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The Fastest AArch64 Linux Distribution On The 192-Core AmpereOne Review  Phoronix

When it comes to the question of the fastest x86_64 Linux distribution the answer is very easy with Intel's Clear Linux. But what about in the AArch64 world? When having the AmpereOne server in the lab curiosity got the best of me and I ran benchmarks across seven different Linux distributions on this Supermicro ARM server for seeing what platform had the fastest out-of-the-box Linux performance. The Linux distributions tested on this AmpereOne A192-32X server included Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10 daily, Fedora Server 40, AlmaLinux 9.4, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Debian Testing, and CentOS Stream 10.

Real-time Linux has been integrated into the main kernel code following two decades of development  TechSpot

The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. Notable this time around are some new feature additions for the popular Wacom drawing tablet support...

New Wacom Drawing Tablet Driver Features With Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Real time officially comes to Linux ...  eeNews Europe

GNOME 46.5 Released with Mutter and GNOME Shell Improvements  9to5Linux

GNOME 46.5 Released with Mutter and GNOME Shell Improvements  9to5Linux

Most Linux distributions have been defaulting to MariaDB as the default MySQL server for years. Ubuntu though has been a notable outlier still relying on Oracle MySQL for the default MySQL service. A proposal raised by an Ubuntu developer hopes to change that for Ubuntu 25.04 in the new year...

Proposal Seeks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB By Default For Ubuntu 25.04  Phoronix

How Often Do You Use the Linux Terminal?  How-To Geek

After 20 years of painstaking work: Linux kernel now real-time capable  heise online

After seven months under review, Google's Gfxstream code has been upstreamed into Mesa 24.3 as a Vulkan virtualization solution...

Print2Block Joins Linux Foundation’s Decentralised Trust Initiative As Founding Member  BW Disrupt

OpenZFS Merges Support For Direct IO  Phoronix

The OpenZFS project has merged DirectIO (O_DIRECT) support for the ZFS file-system to bypass the ARC for reads and writes...

The Haiku open-source operating project known for letting the BeOS spirit live on is out with their newest monthly progress report...

Haiku OS Working On USB 3 SuperSpeed Plus Support  Phoronix

Following the other recent work around Linux enablement for Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, yesterday patches were posted for getting the X1 Elite powered Dell XPS 9345 working with Linux but not all functionality is currently working...

Dell XPS 9345 With Snapdragon X1 Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Speakers & Other Features  Phoronix