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CIQ Brings HPC, Linux Expertise, and Interactive Events to SC24 in Atlanta  HPCwire

AMD today went public with details on the "AMD Next-Gen Fortran Compiler" as a new Fortran compiler they are working on based on LLVM's Flang...

The continued importance of cloud-native applications in an AI and hybrid cloud-centric world demands an open, more accessible ecosystem of development tools. Today, we’re pleased to help drive cloud-native evolution further into the next-generation of IT with our intent to contribute a comprehensive set of container tools to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), including bootc, Buildah, Composefs, Podman, Podman Desktop and Skopeo.Upon acceptance by the CNCF, the contributed tools will become hosted projects – alongside technologies like Kubernetes, Prometheus, Helm and many more

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 brings new file management capabilities to the web console and much more  Notebookcheck.net

Last week Mesa 24.3 was finally branched and Mesa 24.3-rc1 subsequently issued for getting the release process kicked off for this quarterly 3D graphics driver feature release. Out today is Mesa 24.3-rc2 with an initial batch of fixes...

Red Hat Expands Linux Automation with Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Business Wire

How to run Android apps on Linux  ZDNet

GenBook RK3588 is modular Linux laptop with an upgradeable design (crowdfunding)  Liliputing

Red Hat Expands Automation, Security, with RHEL 9.5  ADT Magazine

Apple M4 Mac Mini With macOS vs. Intel / AMD With Ubuntu Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon. The new Mac Mini in particular is interesting for under $600 starting out with the all re-designed Mac Mini with 10-core M4 and now the base model having 16GB of memory. It will take some time before there is any reasonable Linux support on the M4 hardware with Asahi Linux, but for those curious about how the M4 Mac Mini with macOS compares to AMD Ryzen and Intel Core CPUs under Linux, here are some preliminary benchmarks.

Canonical's Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop, Oliver Smith, has shared some early roadmap plans for the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle...

Ubuntu 25.04 To Further Enhance Its Installer, Aims For Linux 6.14 Kernel  Phoronix

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Released with Sudo System Role and Podman 5.0  9to5Linux

Framework Computer has been promoting a RISC-V motherboard option for their Framework Laptop 13 to complement their existing Intel Core and AMD Ryzen motherboard options. This RISC-V motherboard is being developed in cooperation with DeepComputing. Early access pricing and more details on this quad-core StarFive JH7110 powered mainboard for the Framework 13 have now been announced...

RISC-V Motherboard For Framework 13 Pricing Starts At $368 In Early Access, $928 For Laptop  Phoronix

Back in Linux 6.11 support for getrandom() in the vDSO was upstreamed for much better performance in providing speedy yet secure random number generation (RNG) needs. Since Linux 6.11 getrandom in the vDSO has expanded to more CPU architectures and now there's a notable user-space user ready to go: the GNU C Library "glibc" support was merged...

The Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) found in various Xeon SKUs since Sapphire Rapids can be of big benefit to Linux servers/workstations with a Linux kernel patch series that has been in the works to provide Zswap IAA compress batching...

Intel's Zswap IAA Compress Batching Work Is Very Interesting For Linux Performance  Phoronix

New Chrome Warning For 3.2 Billion Windows, Mac, Linux, Android Users  Forbes