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Now that I am through with my testing of the initial Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 Linux performance benchmarking and support exploration, I've begun diving in to other areas of the Linux support/performance for these Zen 5 "Strix Point" SoCs. The area for a quick look today is with the yet-to-be-merged AMD Heterogeneous Core Topology patches...

ARM Linux maintainer Arnd Bergmann laid out a proposal with deprecation timeline today for beginning to work toward removing many older ARM boards and obsolete features...

ARM Linux Maintainer Drafts Deprecation Timeline For Old Boards/Features  Phoronix

Mesa 24.2 is barreling towards its stable release in August while out today is the third weekly release candidate for this set of open-source OpenGL, Vulkan, and video acceleration drivers...

Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11: Nitrux Linux 3.6.0 is the open source operating system you need!  BetaNews

Why I Finally Switched to Linux and Don’t Regret It  MUO - MakeUseOf

Report finds macOS fares worse than Windows and Linux at preventing cyber attacks  TechRadar

Systemd-Free Nitrux 3.6 Arrives with NVIDIA 560 Driver, Latest NVIDIA GSP Firmware  9to5Linux

Ampere Computing hosted an AmpereOne architecture briefing this week where more details were shared on their long talked about AArch64 server processors. This announcement finally included a SKU table with suggested pricing as well as talking up a next-gen "AmpereOne Aurora" offering for a processor with up to 512 cores and some newly-disclosed Ampere AI acceleration IP.

The Xen Project has announced version Xen 4.19 of this open-source hypervisor that is rolling out security improvements, performance and scalability enhancements, and other refinements to this cross-architecture option for open-source virtualization...

North Korea-Linked Malware Targets Developers on Windows, Linux, and macOS  The Hacker News

The Servo project is out with their latest monthly status report to highlight advancements made on this open-source, Rust-written web layout engine...

Updated TgRat trojan sets sights on Linux servers  SC Media

Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4 System Rescue Tool Released with Btrfs Support  9to5Linux

One of the many exciting features merged for Linux 6.11 is getrandom() in the vDSO for very fast yet secure random number generation. Now that the kernel bits have landed, it's on to making use of it in the GNU C Library and other libc implementations...

Debian derivative eLxr addresses simplifies and enhance edge-to-cloud  Embedded

There's been no shortage of cheap, ARM-based handheld game consoles coming to market. Given Linux on Arm tending to work better than Windows and in keeping vendor costs to a minimum, they've tended to be running Linux or Android with various open-source games/emulators. Many of the vendors have kept their Linux support downstream while with time more of these gaming handheld consoles are seeing mainline Linux support. Yet another one being worked on for mainline Linux kernel support is the GameForce Ace...

Linux Seeing Support For Another ~$230 ARM Handheld Game Console  Phoronix

Merged on Sunday prior to tagging the first release candidate of Linux 6.11 were some last minute updates to Turbostat, the tool that lives within the kernel source tree and used for reporting CPU frequency and idle statistics along with other useful metrics. With Linux 6.11, Turbostat is gaining some new abilities...

Linux's Turobstat Utility Can Now Be Used For Reading Intel PMT Counters  Phoronix