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With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS the engineers at Canonical began focusing more on the performance of Ubuntu and establishing a performance team at the company. This work is ongoing and for Ubuntu 24.10 they are exploring another exciting area: leveraging "-O3" compiler optimizations for Ubuntu packages. Available today is an experimental build of the Ubuntu desktop and server ISOs that are compiled for the -O3 optimization level...

I ran an operating system from the RAM - here's how it went  XDA Developers

As expected, AMD has released ROCm 6.2 as the newest version of their open-source GPU compute stack for Radeon graphics cards and Instinct accelerators. ROCm 6.2 is a big update with several new software components, improving the existing PyTorch and TensorFlow support, and a variety of other enhancements as AMD works to better compete with NVIDIA's CUDA...

Linux Hits New Desktop Market Share High  WebProNews

Hackberry Pi: a tiny Linux handheld made from a live Pi Zero and a dead Blackberry  Boing Boing

Ubuntu Scores Surprise Victories Over Windows In New AMD Benchmarks  Forbes

FNA gets Direct3D 11 support on Linux thanks to DXVK  GamingOnLinux

While Intel's upcoming Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" laptop processors are doing away with Hyper Threading (HT) and instead focusing more on additional E cores. AMD has asserted Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is still beneficial and supported across both their Zen 5 and Zen 5C cores. For those curious about the SMT performance and power efficiency impact, here are some SMT on/off comparison benchmarks using the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" laptop processor.

Linux / Steam Deck user share on Steam stays flat for July 2024  GamingOnLinux

Canonical Adds Microchip's New PIC64GX to Its List of Ubuntu-Supported RISC-V Platforms  Hackster.io

Why Do I Use Linux? It's the Apps, and Here Are 7 of My Favorites  How-To Geek

Azure Linux 3 hits general availability – but don't expect any frills  The Register

SLUBStick Linux Vulnerability Let Attackers Gain Full System Control  CybersecurityNews

5 Linux terminal apps that are better than your default  ZDNet

The free game Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense added Linux support  GamingOnLinux

A one line patch to the Linux kernel is yielding significant performance and power efficiency gains for existing Intel Xeon "Emerald Rapids" server processors on the likes of Ubuntu Linux...

Tiny Linux Patch Up To 32% Faster, Up To 18% Less Energy For Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids  Phoronix

The open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa is now more capable for its Vulkan Video support with the H.264 and H.265 encode support now wired up for Mesa 24.3...

For those that have experienced a buggy AMD HDMI audio experience when using recent versions of the Linux kernel, a fix has been submitted today for Linux 6.11 and in turn for back-porting to stable series in addressing "another long-time regression fix for AMD HDMI."..

Linux 6.11 Addressing "Long-Time Regression" Of Buggy AMD HDMI Audio  Phoronix