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The Performance Benefits Of Linux 6.12 LTS Over Linux 6.6 LTS  Phoronix

The Performance Benefits Of Linux 6.12 LTS Over Linux 6.6 LTS  Phoronix

Linux 6.12 was recently promoted to being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel with it being the last major kernel release of 2024. For those enterprise Linux users, hyperscalers, and others typically jumping from one annual LTS kernel to the next, in this holiday article are some benchmarks looking at the performance benefits of Linux 6.12 LTS compared to Linux 6.6 LTS while testing on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation.

AI, Hardware and Open Models: Headed in the Linux Direction  The New Stack

Intel Linux Performance Optimizations & Intel's Other Open-Source Wins From 2024  Phoronix

In addition to the exciting hardware launches this year particularly around Xeon 6 Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake processors, and the new low-cost Battlemage graphics cards, what remains particularly exciting and consistent are all of Intel's great investments around open-source and Linux. Over 2024 there were many exciting performance optimizations, new Linux kernel features, GCC and LLVM/Clang compiler toolchain improvements, and countless other enhancements made throughout the open-source ecosystem by Intel engineers...

Serpent OS Gets an Alpha Release Right Before 2024 Ends  It's FOSS News

Linux Mint vs. Ubuntu: How Different Are They, Really?  Yahoo! Voices

OpenWRT, But On An Unsupported Router  Hackaday

Linux Mint vs. Ubuntu: How Different Are They, Really?  How-To Geek

AMD Ryzen PCs May See More Power Savings Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 6.14  Phoronix

AMD Ryzen systems with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel may see increased power savings out-of-the-box due to an AMD P-State driver change queued up as part of the new power management code for this next version of the Linux kernel...

It was on New Year's Eve 2019 that Edward Shishkin announced the Reiser5 file-system as an evolution of the out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system code. While next week would mark five years of Reiser5, the Reiser4/Reiser5 file-system still appears effectively dead and hasn't been touched in quite a while...

FOSS Weekly #24.52: Holiday Special Tuxmas Days  It's FOSS

Queued up by way of linux-fs.git's "for_next" Git branch is the fanotify HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) implementation via the pre-content fanotify patch series...

An interesting request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted on Christmas for introducing hash-based integrity checking to help with the reproducible builds initiative around the Linux kernel...

9 Major Annoyances With Linux That Look Like a Thing of the Past in 2025  It's FOSS

There's activity again around potentially disabling and then ultimately removing the RNDIS Linux kernel code for those drivers complying with the Microsoft Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) protocol specification. RNDIS was used atop USB for virtual Ethernet but has proven insecure and problematic...

Linux RNDIS Removal Branch Updated For Disabling Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers  Phoronix

Nobara Linux Takes on Fedora With a Custom KDE Plasma Desktop  The New Stack