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Early Distro Look: Serpent OS Slithers Its Way Into Computers  It's FOSS News

Like most modern Intel and AMD laptops, the new ASUS Zenbook S 16 models for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" support ACPI Platform Profiles for allowing the system platform behavior to be modified depending upon whether you are seeking maximum performance, balanced (default), or power savings/efficiency. With the Ryzen AI 9 365 and Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 testing I have been doing thus far it's been on the default balanced mode (along with other laptops being compared) while in this article is a look at the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 performance impact on the ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA when trying the other platform profile options.

ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA Platform Profile Impact On Performance & Power Review  Phoronix

Microsoft is today promoting the v3.0 release of Azure Linux to stable / general availability status for this Linux distribution formerly known as CBL-Mariner...

Microsoft Promotes Azure Linux 3.0 To General Availability  Phoronix

Download: Kali Linux Penetration Testing Bible ($25 Value) for FREE  Neowin

The best Linux laptops of 2024: Expert tested and reviewed  Sultra1News

How to Run a Lightweight Command Line Speed Test on Windows, Mac and Linux  How-To Geek

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has done a wonderful job providing funding to various open-source projects for advancing their work on free software. STF has been a huge success for prominent open-source projects while now it's also preparing a pilot program for STF Fellowships to provide funding to open-source maintainers that may be doing important work across multiple projects...

The best Linux laptops of 2024: Expert tested and reviewed  ZDNet

How to find and fix spelling errors on Linux  Network World

How to find and fix spelling errors on Linux  Network World

CheckMag | Toyota Motors and its Linux journey  Notebookcheck.net

Sent out today was the first batch of drm-misc-next patches of Direct Rendering Manager updates that will be targeting the Linux 6.12 kernel later in the year. Notable from this pull is introducing a new DRM Power Saving Policy for display connectors and is initially wired up for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver...

Linux 6.12 Introducing DRM "Power Saving Policy" For Better Desktop Integration  Phoronix

Linux hits another all-time high for July 2024 according to Statcounter  GamingOnLinux

These Are the 5 Most Beautiful Linux Distros  How-To Geek

Intel closed out July by publishing AVX10.2 technical details as part of a now public document. Intel's compiler engineers are also already at work on enabling AVX10.2 in the GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers...

July was an interesting month both in the open-source software world with the Linux 6.11 merge window and other software milestones while also being eventful on the hardware side with the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series launch as the first of the Zen 5 processors. During July on Phoronix were 255 original news articles written by your's truly and another 15 featured articles / multi-page reviews...

GCC 14.2 hit the Internet today as the first stable point release update to the GCC 14 series following the inaugural GCC 14.1 stable release from early May...