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As part of the announcements coming out today from Google Cloud Next 2025, the embargo has now lifted on the new Google Cloud C4D VMs. Powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors, the new C4D instances deliver incredibly high performance and can scale up to 384 vCPUs with 3TB of RAM. For web servers, databases, CPU-based machine learning, and other workloads, the new Google C4D instances deliver incredible uplift compared to the prior-gen C3D instances. Here are some of the first public, independent benchmarks of Google's new C4D family.

FreeDOS 1.4: Still DOS, still FOSS, more modern than ever  theregister.com

How to Build an HTPC With Linux and a Mini PC  How-To Geek

How to Build an HTPC With Linux and a Mini PC  How-To Geek

The Ubuntu 25.04 release shipping this month will now feature JPEG-XL image format support out-of-the-box...

Ubuntu 25.04 Now Ships With JPEG-XL Support Enabled By Default  Phoronix

Well known open-source AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has landed his most recent conquest: implementing support for 16-bit NIR types within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver along with the LLVM and ACO compiler back-ends...

As a sooner than expected follow-up to the recent news article around Apple M1 / M2 / M3 core support for the GCC compiler, that code has now been successfully merged in time for the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release...

Merged back in Linux 6.9 was AMD Preferred Core support for Linux for the concept of "preferred cores" with newer Zen processors that are communicated via ACPI CPPC for select cores able to reach a higher maximum frequency or should otherwise be preferred over other cores on the system in the name of maximizing performance. That was a nice step forward for better handling newer Ryzen processors on Linux and matching functionality that had already been working under Microsoft Windows. Of focus more recently has been working on enabling more dynamic Preferred Core support for where the priority of the preferred cores may change at run-time...

AMD Preferred Core Support For Linux Revised To Better Handle Dynamic Rankings  Phoronix

Yesterday brought the newest update to Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux. The Azure Linux 3.0.20250402 brought many package updates mostly in the name of shipping security fixes plus brought new instructions on making use of the AMD graphics driver stack under this Microsoft Linux distribution along with various other updates...

Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds AMD GPU Driver Install Instructions  Phoronix

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When your Ubuntu system suddenly freezes, it can be very frustrating, especially if you’re working on something important project. Although

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The release of the GNU C Library 2.41 at the end of January ended up inadvertently breaking some Steam games, Discord, Julia, MATLAB, and other select user-space software. A workaround was merged today for Glibc to workaround the problem...

Ardour, the free and open DAW, is better than ever – and Ardour 9 is coming  CDM Create Digital Music

The PostgreSQL open-source database server has been on an exciting spree of recent changes... IO_uring support was recently merged for PostgreSQL 18 along with AVX-512 acceleration of CRC32 computations for up to a 3x improvement. Merged today to PostgreSQL is initial support for NUMA awareness for helping with the PostgreSQL performance for multi-node/socket servers...

How to use the groupdel comand  Network World

UALink as the open standard alternative to NVIDIA NVLink that is backed by Intel, AMD, and other vendors has published the UALink 200G 1.0 specification...

Asahi Linux M4 support hits a roadblock because of Apple Silicon changes  AppleInsider

How to start using the new Linux terminal on your Android device  ZDNet