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EA / Respawn now block Apex Legends from running on Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

With the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" series launch earlier this month there was launch-day benchmark review results for the EPYC 9575F, EPYC 9755, and EPYC 9965 processors in looking at that frequency optimized SKU, the new flagship 128-core Turin "classic" core model, and the new flagship 192-core Turin "dense" core SKU, respectively. That's interesting for looking at the new 5th Gen AMD EPYC top-end wares but in comparing to 4th Gen EPYC also means higher core counts at the top-end. In being curious about the core-for-core advantages of 5th Gen EPYC, I managed to get my hands on the AMD EPYC 9655 processors for seeing how that model compares to the prior AMD EPYC 9654 "Genoa" flagship model. Here's a look today at how the AMD EPYC 9655 1P/2P 96-core processor compares to the prior EPYC 9654 flagship.

If you're ready to leave Windows 11 behind, I recommend this distro for new Linux users  ZDNet

Ditch Microsoft Windows 11 and switch to the Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 7.2 — you won’t regret it  BetaNews

AMD has been teasing the Ryzen 9000X3D Zen 5 CPUs with 3D V-Cache and today they formally announced the specs of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor that will begin shipping 7 November...

AMD Formally Announces Ryzen 7 9800X3D Specs - Should Be Great For Linux Creators  Phoronix

Following the announcement yesterday that Ubuntu 25.04 will default to the -O3 optimization level with GCC for its Debian package builds, Fedora stakeholders have begun debating the merits of switching to the -O3 optimization level or not instead of the existing -O2 optimization level default...

Ubuntu-based Br OS version 24.10 comes with KDE Plasma 6 and Wayland  Notebookcheck.net

How to format a drive on Linux from the command line  ZDNet

Linus Torvalds merged a patch on Wednesday that he authored that with reworking a few lines of code is able to score a 2.6% improvement within Intel's well-exercise "will it scale" per-thread-ops benchmark test case...

Linux Lite 7.2 Released with Lite Theme Manager, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

Intel compiler engineer Feng Zou has upstreamed AMX-FP8 support into the LLVM compiler stack. This FP8 extension to the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) is coming with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors alongside other new ISA extensions...

SUSE's Agama Installer Adds QR Code To The Console & Other Improvements  Phoronix

SUSE's Agama OS installer 10 was recently released as the newest feature iteration for this next-gen OS installer for SUSE/openSUSE...

SVT-AV1 2.3 is now available as the newest feature release to this leading open-source AV1 encoder. With SVT-AV1 2.3 there are yet more performance improvements...

One month has passed since the AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 driver release while today has brought the AMDVLK 2024.Q4.1 release with a few new Vulkan API extensions...

Edera Restores Security Benefits for Linux Application Memory Safety with OpenPaX  AiThority

FOSS Weekly #24.44: Fedora 41 Release, Russia in Linux Kernel, System Monitoring and More  It's FOSS

A new patch posted today for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver is introducing a "cleaner shader" explicitly for GFX11.0.3 GPUs like the Radeon 780M integrated graphics to help ensure that there is sufficient data isolation between different workloads running on the GPUs. The motivation isn't clear if there is some GFX11.0.3 security vulnerability, some AMD Linux customer particularly concerned about security on said GPUs, or some other motivation for focusing this latest cleaner shader work on GFX11.0.3 hardware...

Creator of Linux Trashes AI Hype  Yahoo Singapore News