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Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Delayed To Next Week

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 08:06
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS along with new point releases for its derivatives had been scheduled for release on Thursday. But a last minute issue has delayed this release...

ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 Provides Effective Cooling For AMD EPYC 9004/9005 CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 03:00
Along with the recently reviewed ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M for Ampere Altra, ARCTIC Cooling had also recently sent over their ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 heatsink for cooling AMD EPYC 9004/9005 server processors within 4U rackmount height requirements. This cooler does a very good job at keeping even 400 Watt processors running well.

Mesa 25.0-rc3 Released With Numerous RADV & RadeonSI Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 01:51
Mesa 25.0-rc3 is out today as a rather large weekly release candidate to Mesa 25.0 that will be debuting as stable later this month...

Linux 6.13 Performance For 250Hz vs. 1000Hz Timer Frequency Comparison

Phoronix - Wed, 02/12/2025 - 23:05
Given the recent patch proposal to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz, I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the 250Hz vs. 1000Hz comparison on some modern desktop hardware...

GNU Shepherd 1.0.2 Service Manager Delivers Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 02/12/2025 - 23:00
In addition to the recent release of SysVinit 3.14 and systemd continuing to tack on new features, the GNU Shepherd system/user service manager written in Guile Scheme is out today with a new release...

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