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AMD Extends PyTorch + ROCm Support To The Radeon RX 7900 XT  Phoronix

Getting started on the Linux (or Unix) command line, Part 3  Network World

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Using the Linux apropos command – even if you have to fix it first  Network World

Ubuntu Linux Squeezes ~20% More Performance Than Windows 11 On New AMD Zen 4 Threadripper Review  Phoronix

With currently reviewing the HP Z6 G5 A workstation powered by the new 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX Zen 4 processor, one of the areas I was curious about was how well HP's tuned Microsoft Windows 11 compares to that of Linux. In this article is looking at how the Microsoft Windows 11 performance is out-of-the-box with the HP Z6 G5 A workstation as configured by HP versus a clean install of Ubuntu 23.10 with the Linux 6.5 kernel.

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Back in Linux 6.2 the in-kernel Zstd compression/decompression code was updated against the Zstd 1.5 upstream state. Now for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year the plan is for updating to Zstd 1.5.5 that should provide better compression performance...

Linux 6.8 Looks To Upgrade Its Zstd Code For Better Compression ...  Phoronix

The Platform Matters: A Comparative Study on Linux and Windows ...  Check Point Research

Firefox 120 Adds New Privacy Options, PIP Snapping + More  OMG! Ubuntu!

PC live images: Play games, repair issues, or try Linux - risk-free  PCWorld

In addition to Microsoft enabling OpenGL 4.6 over Direct3D 12 via Mesa, Microsoft engineers have also been working on some video improvements within the Mesa code-base...

Microsoft Looking To Add Windows Media Foundation Transforms ...  Phoronix

Open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider 1 'TR1X' gets Linux ...  GamingOnLinux

Intel Vulkan drivers on Linux should run more games with Mesa 24.0  GamingOnLinux

Intel has announced their 2024 updates to oneAPI that they are promoting as the Intel Software Developer Toolkits 2024 release...

Intel Software Developer Toolkits 2024 Released For Pushing AI ...  Phoronix

One of the features that was merged yesterday into the GCC compiler just before shifting to its "bug fixing" phase of development was Intel's AVX10.1 support...