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The logic of && and || on Linux  Network World

Total War: WARHAMMER III gets the 5.0 update and Thrones of Decay for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Breathe some new life into your old PC with these 5 operating systems  MSN

Pop!_OS With Linux 6.8 Is Benefiting Older System76 Threadripper Systems Too  Phoronix

As noted at the end of March, System76's Pop!_OS Linux distribution has upgraded to the Linux 6.8 kernel as a stable release update for this Ubuntu-derived distribution. That Linux 6.6 to 6.8 leap on Pop!_OS yielded some nice kernel performance improvements for the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X available with their newest System76 Thelio Major workstations. But tests I've carried out of the Pop!_OS upgrade on a years older System76 Thelio is showing off some nice advantages too.

Red Hat Simplifies Standard Operating Environments Across the Hybrid Cloud with Latest Version of Red Hat ...  WebWire

New Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Addressed in Ubuntu  Security Boulevard

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation today is announcing they are establishing a special interest group (SIG) to advance interests around high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) for this RHEL-derived operating system...

Scribbly vicious action-RPG 'Death of a Wish' releases for Linux on May 9th  GamingOnLinux

Eric Engestrom has published Mesa 24.1-rc2 as the latest weekly release candidate of Mesa 24.1 as we work toward the stable release likely in the next week or two...

TUXEDO recently revealed two more AMD Ryzen laptops  GamingOnLinux

Steam Survey for April 2024 shows a small dip for Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

AMD 3rd Gen EPYC "Milan" Sees Some Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  Phoronix

With the recently released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS I've shown various benchmarks how it can deliver nice performance gains over both Ubuntu 23.10 and the existing Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on different platforms. Those benchmarks have tended to focus on the latest-generation processors/platforms given that's where the excitement is these days. But for those on older platforms like AMD 3rd Gen EPYC "Milan" servers, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance impact of an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS upgrade...

Linux Mint 22 To Add Matrix Client, Hide Risky Flatpak Apps, and More  It's FOSS News

Simplify Your Life with Taskwarrior's Intuitive Linux Job Scheduling  Linux Journal

NZXT Kraken 2023 AIO CPU Cooler Monitoring With Linux 6.10  Phoronix

Merged back in 2021 with Linux 5.13 was an NZXT Kraken hardware monitoring "HWMON" driver to support sensor monitoring of these all-in-one liquid cooling products from NZXT. Over time more NZXT Kraken AIO coolers have been supported by the Linux kernel and with the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel the latest NZXT Kraken CPU coolers will be supported...

FOSS Weekly #24.18: Ubuntu MATE Concerns, COSMIC Desktop, Garuda Linux Release and More  It's FOSS

In addition to recently working out AES-XTS implementations for AVX2, AVX-512, and other versions for speeding up disk/file encryption, Google's Eric Biggers has additionally been working on some nice performance improvements for the Linux kernel's DM-Verity code...