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One of the areas for benchmarking exploration that I had been meaning to dive into since the launch of the Intel Arrow Lake processors back in October was checking out the Microsoft Windows 11 vs. Linux performance for the new Core Ultra 9 285K flagship processor. Particularly with the mix of P and E cores I was curious for a fresh look at the Windows vs. Linux performance capabilities. With recently carrying out a Windows 11 install on Arrow Lake for running the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Windows vs. Linux benchmarks, following that I carried out some fresh CPU benchmarks for seeing how Arrow Lake processor performance is looking on these competing operating systems.

Mirror Your Android Screen on Linux With This Free Tool  How-To Geek

These 6 Linux myths you still believe simply aren't true  XDA Developers

LibreOffice 24.8.4 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 55 Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

The Fish Shell as the interactive, user-friendly command line shell debuted its 4.0 beta release ahead of the holidays. Notably in this release is porting the C++ code over to the Rust programming language...

Intel's OpenVINO open-source AI toolkit is out with a new feature release today for closing out the year. The OpenVINO 2024.6 release brings initial support for the Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics cards as well as further optimizing the Intel NPU support...

Along with the recent release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 beta, the AlmaLinux crew released their AlmaLinux 10 beta as the latest wares for this popular community/free alternative to upstream RHEL. I've been running some early benchmarks and testing on this AlmaLinux 10.0 Beta "Purple Lion" release and it's running well with performance right inline with upstream RHEL 10 Beta.

AlmaLinux 10 Beta Running Great With Nice Performance As Free/Community Alternative To RHEL 10 Review  Phoronix

Back in August AMD posted Linux patches for L3 Smart Data Cache Injection Allocation Enforcement (SDCIAE). That L3 Smart Data Cache Injection (SDCI) work was since announced as part of the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. A second iteration of those SDCIAE were posted this week in working to get this functionality enabled for the mainline Linux kernel...

AMD Updates Linux Patches For L3 Smart Data Cache Injection SDCIAE Handling  Phoronix

The Linux kernel already supports the Realtek RTL8125D 2.5G Ethernet controller but additional handling is required to enable the revision B variant of this chipset, which will be coming in the next kernel cycle...

Linux 6.14 To Support Realtek RTL8125D Rev B 2.5G Ethernet ASIC  Phoronix

New Linux kernel patch submitted to improve Lenovo Legion series support including Lenovo Legion Go  GamingOnLinux

Cloud Hypervisor 43 is out as the newest version of this Intel-backed, Rust-based open-source VMM project that now routinely sees contributions from Microsoft, Arm, Rivos, Tencent, and other organizations...

Linux foundation announces launch of LF India to expand global open source support and innovation  ETCIO

Update Google Chrome Now—4 New Windows, Mac, Linux Security Warnings  Forbes

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6 Linux Distros to Watch Out for in 2025  It's FOSS News