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AMD Quietly Seeds Zen 6 Client Support into Linux, Tipping Olympic Ridge Desktops and Medusa Mobile Ryzen Chips  Wccftech

AMD Linux Patch Dramatically Reduces Game Stutters On Steam Deck  hothardware.com

Following AMD posting AMDGPU patches for HDMI 2.1 FRL support after the HDMI 2.1 open-source support was long blocked by the HDMI Forum, as part of working toward a complete HDMI 2.1 implementation in this AMD Linux driver it was followed by HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) support. Now the latest on the AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 enabling path is enabling Auto Low-Latency Mode (ALLM) as well as HDMI Variable Rate Refresh!..

Your ISP watches everything you do: Enable this Windows 11 setting to stop it  How-To Geek

There's Finally A New Game Powered By The Unigine 2 Engine  Phoronix

It's been about a decade since seeing any new games released on the visually-impressive, Linux-friendly Unigine Engine. Unigine Corp has mostly been focusing on Unigine Engine usage for simulations and other professional applications, but coming as a surprise today is a new game being developed on their latest Unigine 2 engine technology...

The Linux Foundation hosted Open Programmable Infrastructure "OPI" announced its first coordinated release with OPI Abstraction v0.1. The work of the Open Programmable Infrastructure is hoping to standardize the data processing unit (DPU) and infrastructure processing unit (IPU) ecosystems...

OPI Abstraction v0.1 Published With Aiming To Standardize DPU/IPU Ecosystems  Phoronix

GNU Binutils 2.47 Released with New RISC-V Features, Linker Improvements, and Reproducible Builds  Linux Journal

Keychron Built Open Source Firmware for Gaming Mice, and Linux Users Stand to Gain the Most  It's FOSS

The modern path to unified Linux identity security: Securing hybrid infrastructure in a cloud-first world  SC Media

I stopped distro hopping when I realized the desktop environment was the real upgrade  XDA

System76 goes to college – a case study  System76 Blog

Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R610 On CachyOS With The GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU Review  Phoronix

Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R610 On CachyOS With The GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU Review  Phoronix

With the Razer Blade 18 as the first laptop Razer's certifying for (Ubuntu) Linux use while testing it out I was predominantly using the NVIDIA R610 official driver stack. Some users were interested though in how well this laptop is working with the open-source, upstream Nouveau+NVK driver stack given Razer is marketing this high-end laptop for Linux use too. Before sending the review unit back I had run some graphics benchmarks to see how Nouveau+NVK was performing for this Razer Blade RZ09-0582 with the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU.

Steam Deck Patch Boosts Low Frame Rates by 30% for Smoother Gameplay  PCMag Australia

Steam Deck Patch Boosts Low Frame Rates by 30% for Smoother Gameplay  PCMag UK

pfSense co-founder now builds his own firewall with AI and Linux – no Netgate allowed  cybernews.com

In an interesting twist, patches this week posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are enabling AMD Zen 6 client desktop and laptop SoCs for the HSMP driver. Up to now the AMD HSMP Linux driver was just used for modern EPYC server processors while now we are seeing this HSMP driver supporting the upcoming Medusa and Olympic Ridge client platforms... Including mentions of overclocking and even noting "Ryzen Master" as the Windows-only software for overclocking and system management...