Intel engineers today released OpenVINO 2024.4 as the newest version of their open-source AI toolkit

The core perf subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates have been submitted and already merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel.

There has been a lot of talk the past few days over the AMD AGESA PI 1.2.0.2 update that has begun rolling out to AMD AM5 motherboards with BIOS updates.

Oliver Smith as the Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical is out with a new status update on Ubuntu 24.10 development and related ambitions

After several weeks of testing Valve has released Proton 9.0-3 as the newest version of this Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for being able to enjoy Windows games on Linux.

Well this is a hell of a surprise..

The Haiku open-source operating project known for letting the BeOS spirit live on is out with their newest monthly progress report.

The OpenZFS project has merged DirectIO (O_DIRECT) support for the ZFS file-system to bypass the ARC for reads and writes.

After seven months under review, Google's Gfxstream code has been upstreamed into Mesa 24.3 as a Vulkan virtualization solution.

Most Linux distributions have been defaulting to MariaDB as the default MySQL server for years

The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel

When it comes to the question of the fastest x86_64 Linux distribution the answer is very easy with Intel's Clear Linux.

For months there has been talk and speculations around Raspberry Pi working to release a Compute Module 5 (CM5) in putting the power of last year's Raspberry Pi 5 into the small form factor for various embedded/industrial applications

The beta release of Ubuntu 24.10 'Oracular Oriole' was released in time for some weekend testing.