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Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 w/ AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U ...  Phoronix

The past few weeks I've been putting the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 AMD mobile workstation through its paces that is powered by the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U SoC. Besides uncovering one BIOS issue that is in the process of being resolved, this latest-generation AMD-powered laptop that features 64GB of LPDDR5X memory, 1TB NVMe SSD, and integrated Radeon graphics with 2.8K OLED display has been working out well on modern Linux distributions. Here's a look at this AMD Zen 4 laptop running on Linux and plenty of performance benchmarks for this laptop.

ChimeraOS Linux 44 out now with improved support for various ...  GamingOnLinux

Vali Cyber™ Secures $15M in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Linux ...  Portada-online.com

How to Safely Free Up Space in the Boot Partition on Ubuntu  How-To Geek

GNOME 46 Desktop Environment Slated for Release on March 20th, 2024  9to5Linux

For a year and a half now Pensando has been working on enabling their Elba SoC support for the mainline Linux kernel - a process that coincidentally began just days after AMD announced it was acquiring Pensando. Over the past 18 months the AMD-Pensando Elba SoC enablement work has now been through 16 rounds of code review but still isn't over the finish line yet but some of the initial enablement code might finally land with Linux 6.7...

Limited Support For The AMD Pensando Elba SoC Might Finally ...  Phoronix

Vali Cyber™ Secures $15M in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Linux ...  Business Wire

Firefox 119 Promises to Let You Import Some of Your Chrome Extensions  9to5Linux

The first of three parts for MSG_ZEROCOPY preparations for the VirtIO-Vsock driver have been queued into net-next ahead of planned introduction in the Linux 6.7 kernel as another means of achieving greater performance within virtual machines...

VirtIO VSOCK MSG_ZEROCOPY To Begin Landing For Linux 6.7 ...  Phoronix

Long-term support for Linux kernels is about to get a lot shorter  The Register

Intel's open-source software engineers are known for many great performance optimizations to the Linux kernel. Over the years Intel has contributed countless performance optimizations to the kernel and related Linux components that have made significant improvements not only for Intel hardware but x86_64 as a whole and at times CPU architecture independent improvements. One of their newest performance optimizing patch series is around Per-CPU Pageset (PCP) high auto-tuning...

Intel Has Another Series Optimizing Linux Performance With PCP ...  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market Size, Share, and Growth Factors | A Global Forecast to 2030  Benzinga

Announced last year at the Intel Vision conference was the Habana Labs Gaudi2 and Greco AI hardware. Since then we've seen a lot of Linux kernel driver work happen for enabling the Gaudi2 second-generation training and inference AI processor while there hasn't been anything real in the way for Greco, which was the successor to the Goya AI processor. Now references to Habana Labs Greco are being removed from the driver...

SteamVR 2.0 Beta released with a big UI overhaul  GamingOnLinux

SteamVR 2.0 Beta released with a big UI overhaul  GamingOnLinux

Qt 6.6 Nears Release With RC Offered Up For Testing  Phoronix