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I Keep My Linux PC and Android Phone Synced With This App  How-To Geek

Coreboot 24.05 is available today as the newest stable release of this open-source system firmware solution. With Coreboot 24.05 there is support for 25 more motherboards/platforms and an assortment of other improvements...

Ubuntu 24.04 + Linux 6.9 Intel & AMD Server Performance  Phoronix

The ACPI and power management / thermal subsystem changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.10 kernel. This cycle there are updates to both the Intel and AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling drivers...

Linux 6.10 Delivers AMD & Intel P-State Driver Updates To Refine Power Management  Phoronix

Merged last week for the Linux 6.10 kernel were all of the 64-bit ARM (ARM64 / AArch64) architecture changes. There is ACPI FACS support, the ability to easily construct FIT images, and a new command-line option for disabling 32-bit application support...

64-bit ARM With Linux 6.10: Building FIT Images & Optional Disabling 32-bit User-Space  Phoronix

TUXEDO Stellaris Slim 15 Linux ultrabook is powered by AMD or Intel  BetaNews

Meet TUXEDO Stellaris Slim 15 Gen6, a Thin and Light Linux Gaming Ultrabook  9to5Linux

While earlier this week was looking at the AMD EPYC 4004 vs. Intel Xeon E-2488 performance for entry-level server performance, in today's benchmarking showdown is a fresh look higher up the stack at the current generation server performance out of Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids / Emerald Rapids and AMD EPYC Genoa(X) / Bergamo / Siena with a leading-edge open-source software stack of using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS while also jumping from Linux 6.8 to Linux 6.9 for the very latest x86_64 Linux server performance.

Ubuntu 24.04 + Linux 6.9 Intel & AMD Server Performance  Phoronix

In addition to the Linux 6.10 USB changes and char/misc with the new NTSYNC driver, Greg Kroah-Hartman on Wednesday also sent out the staging updates for Linux 6.10. There isn't much in the way of new code but some 19k lines of code removed thanks to removing an unused driver as well as a broken driver...

Linux 6.10 Staging Drops Broken & Unused Drivers To Remove 19k L.O.C.  Phoronix

Similar to the GCC compiler dropping support for the Xeon Phi Knights Mill and Knights Landing accelerators a few days ago, Intel has also gone ahead and seen to the removal of Xeon Phi support for the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler...

Andrew Morton sent out more patches on Wednesday that have been pulled into the Linux 6.10 kernel. Notable from this latest round of "non-MM" updates is enabling more compiler warnings by default and getting newer AMD GPUs working on the RISC-V architecture...

Newer AMD Radeon Graphics Cards Now Work On RISC-V With Linux 6.10  Phoronix

GNOME Shell and Mutter had been covered by Ubuntu's GNOME MicroReleaseException "MRE" policy that allows for new point releases to ship rather easily as stable updates to existing Ubuntu Linux releases. But breaking the camel's back is GNOME 46.1 shipping explicit sync support. Due to landing a "significant new feature" into a point release, the GNOME Shell and Mutter are no longer covered by this exception...

Cybercriminals double exploitation of Linux vulnerabilities  ZAWYA

Cybercriminals double exploitation of Linux vulnerabilities  ZAWYA

All of the VirtIO updates are now ready for the Linux 6.10 merge window that is closing this weekend...