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Oracle Talks Up Its Adaptived Daemon For Linux Systems

([Oracle] 14 May 08:44 AM EDT Adaptived)

Adaptived is a cause-and-effect daemon developed by Oracle that ties into their work on adaptive memory management (adaptivemm) for proactive memory handling and the OOMD out-of-memory daemon.



Sovereign Tech Agency Investing In GCC's Fortran Frontend "GFortran"

([GNU] 14 May 08:30 AM EDT STA + GFortran)

Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (formerly Sovereign Tech Fund) announced they have begun investing in GFortran for advancing this leading open-source Fortran code compiler.



New Features Approved For Fedora 43

([Fedora] 14 May 05:00 AM EDT Fedora 43 Features)

With Fedora 42 having released last month, feature work on Fedora 43 continues heating up in working toward this next major Fedora Linux release due out around October.



Rustls Server-Side Performance Looking Very Good Compared To OpenSSL

([Programming] 14 May 04:00 AM EDT Rustls Lower Server Latency Than OpenSSL)

Rustls as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language has long been showing promising performance and competitive to OpenSSL and other alternatives. In a fresh exploration of Rustls server-side performance, it's easily beating OpenSSL.



AMD Begins Process Of Preparing The Linux Kernel For Zen 6 CPUs

([AMD] 14 May 12:08 AM EDT AMD Zen 6)

The first AMD Zen 6 patch for the Linux kernel has been queued up for submission soon to the mainline kernel.



Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Reaches GA

([Red Hat] 14 May 12:00 AM EDT RHEL 10 GA)

Various Red Hat documentation pages began seeing updates yesterday along with RHEL 10.0 ISOs appearing in the customer download portal to reflect RHEL10 reaching general availability (GA) status.



Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE Released After Three Year Hiatus

([Oracle] 14 May 12:00 AM EDT Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE)

Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE is now available as the newest release of this Oracle Solaris "Common Build Environment" version that is essentially a community-supported. non-production version of Solaris intended for free / open-source software developers. Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE comes after not seeing any CBE updates the past three years and now rather unexpectedly seeing this new version drop even with Solaris very rarely making any news these days.



Branch Privilege Injection Vulnerability Disclosed For Intel CPUs

([Linux Security] 13 May 01:55 PM EDT Branch Privilege Injection)

It was just yesterday that Training Solo was made public as a new speculative execution CPU vulnerability affecting some Intel and Arm CPUs... Today another one is now public for Intel processors: Branch Privilege Injection.



AMD EPYC 4565P & EPYC 4585PX Benchmarks Against Xeon 6369P: EPYC 4005 Champions Entry-Level Server Performance

([Processors] 13 May 09:00 AM EDT 23 Comments)

With today's announcement of the AMD EPYC 4005P "Grado" entry-level server processors, up for review today are the EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-end Zen 5 processors for budget server builds and basic bare metal server hosting. With the prior-generation EPYC 4004 series AMD was already leading over Intel's entry-level Xeon E processors that have become rather embarrassing for the company with its stagnate line-up of low-cost server processors. Now with the AMD EPYC 4005 series, AMD is in an even stronger position and providing a total knock-out to the new Xeon 6300P competition headlined by the Xeon 6369P flagship model.



AMD EPYC 4005 Series Launches For Entry-Level Zen 5 Servers

([Processors] 13 May 09:00 AM EDT 5 Comments)

Last year AMD launched the EPYC 4004 series for taking Ryzen based processor designs into the EPYC segment for entry-level servers with ECC memory support, server designs with BMCs, and various enterprise software certifications and industry qualifications. Today they are launching the EPYC 4005 series as their new Zen 5 based offerings for entry-level / budget server deployments and other instances when not needing as much compute power or connectivity and other high-end features found with the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors.



Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04

([Ubuntu] 13 May 05:47 AM EDT Ubuntu 25.04 + Snapdragon X Elite)

Canonical provided a status update concerning the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite powered laptops on the recently released Ubuntu 25.04.



Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub

([Mozilla] 13 May 05:00 AM EDT Firefox On GitHub)

The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers.



Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4

([Radeon] 13 May 04:00 AM EDT Faster Ray-Tracing On RADV With RDNA4)

Merged for the Mesa 25.2 release next quarter are some further enhancements to the Vulkan ray-tracing support with the RADV open-source driver for AMD's new RDNA4 graphics cards.



NAK Compiler For Mesa's NVK Driver Adds Support For More NVIDIA Kepler GPUs

([Mesa] 13 May 03:00 AM EDT Kepler 2.0)

The Rust-written NAK shader compiler used by Mesa's NVK open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs has merged support for SM32 as the "KeplerB" / Kepler 2.0 graphics processors.



GNU Screen 5.0.1 Released Due To Several Security Vulnerabilities

([GNU] 13 May 12:26 AM EDT GNU Screen 5.0.1)

GNU Screen 5.0.1 has been released to address several security issues.



Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode Due To "Training Solo"

([Intel] 13 May 12:00 AM EDT Intel Microcode For Training Solo)

Following Monday's public disclosure of the "Training Solo" security disclosure for this set of issues affecting multiple generations of Intel processors, new Intel CPU microcode has been released for Linux users as part of the mitigation process.



Haiku OS Adds Support For More AMD Polaris GPUs & Other Changes In April

([Operating Systems] 13 May 12:00 AM EDT Haiku OS)

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their April 2025 progress report.



Training Solo: New Set Of Serious Security Vulnerabilities Exposed For Intel & Arm CPUs

([Linux Security] 12 May 01:00 PM EDT Training Solo)

The VUSec security researchers are at it again... The embargo is now lifted on another set of of security vulnerabilities affecting Intel processors as well as Arm core designs. This new vulnerability is dubbed Training Solo.



AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance

([Processors] 12 May 06:00 AM EDT 71 Comments)

We finally have AMD's Strix Halo in the lab for benchmarking! HP has kindly sent over their ZBook Ultra 14-inch G1a mobile workstation: it's a beast being powered by the top-end AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads and powerful integrated Radeon 8060S graphics, 128GB of system memory, a nice 14-inch 2.8K display, and other top-end features to provide a dominating laptop powerhouse. In today's article are the very initial benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Strix Halo SoC under Linux with a focus on the CPU capabilities: a separate article also out today is looking at the AMD Radeon 8060S graphics on Linux.



AMD Radeon 8060S Linux Graphics Performance With Strix Halo

([Graphics Cards] 12 May 06:00 AM EDT 32 Comments)

As shown in today's article the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance is incredible with its 16 Zen 5 cores delivering staggering laptop / mobile workstation performance with a 55 Watt default TDP. But that's only half the magic of Strix Halo, with the other aspect being the very capable integrated RDNA 3.5 graphics with unified memory support. Given this being an equally interesting topic for Linux users considering a Strix Halo laptop or desktop, this article is centered around the integrated Radeon 8060S graphics support and performance under Linux.



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