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AMD ROCm 6.2.4 is out today as the newest point release for this Radeon and Instinct open-source GPU compute stack...

What happens to Linux when Linus Torvalds dies?  BetaNews

Following the GIMP 3.0-RC1 tagging, the GIMP project has now put out their lengthy write-up outlining many of the new features to enjoy with this first release candidate of the much anticipated GIMP 3.0. Plus there is a few words about future releases when moving past the upcoming GIMP 3.0 stable...

Linux I/O expert and block/IO_uring maintainer Jens Axboe of Meta has recently revisited his patches around uncached buffered I/O. Back in 2019 the "RWF_UNCACHED" effort was started by Axboe to address a throughput cliff in performance once the page cache fills up. That work faded away but Axboe recently took to crafting a set of fresh patches for implementing uncached buffered I/O and they are showing extremely promising results...

Systemd 257-rc1 is out today as a big feature update for this release that brings many new features and other refinements to this key piece of the Linux operating system stack...

Thanks Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6%  The Register

Phishing Campaign Uses Linux VM to Target Windows Devices  Petri.com

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache Review  Phoronix

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache Review  Phoronix

Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor as the first Zen 5 CPU released with 3D V-Cache, today the review embargo lifts. Here is a look at how this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 5 CPU with 64MB of 3D V-Cache is performing under Ubuntu Linux compared to a variety of other Intel Core and AMD Ryzen desktop processors.

Patches for the Linux kernel over the past week are preparing for an SNC6 sub-NUMA clustering mode. This is the first time I've seen patches or mentions of an SNC6 mode compared to SNC 1/2/3/4 modes with existing processors...

Intel Prepping Linux For SNC6 With Six Nodes Per L3 Cache  Phoronix

BSV joins Linux Foundation to advance open standards  CoinGeek

The upcoming Mesa 24.3 graphics driver stack will deliver a very nice performance win with the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver for aging RDNA1 "GFX10" graphics processors...

Lazy Preemption "PREEMPT_LAZY" Slated To Land In Linux 6.13  Phoronix

Yet another exciting feature expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle is the introduction of the Lazy Preemption model...

The cURL 8.11 release is now available for this widely-used open-source software library and CLI utility used for downloads and supporting a variety of network protocols for file transfers. Most notable with cURL 8.11 is sporting official WebSockets support...

Intel's oneCCL open-source software that is the oneAPI Collective Communications Library focused on providing an efficient implementation of deep learning communication patterns is out with a new release...

CRON#TRAP Campaign Attacking Windows Machine With Weaponized Linux VMs  CybersecurityNews

Why we're still waiting for Canonical's immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop  The Register