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A Beginner’s Guide to Gentoo Linux Installation – Part 1

Tecmint - Wed, 11/22/2023 - 13:31
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Gentoo is a free and open-source Linux distribution known for its high performance, high reconfigurability, and stability. It uses the portage package management system for

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Lenovo Prepares The Linux Kernel For "Ultra-Performance Capability" On Latest ThinkPads

Phoronix - Wed, 11/22/2023 - 05:57
A recently posted Linux kernel driver patch by Lenovo is for a new "ultra-performance capability" with their latest ThinkPad laptops for ensuring their hardware achieves the best Linux performance when in the "performance" ACPI Platform Profile while conserving the most power in the balanced and power-saving mode...

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

Phoronix - Wed, 11/22/2023 - 01:12
Ahead of AMD's Advancing AI event coming up quickly in early December, AMD today announced ROCm and PyTorch support has been extended to supporting the Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card...

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

Phoronix - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 22:38
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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