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Amarok 3.3 Released With The Music Player Ported To Qt6 / KDE Frameworks 6

Phoronix - 10 hours 43 min ago
Just over one year after the Amarok 3.0 release after a six year hiatus that brought it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5, Amarok 3.3 is out today as the first version taking it to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6...

OBS Studio 31.1 - OMG! Ubuntu

Google News - 14 hours 1 min ago
OBS Studio 31.1  OMG! Ubuntu

GlobalFoundries Acquiring MIPS

Phoronix - 15 hours 46 min ago
Here's an unexpected company match... GlobalFoundries announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS. Yes, the company formerly part of Wave Computing and before that Imagination and Silicon Graphics during its long history. MIPS in recent years hasn't been focused on its namesake CPU architecture but rather RISC-V core designs...

Linux Patched For Transient Scheduler Attacks "TSA" Impacting AMD CPUs

Phoronix - 17 hours 20 min ago
Made public minutes ago is Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) as a new class of class of speculative side channel attacks affecting AMD processors...

Framework 12 Platform Tuning For Better Performance Or Power Efficiency

Phoronix - 17 hours 29 min ago
Last month the Framework Laptop 12 began shipping as an upgrade-friendly, convertible 2-in-1 laptop that is friendly with Linux as we've come to expect out of Framework Computer devices. The launch-day Linux testing at Phoronix of the Framework 12 was done out-of-the-box on Ubuntu Linux with the defaults on it and the other comparison laptops tested. But as we've shown with recent Intel and AMD laptops, ACPI Platform Profile adjustments can make a significant impact on bettering the performance or extending battery life with more power efficient operation. For those wondering about the impact of the platform profiles on Framework Laptop 12, here are some power and performance benchmarks.

IBM Announces Power11 With "99.9999%" Uptime, 55% Better Core Performance Than Power9

Phoronix - Tue, 07/08/2025 - 22:42
Following all of the Linux and broader open-source software enablement around Power11 the past three or so years, IBM today formally announced their new Power11 hardware...

AMD Hardware Feedback Driver Destined For Linux 6.17 To Benefit Heterogeneous CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 07/08/2025 - 22:23
The AMD Hardware Feedback Driver has been queued up via a TIP branch for expected merging during the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. This new open-source AMD driver is designed to help make the kernel's scheduler make better decisions around task placement for heterogeneous processor designs with a mix of the "classic" and "dense" cores...

Fan Control Firmware Updated For Intel Battlemage Graphics Cards On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 07/08/2025 - 21:03
In addition to Intel upstreaming the Xe3 graphics firmware needed for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs to linux-firmware.git so those firmware binaries can get picked up by Linux distributions ahead of Panther Lake laptops shipping, Intel also upstreamed fan control firmware as a first for their graphics card efforts...

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