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Asahi Linux Advances Apple M3 Support with Rust Bootloader Migration  WebProNews

Merged for Linux 6.18 was a new feature called Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer. Plus there is a per-NUMA-node cache of Sheaves called a "Barn". In continuing to build out the Linux kernel usage of Sheaves, a set of initial patches were posted this week to replace the CPU slabs with Sheaves within the slub allocator code...

The Latest Sheaves Work To Hopefully Improve Linux Performance  Phoronix

I tried switching to open-source software for everything but hit a wall I didn’t expect  MakeUseOf

Merged this week to Linux Git ahead of Linux 6.18-rc3 this Sunday were the latest power management fixes for the kernel. Standing out in the power management code is a fix for a "serious performance regression" affecting some Intel-powered Chromebooks...

I ditched Windows and built a Linux laptop in minutes - here's how you can, too  ZDNET

With Amazon recently launching their M8a AWS instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin", for their M8 class instance types there now are all the latest-generation CPU options with AMD EPYC Turin (M8a), Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids (M8i), and their in-house Graviton4 processors (M8g). After recently looking at the M7a vs. M8a performance with Amazon EC2, many Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing an M8a vs. M8i vs. M8g performance showdown so here are those benchmarks.

Intel Xe3P Spotted In Latest Linux Kernel Patches, Confirms Pairing With Nova Lake CPUs  Wccftech

AMD's ISP4 image signal processing IP is so far just used by the HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop but will presumably be used by more of the higher-end AMD Ryzen next-gen laptops. AMD engineers today posted their fifth iteration of their open-source Linux driver for enabling the ISP4 use...

Updated AMD ISP4 Driver Posted For Linux With Fixes & Improvements  Phoronix

LockBit 5.0 Targets Windows, Linux, and ESXi Systems in Ongoing Attacks  GBHackers News

Download dispatch (free) for Windows, macOS and Linux  Gizmodo

Vulkan 1.4.330 is out today with a few specification corrections/clarifications plus five new extensions...

3 Handy Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (October 24 - 26)  Yahoo! Tech

3 Handy Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (October 24 - 26)  How-To Geek

Intel adds Xe3P GPUs for Nova Lake S/H/U/HX to Vulkan Linux drivers, not all will support raytracing  VideoCardz.com

Microsoft's ROG Xbox Ally Runs Faster and Smoother on Linux Than on Windows  extremetech.com

Asahi Linux Still Working On Apple M3 Support, m1n1 Bootloader Going Rust  Phoronix

The Asahi Linux developers involved with working on Linux support for Apple Silicon M-Series devices have put out a new progress report on their development efforts...

Valve contractor Timur Kristóf for their Linux graphics driver team has been working on improving Linux driver support for old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 generation GPUs. This has been about improving the AMDGPU driver to fill remaining gaps in GCN 1.0/1.1 support with those graphics cards by default relying on the older "Radeon" DRM kernel graphics driver compared to the AMDGPU driver used by default with GCN 1.2 and later. Another feature gap for AMDGPU is now being addressed with Video Coding Engine 1.0 support...