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AMD Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. AMD P-State Linux Testing

Phoronix - Mon, 10/03/2022 - 23:30
Before getting busy with the AMD Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" desktop testing, I recently wrapped up some benchmarks looking at the ACPI CPUFreq vs. AMD P-State frequency scaling drivers and various governor options for the AMD Ryzen 6000 "Rembrandt" mobile SoCs. If you are curious about the impact of CPUFreq/P-State and the various governors for the latest AMD laptops running Linux, this round of testing is for you.

IceWM 3.0 Released For This Speedy & Simplicity-Minded X11 Window Manager

Phoronix - Mon, 10/03/2022 - 23:30
IceWM 3.0 was released today as the latest major update to this X11 window manager that has been development since the late 90's with a particular focus on simplicity and speed...

OpenMandriva's Rolling Release Reaches "Gold", Continues With AMD Zen Optimized Version

Phoronix - Mon, 10/03/2022 - 20:47
OpenMandriva ROME is a rolling-release version of this Linux distribution whose roots trace back to the days of Mandriva and before that Mandrake Linux. This rolling release flavor of OpenMandriva is now up to a "gold" candidate status...

Debian To Carry Patches For GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering

Phoronix - Mon, 10/03/2022 - 18:13
There's been a lot happening in Debian recently from improving their handling of non-free firmware to switching to PipeWire and WirePlumber with Debian 12. Another change on the way is picking up Ubuntu's work on dynamic triple buffering for the GNOME desktop...

Linux 6.1 HWMON Nukes The Short-Lived ASUS Driver, Other Monitoring Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 10/03/2022 - 17:58
Among the early pull requests sent in for the now-open Linux 6.1 merge window was the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates...

Linux 6.1 Adding Support To statx() For Reporting Direct I/O Alignment Details

Phoronix - Mon, 10/03/2022 - 17:42
Mainlined back in 2017 was the statx() call for reporting enhanced file information and stats like finally reporting a file's creation time, data version numbers, and other attributes. Statx has continued evolving since its introduction in Linux 4.11 and now for Linux 6.1 is being expected to support reporting direct I/O alignment information...

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