Early Linux 6.19 Benchmarks On AMD EPYC 9965 2P Excelling For AI & HPC Performance

As the Linux 6.19 merge window winded down this weekend, I began running this development kernel on more systems. While there are some scheduler regressions currently with Linux 6.19 Git, for HPC workloads especially I am seeing some encouraging results using a flagship AMD EPYC 9965 2P server configuration.
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CentOS Kmods SIG Providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules For RHEL/CentOS Users

The CentOS kernel modules "Kmods" special interest group (SIG) is now providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules for users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its downstreams as well as for CentOS Stream...
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Jetson Thor industrial PC pairs 25GbE networking with optional GMSL2 camera support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

HealthyPi 6 provides open-source biosignal acquisition for research and education lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility

Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to "full GNU compatibility" with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite...
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TrixiePup64 11.2 Released For Debian-Based Puppy Linux With Wayland & X11 Options lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

RISC-V-based ESP32-P4 handheld integrates AMOLED display and LoRa lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.2 Improves Write Speeds And UI Stability lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

OpenTofu 1.11 Introduces Ephemerality for Safer Temporary Credentials lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 Now Available For This Free Software Office Suite

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing in working toward the stable release in February for this cross-platform, open-source office suite solution...
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TrixiePup64 11.2 Released For Debian-Based Puppy Linux With Wayland & X11 Options

For those with fond memories of the original Puppy Linux as a lightweight Linux distribution that used to run well back in the day on systems with less than 1GB of RAM, TrixiePup64 is out with a new release of this Puppy Linux based distribution with Debian GNU/Linux components. The new TrixiePup64 11.2 release is based on the latest Debian Trixie sources while conti…
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AMD ROCm's TheRock 7.10 Released

TheRock is an interesting open-source build platform for ROCm and HIP that has taken shape over the past year. It's become an official ROCm effort albeit still in early stages and relying on community contributions for enhancements for different consumer GPU targets and more. To date its users have largely relied on running the latest TheRock Git while today TheRock v7.10 was tagged...
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Krita 5.2.14 Rolls Out Enhanced Touch Controls and New Color Picker lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Muzi Unveils Launches Modular BASE Board System for Meshtastic Mesh Networking lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

pearOS Is Back, Now Based on Arch Linux and Featuring the KDE Plasma Desktop lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Exciting Laptop & Gaming Handheld Device Improvements Merged For Linux 6.19

Merged during this second week of the Linux 6.19 feature merge window were the many x86 platform driver changes. As usual, much of the x86 platform driver activity surrounds bettering Linux hardware laptop support but also a growing number of handheld computers / gaming devices...
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Windows WSL 2.7.0 Released With Newer Linux 6.6 LTS Point Release, Many Fixes

Microsoft today released WSL 2.7.0, the newest version of their Windows Subsystem for Linux code that enables running Linux binaries atop Windows 11 hosts...
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AMD ROCm 7.10 Released - Strix Point APUs Now Officially Supported

Sure enough, yesterday's inaugural TheRock 7.10 release tag ended up being a precursor to ROCm 7.10 as predicted in the earlier article. Overnight ROCm 7.10 was released as a new developer preview and with it comes expanded hardware support -- including for Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point APUs finally being officially mentioned...
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Linux Patches Fix eMMC Secure Erase Of 1GB Taking ~10 Minutes To Now Just 2 Seconds

A new patch series from an NXP engineer optimizes the secure erase performance for certain Kingston eMMC devices. Currently with the Linux kernel performing a secure erase on 1GB of data can take around ten minutes. With these new patches that 1GB secure erase can be done in around two seconds...
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