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AMD Releases Linux Drivers for Radeon RX 9060 XT and AI Pro R9700  Yahoo

This month I have been running many Linux benchmarks of the HP ZBook Ultra G1a with the very exciting Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 Strix Halo SoC featuring the powerful Radeon 8060S graphics. While there were the very promising OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks shown so far from AMD Strix Halo on Linux -- including the very compelling performance compared to Microsoft Windows 11 -- many are interested in the ROCm compute aspects for Strix Halo. Here are some of the first benchmarks of the GPU compute performance for the Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO with the new ROCm 6.4.1 release compared to Strix Point as well as Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake on their Compute Runtime stack.

ROCm GPU Compute Performance With AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ "Strix Halo"  Phoronix

Firefox 140 Enters Beta Testing as the Next ESR (Extended Support Release) Series  9to5Linux

Top 16 Best Note Taking Apps For Linux [2025]  It's FOSS

Which Linux Distro Is Ideal for Beginners?  MakeUseOf

Should you ever pay for Linux? 5 times I would - and why  ZDNET

Building off the atomic write preparations that landed in prior Linux kernel versions, merged for the Linux 6.16 cycle is atomic write support for the XFS file-system...

The X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time option has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy means of enforcing "-march=native" compiler behavior on AMD and Intel processors to optimize your kernel build for the local CPU architecture/family of your system...

Linux 6.16 Adds "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option To Optimize Your Kernel Build For Your CPU  Phoronix

Splitgate 2 now works on Desktop Linux with the anti-cheat updated  GamingOnLinux

Rav1e v0.8 was released on Monday for this self-proclaimed "fastest and safest AV1 encoder" that makes use of the Rust programming language...

The many scheduler updates have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel which include a wide assortment of different fixes and new improvements...

Linux 6.16 Lands "rt_group_sched" Option, Faster Core Offlining & Scheduler Improvements  Phoronix

The open-source Qt toolkit is deeply rooted in C++ code but over the past decade also has enjoyed Python language bindings. Now thanks to new work by the Qt Group on what they are calling Qt Bridging Technology, the toolkit will be enjoying more robust support across different programming languages...

The Linux kernel Performance Events changes were merged for the newly-opened Linux 6.16 cycle. Most notable are some new additions on the Intel side while AMD also saw a few changes too...

The elusive goal of Unix – or Linux – simplicity  theregister.com

AMD quietly releases Radeon RX 9060 XT & PRO R9700 drivers for Linux  VideoCardz.com

Best VPNs for Ubuntu  TechRepublic

Better Than Man pages? These Tools Help You Understand Linux Commands  It's FOSS