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Continuing on with the AMD Ryzen 9000 series Linux benchmarking, today's testing is looking at the performance and power impact of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X when adjusting the CPU frequency scaling driver, governor, and Energy Performance Preference (EPP) tunable to help look at the performance and power efficiency characteristics of this current flagship Zen 5 desktop processor.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Power/Performance With CPU Frequency Scaling Driver Tunables Review  Phoronix

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system has managed to address a performance bottleneck allowing this platform to perform much faster now when running as a virtual machine (VM) and for some synthetic benchmarks even able to run "slightly faster" than Linux...

Redox OS Unlocks Faster VM Performance, "Slightly Faster" Than Linux In Some Benchmarks  Phoronix

Linus On Linux 2024  iProgrammer

Dell Technologies and Red Hat Announce Collaboration to Fuel Open Source AI Workloads on Dell PowerEdge and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI  WebWire

Dell and Red Hat collaborate to bring Linux AI workloads to PowerEdge servers  BetaNews

Following yesterday's initial tuning of the "znver5" target for the AMD Zen 5 CPUs with the GCC 15 compiler, several more rounds of compiler tuning/optimizations were merged for benefiting the Ryzen AI 300 series, Ryzen 9000 series desktops, and upcoming EPYC Turin processors...

Retroid Pocket 5 and Retroid Pocket Mini will have Linux support  GamingOnLinux

3D Printering: Switch And Klip(per)  Hackaday

Acer enter the handheld PC gaming race with the Nitro Blaze 7  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat brings its AI-optimized Linux platform to Dell’s PowerEdge servers  SiliconANGLE News

Black Ops 6 – Can you play the new Call of Duty on the Steam Deck?  ReadWrite

Dell Technologies and Red Hat Announce Collaboration to Fuel Open Source AI Workloads on Dell PowerEdge and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI  Business Wire

Dell Technologies and Red Hat Announce Collaboration to Fuel Open Source AI Workloads on Dell PowerEdge and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI  StockTitan

While using the older Qualcomm Snapdragon 8xc Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC and not the exciting Snapdragon X1 Elite, Linux kernel patches were posted this week for enabling the Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G to boot with the mainline kernel...

Linux Patches Enable Partially-Working, Snapdragon-Powered Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G  Phoronix

Supercharge Your Command Prompt with Zsh and Oh My Zsh  How-To Geek

Do You Use a Custom Launcher on Your Android?  Review Geek

Double Debian update: 11.11 and 12.7 arrive at once  The Register