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Kernel Recipes 2024 Slides & Videos Posted  Phoronix

#DRIVE Rally is an impressive new racer that I can't wait to see more from  GamingOnLinux

One of the interesting highlights of September was finally having our hands on an AmpereOne server! After years of being eager to test Ampere Computing's next-generation AArch64 server processors, Ampere sent over their 192-core flagship server processor for a few weeks of testing. The review server was comprised of the AmpereOne A192-32X flagship model within a Supermicro ARS-211M-NR 2U server.

Booting Linux on an Intel 4004 takes patience  Adafruit Blog

Building off last year's release of the EPYC 8004 "Siena" processors featuring up to sixty-four Zen 4C cores, AMD today announced the EPYC Embedded 8004 series...

Firefox 131 is out today with a few improvements worth mentioning for Mozilla's web browser...

Halcyon Announces Anti-Ransomware Protection for Linux Environments  Business Wire

Linux Software Market Touching New Development Level | Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE  EIN News

Vesta Admin Panel Vulnerability Allows Complete Linux Server Takeover  CybersecurityNews

The best old-school Linux window managers that still hold up  ZDNet

For those making use of "reverse PRIME" setups where you have a primary NVIDIA discrete GPU while monitors are connected to Intel integrated graphics as the secondary GPU, such configurations should be working nicely with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 release under Wayland. This support is also likely to be back-ported for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...

Valve to fund developers of Arch Linux distribution, on which SteamOS is based  Mezha.Media

Manjaro-based ultralight Mabox Linux 24.09 now available for download  Notebookcheck.net

While the Linux 6.12 merge window only ended this weekend and won't be out until November, already code is beginning to accumulate for DRM-Next of graphics driver improvements targeting the Linux 6.13 cycle that in turn will be the first major Linux kernel release of 2025. A nice improvement is on the way for the Raspberry Pi graphics driver...

Linux 6.13 To Bring Big/Super Pages For The Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver - Better Performance  Phoronix

Igalia open-source developer Carlos Garcia Campos has written a new blog post to outline recent graphics improvements found in WebKitGTK 2.46 and WPEWebKit 2.46. Most notable with the new stable release is using the Skia library rather than Cairo as the 2D graphics renderer. There are also other graphics improvements and more enhancements to come...

During the month of September on Phoronix there were 265 original news articles and 16 Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles. Here's a look back at the most exciting content for September...

Ubuntu 24.10 ARM ISO Supports the ThinkPad X13s  OMG! Ubuntu!

Open-source developer Zeeshan Ali Khan presented at last week's systemd "All Systems Go" developer conference on busd as a new D-Bus broker written in the Rust programming language...

Arch Linux teams up with Valve  Fudzilla