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Microsoft Welcomes Fedora Linux As An Official WSL Distro

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 00:12
Microsoft announced today that Fedora Linux is now treated as an official distribution within their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) confines...

Ampere Computing Soft Announces AmpereOne M With 12 Channel DDR5 Memory

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 23:34
Ampere Computing last year talked up AmpereOne M for 12-channel DDR5 memory and up to 192 cores up from the 8-channel DDR5 memory found with the initial AmpereOne processors. They said at the time AmpereOne M would be shipping in Q4-2024. Now half way into 2025, it looks like they quietly announced the AmpereOne M processors...

Kurchu Tool Taking Shape For Assembling Fedora / CentOS Linux Distro ISOs

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 23:05
As an alternative to the likes of the Pungi tool, Kurchu is a newer project within the CentOS/Fedora space for assembling content collections or ISO images of Linux distribution builds. Kurchu is already seeing use by the CentOS Hyperscale SIG for assembling their images while additional functionality continues to be worked on for those wanting to craft their own Fedora/CentOS install images...

Intel's Clear Linux Demonstrates Software Optimization Benefits On AMD EPYC 9005 Series

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 21:45
With the spring Linux distribution/OS updates upon us, in recent weeks I've looked at the Ubuntu 25.04 performance gains on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" and also the performance of Fedora Server 42. Following that I expanded the scope of the Linux operating systems (distributions) benchmarks on the latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC server hardware. Here is a look at how the performance of the new Ubuntu and Fedora Linux releases compare to AlmaLinux and Intel's in-house Clear Linux distribution that tends to be at the forefront of open-source performance optimizations.

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