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Jenny's Daily Drivers: Damn Small Linux 2024  Hackaday

Microsoft announced today they will be winding down their support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), which is similar to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) but was designed to run Android apps from the Amazon Appstore atop Windows 11...

Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android  Phoronix

Warp Terminal Unveils Linux Version with AI and Collaboration Tools in 2024  BNN Breaking

How to install and configure fail2ban for even more SSH security  ZDNet

How to install and configure fail2ban for even more SSH security  ZDNet

CentOS Stream ISA Optimized Packages Show Great Results On Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids  Phoronix

As part of Red Hat evaluating x86-64-v3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, there is the CentOS ISA SIG that's been experimenting with ISA Optimized builds for the x86-64-v3 target. Via the CentOS ISA SIG there is the easy ability to transition an existing CentOS Stream 9 system/server over to using the x86_64-v3 optimized packages. In this article are some benchmarks on a modern Intel Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" server showing the performance benefits when the entire Linux server OS is recompiled for x86_64-v3.

The Linux DeviceMapper code is preparing to introduce DM-VDO as the Virtual Data Optimizer that can provide inline deduplication, compression, zero-block elimination, thin provisioning, and other features. DM-VDO has long existed out-of-tree and should be a very useful addition to mainline...

For those interested in FPGAs, AMD today unveiled the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA product family with hardware coming in 2025...

The Best 5 Linux Distributions for Data Science and Machine Learning Enthusiasts  Medium

Reaping the rewards of a strategically powerful cloud relationship  The Register

The rewards of a strategically powerful cloud relationship  The Register

What Is Void Linux, and What Makes It Unique?  How-To Geek

5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity  ZDNet

5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity  ZDNet

FEX as the open-source emulator for running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux systems continues making good progress not for only enjoying Linux x86 binaries on ARM but also Windows games by way of Steam Play / Wine...

FEX 2403 Fixes Steam Support, Introduces More CPU Optimizations  Phoronix

While still an experimental option, the rolling-release systemd Tumbleweed Linux distribution is finding great results in using systemd-boot rather than the GRUB bootloader...

For those still on the FreeBSD 13 series with not having migrated yet to FreeBSD 14, FreeBSD 13.3 was released overnight as the newest incremental update to this mature BSD platform...