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SIOS Technology Launches Enhanced LifeKeeper for Linux Version 9.9.0  SDxCentral

KDE neon 6.2 Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

With Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake systems now shipping and the Linux support largely settled, Intel open-source software engineers have begun ramping up their support for Panther Lake due out in a year...

Intel Panther Lake H EDAC Support Posted For Linux  Phoronix

A Friday evening job posting has confirmed and reinforced details around their future AI GPU compute stack, presumably what's been referred to as the Unified AI Software Stack...

Following this week's release of KDE Plasma 6.2, the KDE developers are busy addressing some of the initial fallout from this desktop update as well as more feature work aimed at Plasma 6.3...

AMD Pushes Out 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver On Linux, Allowing Efficient L3 Cache & Core Frequency Allocation  Wccftech

As another interesting AMD announcement this week following their Advancing AI event yesterday where they launched the EPYC 9005 series and other new hardware, they've continued with a few more soft announcements in the lead-up to the OCP Global Summit happening next week. The latest interesting tid-bit is their plans to incorporate Project Caliptra into their products beginning in 2026...

Android could soon have a native Linux terminal app  Android Police

Coding right on your smartphone: Google adds Debian Linux support to Android  gagadget.com

Ubuntu celebrates 20th anniversary with a new release  The Register

Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight  The Register

Asahi Linux’s bespoke GPU driver is running Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs  Ars Technica

These are the best KDE-based Linux distros available right now  Android Authority

The IO_uring asynchronous I/O API for Linux is quite novel and has proven performance benefits. With time IO_uring has been adapted to other areas of the kernel like networking and now with a proposal raised by an Arm graphics driver engineer, it could potentially be adapted for use by Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics drivers...

Arm Exploring IO_uring For Graphics Drivers For Better Performance & Synchronization  Phoronix

KDE Frameworks 6.7 Released with Performance Optimizations and Improvements  9to5Linux

Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS  Android Authority

eBPF Is Coming for Windows  The New Stack

Now past the launch day for the AMD EPYC 9005 series server processors and having delivered initial AMD EPYC Zen 5 benchmarks for the EPYC 9575F / EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965 SKUs, it's onto one of my favorite areas of testing and that is the more focused benchmarks looking at different specific changes/features of new processors. Today under the benchmarking microscope is looking at the new AVX-512 512-bit data path capabilities of 5th Gen AMD EPYC compared to using a 256-bit data path or disabling AVX-512 entirely.