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After talking about AmpereOne for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure since last year, earlier this month Oracle finally announced general availability on their OCI Ampere A2 instances for tapping into these latest-generation Ampere Computing AArch64 server processors in the public cloud. Here's a brief look at the OCI Ampere A2 performance with AmpereOne compared to their prior A1 instances powered by Ampere Altra.

A set of patches posted today on the AMD graphics driver mailing list begin implementing support for process isolation within the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver...

Patching Recent Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities with KernelCare  Security Boulevard

10 things I always do after installing Linux - and why you should too  ZDNet

Intel engineers on Wednesday released the Linux NPU Driver v1.6 release for this for this MIT-licensed user-space mode driver support for the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found since the Core Ultra Series 1 "Meteor Lake" SoCs and currently supporting the upcoming Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake processors as well. This Intel Linux NPU Driver in user-space interfaces with their iVPU kernel accelerator driver for making a nice open-source and upstream NPU software stack on Linux systems...

I Just Removed Ubuntu for Archcraft and my Linux PC Looks Awesome!  It's FOSS News

Canonical's Netplan 1.1 Improves Compatibility With Proton VPN & Microsoft's Azure Linux  Phoronix

For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Canonical released Netplan 1.0 as their declarative network configuration software spanning now from servers to desktops. In time for Ubuntu 24.10 due out in two months, Netplan 1.1 has been released as the next iteration of this Linux networking configuration software from Canonical...

Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.6 Released For Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake  Phoronix

Deploy an In-House Chat Server with Linux and Zulip  The New Stack

Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache  Phoronix

Mesa 24.2 is out today as stable for this quarterly feature release to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems and other platforms...

SparkyLinux 2024.08 electrifies the Linux scene as a charged alternative to Microsoft Windows 11  BetaNews

How to Use the touch Command on Linux  How-To Geek

Gentoo Linux was one of the last few Linux distributions continuing to maintain Itanium (IA-64) architecture builds but that is now being phased out for those discontinued Intel processors...

Gentoo Linux Ending Itanium IA-64 Support  Phoronix

10 Linux keyboard shortcuts I use every day  ZDNet

Ubuntu tip of the day: Remember to install GPU drivers  XDA Developers

Tails 6.6 live Linux launches with persistent storage improvements and multiple fixes  Notebookcheck.net

DT sees bright future for Access 4.0 project after Linux Foundation swap  TelcoTitans