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OpenShot: Your Open-Source Video Editor for Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 16:04
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OpenShot is a popular, free, and open-source video editor available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. It offers a user-friendly interface

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How to Install LM Studio to Run LLMs Offline in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 14:32
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LM Studio is a user-friendly desktop application that allows you to download, install, and run large language models (LLMs) locally

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RHCSA Series: How to Perform File and Directory Management – Part 3

Tecmint - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 12:00
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In Part 3 of the RHCSA exam preparation series, ‘File and Directory Management,’ we will review some essential skills required

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NUMA Emulation Yields "Significant Performance Uplift" To Raspberry Pi 5

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 00:50
Engineers at consulting firm Igalia are exploring NUMA emulation for ARM64 (AArch64) due to the potential of "significant" performance uplift as observed on the popular Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer...

KDE Plasma 6.1 Performing Much Better On Older Intel Integrated Graphics

Phoronix - Tue, 06/25/2024 - 23:01
With the recently released KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment, those still relying on old Intel integrated graphics should have a much more pleasant experience thanks to improvements made to the KWin compositor. For very old Intel integrated graphics, it can effectively be a night and day difference upgrading to the new Plasma 6.1 desktop...

Intel's Linux Software Optimizations Still Pay Off For Xeon 6700E "Sierra Forest" E-Core CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 06/25/2024 - 21:48
When testing Intel's aggressive software Linux optimizations shipped by way of their in-house Clear Linux distribution, I am most often testing it on their high core count Xeon processors with AVX-512... Over the years in dozens of Phoronix articles there have been countless metrics showing off the out-of-the-box performance benefits from leveraging software built for higher x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels, employing compiler-based function multi-versioning, and the other extensive performance tuning carried out by Intel software engineers. But now with the Intel Xeon 6700E "Sierra Forest" series now being available for these all-E-core server processors, I was curious about quantifying the Clear Linux benefits over the likes of Ubuntu Linux. Here are those benchmarks for those curious about the difference.

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