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Canonical Releases Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole
The latest release of Ubuntu delivers a cutting edge kernel and enhanced desktop security. 10 October 2024 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 24.10, codenamed “Oracular Oriole,” available to download and install from ubuntu.com/downloa...
2024-10-10 15:53
Key Challenges for Managing an OSPO in the Enterprise
Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) are becoming increasingly important as organizations across industries adopt open source software to drive innovation, collaboration, and cost-effectiveness. However, running an OSPO is not without its challenges. T...
2024-10-10 15:46
Valkey is now included in Ubuntu
This inclusion in Ubuntu 24.10 and 24.04 LTS marks a significant step forward – enabling simpler availability and continuous supportability for Valkey, the open source, in-memory data store, in the Ubuntu ecosystem.
2024-10-10 15:18
Gaming on Fedora Asahi Remix
Better support for gaming on Fedora Asahi Remix has been a long standing user request. Today at XDC 2024, we announced the preliminary availability of our game playing toolkit, integrating x86 emulation with MS Windows compatibility. This toolkit, with...
2024-10-10 14:30
AMD EPYC 9755 / 9575F / 9965 Benchmarks Show Dominating Performance
Last month Intel introduced their Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors with up to 128 P cores, MRDIMM support, and other improvements as a big step-up in performance and power efficiency for their server processors. The Xeon 6900P series showed they coul...
2024-10-10 14:00
AMD EPYC 9965 "Turin Dense" Delivers Better Performance/Power Efficiency vs. AmpereOne 192-Core ARM CPU
Complementing the AMD EPYC 9575F / 9755 / 9965 performance benchmarks article looking at those Turin processors up against prior AMD EPYC CPUs and the Intel Xeon competition, this article is looking squarely at the 192-core EPYC 9965 "Turin Dense" proc...
2024-10-10 14:00
AMD Launches EPYC 9005 "Turin" Server Processors
AMD is using their Advancing AI event today to announce 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors. With up to 192 cores / 384 threads per socket, 17% IPC uplift, AVX-512 with a full 512-bit data path, and the Zen 5 architectural improvements, these new EPYC 9005...
2024-10-10 14:00
AMD Announces Pensando Salina 400 DPU & Pollara 400 Ultra Ethernet NIC
In addition to announcing the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors and the latest on the AMD Instinct front, Lisa Su at the AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco also announced the AMD Pensando Salina 400 DPU and AMD Pensando Pollara 400 Ultra Ethernet AI NI...
2024-10-10 14:00
TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen6 Linux Laptop Unveiled as High-End Desktop Replacement
TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen6 Linux laptop is now available for pre-order as a high-end desktop replacement in a compact form featuring Intel Core i9-14900HX processor, up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics, and up to 8TB SSD and 64GB RAM. The post TUXEDO ...
2024-10-10 13:45
KDE Gear 24.08.2 Released with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps
KDE Gear 24.08.2 is now available as the second update to the latest KDE Gear 24.08 software suite with more improvements and bug fixes for your favorite KDE apps. The post KDE Gear 24.08.2 Released with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps app...
2024-10-10 12:53
Ubuntu 24.10 is Now Available to Download
Ubuntu 24.10 is now available for download after six months of dedicated development. The latest release offers plenty of changes and new features, including the latest GNOME 47 release, more preinstalled tools for developers, and better signalling of ...
2024-10-10 12:47
Let’s talk about open source, AI and cloud infrastructure at GITEX 2024
October 14 – 18, 2024. Dubai. Hall 26, Booth C40 The largest tech event of the world – GITEX 2024 – is taking place in Dubai next week. This event is a great opportunity for Canonical to connect with industry leaders from various industries, shar...
2024-10-10 12:16
Linux Kernel 6.10 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.11
Linux kernel 6.10 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 6.11 kernel series as soon as possible. The post Linux Kernel 6.10 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.11 app...
2024-10-10 12:03
Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.11, GNOME 47, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New appeared f...
2024-10-10 11:28
Intel Announces Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake CPUs
As part of a busy day in the CPU world, Intel has lifted the embargo on the Core Ultra 200S "Arrow Lake" desktop processors. This isn't the review embargo but just an overview on this new generation succeeding 14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh" on the desk...
2024-10-10 11:00
Apple Silicon On Linux Now More Capable For Gaming With Latest Mesa + Steam On FEX
Alyssa Rosenzweig provided an update today at the XDC 2024 conference in Montreal on the open-source "Honeykrisp" Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon M1/M2 SoCs within Mesa and related work as part of the Asahi Linux project to provide for a nice Linux gam...
2024-10-10 10:35
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Available With Linux 6.11, GCC 14 & Other Upgrades
The Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" ISOs are now officially available as the newest six-month update to Ubuntu Linux...
2024-10-10 09:20
AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver Posted For Linux
AMD today quietly posted a new open-source Linux kernel driver for review... the AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver. This AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver for Linux is intended to help optimize performance on systems sporting 3D V-C...
2024-10-10 06:38
Intel Begins Working On Next-Gen Xe3 Graphics With Linux 6.13
While Intel Xe2 graphics have just debuted with Lunar Lake and we are awaiting Battlemage discrete GPUs with Xe2, Intel's open-source Linux driver engineers have begun work enabling Xe3 graphics! Xe3 driver work is now underway for next-generation Inte...
2024-10-10 06:25
Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" Seeing Up To 16.7x Speedup With Newest Linux Patch
For those making use of Restartable Sequences (RSEQ) on Linux systems, there is an enticing performance optimization on the way...
2024-10-10 06:09