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📰 TUXEDO OS Debian-Based Open Beta Is Now Available for Testing The first public beta of the redesigned TUXEDO OS is now available, marking the distro’s move away from Ubuntu to Debian Testing. 🔗 Source: #debian #distro #ubuntu 👉@sysadminoff https://linuxiac.com/tuxedo-os-debian-based-open-beta-is-now-available-for-testing/

Linux 7.2 brings cache-aware scheduling, faster ext4 and Btrfs Linux kernel 7.2 has been released, adding cache-aware scheduling, ext4 filesystem performance boosts and a slew of new and improved hardware drivers for laptops and peripherals. A merge-widow record was also set during the 9-week development cycle, with more than 2,100 individual contributors involved. AI, obviously, has helped. Commit-crunching by LWN found roughly 5% of commits in 7.2 have an ‘assisted-by’ tag, indicating AI usage. Not that the latest kernel update was all additions. More than 13,000 lines of code for legacy i486 CPU emulation were removed from Linux 7.2, as was a 40-year-old Hercules graphics card driver, AppleTalk networking […] You're reading Linux 7.2 brings cache-aware scheduling, faster ext4 and Btrfs, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/linux-7-2-cache-aware-scheduling-ext4-btrfs

📰 Marek Olšák's 19 Latest Patches Further Optimizing RADV & ACO Legendary Mesa Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák who was a longtime AMD employee and then joined Valve's Linux graphics driver team earlier this year has continued his focus now on perfecting his art around the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler... 🔗 Source: #amd #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-ACO-19-More-Patches-Valve

📰 Arch-Based Omarchy 4.0 “Quattro” Is Here with Its Biggest Desktop Overhaul Yet Omarchy 4.0 “Quattro” arrives with a completely rewritten Quickshell-based desktop shell, faster installs, dual-boot support, and usability improvements. 🔗 Source: #arch 👉@sysadminoff https://linuxiac.com/arch-based-omarchy-4-0-quattro-is-here-with-its-biggest-desktop-overhaul-yet/

Началось голосование о допустимости использования AI при разработке Debian Объявлено о начале общего голосования (GR, general resolution) разработчиков по вопросу использования больших языковых моделей и AI-инструментов при разработке дистрибутива. Приём голосов будет осуществляться до 28 августа. Право голоса имеют около тысячи разработчиков, участвующих в сопровождении пакетов и поддержании инфраструктуры Debian. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66085

Microsoft’s 60-day warning puts Windows 11 24H2 and Server 2022 on the clock Microsoft has issued a formal 60-day end-of-support warning for Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro, Windows Server 2022, and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016. October 13, 2026, is the key deadline: Windows 11 and Windows 10 systems will stop receiving monthly security and quality updates, while Server 2022 will leave mainstream support. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/microsofts-60-day-warning-puts-windows-11-24h2-and-server-2022-on-the-clock/

📰 Late Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2 Bring More Device Quirks, Intel Nova Lake HDMI-In Capture Ahead of the presumed Linux 7.2 stable kernel release tomorrow, some last minute sound fixes/quirks have been merged for this next kernel version... 🔗 Source: #intel #kernel #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-Sound-Fixes-Linux-7.2

📰 Intel's Jay Graphics Shader Compiler Now Passing Vulkan CTS With Xe2/Xe3 Hardware Last year Alyssa Rosenzweig joined Intel to work on their Linux graphics drivers after previously serving as a contractor for Valve on their graphics stack and also previously leading the Mesa driver work for the Asahi Linux Apple Silicon graphics support. Since joining Intel, she has been leading the development of Jay as a new SSA-based shader compiler for Intel graphics hardware to be used by the Mesa Iris Gallium3D and ANV Vulkan drivers... 🔗 Source: #intel #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Jay-Compiler-Xe2-Xe3-CTS

📰 Debian Developers Begin Voting Over LLM Usage Within The Project Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the project. After collecting a variety of proposals, voting has now commenced for Debian developers to decide how comfortable they are with AI / Large Language Model contributions in the project or not... 🔗 Source: #debian 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-On-LLM-Usage

📰 Canonical Certifies the Advantech AOM-2721 AIoT Board for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Canonical announces the availability of its Ubuntu 24.04 LTS operating system on the Advantech AOM-2721 AIoT development board. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/canonical-certifies-the-advantech-aom-2721-aiot-board-for-ubuntu-24-04-lts #ubuntu 👉@sysadminoff

📰 Overshared to an AI? Proton's Tool Will Give You a Reality Check Powered by Lumo, the tool turns your exported AI chat history into a personalized report of your privacy exposure. 🔗 Source: #proton 👉@sysadminoff https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17418931/proton-ai-paper-trail

Microsoft Entra News #162: passkeys become first MFA as Tenant Governance goes GA Microsoft Entra is introducing several administrator-facing identity changes at once: users can register passkeys or passwordless sign-in as their first MFA method, while SMS first-factor sign-in is being retired for Entra ID Free tenants. The same update highlights Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance reaching general availability, giving organizations new guidance for managing their Entra tenant estate. Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-entra-news-162-passkeys-become-first-mfa-as-tenant-governance-goes-ga/

The latest AI developments This roundup covers major recent developments in AI models, agents, and automation, including ChatGPT’s Ultrafast mode, Anthropic’s hidden Claude watermarks, Grok 4.6 and Grokbot, new open models, and OpenAI’s Computer History feature. ChatGPT Ultrafast Source 👉@sysadminoff https://4sysops.com/archives/the-latest-ai-developments/

📰 The Epic Games Launcher is coming to Linux, but the Heroic team isn't too worried Heroic's home turf advantage may make it the winner of the two. 🔗 Source: #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.xda-developers.com/the-epic-games-launcher-is-coming-to-linux-but-the-heroic-team-isnt-too-worried/

📰 AMD Posts Massive 109 Patch Series For GFX 12.1 RAS Support On Friday Evening AMD has a tendency to send out large feature patch series for their open-source Linux drivers on Friday afternoons/evenings. Today we were greeted by a set of 109 patches working on RAS support for the upcoming AMD GFX12.1 target... 🔗 Source: #amd #linux #opensource 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX12.1-RAS-Patch-Series

📰 KDE Frameworks 6.29 Adds ZIP64 Writing, Expands HEIF Support KDE Frameworks 6.29 arrives with ZIP64 archive writing, broader HEIF image support, KIO improvements, and numerous fixes across KDE’s core libraries. 🔗 Source: #kde 👉@sysadminoff https://linuxiac.com/kde-frameworks-6-29-adds-zip64-writing-expands-heif-support/

📰 Lemonade 11.6 Integrates Muse-Glimmer 30B, Experimental TheNoise ROCm Image Generation For those dabbling with generative AI on the weekends, the AMD-led Lemonade SDK 11.6 is out today with its newest feature release of this open-source software for running local AI apps with optimized LLMs across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs... 🔗 Source: #amd #opensource 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lemonade-SDK-11.6

LSP Plugins 1.2.34 Доступен новый релиз плагинов LSP Plugins 1.2.34! Плагины предназначены для обработки звука при сведении и мастеринге аудиозаписей, в условиях живых выступлений, а также при организации вещания и подкастов. Пакет совместим с форматами LADSPA, LV2, VST2 (LinuxVST), VST3, CLAP и GStreamer, а также предоставляет standalone-версии с поддержкой JACK и PipeWire. ( читать дальше... )  lsp-plugins, lv2, звук, мультимедиа, от автора 👉@sysadminoff https://www.linux.org.ru/news/multimedia/18359646

Выпуск дистрибутива Omarchy 4.0, развиваемого создателем Ruby on Rails Опубликован релиз дистрибутива Omarchy 4.0. Проект развивает Давид Хейнемейер Ханссон (David Heinemeier Hansson), автор веб-фреймворка Ruby on Rails, пытающийся сформировать идеальное для себя Linux-окружение в соответствии с принципом "Omakase Computing", предполагающим, что большинство пользователей в начале своего пути не знают, чего именно они хотят, и для них будет лучше не терзать себя попытками выбора, а воспользоваться набором инструментов, подготовленным тем, чьей компетентности и вкусу они доверяют. Наработки проекта распространяются под лицензией MIT. Размер ISO-образа 6.2 ГБ. 👉@sysadminoff https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66083

📰 Omarchy 4.0 Linux Distro Released With Desktop Shell Now Implemented Via Quickshell Omarchy as the Arch Linux distribution developed by David Heinemeier Hansson "DHH" / Basecamp is out today with Omarchy 4.0 as the distro's biggest release to date... 🔗 Source: #arch #distro #linux 👉@sysadminoff https://www.phoronix.com/news/Omarchy-4.0-Released