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Ubuntu 25.04 Daily Builds Are Now Available  OMG! Ubuntu!

While the Bcachefs feature changes for Linux 6.13 were already submitted even before the Linux 6.12 stable kernel was released, merging these changes are supposedly on hold due to the kernel's Code of Conduct (CoC) board...

Linux 6.13 has merged support for the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity "SDUC" standard for 2TB to 128TB storage capacity SD cards...

Linux 6.13 Adds Support For Ultra Capacity SD Cards "SDUC" For 2TB To 128TB Storage  Phoronix

Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for Rocky Linux  AWS Blog

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI Brings Greater Generative AI Choice to Microsoft Azure  CXOToday.com

FLOSS Weekly Episode 810: Pi4J – Stable And Boring On The Raspberry Pi  Hackaday

Andrew Morton on Monday submitted all the memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 6.13 merge window. As usual there's a lot of interesting performance optimizations and other low-level refinements...

Linux 6.13 "MM" Patches Bring Some Enticing Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

Ubuntu Linux impacted by decade-old 'needrestart' flaw that gives root  BleepingComputer

The abundance of networking subsystem updates have been mailed in for the Linux 6.13 kernel from wired and wireless driver enhancements to core networking code improvements...

Many Networking Changes In Linux 6.13 - One Line Of Code Helping WireGuard Performance  Phoronix

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is the best IDE for Linux  XDA Developers

How to Install Zoom on Linux  Yahoo! Voices

How to Install Zoom on Linux  Review Geek

How to Install Zoom on Linux  How-To Geek

As I wrote about last week within the Supermicro H13SSL-N EPYC Turin motherboard review, one of the factors leading me to purchasing that EPYC 9005 series motherboard was that this board offered support for full 12 channel DDR5-6000 memory performance compared to some of the other lower-cost Socket SP5 motherboards offering just 8 memory channels. For those wanting to quantify the performance difference between eight and twelve memory channels with AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors, here are some benchmarks for showing the workloads that can really benefit from all 12 memory channels and other workloads where eight memory channels can be largely sufficient if looking to minimize costs.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Arrives With Enhanced AI Support and Automation  The New Stack

Following the initial Raspberry Pi 5 upstream support in Linux 6.12 providing basic support, an exciting Raspberry Pi addition with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is introducing a Raspberry Pi Camera Front-End "CFE" driver...

Raspberry Pi Camera Front End "CFE" Video Capture With Linux 6.13  Phoronix