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Getting Root On Cheap WiFi Repeaters, The Long Way Around  Hackaday

Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Will No Longer Warn Over Using Xe2 Graphics  Phoronix

With Linux 6.12 the Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics are being enabled by default for out-of-the-box support with Intel's next-gen Xe2 graphics. Over in user-space the Intel OpenGL and Vulkan driver code has also begun enabling Xe2 graphics by default for use when running on Linux 6.12+. In Mesa besides no longer being hidden by the force probe option, a warning is now removed so users aren't told about unsupported Vulkan support when using Xe2 hardware...

Linux 6.11 merged getrandom() in the vDSO Support for very fast yet secure user-space random number generation needs. That work was initially focused on x86_64 but beginning with Linux 6.12 and following on this getrandom() vDSO implementation will see expanded CPU architecture support...

getrandom() vDSO Coming To More Architectures With Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Best forensic and pentesting Linux distro of 2024  TechRadar

QEMU 9.1 Improves ARM and RISC-V Support, Adds Compression Offload Support  9to5Linux

Exploring Machine Learning Enabled Microcontrollers As An Alternative To Linux-Based MPUs  SemiEngineering

FOSS Weekly #24.36: Best Linux Terminals, Arch Repos, Windows Recall Fiasco and More  It's FOSS

Getting Debianized  Open for Business

Succeeding OpenZFS 2.2.5 from early August is now OpenZFS 2.2.6 that brings various fixes plus newer Linux kernel compatibility...

QEMU 9.1 is out in stable form today as the newest feature release to this open-source processor emulator that plays a vital role within the free software Linux virtualization stack...

6 reasons you should use Ubuntu for your own NAS  XDA Developers

Minimalist Linux distro Peropesis 2.7 comes with archive and ISO management tools  Notebookcheck.net

Easily Run Linux Virtual Machines for Free On Your Mac With UTM  How-To Geek

How to access Linux NFS share folders from MacOS  ZDNet

Continuing on with the AMD Ryzen 9000 series Linux benchmarking, today's testing is looking at the performance and power impact of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X when adjusting the CPU frequency scaling driver, governor, and Energy Performance Preference (EPP) tunable to help look at the performance and power efficiency characteristics of this current flagship Zen 5 desktop processor.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Power/Performance With CPU Frequency Scaling Driver Tunables Review  Phoronix

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system has managed to address a performance bottleneck allowing this platform to perform much faster now when running as a virtual machine (VM) and for some synthetic benchmarks even able to run "slightly faster" than Linux...

Redox OS Unlocks Faster VM Performance, "Slightly Faster" Than Linux In Some Benchmarks  Phoronix