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Linux lead dev says we're only getting 10% reality of the oversold AI hype  Windows Central

GNOME 48 Desktop Environment Release Date Slated for March 19th, 2025  9to5Linux

Techrights — GNU/Linux Started as Platform About Liberation, Freedom, Autonomy; Linux Foundation Tries to Redefine It as "Open Software" and Pretend It Started in the 90s  LXer

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Memory DDR5 Performance Testing  Phoronix

Following last week's launch testing of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 5 245K Arrow Lake desktop processors, the next area I've been exploring deeper has been the DDR5 memory performance including with CUDIMMs. Here's a closer look at the Core Ultra 9 285K performance under Linux while testing several different sets of memory and running Ubuntu 24.10.

Intel preps for PCIe 6.0 inferno with PCIe cooling driver for Linux — mechanism reduces SSD bandwidth when the drive gets too hot  Tom's Hardware

Going back to earlier in the year AMD Linux engineers have been prepping the kernel for PCI Express TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support that allows for hints that can be injected to improve latency and lowering traffic congestion when there are several possible cache locations on the server with the TPH noting the optimal location of a Transaction Layer Packet (TLP). This PCIe TPH support is set to be merged upstream with the forthcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...

PCIe TPH Coming With Linux 6.13 To Further Enhance 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance  Phoronix

Linux creator supports removing Russian kernel maintainers  Dig Watch Updates

Russian Linux kernel maintainers blocked  ComputerWeekly.com

This Linux distribution doesn't require installation, and still remembers where you left off  ZDNet

Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’  Tom's Hardware

Raspberry Pi OS Switches to Wayland on All Pi Models  How-To Geek

Mozilla Firefox 132.0 release builds are now available for Linux, macOS, and Windows for this newest monthly feature release to this open-source web browser...

The Trinity Desktop Environment as a still-maintained fork of the KDE 3.5 desktop software is out with a new point release...

Trinity TDE R14.1.3 Lets Linux Users Still Enjoy The KDE 3.5 Desktop Experience  Phoronix

While the sched_ext extensible scheduler code was merged for Linux 6.12, work on sched_ext itself it is not over. New patches this weekend continue working on NUMA awareness for it with its default idle selection policy while similar work on CPU last level cache (LLC) awareness are slated for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...

Sched_ext Scheduler Idle Selection Being Extended For LLC & NUMA Awareness  Phoronix

Developer Relations Foundation formed by Linux Foundation  App Developer Magazine

Another feature to look forward to with this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release is the open-source Freedreno Gallium3D driver for Qualcomm Adreno hardware now supporting Rusticl-based OpenCL compute...