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Elon Musk is “too stupid to work in a tech company”, claims Linux founder  Notebookcheck

On top of enabling Xe3P graphics for Nova Lake and Crescent Island plus other changes like CASF adaptive sharpening for Lunar Lake and newer, another set of Intel kernel graphics driver updates were merged overnight as a big win for the open-source Intel graphics stack on Linux...

Intel Graphics Score A Big Win With Linux 6.19: Color Management & Xe VFIO Driver Merged  Phoronix

New LTS kernel – and Alpine freshness to go with it  theregister.com

While NTFSPLUS continues to be developed as a new and modern NTFS open-source driver for Linux systems, at the moment NTFS3 from Paragon Software remains the most capable NTFS file-system driver within the mainline kernel. For the Linux 6.19 merge window a variety of fixes have landed for this driver...

Linux NTFS3 Driver Will Now Support Timestamps Prior To 1970  Phoronix

Fedora vs. Arch Linux: How to choose your next Linux distro (and which one I use)  ZDNET

The sound subsystem updates were merged on Thursday for enabling a variety of new audio hardware with the Linux 6.19. Among the hardware standing out is getting Intel Nova Lake audio support in order...

Intel Nova Lake Audio Support Merged For Linux 6.19  Phoronix

New Stealthy Linux Malware Combines Mirai-Derived DDoS Botnet and Fileless Cryptominer  CybersecurityNews

How to Make a Bootable USB Drive for Windows or Linux  Guiding Tech

New Stealthy Linux Malware Merges Mirai-based DDoS Botnet with Fileless Cryptominer  GBHackers News

Mirai-Driven DDoS Botnet and Fileless Cryptominer Power New Linux Malware  Cyber Press

The big set of kernel graphics driver features were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel. As usual there is a lot of new feature work on the AMD Radeon, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers plus the smaller Arm/embedded graphics like now having initial Qualcomm Gen8 GPU support. Plus the growing number of accelerator "accel" drivers for NPUs / AI accelerators...

Debian vs. Ubuntu: Which Linux distro is right for you?  ZDNet

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Boost AI Performance with AMD, Intel & NVIDIA AI Accelerators  The Fast Mode

Earlier this month at Red Hat OpenShift Commons, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA in Atlanta, we had the chance to recognize a few OpenShift Superheroes. While each member of the OpenShift community is a hero for helping contribute to a project’s success and growth, some members really stand out. They are the advocates and champions who make the community strong and successful. OpenShift Superheroes are made up of:Builders: Contributing to the evolution of OpenShiftAdvocates: Amplifying their OpenShift experience and learnings through events, blogs, meetups, and moreAmbassadors: S

Red Hat to deliver enhanced AI inference across AWSRed Hat collaborates with AWS to power enterprise-grade gen AI on AWS with Red Hat AI and AWS AI silicon. With this collaboration, Red Hat focuses on empowering IT decision-makers with the flexibility to run high-performance, efficient AI inference at scale, regardless of the underlying hardware. Learn more Technically Speaking with Chris Wright: Platform engineering for AI agents ft. Tushar KatarkiAs we move from chatbots to autonomous AI agents, complexity is exploding. Red Hat’s Tushar Katarki joins Chris Wright to discuss building a "K

Amazon AWS today announced Graviton5 as their newest-generation ARM64 server processor for their EC2 cloud. Graviton5 is being promoted as offering 25% higher performance over existing Graviton4 processors...

Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam  Linux Journal