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With the Framework 16 laptop one of the performance pieces I've been meaning to carry out has been seeing out Linux performs against Microsoft Windows 11 for this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS powered modular/upgradeable laptop. Recently getting around to it in my benchmarking queue, I also compared the performance of Ubuntu 23.10 to the near final Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on this laptop up against a fully-updated Microsoft Windows 11 installation.

Ubuntu 24.04 Boosts Performance, Outperforming Windows 11 On The AMD Ryzen Framework 16 Laptop  Phoronix

Ubuntu 24.04 Boosts Performance, Outperforming Windows 11 On The AMD Ryzen Framework 16 Laptop  Phoronix

Shredding files on Linux with the shred command  Network World

While Fedora 41 in late 2024 is aiming to have more reproducible package builds, openSUSE Factory has already achieved a significant milestone in bit-by-bit reproducible builds...

openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds  Phoronix

On Wednesday the latest round of drm-intel-next material was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.10 kernel merge window. Intel's open-source engineers remain very busy working on the i915 and Xe kernel graphics drivers with new display features, expanding hardware support, and other functionality...

Cerber Linux Ransomware Exploits Atlassian Servers To Take Full Control  CybersecurityNews

Veeam champions data freedom for customers with new Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support  ZAWYA

Veeam Champions Data Freedom for Customers with New Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager Support  Business Wire

Eric S Raymond has released version 0.2 of Autodafe, his latest open-source project that provides "tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of Autotools."..

Comprehensive Guide to Installing Linux on MH1905 EVB  Hackster.io

There is a new post on the GTK blog outlining some of the recent enhancements to this open-source toolkit for benefiting the graphics/GPU offloading capabilities...

With the various Linux distributions derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we're beginning to see more features to distinguish between them rather than just "RHEL clones". It was just days ago talking about AlmaLinux restoring old hardware support that's been deprecated by upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Now over on the Rocky Linux side, CIQ as the principal organization behind them is rolling out support for upstream Linux kernels...

Rocky Linux To Support Upstream Stable Kernels  Phoronix

Free Stars: Children of Infinity coming to Linux after smashing Kickstarter goals  GamingOnLinux

Gentoo Linux Says NO to AI: Bans AI-Generated Code Submissions!  It's FOSS News

Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug  The Register

How to Kill a Process in Linux: Best Commands to Use  Built In

Rebuilding and Modifying Debian Packages  Linux Journal