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Intel-based Radxa X4 Raspberry Pi alternative can run both Microsoft Windows 11 and Linux  BetaNews

Intel-based Radxa X4 Raspberry Pi alternative can run both Microsoft Windows 11 and Linux  BetaNews

Gauging system activity on Linux with dstat  Network World

Intel today released IGC 1.0.17193.4 as the newest version of the Intel Graphics Compiler that is used for their compute stack on Windows/Linux as well as by their Windows graphics driver for shader compilation...

As a follow-up to last week's AMD Zen 5 overview with the Ryzen 9000 series and Ryzen AI 300 series, today the embargo has lifted on some additional Zen 5 CPU core details.

While not as notable as the nice EXT4 performance optimization making it into Linux 6.11 or features like XFS real-time FITRIM and self-healing Bcachefs on read I/O errors, the Bcachefs, F2FS, and Btrfs file-systems saw smaller updates for the Linux 6.11 kernel cycle...

F2FS, exFAT & Btrfs File-System Changes In Linux 6.11  Phoronix

F2FS, exFAT & Btrfs File-System Changes In Linux 6.11  Phoronix

7 New Features in Linux Mint 22  It's FOSS News

7 New Features in Linux Mint 22  It's FOSS News

The ‘Linux Moment’ in AI Has Finally Arrived, Says Meta Chief Mark Zuckerberg  AIM

The ‘Linux Moment’ in AI Has Finally Arrived, Says Meta Chief Mark Zuckerberg  AIM

It's not too often that the ATA pull request for a new Linux kernel merge window has much worth mentioning. With Linux 6.11 there is a change to the kernel defaults worth noting over the default SATA link power management policy. In this case most Linux distributions have been setting a better default themselves and is now a case of the upstream kernel defaults catching up...

Linux 6.11 Upstream Now Defaults To A Better SATA Link Power Management Policy  Phoronix

Linux 6.11 Upstream Now Defaults To A Better SATA Link Power Management Policy  Phoronix

The latest video acceleration improvements to report on with the open-source AMD Radeon driver front is support in Mesa 24.3-devel for passing HDR metadata in the AV1 encoder...

The latest printk patches have been submitted and merged for the Linux 6.11 kernel. The printk updates take another step toward the long-in-development work around threaded console printing / non-blocking "NBCON" consoles as the last major step to allow the real-time "RT" kernel patches to land...

Meta's open-source AI is now live  PhoneArena

Meta's open-source AI is now live  PhoneArena

Intel's OSPRay ray-tracing engine as part of their oneAPI rendering toolkit continues to serve as a great, scalable and portable RT engine for high fidelity visualizations. With OSPRay 3.2 released today, they continue advancing this open-source engine further...