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Friday Five — May 15, 2026

Red Hat News - Fri, 05/15/2026 - 08:00
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New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Fri, 05/15/2026 - 06:46
Dynamic EPP is one of the new AMD P-State features in Linux 7.1, but, unfortunately is causing some fallout in early usage of this power-savings related functionality...

Linux Fragnesia - Security Affairs

Google News - Fri, 05/15/2026 - 04:02
Linux Fragnesia  Security Affairs

Plasma Big Screen Working Out Quite Well With Plasma 6.7 Beta

Phoronix - Fri, 05/15/2026 - 01:32
With today's KDE Plasma 6.7 beta release there has been a surprising amount of interest in the new revival of Plasma Big Screen as the TV-sized UI for Plasma. I've been trying it out today and it has worked out rather well, a very smooth experience, and in good shape for making its debut in next month's Plasma 6.7 release...

MSI Claw Configuration Driver For Linux Coming Together With The Assistance Of AI

Phoronix - Fri, 05/15/2026 - 00:24
One of the latest Linux gaming handheld drivers being worked on is the MSI Claw Configuration Driver for controller configuration...

ROCm 7.0.0 vs. ROCm 7.2.3 Performance On The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2026 - 22:20
With the new System76 Thelio Major workstation review unit having arrived equipped with an AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card, I took the opportunity of having the extra RDNA4 workstation GPU to satisfy a curiosity over whether there has been any meaningful performance gains from ROCm 7.0.0 released last year to now with the latest ROCm 7.2.3 stable release. Here are those benchmarks results if you are curious about the impact of just updating the user-space ROCm components from the end of last summer to the latest ROCm 7.2.3 milestone.

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