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Intel Linux Optimizations Help AMD EPYC "Genoa" Improve Scaling To 384 Threads

Phoronix - Fri, 04/07/2023 - 04:00

Last month I wrote about Intel's Linux kernel engineering improvements to help enhance CPU scaling across various workloads by addressing low-level bottlenecks within the kernel. It's an area we'll likely see Intel continue to invest in as Sierra Forest comes next year with 144 E cores per socket. Already with the Linux kernel patches Intel is carrying at the moment via their in-house distribution, there are some significant benefits for Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids. I was curious to see how this Intel-focused work impacted AMD EPYC servers and thus in today's article is a similar analysis using two AMD EPYC 9654 "Genoa" flagship processors while evaluating Intel's Linux kernel optimizations.

Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions For 2022 MacBook Air ... - Slashdot

Google News - Fri, 04/07/2023 - 03:55

Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions For 2022 MacBook Air ... Slashdot

Free Software Foundation Certifies A $99 Mini VPN Router

Phoronix - Fri, 04/07/2023 - 03:45

Over the years the Free Software Foundation has certified various devices that to their standards "Respect Your Freedom" from USB to parallel printer cables to re-branded and re-flashed motherboards to the Talos II at the higher-end. They've also certified different network hardware and other devices. The newest that they announced today is backing a $99 mini VPN router that supports WireGuard and other solutions...

How to List All Physical Ethernet Ports on a Linux Server - MUO - MakeUseOf

Google News - Fri, 04/07/2023 - 03:45

How to List All Physical Ethernet Ports on a Linux Server MUO - MakeUseOf

T2 Linux (Ubuntu) Macos folders access problem - MacRumors

Google News - Fri, 04/07/2023 - 00:13

T2 Linux (Ubuntu) Macos folders access problem MacRumors

Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions For 2022 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini - Phoronix

Google News - Fri, 04/07/2023 - 00:00

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Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions For 2022 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini

Phoronix - Fri, 04/07/2023 - 00:00

Further adding to the excitement of the upcoming Linux 6.4 merge window is the mainline kernel seeing the Device Tree (DT) additions for Apple's current M2 devices including the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini systems. The upstream kernel still has more work to go around the M1/M2 support compared to the downstream state with Asahi Linux, but at least now with this DT support will provide some basic level of upstream kernel support for the Apple M2...

System76 Shows First Pics of Fully Customized Linux Laptop Prototype - Tom's Hardware

Google News - Thu, 04/06/2023 - 23:36

System76 Shows First Pics of Fully Customized Linux Laptop Prototype Tom's Hardware

Dozens Of Rust Updates Merged Ahead Of GCC 13.1

Phoronix - Thu, 04/06/2023 - 22:30

While the release of GCC 13.1 as the first stable GCC 13 compiler is due out in the next few weeks, ahead of that milestone dozens of Rust "gccrs" patches were merged today for furthering along that new language support...

Qualcomm QAIC Accelerator Driver Coming With Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Thu, 04/06/2023 - 22:00

Following the Intel Meteor Lake VPU driver being added to the new accelerator "accel" subsystem in Linux 6.3 along with converting over the Habana Labs AI driver, coming in Linux 6.4 is now the Qualcomm QAIC Cloud AI driver to this subsystem that lives within the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) umbrella...

Qualcomm QAIC Accelerator Driver Coming With Linux 6.4 - Phoronix

Google News - Thu, 04/06/2023 - 22:00

Qualcomm QAIC Accelerator Driver Coming With Linux 6.4 Phoronix

PipeWire 0.6.38 Released With New RTP Session Module, Many Other Changes

Phoronix - Thu, 04/06/2023 - 21:00

PipeWire 0.3.68 is out today as a significant update for this alternative to JACK and PulseAudio as well as managing both audio and video streams on the Linux desktop...