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RISC-V Motherboard For Framework 13 Pricing Starts At $368 In Early Access, $928 For Laptop  Phoronix

Back in Linux 6.11 support for getrandom() in the vDSO was upstreamed for much better performance in providing speedy yet secure random number generation (RNG) needs. Since Linux 6.11 getrandom in the vDSO has expanded to more CPU architectures and now there's a notable user-space user ready to go: the GNU C Library "glibc" support was merged...

The Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) found in various Xeon SKUs since Sapphire Rapids can be of big benefit to Linux servers/workstations with a Linux kernel patch series that has been in the works to provide Zswap IAA compress batching...

Intel's Zswap IAA Compress Batching Work Is Very Interesting For Linux Performance  Phoronix

New Chrome Warning For 3.2 Billion Windows, Mac, Linux, Android Users  Forbes

The NVIDIA MLX5 driver for NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-5 network adapters is preparing to introduce a new Data Direct Placement "DDP" feature with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window...

NVIDIA MLX5 Introducing Data Direct Placement "DDP" In Linux 6.13 For Boosting Bandwidth  Phoronix

As covered last week Linux I/O expert Jens Axboe has been taking a fresh pursuit of uncached buffered I/O for Linux. This "RWF_UNCACHED" work was originally started back in 2019 while a renewed effort around it is showing ~65% faster read/write performance and so far has been extended to work across EXT4, Btrfs, and XFS file-systems...

The AlmaLinux operating system project that was started from the fallout of the RHEL/CentOS development shift several years ago has once again courted AMD as a sponsorship of this community enterprise Linux operating system...

AMD Continues Backing AlmaLinux For Community Enterprise Linux OS  Phoronix

Fedora 42 to Port the Anaconda Installer to Wayland, Default to Anaconda WebUI  9to5Linux

Avassa and Wind River team up to streamline edge application management on Linux  Edge Industry Review

Google will bring Linux Terminal to Android 15  Mezha.Media

Xcompmgr 1.1.10 was released yesterday as the newest update to this basic X11 compositor providing "eye candy" effects for classic X.Org usage...

Stable Steam Client update has fixes for Linux, VR, Steam Deck and more  GamingOnLinux

GenBook RK3588 modular Linux laptop features an octa-core Arm CPU module with 32GB RAM (Crowdfunding)  CNX Software

Valve Releases Steam Client Update to Further Improve Native Linux Gaming  9to5Linux

The 4 Best Linux Distros for Helping You Stay Anonymous  SitePoint

OpenELA Publishes Enterprise Linux Sources Compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5  PR Web

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