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The extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code has proven quite versatile for opening up better Linux gaming performance, more quickly prototyping new scheduler changes, Ubuntu/Canonical has been evaluating it for pursuing a more micro-kernel like design, and many other interesting approaches with it. Yet it's remained out of tree but that is now changing with the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle...

Systemd 256 is out today as the latest major feature update to this integral component to modern Linux distributions...

It's Not Unusual To Port the Linux Vector Packet Processor (VPP) to FreeBSD  The New Stack

SUSE Working To Upstream RP1 Southbridge Linux Driver For The Raspberry Pi 5  Phoronix

The Raspberry Pi 5 features the "RP1" as the in-house silicon design for the southbridge to this single board computer. The RP1 driver maintained by Raspberry Pi is just found in their downstream kernel while a SUSE engineer is working to rework that driver so that it can be eventually mainlined in the upstream Linux kernel...

Apple quietly improves Mac virtualization in macOS 15 Sequoia  Ars Technica

Canonical Releases Ubuntu Core 24 With 12 Years of Support  WebProNews

Single-line Meteor Lake Linux patch boosts performance by 72%  Tom's Hardware

Merged last month to the GNU C Library (glibc) Git code was a new tunable for non-temporal stores for memset. This optimization for glibc's memset performance was limited to Intel processors given at the time it was only tested/benchmarked on Intel CPUs but now it's proven to be useful too for AMD processors...

More ARM Linux Laptops Are on the Way  How-To Geek

Linux Foundation launches Margo to deliver long-awaited edge interoperability – Intelligent CIO Middle East  Intelligent CIO

AlmaLinux OS Now Officially Supports the Raspberry Pi 5 Computer  9to5Linux

Coincidentally coming out on the day of Raspberry Pi's IPO is AlmaLinux providing official support for the Raspberry Pi 5...

AlmaLinux Now Available For The Raspberry Pi 5  Phoronix

Snapdragon could take away Intel and AMD market shares for both Windows and Linux  Neowin

Kubuntu Focus lr14 and lr16 Gen 2 are thin and light Linux laptops with Intel Raptor Lake  Liliputing

While last year we saw Fedora to no longer omit the frame pointer to help in debugging/profiling Fedora packages and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS also enabled frame pointers for better debugging/profiling, among other distributions, there is the known performance implications of no longer omitting the frame pointer. But now in aiming to make the best of both worlds, it turns out Red Hat has been developing eu-stracktrace as a new means of profiling without relying on frame pointers...

Plainsight Brings Vision AI to SUSE Linux to Extract Enterprise Data from Video Feeds  Business Wire

Plainsight Brings Vision AI to SUSE Linux to Extract Enterprise Data from Video Feeds  Yahoo Finance

Linux-based Snapdragon X Elite laptop coming from Tuxedo later this year  Notebookcheck.net