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

Phoronix - Tue, 08/01/2023 - 18:27
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...

Ubuntu Touch OTA-2 Focal Expands Support For Additional Smartphones

Phoronix - Tue, 08/01/2023 - 17:56
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's Embree 4.2 Promotes Its SYCL GPU Support Out Of Beta

Phoronix - Tue, 08/01/2023 - 17:43
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...

10 Free Linux Books That Will Make You a Linux Master

Tecmint - Tue, 08/01/2023 - 12:12
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If you’re aiming to elevate your Linux learning process to an advanced administrative and expert level, we have meticulously curated a collection of 10 exceptional

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GNU C Library 2.38 Released With More C2X Features, x86_64 GNU Hurd Support

Phoronix - Tue, 08/01/2023 - 07:46
Following the release this weekend of GNU Binutils 2.41, another important GNU software project just issued their latest update: the GNU C Library 2.38...

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