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Linux 6.15 Performance Events Adds Support For AMD Zen 5 Load Latency Filtering  Phoronix

Among the pull requests coming in at the tail end of the Linux 6.15 merge window with 6.15-rc1 expected tonight are all of the Kbuild updates as the infrastructure for building out the kernel...

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.14 on Ubuntu 24.10, Here’s How  9to5Linux

Why Linux Rules the World of Science  How-To Geek

Three Chips Should Be Enough for Anyone  Hackster.io

Linux 6.15 Crypto Subsystem Delivers Faster AES-CTR For AMD Zen 5 & Other x86_64 CPUs  Phoronix

The cryptography subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 merge window are quite exciting with some optimizations for modern x86_64 Intel/AMD processors enticing us the most...

Nvidia Drivers on Linux: What You Need to Know  How-To Geek

Nvidia Drivers on Linux: What You Need to Know  How-To Geek

RISC-V With Linux 6.15 Adds Support For BFloat16 "BF16" Instructions  Phoronix

Merged on Friday for the nearly-over Linux 6.15 merge window were the RISC-V CPU architecture updates for this next kernel release...

Microsoft Says Throw Away Your Windows 10 Computers  Daily Kos

Microsoft Says Throw Away Your Windows 10 Computers  Daily Kos

Microsoft Says Throw Away Your Windows 10 Computers  Daily Kos

Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI  Phoronix

APT 3.0 has been officially released as the first stable version following an interesting development cycle. APT 3.0 has been dedicated to the late Steve Langasek with his many Debian and Ubuntu contributions over the years...

In addition to all the KDE Plasma activity this week, GNOME developers have also been quiet busy working on a variety of improvements to the open-source desktop on their side of the pond...

LACT 0.7.3 is out this weekend as the newest feature update to this Linux GPU configuration and monitoring tool. LACT helps make up for the lack of any official GUI-based GPU configuration tool on Linux provided by AMD or Intel. It also works on NVIDIA GPUs too for providing a nice unified app for GPU configuration from all three major GPU vendors...

FEX 2504 is out with its newest monthly feature update for this open-source emulator that allows running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux hosts. This alternative to QEMU and Box64 continues focusing on new performance optimizations to further enhance the appeal and speedy potential of this x86_64-on-ARM64 emulator...

LACT 0.7.3 Further Enhances This GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool  Phoronix