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Ubuntu Unity In Need Of More Developers To Survive

Phoronix - Tue, 10/28/2025 - 00:27
The Ubuntu Unity community flavor of Ubuntu Linux built around the Unity desktop is in a difficult position and at risk for its survival given the lack of developers involved. A call-out has been made in seeking more community developers to contribute to Ubuntu Unity...

AMD EPYC 9965 "Turin" 2P Performance Seeing Some Gains On Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Mon, 10/27/2025 - 23:00
Beyond packing many exciting new features and changes, Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version. Assuming the Linux 6.18 LTS designation, this next kernel version will see lots of use in enterprise environments and thus recently carried out some AMD EPYC 9965 2P "Turin" benchmarks between Linux 6.17 stable and the Linux 6.18 development kernel state...

OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs Available For Download

Phoronix - Mon, 10/27/2025 - 22:20
OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs were published on Sunday as the newest half-year update to this Illumos (OpenSolaris) derived platform...

AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Linux Performance For Single & Dual GPU Benchmarks

Phoronix - Mon, 10/27/2025 - 21:00
Today the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 is officially shipping as the company's new RDNA4-based offering designed for AI workloads and priced at $1299+ USD. The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 offers 32GB of GDDR6 video memory and features 128 AI accelerators and rated for 96 TFLOPs peak half-precision compute, up to 1531 TOPS INT4 sparse, and has a 300 Watt TDP. Here are the initial benchmarks of the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 under Linux with ROCm 7.0 and testing both in single and dual R9700 graphics card configurations.

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