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Building off the launch earlier this year of the first Xeon 6 processors with the Xeon 6700E "Sierra Forest" processors, today Intel is lifting the wraps on the much anticipated Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors. Where as Sierra Forest is optimized for power efficiency and core density, the Intel Xeon 6 P-core processors are optimized for per-core performance and have shown some very strong generational uplift -- and against the AMD competition -- as we'll show today in the first Xeon 6980P Linux benchmarks.

Intel Gaudi 3 Linux Driver Support Expected Next Month  Phoronix

Intel Xeon 6980P "Granite Rapids" Linux Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Intel used their Enterprise Tech Tour last week in Oregon to not only provide insight into the new Xeon 6900 "Granite Rapids" server processors (and Xeon 6980P benchmarks) but also to shed more light on their Gaudi 3 AI inference accelerator. The question I was most curious about with Gaudi 3: where's the Linux driver support?..

Kubuntu Focus Ir14 Gen 2 review: Using Linux instead of messing with it  Ars Technica

SK hynix Brings CXL Optimization Software HMSDK to Linux for Enhanced AI Memory Performance  HPCwire

SK hynix Announces CXL SDK Available on Linux  insideHPC

11 Science and Math Apps for Linux to Master Your Classes With  How-To Geek

Merged as part of the memory management "MM" changes for the Linux 6.12 kernel is a kernel stack usage histogram to help developers in better optimizing the kernel stack sizes and minimizing memory waste...

Linux 6.12 Adds A Kernel Stack Usage Histogram To Help With Optimizations  Phoronix

LXQt 2.1 Promises Experimental Wayland Session, Styling Improvements  9to5Linux

SIOS Technology Releases LifeKeeper for Linux Version  GlobeNewswire

Print2Block, makers of DocChain.io, Joins as a Founding member in the Linux Foundation's Launch of Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust with 17 Major Projects  CXOToday.com

Going along with other early Linux kernel driver additions for enabling Panther Lake, the intel-lpss driver in Linux 6.12 has made its device ID additions for supporting Panther Lake H and Panther Lake P processors...

Intel LPSS Driver Adds Panther Lake Support In Linux 6.12  Phoronix

This Linux distro poses its own challenges, but power-users will love it  ZDNet

This Simple Linux Task Manager Is Enough to Manage Your Daily Life  How-To Geek

The Intel LPMD open-source project is a user-space daemon for optimizing active idle power handling on Linux and can be useful particularly for modern Intel Core hybrid processors. LPMD is short for the "Low Power Mode Daemon" while with today's v0.0.7 release it's now re-identified itself as the "Energy Optimizer" instead...

Landlock as the Linux security module for unprivileged access control handling is adding new controls around Unix socket handling with the Linux 6.12 kernel...

The Dell-WMI-Sysman driver on Linux allows for managing BIOS settings from within Linux using sysfs. This dell-wmi-sysman kernel driver supports most Dell platforms from 2018 and newer for convenient BIOS management...