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Earlier this year AMD disclosed the RMPOPT instruction that given the timing will seemingly be introduced with upcoming Zen 6 EPYC "Venice" processors. The RMPOPT feature amounts to a performance optimization for AMD EPYC SEV-SNP enabled servers by cutting down on the associated Reverse Map Table (RMP) overhead. Linux enablement of AMD RMPOPT remains ongoing and out this week is the latest iteration of the enablement...

I turned my old Galaxy phone into a pocket Linux server with Termux  Yahoo Tech

I turned my old Galaxy phone into a pocket Linux server with Termux  How-To Geek

You can now finally run Linux containers in Windows – without third-party tools  TechRadar

3 sudo replacements and the one that makes it entirely useless  How-To Geek

VirtualBox 7.2.12 fixes a kernel panic bug affecting Arch Linux users  Neowin

Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form  The Register

Red Hat has contributed new system-wide tunables infrastructure to the GNU C Library "glibc" that allows specifying system-wide tunables via the new /etc/tunables.conf configuration file...

Perfection in Linux isn't adding features—Openbox taught me its about removing them  How-To Geek

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues taking special focus on AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era GPUs for enhancing the open-source graphics driver support for these aging graphics cards...

RADV & RadeonSI Drivers See New Fixes For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs  Phoronix

PS5-Linux - The Slim can finally run Linux  Korben

RootBoard open-hardware Linux handheld launches with Raspberry Pi Zero support  LinuxGizmos.com

KDE Plasma finally added per-screen virtual desktops, and it's yet another reason I'm not going back to Windows  XDA

10ZiG Announces General Availability of 10ZiG Manager v6 and Linux Virtual Appliance  PRWeb

AI-Generated Browser Ransomware Abuses Chromium API on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android  The Hacker News

6 Backup Tools for Linux Users of All Kind  It's FOSS

Linux fixed my oldest PC problems—and it has nothing to do with speed  Yahoo Tech

Linux fixed my oldest PC problems—and it has nothing to do with speed  How-To Geek

For those that prefer waiting until the first bug-fix/point release before upgrading to a major new feature series, GCC 16.2 is being planned for an early August release for delivering back-ported bug fixes to the GCC 16 compiler...