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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat official wallpapers revealed ahead of launch next month  XDA Developers

New AcidPour wiper targets Linux x86 devices. Is it a Russia’s weapon?  Security Affairs

Ampere Altra Max Performance For Ubuntu Linux 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04  Phoronix

Ampere Altra Max Performance For Ubuntu Linux 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04  Phoronix

Following recent benchmarks looking at how the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release is looking on Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids as well as the performance gains for AMD EPYC 9004 series on Ubuntu 24.04, I next turned to the Ampere Altra ARM64 server processor for seeing what the performance is looking like there with this Long Term Support Linux distribution release due out in just over one month.

Oracle has announced the general availability of OpenJDK Java 22...

New AcidPour data wiper targets Linux x86 network devices  BleepingComputer

New AcidPour data wiper targets Linux x86 network devices  BleepingComputer

Announced last summer was the Ultra Ethernet Consortium started by the Linux Foundation along with AMD, Intel, Cisco, Meta, Microsoft, Broadcom, and other organizations. Ultra Ethernet aims for high performance networking for the likes of AI and HPC. The group announced today they've courted an additional 45 organizations to become members of this consortium and they are on track for their v1.0 specification in Q3...

More Organizations Join The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, v1.0 Spec In Q3  Phoronix

Following last week's main set of power management updates for Linux 6.9 that saw AMD P-State Preferred Core support and tuning for Intel Meteor Lake, a secondary set of power management subsystem changes were sent out today for this new kernel...

ARM SCMI CPUFreq Driver Enabling Boost Support By Default With Linux 6.9  Phoronix

NVIDIA driver 550.67 released fixes for VKD3D (Proton), Wayland and more  GamingOnLinux

Playtron announces self-titled Linux OS and gaming handheld with hopes to unify storefronts  Tom's Hardware

NVIDIA 550.67 Linux Graphics Driver Brings Wayland Fixes, Better Support for VKD3D Games  9to5Linux

Mozilla Firefox 124 Released with Misc Improvements, Linux Fixes  OMG! Ubuntu!

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Products for Linux  It's FOSS

The x86 cache updates for Linux 6.9 offer an improved memory bandwidth throttling heuristic such as used by Intel Resource Director Technology (RDT) and also AMD EPYC CPUs with the resctrl code...

Improved Memory Bandwidth Throttling Behavior For Linux 6.9  Phoronix

WayDroid is the Easiest Way to Run Android Apps on Linux  How-To Geek