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Happy birthday, Linux - MyBroadband

Google News - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 18:41
Happy birthday, Linux  MyBroadband

Coreboot 4.21 Brings More System76 Laptops, Star Labs & MSI Z790-P Support

Phoronix - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 18:35
Coreboot 4.21 is available this week as the newest tagged release for this open-source system BIOS/firmware solution. Coreboot 4.21 brings a number of new motherboard ports as well as various core improvements...

Linux 6.6 To Bring Another Rust Toolchain Upgrade

Phoronix - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 18:18
Miguel Ojeda who leads the "Rust for Linux" effort of integrating Rust programming language support into the Linux kernel has already submitted his pull request of planned feature updates for the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle...

libinput 1.24 Brings Changes For Apple Touchpads, Drawing Tablets

Phoronix - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 18:06
Libinput 1.24 is available today for this input handling library used by Linux systems both legacy X11/X.Org desktops and especially by modern Wayland compositors for unifying input handling in the open-source world...

Vulkan 1.3.262 Rolls Out With Four New Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 17:46
The Vulkan 1.3.262 revision to this industry standard for high performance graphics and compute is now published. There is the usual assortment of minor changes/fixes plus four new extensions, which all happen to be new vendor extensions from Qualcomm...

How to Use /proc File System to Monitor Your Linux System

Tecmint - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 14:31
The post How to Use /proc File System to Monitor Your Linux System first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Today, we will delve into the contents of the /proc directory to develop a better understanding of its functionalities. It’s important to note that the

The post How to Use /proc File System to Monitor Your Linux System first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For New VPE & UMSCH Components With Future GPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 07:40
Following AMD recently posting Linux graphics driver patches for enabling a GFX 11.5 graphics engine and new DCN 3.5 display block that are presumably for an RDNA3 refresh such as for the Ryzen 8000 series APUs, today AMD posted additional open-source driver patch series for enabling additional new IP...

Ryzen 9 7950X Performance With The New AMD P-State Default Of Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 02:47
The Linux 6.5 kernel is expected to be released as stable this weekend barring any last minute issues from being raised. One of the notable changes with this new kernel version is Linux now defaulting to the AMD P-State "EPP" active driver configuration for modern Ryzen systems rather than the long-used generic ACPI CPUFreq driver default. In some cases this can mean better performance but particularly should yield a nice improvement to the power efficiency of Ryzen Zen 2 and newer platforms, especially laptops and other portable Linux systems like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally. I am working on some fresh AMD Ryzen Linux laptop comparison benchmarks but for this article is a look at Linux 6.5 on the desktop side with the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X.

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