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Canonical is experimenting with x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels! They have produced an experimental build of Ubuntu Server using x86_64_v3 for requiring basically Intel and AMD CPUs with AVX capabilities. But they aren't yet committing to it as a default or when such a change may materialize...

Ubuntu Linux Evaluating x86-64-v3 Based Build - AVX & Newer Intel/AMD CPUs  Phoronix

Since the release of the Threadripper 7000 series on 20 November I've carried out and published many benchmarks of these new HEDT/PRO CPUs including the flagship AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX featuring 96-cores / 192-threads. All of my Threadripper PRO 7995WX benchmarks have been carried out using an HP Z6 G5 A workstation and it's proven to be an outright beast for creators, software developers, and others needing immense multi-threaded capabilities at your finger tips. Here's more about my experience with this new high-end HP workstation.

Tutorial: How to use tar to back up and restore files in Linux  TechTarget

Geekbench’s Machine-Learning Benchmark App Now Supports Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

IBM engineers hatch Linux Foundation HashiCorp Vault fork  TechTarget

YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU ...  Tom's Hardware

Difference Between Linux and Windows Operating Systems  TechiExpert.com

Windblown is the next game from the Dead Cells team  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat engineers have been developing Initoverlayfs as a scalable initial file-system. The code is currently in early form and the developers are still looking for feedback from the community as well as figuring out whether it properly belongs in kernel or user-space...

Red Hat Looks For Feedback On Its New Initoverlayfs File-System Proposal  Phoronix

Linux Mint 21.3 and Zorin 17 are beta buddies  The Register

Get 'Linux All-In-One For Dummies, 7th Edition' (worth $24) for FREE  BetaNews

Following Canonical pulling on control of LXD and maintainership being limited to Canonical employees, LXD 5.20 was released today where they have also decided to change its license moving forward to AGPLv3 by default...

LXD 5.20 Released With Canonical Changing It To AGPLv3 Licensing  Phoronix

ONNX in collaboration with AMD have announced TurnkeyML as a new open-source machine learning toolchain focused on agile model development and deployment...

How to Use Port Knocking on Linux (and Why You Shouldn't)  How-To Geek

New Windows/Linux Firmware Attack  Security Boulevard

With Linux 6.7 there's now support for enabling/disabling 32-bit program support at boot-time. The "ia32_emulation=" argument can be used for enabling/disabling 32-bit user-space program support and the ability to support 32-bit system calls. Right now when forcing off the x86 32-bit support it can be confusing if the user is unaware as no warning is currently provided, but that is about to change...

Linux 6.8 Will Make It More Clear When x86 32-bit Support Is Disabled  Phoronix