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Continuing on with the AmpereOne performance benchmarking while having the AmpereOne A192-32X in the lab within a Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server, the next set of benchmarks is looking at the performance when using the near-final Linux 6.11 kernel. Additionally, quantifying the performance impact of using the ARM64 64K page size kernel as an alternative to the default 4K page size.

Last year to much excitement in our community was the new AMD project announcement of openSIL as an open-source CPU silicon initialization project that is an advancement for open-source firmware and to eventually replace AMD's AGESA across both client and server processors. This week an exciting new update on AMD OpenSIL was shared and that they are still on-track for having it production-ready next year...

What Is Kali Linux, and Should You Use It?  How-To Geek

Rust, Linux, SLOs and All Things Performance at P99 CONF  The New Stack

Ah the memories of old AGP graphics cards... But it's largely just that these days: distant memories. For anyone by chance still running an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) graphics card in production, FreeBSD is looking at deprecating its generic AGP driver and then potentially removing it in FreeBSD 15.0...

HelpWire Adds Linux Support in Newest Update  Big News Network

Cubic DTECH Fusion eHPC Achieves Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 and Red Hat OpenShift Certifications  Big News Network

Red Hat delivers AI-optimized Linux platform  Network World

HelpWire Adds Linux Support in Newest Update  EIN News

Cubic DTECH Fusion eHPC Achieves Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 and Red Hat OpenShift Certifications  AccessWire

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI Now Generally Available for Enterprise AI Innovation in Production  Business Wire

The first alpha release of OpenSSL 3.4 is now available for testing as the next feature update to this widely-used SSL library / cryptography toolkit...

What's Your Favorite Linux Distribution and Why?  Review Geek

What's Your Favorite Linux Distribution and Why?  How-To Geek

Here's Everything New in GNOME 47  How-To Geek

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