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Intel Has Another Series Optimizing Linux Performance With PCP High Auto-Tuning

Phoronix - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 20:10
Intel's open-source software engineers are known for many great performance optimizations to the Linux kernel. Over the years Intel has contributed countless performance optimizations to the kernel and related Linux components that have made significant improvements not only for Intel hardware but x86_64 as a whole and at times CPU architecture independent improvements. One of their newest performance optimizing patch series is around Per-CPU Pageset (PCP) high auto-tuning...

Intel's Habana Labs Driver Quietly Drops References To The Greco AI Processor

Phoronix - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 18:40
Announced last year at the Intel Vision conference was the Habana Labs Gaudi2 and Greco AI hardware. Since then we've seen a lot of Linux kernel driver work happen for enabling the Gaudi2 second-generation training and inference AI processor while there hasn't been anything real in the way for Greco, which was the successor to the Goya AI processor. Now references to Habana Labs Greco are being removed from the driver...

Qt 6.6 Nears Release With RC Offered Up For Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 18:10
Qt 6.6 is nearing release for this open-source and cross-platform toolkit while out this morning is the release candidate...

OCRmyPDF 15.0 Released For Optical Character Recognition Of PDF Files

Phoronix - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 17:52
A major update to OCRmyPDF is now available, the open-source project that can work on scanned PDFs and other PDF documents to add an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to files for allowing them to be searched or copy-pasted. OCRmyPDF makes it a breeze in dealing with scanned PDF text files and now with OCRmyPDF v15 is even better...

4 Best Twitter Clients for Linux in 2023 (Updated)

Tecmint - Tue, 09/26/2023 - 12:31
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Twitter is one of the most popular and massively used blogging services on the Internet today, with the ever-increasing use of this amazing social media

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