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A second batch of s390 architecture changes were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window...

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Systems Administrators are well aware of the importance of being able to monitor and administer numerous machines in a short amount of time, preferably with

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Last week Linux creator Linus Torvalds spotted a bad performance regression with the early Linux 6.8 kernel state that was leading to his kernel build times doubling. Since then kernel developers were working on analyzing the issue and devising a fix. A few minutes ago the fix has worked its way into the mainline kernel...

Linux 6.8 Merges Fix For Recent Performance Regression Spotted By Linus Torvalds  Phoronix

Building off this week's release of Wine 9.0 for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms is now Hangover 9.0. Hangover as a reminder is the project based on Wine initially focused on running x86 32-bit Windows apps on AArch64 Linux. Hangover works by running Wine atop various emulators such as QEMU, FEX, or Box64 for handling the processor/ISA translation...

Hangover Aiming For RISC-V Support This Year, x86_64 Emulation  Phoronix

Wine 9.0 Significantly Improves Windows Apps and Games on Linux  How-To Geek

System76 Thelio Major Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance Review  Phoronix

For those in the market for a high-end Linux workstation for carrying out a lot of code compilation, AI workloads, or other creator or HPC tasks, the new System76 Thelio Major goes on sale today and it's a real winner. I've been trying out the new System76 Thelio Major powered by the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7900 series processors and it delivers excellent Linux performance and all comes nicely working out-of-the-box with their Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

ReiserFS file-system creator Hans Reiser who is currently remains imprisoned in California for murdering his wife in 2006 has commented on the Linux kernel mailing list by way of a letter exchange from prison...

Hans Reiser Apologies For Social Mistakes, Comments On ReiserFS Deprecation From Prison  Phoronix

Driver hack lets you run Linux after Windows BSODs, no reboot required — bug check fallback allows running ...  Tom's Hardware

WINE 9.0 improves ability to run 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit-only xNix  The Register

Being developed the past several years by the SYRMIA embedded software firm is Autocheck, an LLVM/Clang-based project to check C and C++ code to evaluate if it's suitable for running inside automobiles and other safety critical environments. Autocheck is now free and open-source for those wanting to help evaluate the safety of your C/C++ code...

The third alpha release of Python 3.13 is now available for testing as the developers continue work on removing the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) and enhancing the overall performance of this scripting language...

NVIDIA 535.154.05 Linux Graphics Driver Improves Support for Multi-GPU Systems  9to5Linux

With Linus Torvalds back to work, merged to mainline on Wednesday were the RISC-V architecture updates for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel cycle...

RISC-V With Linux 6.8 Restores XIP Kernel Support  Phoronix

Valve is Not Happy With Ubuntu's Snap Version of Steam: Here's Why  It's FOSS News

NVIDIA 535.154.05 for Linux brings a few bug fixes  GamingOnLinux