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With Linux 7.3-rc1 out this week and marking the end of the merge window, it's onto a lot of Linux 7.3 performance testing at Phoronix and looking at all the new features of Linux 7.3. In today's article is a first look at the AMD EPYC Turin server performance on Linux 7.3-rc1 compared to Linux 7.2 stable with a few nice performance improvements to show.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, besides being well known for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known among longtime Linux users as a RHEL/CentOS shop. CERN formally even co-maintained the Scientific Linux RHEL derivative with other educational/research institutions in the past. So to much surprise now, CERN is transitioning to Debian Linux...
CERN is moving its industrial computers and embedded systems to Debian 13, with over 2,200 devices targeted by year’s end.
Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware...
The release candidates are out today for the GNOME Shell and Mutter in preparing for the formal "GNOME 51.rc" release in the coming days...
Valve’s latest Steam Client update introduces HDR Remote Play streaming on Steam Deck OLED, alongside account switching and numerous fixes.
While Linux 7.3-rc1 only released this week and there are another roughly seven weeks to go until the official kernel release, Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is already warning that it's likely to be another "rough" kernel cycle given the ongoing noise caused by AI/LLM with the increase in bug reports and kernel patches...
Landing today in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase is initial support for the AI Compute Extensions (ACEv1) as the initial work out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group between Intel and AMD for a common matrix acceleration architecture for helping AI/ML workloads with future CPUs...
Mozilla Thunderbird 155 improves Exchange account setup, expands custom OAuth support for IMAP and SMTP, and delivers a broad set of fixes.
The newest FreeDesktop SDK is now available for this collection of components used for Flatpak runtimes as well as for building out of containers and other software stacks...
For those looking for the smoothest experience to get vLLM up and running on Intel Arc (Pro) graphics hardware, out today is the newest beta of Intel's LLM-Scaler-vLLM project for a Docker-based setup of vLLM ready to go on Intel GPUs...
Mozilla Thunderbird 155 open-source email client is now available for download with new features, improvements, and numerous bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
Valve released a new stable Steam Client update with support for HDR streaming on Steam Deck OLED via Remote Play, and improvements across Steam Input, Friends & Chat, and Big Picture Mode.
The release, codenamed "Reunion," also ships GNOME 50 and Linux kernel 7.1.3.
August saw a number of slew of notable Linux app updates, and in this post I roundup a few that might have passed you by. But unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock you’ll have already heard about Firefox 153, the big OpenShot 4.0 release with colour grading and the latest update to the ebook manager Calibre letting you generate new book covers using online generative AI. August also saw open-source Mastodon client Tuba pick up a stack of new features, LibreOffice 26.8 debuted a new paragraph composer engine (makes sense, promise). We also saw NVIDIA GeForce NOW app leave […]
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