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VP2430 Vault Pro Featuring Intel N150 and 4x 2.5GbE in a Fanless Design lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linux 6.16 To Introduce Block Write Streams For NVMe Flexible Data Placement "FDP"

Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe has queued up a set of patches being worked on the past number of months around block write streams for making use of NVMe SSDs supporting the NVMe Flexible Data Placement (FDP) specification...
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Intel Introducing QAT "GEN6" Driver To The Linux Kernel

Intel has readied a new "qat_6xxx" driver for the Linux kernel for supporting QAT GEN6 devices with QuickAssist Technology. QAT GEN6 will presumably be found with upcoming Xeon 6 Clearwater Forest and Diamond Rapids processors while the Linux kernel driver should be introduced for Linux 6.16...
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Intel P-State Energy Aware Scheduling May Be Ready For Lunar Lake

Going back to last year there have been patches for adapting the Intel P-State Linux driver with support for Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) as what began as an Arm big.LITTLE feature but since being explored for use by the Intel P-State driver for hybrid CPUs without SMT which for the moment means Lunar Lake SoCs. A new version of the patches were posted on Tuesday and l…
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Stable Clonezilla Live Update Brings Kernel 6.14 and Btrfs v6.13 Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



Intel's Clear Linux Demonstrates Software Optimization Benefits On AMD EPYC 9005 Series lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Ubuntu 25.10 Plans To Use sudo-rs By Default For Memory-Safe, Rust-Based sudo lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Ampere Computing Soft Announces AmpereOne M With 12 Channel DDR5 Memory lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


KDE Plasma 6.3.5 Improves Support for Multi-Screen Setups, NVIDIA GPU Users lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


KDE Plasma 6.3.5 Desktop Environment Released lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Valve Releases Updated Proton 10.0 Beta For Testing

Last week Valve introduced Proton 10.0 beta as the newest version of their Wine-derived software for Steam Play that enables countless Windows games to run well for Linux gamers on the desktop and with the extremely popular Steam Deck. Out today is another Proton 10.0 beta update with some additional bug and regression fixes over what was shipped last week...
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BleachBit 5.0 System Cleaning Utility Released with Major Upgrades lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


RISC-V LLVM Scheduler Tuning For SpacemiT-X60 On Clang Yields 4~18% Speedups

The SpacemiT-X60 RISC-V SoC can enjoy some very healthy performance improvements with scheduler definitions now merged for the LLVM/Clang 21 compiler...
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Microsoft Welcomes Fedora Linux As An Official WSL Distro lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


LVFS/Fwupd Talked Up For Linux Servers & Being What Customers Want lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Microsoft Welcomes Fedora Linux As An Official WSL Distro

Microsoft announced today that Fedora Linux is now treated as an official distribution within their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) confines...
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Ampere Computing Soft Announces AmpereOne M With 12 Channel DDR5 Memory

Ampere Computing last year talked up AmpereOne M for 12-channel DDR5 memory and up to 192 cores up from the 8-channel DDR5 memory found with the initial AmpereOne processors. They said at the time AmpereOne M would be shipping in Q4-2024. Now half way into 2025, it looks like they quietly announced the AmpereOne M processors...
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How Tmux Saved My Work and Why You Should Use It for Unstable SSH Connections in Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Kurchu Tool Taking Shape For Assembling Fedora / CentOS Linux Distro ISOs

As an alternative to the likes of the Pungi tool, Kurchu is a newer project within the CentOS/Fedora space for assembling content collections or ISO images of Linux distribution builds. Kurchu is already seeing use by the CentOS Hyperscale SIG for assembling their images while additional functionality continues to be worked on for those wanting to craft their own Fedora/CentOS…
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Intel's Clear Linux Demonstrates Software Optimization Benefits On AMD EPYC 9005 Series

With the spring Linux distribution/OS updates upon us, in recent weeks I've looked at the Ubuntu 25.04 performance gains on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" and also the performance of Fedora Server 42. Following that I expanded the scope of the Linux operating systems (distributions) benchmarks on the latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC server hardware. Here is a look at how…
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PeerTube Mobile App v1 Is Out lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Ubuntu 25.10 Plans To Use sudo-rs By Default For Memory-Safe, Rust-Based sudo

With Ubuntu 25.10 Canonical is planning to make use of more Rust-written system components and so far most of that talk has been about transitioning to Rust Coreutils "uutils" in place of GNU Coreutils. It's also been firmed up today that Canonical is planning on using sudo-rs by default as a replacement to sudo...
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PoCL 7.0 RC1 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On CPUs & Level Zero

PoCL 7.0 is on approach as the newest version of this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that began as a CPU-based OpenCL driver implementation but with time has added support for other back-ends from Intel Level Zero to NVIDIA PTX and AMD HSA...
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Btrfs "CLEAR_FREE" Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.16

The Btrfs file-system looks like its new "CLEAR_FREE" feature will be ready to go for the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle...
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Intel RAR TLB Invalidation Being Worked On For Linux - Alternative To AMD INVLPGB

Merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel was AMD INVLPGB support for broadcast TLB invalidation on recent Zen cores. AMD INVLPGB use by the Linux kernel can provide for some nice performance gains while now similar support for Intel processors is coming via a kernel patch series working on Intel RAR TLB invalidation support...
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IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 Announced For Linux Servers Powered By Telum II

Last month IBM announced the z17 mainframe powered by Telum II processors and today they announced the IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 servers...
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Arduino Uno Gets Upgraded with Integrated Ethernet and USB Type-C lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


FEX 2505 Released With Many Fixes For Running x86_64 Binaries On Linux AArch64 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Fastfetch 2.42 System Information Tool Fixes Virtual Disk Bugs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Europe’s Search for a More Localized and Relevant Search Experience lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


21-Way Intel Core / AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop Comparison On Ubuntu 25.04 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Redox OS Seeing More Software Porting, Many Internal Improvements lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


(Updated)Modular Cerebro Clusterboard Supports Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5, Jetson, and Radxa CM5 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


How to Change your Linux Bootloader Theme lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


FEX 2505 Released With Many Fixes For Running x86_64 Binaries On Linux AArch64

FEX 2505 is out today as the newest version of this user-space software that enables running x86_64 binaries on ARM64/AArch64 Linux hosts with great speed that a number of games and applications are enjoying much success with this emulator...
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How To Remove Unused Flatpak Apps To Free Up Disk Space In Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Redox OS Seeing More Software Porting, Many Internal Improvements

The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their April 2025 status report to outline interesting changes made over the past several weeks to this innovative project...
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