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NUMA Emulation Yields "Significant Performance Uplift" To Raspberry Pi 5  Phoronix

Engineers at consulting firm Igalia are exploring NUMA emulation for ARM64 (AArch64) due to the potential of "significant" performance uplift as observed on the popular Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer...

KDE Plasma 6.1.1 Desktop Environment Released with Various Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

OpenShot 3.2 (Qt-based Linux Video Editor) Released, This is What’s New’  OMG! Ubuntu!

With the recently released KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment, those still relying on old Intel integrated graphics should have a much more pleasant experience thanks to improvements made to the KWin compositor. For very old Intel integrated graphics, it can effectively be a night and day difference upgrading to the new Plasma 6.1 desktop...

Andrew Tanenbaum honored for pioneering MINIX, the OS hiding in a lot of computers  The Register

Forget Microsoft Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs: This TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 is the Linux laptop you really need  BetaNews

When testing Intel's aggressive software Linux optimizations shipped by way of their in-house Clear Linux distribution, I am most often testing it on their high core count Xeon processors with AVX-512... Over the years in dozens of Phoronix articles there have been countless metrics showing off the out-of-the-box performance benefits from leveraging software built for higher x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels, employing compiler-based function multi-versioning, and the other extensive performance tuning carried out by Intel software engineers. But now with the Intel Xeon 6700E "Sierra Forest" series now being available for these all-E-core server processors, I was curious about quantifying the Clear Linux benefits over the likes of Ubuntu Linux. Here are those benchmarks for those curious about the difference.

Intel's Linux Software Optimizations Still Pay Off For Xeon 6700E "Sierra Forest" E-Core CPUs  Phoronix

Intel's Linux Software Optimizations Still Pay Off For Xeon 6700E "Sierra Forest" E-Core CPUs  Phoronix

Back in May the Raspberry Pi crew announced Raspberry Pi Access as an easy means of remote GUI access to Raspberry Pi single board computers all from a web browser. Today they've announced the latest improvements to Raspberry Pi Connect...

TUXEDO Computers Unveils the InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen9 Linux Ultrabook  9to5Linux

Hyperledger to expand into Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust  Ledger Insights

Pocket Z Aims To Be A True Linux Computer That Fits In Your Pocket!  It's FOSS News

Is Banking Going Open Source?  Forbes

Hacker Exploit Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Linux Kernel  The Cyber Express

More AMD P-State Driver Improvements Queued For Linux 6.11  Phoronix

Earlier this month AMD Fast CPPC support was queued into the Linux power management subsystem's "-next" codebase ahead of the Linux 6.11 cycle. Additional AMD P-State driver enhancements are now deemed ready and submitted for staging ahead of next month's Linux 6.11 cycle kicking off...

The open-source Intel ANV Vulkan driver has recently been seeing improvements around better handling the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...

Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Fixes To Improve OpenGL-On-Vulkan Zink Compatibility  Phoronix