux

A one line patch to the Linux kernel is yielding significant performance and power efficiency gains for existing Intel Xeon "Emerald Rapids" server processors on the likes of Ubuntu Linux...

Tiny Linux Patch Up To 32% Faster, Up To 18% Less Energy For Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids  Phoronix

The open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa is now more capable for its Vulkan Video support with the H.264 and H.265 encode support now wired up for Mesa 24.3...

For those that have experienced a buggy AMD HDMI audio experience when using recent versions of the Linux kernel, a fix has been submitted today for Linux 6.11 and in turn for back-porting to stable series in addressing "another long-time regression fix for AMD HDMI."..

Linux 6.11 Addressing "Long-Time Regression" Of Buggy AMD HDMI Audio  Phoronix

Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso who has been working on supporting Vivante NPU IP within the reverse-engineered Etnaviv driver has been much time recently focused on enabling the Vivante NPU found within the NXP i.MX 8M Plus SoC. While not yet upstreamed, he's been successful in this effort and seeing good performance for object detection with this hardware...

ChimeraOS 46-1 released fixing up some AMD issues, sound fix on some AYANEO & AYN devices  GamingOnLinux

How to replace Windows with Linux Mint on your PC  ZDNet

The long-awaited Linux distro Serpent OS is finally here  Notebookcheck.net

5 Beginner-Friendly Linux Distros: Your Ultimate Guide for 2024  Gizchina.com

How to Upgrade to Linux Mint 22 [Step by Step Tutorial]  It's FOSS

With the start of a new month comes the latest Steam Survey statistics from Valve for providing interesting software and hardware insight...