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Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 "Strix Halo"

Phoronix - Thu, 06/19/2025 - 22:30
While the results shouldn't be too surprising given the recent AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Windows 11 vs. Linux testing, when the HP ZBook Ultra G1a powered by the step-down AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 arrived with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, I also took the opportunity to run some Windows vs. Linux performance benchmarks on that AMD Strix Halo SoC.

Fwupd 2.0.12 Released With More Intel Battlemage GPUs & HP USB-C Hub Supported

Phoronix - Thu, 06/19/2025 - 21:06
Richard Hughes of Red Hat just released Fwupd 2.0.12 as the newest version of this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for a nice Linux system/device firmware updating experience...

Intel NPU Accelerator Driver Readies "Turbo Mode" For Better Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 06/19/2025 - 20:30
Sent out today was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes for consisting of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) core updates as well as changes to the smaller display/graphics kernel drivers plus the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers within the kernel. Intel NPU accelerator driver changes stand out for this week's pull request ahead of Linux 6.17...

OpenBLAS 0.3.30 Released With Performance Improvements & Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 06/19/2025 - 18:45
OpenBLAS 0.3.30 released this morning as the newest version of this optimized BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library for multiple CPU architectures...

Debian's tag2upload Reaches Open Beta For Enhancing Packaging Workflow

Phoronix - Thu, 06/19/2025 - 18:41
Debian tag2upload reached an open beta state for allowing Debian developers and maintainers to upload by simply using the git-debpush script for pushing a signed Git tag...

Intel Begins Sending In Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Thu, 06/19/2025 - 18:10
Intel open-source software driver engineers have begun sending in their new kernel graphics driver feature pulls to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window coming up by early August. There is some new feature work included as part of Intel's pull requests for the weeks along with more PCI device IDs being introduced, bug fixes, and other code refactoring...

Mesa 25.1.4 Delivers Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 06/19/2025 - 17:48
Eric Engestrom released Mesa 25.1.4 on Wednesday as the latest bi-weekly point release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers predominantly used on Linux systems...

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