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Well, it's been a wild ride to say the least... Today marks twenty years since I started Phoronix.com devoted to reviewing Linux hardware and ultimately enriching the Linux hardware experience with more benchmarks, open-source/Linux hardware news, and more over the years...

ROCm 6.1.2 is out today as the newest update to AMD's open-source GPU compute stack for Linux systems and with growing support for Windows Subsystem for Linux...

AMD ROCm 6.1.2 Released With Fixes & Optimizations  Phoronix

NVIDIA 550.90.07 Linux Graphics Driver Is Out Now with Various Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Dell "PC Extras" Driver Slated For Linux 6.11 - Initially To Control Fan Modes  Phoronix

Queued into the x86 platform drivers' "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.11 kernel cycle is the "Dell PC Extras" driver. Initially this new dell-pc driver is used for controlling fan modes via the Platform Profile setting on capable systems...

Building atop the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver's mesh shader support that's been enabled by default since last year, the newest Mesa 24.2-devel code as of today now adds support for mesh shader queries...

Windows 11 and Linux gain ground among Steam gamers  The Register

Windows 11 and Linux gain ground among Steam gamers  The Register

Veeam bites the bullet, embraces Linux  The Stack

Linux Espionage Threats Are Growing - And Successful  The Cyber Express

BCNF, Azure, Roaring Kitty, Hugging Face, Okta, Linux, Oracle, Josh Marpet… – SWN #390  SC Media

Tachyum Demonstrates Linux and Applications with 64KB Page Size  Business Wire

Fedora Moves Ahead In Replacing Redis With Valkey  Phoronix

Back in April I noted that Fedora was considering replacing Redis with Valkey given the upstream Redis software licensing changes. At yesterday's Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) they have now signed off on replacing Redis with Valkey...

IBM compiler engineers are ready to flip-on their POWER11 support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) in wiring up the "-mcpu=power11" option...

Pipe viewer: Using the pv command on Linux  Network World

Hammerspace Appoints Mike Snitzer, Veteran Linux Kernel Developer, as Senior Principal Software Engineer  HPCwire

ZEDEDA Joins the Linux Foundation's Margo Project to Deliver Seamless Edge Interoperability  Automation.com

AudioThing Things Fold, a dynamic wavefolder plugin for mac, linux, win, and iOS  Synth Anatomy