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Sick of Windows or MacOS? You should check out this free, easy-to-use alternative  ZDNet

Last week I had the pleasure to be out in Los Angeles for the AMD Tech Day focused on their new Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" and Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" processors. This was an exciting event with many new details shared around Zen 5 CPU cores and the RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics found with the upcoming Ryzen AI 300 series mobile processors. The embargo concerning those architectural details have now expired while the review/benchmarking embargo isn't until a later date.

AMD Zen 5 Overview With Ryzen 9000 Series & Ryzen AI 300 Review  Phoronix

Alongside all of the exciting Ryzen 9000 and Ryzen AI 300 series details shared last week at the AMD Tech Day in Los Angeles, what I also found to be very interesting was AMD sharing a bit more about a "Unified AI Software Stack" they are working to release in the coming quarters...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 14th, 2024  9to5Linux

Fresh programmer's editor on Linux lies Zed ahead  The Register

The Chrome platform changes for Linux 6.11 as code predominantly for enabling Chromebooks with the mainline Linux kernel is set to introduce two new drivers...

Linux 6.11 Adding Fan Speed / Temperature & Charge Control Drivers For The ChromeOS EC  Phoronix

Wine 9.13 brings more CMD.EXE engine rewrites, supports loading ODBC Windows drivers  GamingOnLinux

The graying open source community needs fresh blood  The Register

Linux kernel 6.10 is out now  GamingOnLinux

Linux kernel 6.10 is out now  GamingOnLinux

Coming in as a rather late change proposal for Fedora 41 is to support self-encrypting drives from within the OS installer...

Kubuntu Focus Ir16 Gen 2 Review: A Linux Laptop That Just Works  How-To Geek

Bcachefs For Linux 6.11 Landing Disk Accounting Rewrite & Self-Healing On Read I/O Error  Phoronix

Bcachefs maintainer Kent Overstreet has already sent out all of the exciting Linux 6.11 feature updates for this copy-on-write file-system. Bcachefs continues maturing nicely within the mainline Linux kernel while continuing to tack on new functionality...

Among the flurry of pull requests submitted now that the Linux 6.11 merge window is open are the hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem updates...

Hardware Monitoring Improvements Submitted For Linux 6.11  Phoronix

OpenELA automates rapid access to enterprise Linux  ComputerWeekly.com

Fedora 42 may get its own blue screen of death  Mezha.Media