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These are the best KDE-based Linux distros available right now  Android Authority

The IO_uring asynchronous I/O API for Linux is quite novel and has proven performance benefits. With time IO_uring has been adapted to other areas of the kernel like networking and now with a proposal raised by an Arm graphics driver engineer, it could potentially be adapted for use by Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics drivers...

Arm Exploring IO_uring For Graphics Drivers For Better Performance & Synchronization  Phoronix

KDE Frameworks 6.7 Released with Performance Optimizations and Improvements  9to5Linux

Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS  Android Authority

eBPF Is Coming for Windows  The New Stack

Now past the launch day for the AMD EPYC 9005 series server processors and having delivered initial AMD EPYC Zen 5 benchmarks for the EPYC 9575F / EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965 SKUs, it's onto one of my favorite areas of testing and that is the more focused benchmarks looking at different specific changes/features of new processors. Today under the benchmarking microscope is looking at the new AVX-512 512-bit data path capabilities of 5th Gen AMD EPYC compared to using a 256-bit data path or disabling AVX-512 entirely.

You can now play AAA games on Linux on Apple Silicon  Boing Boing

The drm-xe-next pull request earlier this week began preparing open-source driver support for Intel Xe3 graphics to premiere with Panther Lake processors. That code is beginning to queue for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle. Today a drm-intel-next pull request was sent out to prepare for more Intel Linux kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 6.13...

Intel Xe2 Ultra Joiner, GPU Temperature Reporting & Another Arrow Lake ID For Linux 6.13  Phoronix

Intel begins next-gen Xe3 graphics enablement for Linux, Xe-LPG+ for Arrow Lake-H announced  VideoCardz.com

DRM_Log is an effort that continues to be worked on by Jocelyn Falempe at Red Hat as a new boot logger for printing the kernel messages on the screen...

DRM_Log Continues To Be Worked On As New Boot Logger For Kernel Messages  Phoronix

With 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" processors now launched, AMD provided a same-day release of their updated AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler "AOCC". This is AMD's downstream version of LLVM/Clang/Flang where they provide optimized AMD processor support with code that hasn't yet worked its way up into LLVM proper...

Back in August I wrote about AMD beginning work on a new Linux driver to help with heterogeneous core CPUs. On Thursday a second iteration of the AMD HFI Linux driver patches were posted with this driver continuing to work its way toward the mainline kernel...

AMD Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" Driver Updated For Heterogeneous CPUs  Phoronix

Collabora's Faith Ekstrand provided a status update yesterday at XDC 2024 Montreal around the state of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver as a means of open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GPUs...

After the AMD Advancing AI Event yesterday where they launched AMD 5th Gen EPYC processors, Instinct product updates, and new high-end networking gear, they also put out a blog post to affirm their "commitment to open security technologies in the data center."..

Ubuntu 24.10, Kubuntu 24.10 and other Linux flavours now officially released  GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu 24.10: The Best New Features  OMG! Ubuntu!