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While earlier this week was looking at the AMD EPYC 4004 vs. Intel Xeon E-2488 performance for entry-level server performance, in today's benchmarking showdown is a fresh look higher up the stack at the current generation server performance out of Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids / Emerald Rapids and AMD EPYC Genoa(X) / Bergamo / Siena with a leading-edge open-source software stack of using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS while also jumping from Linux 6.8 to Linux 6.9 for the very latest x86_64 Linux server performance.

Ubuntu 24.04 + Linux 6.9 Intel & AMD Server Performance  Phoronix

In addition to the Linux 6.10 USB changes and char/misc with the new NTSYNC driver, Greg Kroah-Hartman on Wednesday also sent out the staging updates for Linux 6.10. There isn't much in the way of new code but some 19k lines of code removed thanks to removing an unused driver as well as a broken driver...

Linux 6.10 Staging Drops Broken & Unused Drivers To Remove 19k L.O.C.  Phoronix

Similar to the GCC compiler dropping support for the Xeon Phi Knights Mill and Knights Landing accelerators a few days ago, Intel has also gone ahead and seen to the removal of Xeon Phi support for the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler...

Andrew Morton sent out more patches on Wednesday that have been pulled into the Linux 6.10 kernel. Notable from this latest round of "non-MM" updates is enabling more compiler warnings by default and getting newer AMD GPUs working on the RISC-V architecture...

Newer AMD Radeon Graphics Cards Now Work On RISC-V With Linux 6.10  Phoronix

GNOME Shell and Mutter had been covered by Ubuntu's GNOME MicroReleaseException "MRE" policy that allows for new point releases to ship rather easily as stable updates to existing Ubuntu Linux releases. But breaking the camel's back is GNOME 46.1 shipping explicit sync support. Due to landing a "significant new feature" into a point release, the GNOME Shell and Mutter are no longer covered by this exception...

Cybercriminals double exploitation of Linux vulnerabilities  ZAWYA

Cybercriminals double exploitation of Linux vulnerabilities  ZAWYA

All of the VirtIO updates are now ready for the Linux 6.10 merge window that is closing this weekend...

6 Linux Commands I Use for Malware Analysis  It's FOSS

Qualcomm's ARM Laptops Matter Because Of Linux  Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

It looks like systemd 256 will officially debut as stable in the near future with systemd 256-rc3 being released today and not tacking on any new features compared to the prior release candidates...

Greg Kroah-Hartman today sent in the char/misc updates for Linux 6.10 alongside the other areas of the kernel he oversees. Among the char/misc changes is adding the NTSYNC driver that exposes the /dev/ntsync character device for use by the likes of Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton). But for Linux 6.10 the driver is effectively "broken" as most of the feature patches have yet to be included...

Initial Windows NT Sync Driver Merged Into Linux 6.10 But Not Yet Complete  Phoronix

New Rufus 4.5 has Windows and Linux improvements, for UEFI, NTFS, MBR, ISO, GRUB  Neowin

Mesa 24.1 Linux Graphics Stack Released with Vulkan X11 WSI Explicit Sync Support  9to5Linux

USENIX Security ’23 – PET: Prevent Discovered Errors from Being Triggered in the Linux Kernel  Security Boulevard

Eric Engestrom has announced the release of Mesa 24.1 as this quarter's feature release to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...