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One-Line Patch For Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up To 72% Better Performance, +7% Geo Mean  Phoronix

One-Line Patch For Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up To 72% Better Performance, +7% Geo Mean  Phoronix

One-Line Patch For Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up To 72% Better Performance, +7% Geo Mean  Phoronix

Covered last week on Phoronix was a new patch from Intel that with tuning to the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver was showing big wins for Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" performance and power efficiency. I was curious with the Intel claims posted for a couple benchmarks and thus over the weekend set out to run many Intel Meteor Lake benchmarks on this one-line kernel patch... The results are great for boosting the Linux performance of Intel Core ultra laptops with as much as 72% better performance.

TUXEDO Computers Are Working on an ARM Linux Laptop Running KDE Plasma  9to5Linux

TUXEDO Computers Are Working on an ARM Linux Laptop Running KDE Plasma  9to5Linux

Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers is working on bringing a Snapdragon X Elite powered laptop to market...

TUXEDO Developing A Snapdragon X Elite Linux Laptop  Phoronix

Mozilla Firefox 127.0 binaries are available for download today ahead of tomorrow's official announcement. Firefox 127 brings a few nice changes for this month's feature update...

Firefox 127 With 32-bit x86 Linux Pretending To Be "x86_64" To Reduce Fingerprinting  Phoronix

Exciting! TUXEDO is Working on the First Snapdragon Powered Linux Laptop!  It's FOSS News

After an attempt in early 2023 didn't pan out, today an AMD Linux engineer posted a new kernel patch series for enabling per-core RAPL energy counter support for AMD processors. With this patch series when using Linux's venerable perf utility it's now possible for reading the power use on a per CPU core basis using a new "power_per_core" PMU...

AMD Posts New Linux Patches For Per-Core CPU Energy Counters  Phoronix

Disenchanted Windows user? Pop open a fresh can of Linux Lite  The Register

You may want to avoid NVIDIA driver 550 if you're on a laptop  GamingOnLinux

Going back just under two years was the propsal for adding getrandom() to the vDSO in the quest to achieve faster performance for obtaining random numbers in user-space. That effort while seemingly simple remains an ongoing and contentious matter...

TUXEDO tease an ARM Snapdragon X Elite Linux notebook is coming  GamingOnLinux

A lot of AMD GFX12 IP enablement landed in Mesa 24.2-devel over the past week for bringing up the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver and RADV Vulkan driver for the upcoming RDNA4 graphics...

AMD Adds Next-Gen RDNA 4 GPU Support In Linux Kernel Driver, At-Launch Support Becomes Imminent  Wccftech

AMD Adds Next-Gen RDNA 4 GPU Support In Linux Kernel Driver, At-Launch Support Becomes Imminent  Wccftech