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In addition to recently working out AES-XTS implementations for AVX2, AVX-512, and other versions for speeding up disk/file encryption, Google's Eric Biggers has additionally been working on some nice performance improvements for the Linux kernel's DM-Verity code...

Vodafone launches InstantX edge project with Linux Foundation  Mobile Europe

LibreELEC 12 Linux distribution launches with Kodi Omega 21  BetaNews

For those that were hoping Steam on Linux numbers would crack the 2% marketshare for April, unfortunately, that didn't happen...

Valve Publishes Steam Survey Numbers For April 2024  Phoronix

Red Hat and Intel are collaborating on a joint solution that more seamlessly integrates Intel® IPU with Red Hat OpenShift, propelling cloud and edge computing into a new era of performance and scalability.The solution brings together Intel’s latest leading programmable network device, the Intel® Infrastructure Processing Unit (Intel® IPU) E2000 Series with Red Hat OpenShift. This solution, shown in the following diagram, is designed for performance at scale under real world workloads and opens up a wide array of use cases through the ability to flexibly service chain network functions at

How the Linux Foundation aims to simplify multicloud networking  SDxCentral

Linux: How the Kernel Interacts with Hardware  The New Stack

LibreELEC 12 Adds Raspberry Pi 5 Support, HDR Support for AMD and Intel GPUs  9to5Linux

Red Hat's latest enterprise Linux delivers new features to tackle hybrid-cloud complexity  ZDNet

Some that crave the absolute best possible performance sometimes build their software with the "-Ofast" optimization level that is a step above "-O3" but comes with the risk of potentially unsafe math. LLVM developers are now weighing whether to deprecate -Ofast to either remove it or have it just be an alias for the -O3 optimizations...

The newest SDL3 development release is out today with PipeWire preferred over PulseAudio and other changes...

Fedora 40: Everything New in the Linux Distro's Latest Release  How-To Geek

Kicking off a new month of open-source releases is the release of the GNU Nano 8.0 text editor...

Qualcomm Joins LF Networking at Platinum Level, Brings Expertise in Intelligent Communication and Computing to ...  StreetInsider.com

Serpent OS Close To Having A System Installer & Being Able To Test On Real Hardware  Phoronix

Serpent OS lead developer Ikey Doherty published a monthly status update for this original Linux distribution, which points to having a working OS installer soon so users can begin trying out this creation on real hardware...

GNU nano 8.0 Released with New Options and Various Improvements  9to5Linux

Yocto Project 5.0 “Scarthgap” released with Linux 6.6 and plenty of changes  CNX Software

Last November the PCI-SIG announced CopprLink as the PCI Express cable name for both internal and external cabling. Today the embargo has lifted on the CopprLink cable specifications for both PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0...