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KDE Gear 26.04 Software Suite Is Out with Many Improvements for KDE Apps  9to5Linux

You can soon turn this Android handheld into an ultra-powerful Linux handheld  Android Authority

Archinstall 4.2 Shifts to Wayland-First Profiles, Leaving X.Org Behind  Linux Journal

Haiku Isn’t Just For X86 Anymore, Boots On ARM In QEMU  Hackaday

With the set of today's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver Display Core (DC) patches is a rather curious addition with wiring up the Linux code to a "power module" that looks like it will better match Microsoft Windows behavior with the AMD Radeon driver around display-related power savings features...

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing "Power Module" To Better Match Windows Behavior  Phoronix

The Linux 7.1 kernel is bringing performance improvements for Sheaves, the per-CPU caching layer introduced several kernel cycles ago (Linux 6.18) for better efficiency on today's high core count hardware. Sheaves began as an opt-in feature but since Linux 7.0 is now being used for all caches...

Earlier this month at Red Hat OpenShift Commons in Amsterdam, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeConEU, we celebrated a few Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes. While each member of the Red Hat OpenShift community is a hero for helping contribute to a project’s success and growth, some members really stand out. They are the advocates and champions who make the community strong and successful. From left: Xuan-Son Nguyen - BNP Paribas, Jan-Willem - ING Bank.Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes are:Builders: Contributing to the evolution of Red Hat OpenShiftAdvocates: Amplifying their Red Hat OpenShift ex

That GPU you're running? You're most likely not using it to the fullest. You’ve deployed your large language model (LLM). It’s working, but many production deployments waste significant GPU capacity through suboptimal configurations. Your hardware spends time idle, waiting for data to move, or re-computing work it already did.The obvious fix? Switch to a smalle

The SDL library widely used by cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime has now established a policy to block code contributions made using AI / Large Language Models (LLMs)...

SDL Adds Policy To Forbid LLM/AI Generated Code Contributions  Phoronix

Windows 11 vs CachyOS in gaming: Has Linux finally caught up to Windows?  Sportskeeda Tech

The workqueue changes merged today for the Linux 7.1 kernel are significant for today's modern high-end processors where there can be many CPU cores per last level cache (LLC / L3 cache). The new WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope can reduce some contention on such systems and help achieve greater performance...

WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD Merged For Linux 7.1: Significant Win For CPUs With Many Cores Per LLC  Phoronix

This Linux launcher replaced four habits I didn't question before  MakeUseOf

Archinstall 4.2 is now available as the latest update to this very convenient, text-based Arch Linux OS installer...

Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security  Phoronix

Zorin OS 18.1 Released With Lite Edition, Better App Support, and Linux 6.17  Linuxiac

Linux 7.1 Is A Big Win For Intel Panther Lake With FRED Now Enabled By Default  Phoronix

Last month I ran benchmarks showing the very positive performance impact FRED has on Intel's new Panther Lake processors while wondering why Flexible Return and Event Deliver wasn't enabled by default yet on Linux. Hours after that story was published, an Intel engineer posted the patch to enable FRED by default with the rationale they were waiting for hardware to be publicly released in order to evaluate the performance benefit. Days after that the FRED-by-default patch hit tip/tip.git and now as of yesterday that patch is merged for Linux 7.1...