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How to Set Up FreeDOS on Linux Using Qemu

Tecmint - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 14:19
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FreeDOS is a free and open-source DOS-compatible operating system that allows you to run legacy DOS software and games on

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How to Reduce RAM & CPU Usage on Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 12:00
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Linux is a powerful and efficient operating system, but high RAM and CPU usage can degrade performance, slow down applications,

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Git 2.49-rc0 Released With "git backfill", zlib-ng Preparations & Rust Interface

Phoronix - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 02:57
Git maintainer Junio C Hamano announced Git 2.49-rc0 today as an early preview release for the next version of this widely-used, distributed version control system...

AMD EPYC Turin Power Profile Selection Impact On Performance & Efficiency

Phoronix - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 00:00
Last week I published an article looking at the power efficiency of 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" using the modern AMD P-State driver and the Power Profile options. The AMD P-State driver being used by default now for the EPYC 9005 series processors on Linux 6.12+ and paired with Power Profile option tuning can deliver a nice boost to server energy efficiency with only modest impact to the performance. Today's article are some complementary numbers I carried out recently on a Supermicro server looking at more of the Power Profile Selection options.

AMD Driver Lands DCC For Multi-Plane Formats With RDNA4, Tiling For Video Buffers

Phoronix - Wed, 02/26/2025 - 21:55
More RadeonSI Gallium3D changes worth mentioning have landed today in Mesa 25.1 Git for the open-source Linux graphics driver stack...

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