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Do You Use Bash or a Different Linux Shell?  How-To Geek

The x86-simd-sort project from Intel has been an interesting open-source software effort for much faster number sorting by using AVX-512. There's been lightning fast number sorting with AVX-512 and AVX2 code paths also added to broaden the appeal in helping CPUs without AVX-512. Projects like Numpy have been making use of this library while today x86-simd-sort 6.0 was released and also comes a few days after PyTorch has begun using this library too...

To clear up the ever-growing stack of laptops, I recently bought a TOUPUWAN 30-Slot Laptop/Tablet Storage Cart. This laptop/tablet storage cart can accommodate 32 devices in total while slots for up to 30 laptops/tablets 16.3-inches in size. It does have built-in power strips as well to easily facilitate charging of the devices while securely stored away but for my purposes I was just looking for something to better organize the mess of laptops I only occasionally pull out when running new Linux laptop benchmarks.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.20 update released for everyone  GamingOnLinux

Linux Preps New AMD ERAPS Feature With EPYC Turin To Benefit Performance  Phoronix

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week and now queued already via tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch is support for a new AMD CPU feature we haven't heard about until now... ERAPS, the Enhanced Return Address Prediction Security...

Linux Foundation Energy EVerest Project Joins Task 53 of the IEA  Electrical Construction & Maintenance (EC&M)

Best VPNs for Ubuntu in 2024: Free and Paid Options  Gizmodo

Paessler GmbH announces the multi-platform probe for PRTG, extending monitoring capabilities to Linux-based IT environments and beyond  PR Newswire

Paessler GmbH announces the multi-platform probe for PRTG, extending monitoring capabilities to Linux-based IT environments and beyond  WV News

Linux Lite just got a useful AI feature for desktop - and it's more subtle than you think  ZDNet

Windows infected with backdoored Linux VMs in new phishing attacks  BleepingComputer

I Installed Gentoo So You Don’t Havtoo  Hackaday

I Installed Gentoo So You Don’t Havtoo  Hackaday

Russia is Looking to Build its Own Linux Community After Expulsion Of Maintainers  It's FOSS News

Transform Linux into Windows 95 with Chicago95 3.0 — bringing old-school cool to modern machines  BetaNews

Manjaro Linux Working On "Manjaro Data Donor" As New Data Collection Tool  Phoronix

Arch-based Manjaro Linux is working on Manjaro Data Donor "MDD" as a new data collection tool of its users. This is intended to succeed their former ping-based solution for user counting plus incorporate hardware/software data collection on users. Once deployed, this will be opt-out handling for the data collection...

Fujitsu has upstreamed support for their next-gen "Monaka" Armv9 processor into the GNU Compiler Collection codebase in time for the GCC 15 release coming out early next year...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 3rd, 2024  info-mods.com