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Microsoft, Linux licences evince emerging best practices in licensing ...  IAM

Arch Linux 2023.08.01 Released with Linux Kernel 6.4 and Archinstall 2.6  9to5Linux

Linux's cpupower utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reading and tuning various CPU power settings rather than poking at sysfs files directly or other means of adjusting your processor power-related tunables. With the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle the cpupower utility is adding support for adjusting new AMD P-State driver features...

Linux 6.6's cpupower Utility Enables New AMD P-State Features  Phoronix

Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA Form Alliance for ...  NVIDIA Blog

Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA Form Alliance for ...  PR Newswire

Linux Kernel 6.5 RC4 released with 328 commits  IT World Canada

Linux Kernel 6.5 RC4 released with 328 commits  IT World Canada

Global Operating Systems Market - Rising Demand for Computers Drives Operating Systems Market Growth  Yahoo Finance

The "v1" patches were posted today for a new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver to be used for display purposes with the StarFive JH7110, a low-cost RISC-V SoC found in the VisionFive boards, PINE64 Star64, and other low-cost RISC-V single board computers...

Linux Display Driver Worked On For A Popular & Low-Cost RISC-V ...  Phoronix

Since last year Intel Linux engineers have been busy working on FRED support for the Flexible Return and Event Delivery specification that will be found with future-generation processors. FRED overhauls how CPU transitions are handled between privilege levels and a design goal of lowering transition latencies and allow for more robust software use-cases...

Intel's FRED Getting Ready To Meet The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

GNOME project considers adding window tiling by default  The Register

Over the past month on Phoronix were 223 original news articles along with 17 multi-page featured articles / Linux hardware reviews, all written by your's truly. When it came to the hardware testing in July, AMD processor tests easily dominated from the Ryzen Z1 Extreme within the new ASUS ROG Ally over to the AMD EPYC Genoa-X and Bergamo server processors to close out the month...

AMD Linux CPU Benchmarks Dominated July From The Z1 Extreme To EPYC Genoa-X & Bergamo  Phoronix

CIQ Expands Leadership Team, Naming 5 New Vice Presidents  PR Web

Back in March Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal finally released for this community-developed smartphone/tablet OS that finally migrated from an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS base to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This past weekend Ubuntu Touch OTA-2 Focal was released as the first update this lineage of being based off the newer Ubuntu Long-Term Support state...

Intel today released Embree 4.2 as the newest feature update to this open-source and high performance ray-tracing library. While Embree has long offered fast CPU-based ray-tracing support, Embree 4.0 introduced GPU acceleration via SYCL. With the Embree 4.2 release, the GPU SYCL support is no longer being treated as beta...

What is Bash Function in Linux & How to Use It?  Beebom