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AMD Radeon 8060S Linux Graphics Performance With Strix Halo

Phoronix - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 18:00
As shown in today's article the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance is incredible with its 16 Zen 5 cores delivering staggering laptop / mobile workstation performance with a 55 Watt default TDP. But that's only half the magic of Strix Halo, with the other aspect being the very capable integrated RDNA 3.5 graphics with unified memory support. Given this being an equally interesting topic for Linux users considering a Strix Halo laptop or desktop, this article is centered around the integrated Radeon 8060S graphics support and performance under Linux.

Updated Nouveau Driver Patches For NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 15:00
At the end of April was the open-source surprise of NVIDIA posting Nouveau Linux driver patches for their Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. This comes to complement their official (open-source but out of tree) kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs and in the absence of the modern Rust-based NOVA Linux kernel driver not being in working shape yet on the mainline kernel. An updated version of these Nouveau driver patches for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs were posted overnight...

Support For New RISC-V SiFive Vendor Extensions On The Way For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 14:00
Queued within the development tree for the RISC-V processor code for the Linux kernel is supporting several new vendor-specific ISA extensions for SiFive RISC-V CPU cores...

10 Advanced Linux Commands You’ve Probably Never Used (Part 3)

Tecmint - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 13:00
The post 10 Advanced Linux Commands You’ve Probably Never Used (Part 3) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Continuing our exploration of lesser-known Linux commands, let’s dive into some more hidden gems that can help you manage your

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Terminal Showdown: Bash vs Zsh vs Fish for Power Users

Tecmint - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 12:00
The post Terminal Showdown: Bash vs Zsh vs Fish for Power Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The command-line shell is an essential tool for interacting with the operating system, allowing users to execute commands, automate tasks,

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Shotcut 25.05 Video Editor Working Toward HDR Support

Phoronix - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 12:00
Shotcut 25.05 was released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this non-linear, open-source video editing software...

DragonFlyBSD 6.4.2 Released With Fixes To Help QEMU & Chrome

Phoronix - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 12:00
While it took two and a half years for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 to materialize from DragonFlyBSD 6.4, only one week passed since that recent v6.4.1 release to now see v6.4.2...

Linux 6.15-rc6 Released With AMD Performance Fix & Other Bugs Addressed

Phoronix - Mon, 05/12/2025 - 07:15
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.15-rc6 today with hopes of releasing Linux 6.15 stable in two weeks...

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