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AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370: 100+ Benchmarks Validate Zen 5's Captivating Power Efficiency & Performance Review  Phoronix

AMD Radeon 890M "RDNA3.5" Graphics Run Well With Latest Open-Source Linux Driver Review  Phoronix

While the upcoming AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors continue to make use of RDNA2 graphics, with the Ryzen AI 300 series shipping today in notebooks there are RDNA3.5 graphics being introduced alongside the Zen 5 CPU cores and upgraded Ryzen AI XDNA2 NPU. While just an evolution of RDNA3, the initial benchmarks of RDNA3.5 graphics with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 are looking rather promising for both the raw graphics performance as well as the power efficiency. The Radeon 890M RDNA3.5 graphics are working on Linux when using a new enough software stack.

Vanilla OS 2 Orchid is a Smashing Linux Distro Release  It's FOSS News

Vanilla OS 2 Orchid is a Smashing Linux Distro Release  It's FOSS News

You Can Now Upgrade Your Linux Mint 21.3 PC to Linux Mint 22, Here’s How  9to5Linux

You Can Now Upgrade Your Linux Mint 21.3 PC to Linux Mint 22, Here’s How  9to5Linux

You Can Now Upgrade Your Linux Mint 21.3 PC to Linux Mint 22, Here’s How  9to5Linux

Merged back in 2021 for Linux 5.13 was Landlock as a means of unprivileged application sandboxing. The Landlock Linux security module has continued to be improved since but it turns out there's been a big hole within this security module since its introduction... The possibility for apps to drop restrictions on itself...

Linux Mint 22 Officially Released, This is What’s New  OMG! Ubuntu!

The mainline RISC-V Linux kernel port continues to become more featureful each kernel cycle... Last week for the start of the Linux 6.11 merge window there were new RISC-V ISA extensions wired up while in ending out the v6.11 merge window this weekend there is yet more enablement activity...

As part of the early Mesa 24.3 changes for this open-source 3D graphics driver stack coming out in Q4, a new "legacy-x11" build option has been introduced to its Meson build system...

OpenSUSE's Aeon is up to its third release candidate as what was formerly known as MicroOS Desktop GNOME for a container-based, immutable desktop operating system. With the Aeon RC3 release, full disk encryption is enabled by default as an exciting development...

openSUSE's Aeon RC3 Released With Full Disk Encryption By Default  Phoronix

Setting up a Development Environment for Blockchain  Coinpedia Fintech News

EEVDF Scheduler On The Verge Of Being "Complete"  Phoronix

EEVDF Scheduler On The Verge Of Being "Complete"  Phoronix

Merged one year ago for Linux 6.6 was the EEVDF scheduler as a replacement to the CFS code and designed to provide a better scheduling policy for the kernel and being more robust. With a new set of patches for this "Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First" scheduling code, it's nearing the point of officially being completed...

5 Linux commands for better group management (and how to use them)  ZDNet

Ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window set to close tomorrow, Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft sent in a set of two VFS fixes. One of the fixes is more noteworthy that is for a five year old bug that could cause on-disk corruption, security issues, or a kernel crash...