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Tails 6.0 Linux distribution: The ultimate privacy shield to thwart 'Big Brother'  BetaNews

Crafting Cutting-Edge AI Assistants with Ubuntu  Linux Journal

Blog Theme - Details  Oracle

64K Kernel Page Size Performance Benefits For HPC Shown With NVIDIA's GH200 Grace CPU  Phoronix

64K Kernel Page Size Performance Benefits For HPC Shown With NVIDIA's GH200 Grace CPU  Phoronix

By default the AArch64 kernel on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions tend to default to a standard 4K page size but for newer AArch64 hardware especially in the server/HPC space, there can be great benefits to using a 64K page size. As it's been a while since I last ran any 64-bit ARM 4K vs. 64K kernel page size benchmarks, while having remote access to the NVIDIA GH200 I ran a fresh comparison for looking at the performance advantages to switching over to a 64K page size kernel. These new 64K kernel numbers are shown alongside the recent AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon CPU reference benchmark results for a look at how the 4K vs. 64K page size affects the overall computing landscape.

Ahead of this week's big KDE Plasma 6.0 release, the KWinFT project forked from the KDE KWin compositor code is re-branding as Theseus' Ship...

Tails 6.0 Officially Released, Based on Debian 12 “Bookworm” and GNOME 43  9to5Linux

Longtime Phoronix readers may recall the Libre-SoC project that for the past 5+ years has been wanting to build a libre/open-source SoC for graphics acceleration and other uses...

The Mold high performance linker has long been known for offering excellent performance over GNU Gold/ld and LLVM lld while some fresh benchmark numbers reinforce the competitive advantage that persists today for this open-source project...

Abyss Locker Ransomware Attacks Microsoft Windows and Linux Users  GBHackers

Revolutionizing the Linux Gaming Landscape: Bazzite v2.3.0 Unleashed for Enhanced Cross-Device Play  BNN Breaking

PC and handheld gaming with Linux levels up with Bazzite v2.3.0  GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu 24.04: Same as it ever was, but with 5 big improvements  ZDNet

Ubuntu 24.04: Same as it ever was, but with 5 big improvements  ZDNet

With the Mesa 24.1-devel Git code as of this morning, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver is now exposing the VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 for Vulkan Video accelerated decoding of AV1 video content...

The Linux kernel has supported the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" via the "intel_hfi" driver since 2022 for bettering supporting Core hybrid processors. The Intel HFI can be used for communicating performance and energy efficiency capabilities of individual CPU cores of the system. In turn the Linux kernel can leverage Intel HFI details for better task placement among the available CPU cores/threads. With a new patch series, the Intel HFI driver can "save tons of CPU cycles" by only enabling it when needed...

Intel HFI Driver Can "Save Tons Of CPU Cycles" By Only Enabling Itself When Needed  Phoronix

It looks like AMD will soon be announcing the ROCm 6.1 update to its open-source GPU compute stack...

The first release candidate of FreeBSD 13.3 is now available for testing. While FreeBSD 14 stable has been out now for months, FreeBSD 13.3 is the latest in the prior series for those continuing to rely on FreeBSD 13 in production...