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If you are looking for a 5U rack-mountable chassis for a high-end server or workstation, the SilverStone RM51 launched a few months ago as their latest offering in the high-end server enclosure space.

As the first new tagged version of AMD's AOMP LLVM-based OpenMP-focused compiler for offloading to their Instinct / Radeon GPUs, AOMP 18.0-1 was released today with many changes...

Waiting for pulling into the mainline kernel once Linus Torvalds is back online following Portland's winter storms is the sound subsystem updates for Linux 6.8, which include a lot of new sound hardware support...

Linux 6.8 Brings More Sound Hardware Support For Intel & AMD, Including The Steam Deck  Phoronix

Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution CBL-Mariner that is used for a variety of purposes from Azure to WSL has seen its first release of 2024. While the distribution has at times released up to a few new versions per month, there hadn't been a new release since late November given the holidays...

SQLite 3.45 was released today with the SQLITE_DIRECT_OVERFLOW_READ optimization being enabled by default that can help for apps relying on SQLite and doing a lot of reads of large BLOBs or strings deliver better read performance. There are also query planner improvements while most interesting with SQLite 3.45 is all JSON functions being rewritten to use the new JSONB format...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Ship With Some Extra GNOME Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

In addition to the GNOME triple buffering patches that still haven't been merged to Mutter's mainline branch, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and upstream Debian are slated to currently carry a few extra performance optimizations...

Critical Linux Security Updates for Debian 12 and Debian 11  Security Boulevard

THE FINALS now appears to work on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

While not as notable as the Bcachefs additions, more work on XFS online repair, and other file-system updates for Linux 6.8, the Btrfs file-system driver changes for Linux 6.8 were merged last week...

Btrfs In Linux 6.8 Transitions Metadata Processing To Using Folios  Phoronix

openSUSE Leap 16 Confirmed, Will Be Based on SUSE’s New Adaptable Linux Platform  9to5Linux

Libvirt as the virtualization API/toolkit developed by Red Hat for managing virtualization on Linux is out today with its v10.0 release...

libvirt 10.0 Released With QEMU VM Migration Improvements  Phoronix

openSUSE Leap 16 is expected to be released next year based on the Adaptable Linux Platform  Notebookcheck.net

GodotOS is a fun showcase of Godot Engine with a fake operating system interface  GamingOnLinux

GNOME 45.3 Released to Allow Sharing of WPA3 (SAE) Networks with QR Code  9to5Linux

openSUSE Leap 16: Redefining the Linux OS Landscape  BNN Breaking

It shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but openSUSE today reaffirmed that openSUSE Leap 16 will succeed the current Leap 15 series. OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be based on SUSE's Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) codebase...