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Windows loses 400 million users as mobile, Linux, and Mac use grows  TechSpot

Too much vRAM and too many Instinct accelerators per server is causing system hibernation to fail on some high-end AMD AI Linux-powered servers. Having eight accelerators each with 192GB of device memory can in turn cause system hibernation to run into problems if the Linux server has only 2TB of system RAM... But a new patch series was posted today in working to address this problem with the Linux kernel for high-end systems failing to hibernate. A similar issue is that when thawing the system the process can take nearly one hour due to the amount of memory...

AMD Instinct Accelerators With So Much vRAM Have Exposed Linux Hibernation Issues  Phoronix

Released three months ago was the first AerynOS ISO release for that Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty and from there plans were laid to provide "accelerated delivery of milestone ISOs." But now Q2 is ending without any further announcements from this interesting Linux distribution formerly known as SerpentOS...

It's Now Been Three Months Since The Last AerynOS Release  Phoronix

It looks like Linux 6.17 could end up enabling experimental support for large data folios that could help with bringing some performance improvements under real-world workloads for this copy-on-write file-system...

A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support. But following a fair amount of opposition to the idea, this matter isn't going to be pursued for next spring's Fedora 44 release...

The newest product in the Raspberry Pi family launching today is the Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2...

Linux GPU Configuration And Monitoring Tool (LACT) gets advanced profile management  GamingOnLinux

Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit support has been withdrawn  GamingOnLinux

Relive the Golden Era: 5 Tools to Get Retro Feel on Linux  It's FOSS

Linux Foundation Strengthens Cloud Leadership  Open Source For You

The post How to Install ‘atop’ to Monitor Real-Time System Performance first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

atop is a full-screen performance monitoring tool that provides detailed reports about all system processes, including those that have already

The post How to Install ‘atop’ to Monitor Real-Time System Performance first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Switching From Desktop Linux To FreeBSD  Hackaday

Linux 6.16-rc4 arrives with a focus on filesystem and driver fixes  Neowin

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 29th, 2025  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.16-rc4 as we prepare to close out the first half of 2025 and hitting roughly one month until the Linux 6.16 stable release...

Linux 6.16-rc4 Released With AMD Cleaner Shader For More GPUs, Bcachefs Changes  Phoronix

I Left Windows for Linux—and I’m Never Looking Back  MakeUseOf

Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base  Tom's Hardware