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Salesforce Standardizes Global Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure on Red ...  Business Wire

SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains For The ...  Phoronix

Released late on Friday was the much anticipated SteamOS 3.5 preview for the Steam Deck with ongoing work around HDR and enhancing color management, VRR for external USB-C displays, various platform issues resolved, auto-mounting external storage, and more. With SteamOS 3.5 it also means some lower-level OS upgrades too like moving to the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel. For those wondering about the performance impact of going from SteamOS 3.4 stable to the SteamOS 3.5 preview release, here are some early benchmarks on the Steam Deck.

Want an elegant, user-friendly Windows alternative? Try Manjaro 23.0 with KDE Plasma  ZDNet

Want an elegant, user-friendly Windows alternative? Try Manjaro 23.0 with KDE Plasma  ZDNet

New SprySOCKS Linux malware used in cyber espionage attacks  BleepingComputer

Gamescope added support for ReShade shaders on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

AMD Launches The EPYC 8004 "Siena" 4th Gen EPYC Processors ...  Phoronix

Last November AMD introduced the first of the 4th Gen EPYC series with the EPYC 9004 "Genoa" processors and that was then complemented earlier this year by the July launch of the Genoa-X processors for sporting AMD 3D V-Cache to help technical computing workloads and as well launching Bergamo for the Zen 4C based processor designs that allow up to 128 cores / 256 threads per socket. While AMD has a very robust portfolio for the high-end server space with 4th Gen EPYC, today AMD is introducing the EPYC 8004 "Siena" processors for "intelligent edge" servers. Siena is a step below Genoa but still very capable offering and coming in at a lower price point while being geared more for maximizing power efficiency and opening up EPYC to more deployments outside of the data center.

Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra adds Vulkan support  GamingOnLinux

What Is ChromeOS Flex and Why Should I Use It?  Tech Advisor

Stemming from Intel engineers finding significant overhead in some Linux scheduler functions when running PostgreSQL within a Docker instance, a new scheduler patch is on the way for Linux 6.7 that will help out at least Ice Lake and Sapphire Rapids with some migration-heavy workloads. With the change being in the common scheduler code, it's also likely to help out other hardware platforms too...

New Scheduler Optimization Can Help Out PostgreSQL & More On ...  Phoronix

Since 2021 the Itanium IA-64 code was orphaned in the Linux kernel and over the course of this year there's been talk of retiring the Itanium code from the kernel, a.k.a. strip it out. It looks like 2023 will end with the Itanium IA-64 code indeed being removed from the Linux kernel...

Linux 6.7 Set To Drop Support For Itanium IA-64  Phoronix

Is Counter-Strike 2 on macOS or Linux?  CharlieINTEL.com

Given the recent discussions stemming from Fedora 40 planning to ship KDE Plasma 6 and drop the KDE Plasma X11 session to focus solely on Wayland for the next-gen KDE desktop, prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has written a lengthy blog post to outline the current state and his thoughts on KDE Wayland support...

Intel's OpenVINO 2023.1 was just published to GitHub as the newest version of this open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI workloads across their CPUs, GPUs, and now also having official support for the new VPU being found with Meteor Lake SoCs...

OpenVINO 2023.1 Released - More GenAI, Expanded LLM Support ...  Phoronix

Fedora 39 Features: It's Time To Talk About Them!  It's FOSS News