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ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA Platform Profile Impact On Performance & Power

Phoronix - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 23:40
Like most modern Intel and AMD laptops, the new ASUS Zenbook S 16 models for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" support ACPI Platform Profiles for allowing the system platform behavior to be modified depending upon whether you are seeking maximum performance, balanced (default), or power savings/efficiency. With the Ryzen AI 9 365 and Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 testing I have been doing thus far it's been on the default balanced mode (along with other laptops being compared) while in this article is a look at the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 performance impact on the ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA when trying the other platform profile options.

Microsoft Promotes Azure Linux 3.0 To General Availability

Phoronix - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 23:04
Microsoft is today promoting the v3.0 release of Azure Linux to stable / general availability status for this Linux distribution formerly known as CBL-Mariner...

Sovereign Tech Fund Preparing Fellowship Program For Open-Source Maintainers

Phoronix - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 22:00
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has done a wonderful job providing funding to various open-source projects for advancing their work on free software. STF has been a huge success for prominent open-source projects while now it's also preparing a pilot program for STF Fellowships to provide funding to open-source maintainers that may be doing important work across multiple projects...

Linux 6.12 Introducing DRM "Power Saving Policy" For Better Desktop Integration

Phoronix - Thu, 08/01/2024 - 20:47
Sent out today was the first batch of drm-misc-next patches of Direct Rendering Manager updates that will be targeting the Linux 6.12 kernel later in the year. Notable from this pull is introducing a new DRM Power Saving Policy for display connectors and is initially wired up for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver...

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