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Recently there was an LLVM bug report of "Worse runtime performance on Zen CPU when optimizing for Zen." Well, that's not good... Fortunately, that bug is now fixed with the latest LLVM Clang compiler code but other deficiencies in the AMD CPU optimization targeting remain...

IBM Red Hat accused of discriminating against white males  The Register

IBM sued again for alleged discrimination – this time against White males  The Register

If all goes well the Linux 6.9 stable kernel will be released on Sunday and in turn mark the opening of the Linux 6.10 merge window. In hoping for an on-time release, some Linux kernel subsystem maintainers have been already submitting early pull requests of their feature material for v6.10. Among those early pulls are the SLAB (SLUB) updates...

AMD Preparing PCIe TPH Support For Upcoming CPUs  Phoronix

A new patch series sent out today by AMD Linux engineers confirm that PCIe TPH will be supported with "upcoming AMD hardware" as a nice performance optimization feature for PCI Express...

Ubuntu Linux 24.10 Oracular Oriole daily builds now available  BetaNews

Death of a Wish gets Linux support with the Randomizer update out now  GamingOnLinux

While Canonical has been investing more into the performance of Ubuntu Linux and engaged some new performance improvements in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, it's still not the fastest Linux distribution out there on x86_64 hardware. Similarly, the recently released Fedora Workstation 40 features the brand new GCC 14 compiler and other leading-edge open-source software packages, but there's still more performance left on the table as shown by Intel. Here are some fresh benchmarks looking at how Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 40 are competing with Intel's in-house Clear Linux distribution that offers aggressive x86_64 Linux performance defaults and the best possible out-of-the-box Linux performance on modern x86_64 hardware.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS & Fedora 40 Continue To Trail Intel's Linux Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

New Automotive Grade Linux Platform Release Adds Cloud-Native Functionality, RISC-V Architecture and Flutter ...  PR Newswire

Airships: Lost Flotilla is a rad steampunk autoshooter - dev talks Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

A Linux user has developed a tool to help remove ads in Windows 11  Windows Central

As expected, AMD today published the Micro Engine Scheduler "MES" firmware documentation for RDNA3 graphics processors as part of better engaging with the open-source community and aiming to address some gaps in their open-source GPU compute stack...

AMD Publishes Micro Engine Scheduler "MES" Firmware Documentation  Phoronix

Red Hat unveils image mode for its Linux distro  Network World

Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) Daily Build ISOs Are Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

In addition to a Framework Laptop EC driver being prepared for Linux that extends the Chrome OS embedded controller (EC) used by recent Framework Laptops, a ChromeOS EC hardware monitoring (HWMON subsystem) driver has also been revived as a further support extension for Framework laptops on Linux...

ChromeOS EC Hardware Monitoring Driver Being Revived For Framework Laptops  Phoronix

“Ban on AI-Generated Code” — Linux Community Takes Action  Medium