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Linux 6.7 Released With Bcachefs, Intel Meteor Lake In Good Shape & Nouveau GSP Support

Phoronix - Mon, 01/08/2024 - 04:30
As anticipated Linus Torvalds went ahead and just released the Linux 6.7 kernel as the first new version of 2024...

Intel Core Ultra 7 Meteor Lake vs. AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 01/08/2024 - 02:26
In recent days there have been leaks about an MSI "CLAW" gaming handheld device set to be announced this coming week at CES in Las Vegas. Making this gaming handheld device interesting is that unlike the Valve Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally or Legion Go, it's expected to be the first handheld featuring an Intel Meteor Lake SoC. In particular, the recently launched Intel Core Ultra 7 155H. For those curious about what the performance is likely to roughly be in comparison to the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance of these competing SoCs.

Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 01/07/2024 - 23:02
Linux 6.7 should be released later today as the first stable kernel of 2024. In turn the Linux 6.8 merge window will then open tomorrow and run for the next two weeks. For those curious about the features expected for Linux 6.8, here's an early look at some of the changes expected to land for that next kernel cycle...

Memtest86+ 7.0 Released With IMC Polling & Initial ECC Polling

Phoronix - Sun, 01/07/2024 - 22:14
Debuting in late 2022 was memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used open-source RAM tester. Coming out today is memtest86+ 7.0 as the latest major update to this leading PC memory testing solution...

OpenBLAS 0.3.26 Brings More x86_64 Optimizations, Better LoongArch64 & ARM64

Phoronix - Sun, 01/07/2024 - 21:49
OpenBLAS 0.3.26 was released this week as the newest feature update to this open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library...

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