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Apple launched the M2 Pro and the M2 Max | Page 5  HardForum

Proposed Linux Patch Allows Disabling CPU Security Mitigations at ...  Slashdot

Last October marked the release of memtest86+ 6.0 as the first major update to this bootable, open-source RAM testing software in nearly a decade. The memtest86+ 6.0 release marked a rewrite of the software while out today is the first update to that widely-used RAM testing software...

memtest86+ 6.10 Released With UEFI Secure Boot Signing ...  Phoronix

How to Install Individual LibreOffice Components on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Valve has just published Proton 7.0-6 as the newest version of this Wine-based software that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux. Proton 7.0-6 had been available in testing and release candidate form since the end of last year while now has been promoted to stable...

Proton 7.0-6 Released With More Windows Games Playable On Linux  Phoronix

Carbonyl Lets You Use a Graphical Web Browser in Your Linux ...  MUO - MakeUseOf

Intel TPMI Linux Driver Published To Enhance Power Management ...  Phoronix

Intel engineers this week published new Linux open-source driver code for TPMI, the Topology Aware Register and PM Capsule Interface. Intel TPMI for seemingly future processors will allow for more streamlined power management handling and other enhancements over the way the Intel power management drivers currently function...

Handshakes is a free sokoban puzzler about two hands meeting  GamingOnLinux

Prison Architect: Jungle Pack releases soon with another free update  GamingOnLinux

CentOS Stream & Clear Linux Achieve Greater Performance On 4th ...  Phoronix

As part of other ongoing performance tests of Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" testing, I was curious to see how the more well-tuned Linux distributions are performing with the flagship Xeon Platinum 8490H processors relative to the common Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release. Here are those benchmark numbers alongside AMD's flagship Genoa server platform with two EPYC 9654 processors.

Escuelas Linux 8.0: A Major Upgrade for the 25th Anniversary  It's FOSS News

Why Open Source Software ‘Fragments’ - And How To Fix It  Forbes

TuxCare KernelCare Enterprise Integrated with orcharhino Data ...  Business Wire

Inspired by the classic SimTower, build up high with Property Pro  GamingOnLinux

Proposed Linux Patch Would Allow Disabling CPU Security Mitigations At Build-Time  Phoronix

A proposed Linux kernel patch would provide a new Kconfig build time option of "CONFIG_DEFAULT_CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF" to build an insecure kernel if wanting to avoid the growing list of CPU security mitigations within the kernel and their associated performance overhead...