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Intel Preps PXP GuC Auto-Teardown & Improvements For Old iGPUs With Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 18:45
Intel engineers this morning sent out their newest pull request of "drm-intel-gt-next" material to queue in DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window. There is a new feature enabled on newer Intel graphics hardware as well as some improvements for very old Intel integrated graphics...

Linux 6.13 To Default To AMD P-State Driver For EPYC 9005 CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 18:32
It was just earlier this week that AMD posted Linux patches to switch EPYC over to using the AMD P-State driver rather than the long-used generic ACPI CPUFreq driver. This should lead to better power efficiency out-of-the-box and is a change being made just for EPYC 9005 "Turin" CPUs and future server processors. Already it's looking like this change will be introduced for the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window...

Cloudflare Continues To Praise Open-Source OpenBMC

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 18:16
It was just one and a half years ago that Cloudflare began rolling out OpenBMC on their massive array of servers to replace traditional proprietary Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware stacks. Since the end of last year they've been talking up their successes using OpenBMC and now as we approach two years of their OpenBMC use within production, they continue singing the praise of this open-source, Linux-based BMC software stack...

Intel Upstreams Firmware For Newer WiFi Chipsets On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 18:07
Intel has upstreamed the firmware for their "BlazarU" core to linux-firmware.git for improving the out-of-the-box wireless experience with newer Intel WiFi adapters...

7 Useful X-Window (GUI-Based) Linux Commands – Part 2

Tecmint - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 15:15
The post 7 Useful X-Window (GUI-Based) Linux Commands – Part 2 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In our previous article on X-window (GUI-based) Linux commands, we covered several useful graphical commands. Adding to that list, we

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11 Useful X-window (GUI Based) Linux Commands – Part I

Tecmint - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 14:00
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We, the Tecmint Team, are dedicated to creating high-quality articles about Linux and open-source topics. Since we started, we’ve put

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How to Use diff3 Command for File Merging in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 13:14
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The diff3 command in Linux is a helpful tool that compares three files and shows their differences, which is mainly

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The Free Software Foundation Finally Has AI / Machine Learning Apps On Their Radar

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 12:00
The Free Software Foundation announced on Tuesday they have begun work on "freedom in machine learning applications". Or in particular, a to-be-issued "statement" on free machine learning applications for software and the associated scripts and training data...

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