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With the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" testing over the past month since launch I have looked at how well the new EPYC Turin CPUs compete against Intel Xeon, how Turin Dense dominates in performance and power efficiency to AmpereOne at 192 cores, and the generational uplift from EPYC Genoa to Turin at the same core counts, among other Turin performance benchmark tests. Up for comparison today is a look at how the NVIDIA Grace CPU performance within the GH200 Superchip compares to the AMD EPYC Turin processors.

Manage Your Linux System Resources With These 7 Terminal Commands  Review Geek

Manage Your Linux System Resources With These 7 Terminal Commands  How-To Geek

Azure Linux 3.0 Preview Now Available on Azure Kubernetes Service v1.31  Petri.com

Sent out yesterday was an AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver pull request with the last few feature additions and patches slated for the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. Alongside other AMD kernel graphics driver updates, the new driver code with Radeon RX 7000 series RDNA3 graphics cards will finally allow controlling the zero RPM fan feature under Linux...

Linux 6.13 To Allow Controlling Zero RPM Feature For Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs  Phoronix

NVIDIA GeForce NOW will soon limit your hours per month but some memberships get upgraded  GamingOnLinux

This lightweight Linux distro is the best (and easiest) way to revive your old computer. Here's how  ZDNet

ANY.RUN Launched an Upgraded Linux Sandbox for Effective Malware Analysis  CybersecurityNews

KDE Gear 24.08.3 Released with More Fixes for Your Favorite KDE Applications  9to5Linux

MontaVista Software Named a Cisco Distinguished Supplier  EIN News

The FreeBSD project issued today their Q3'2024 progress report to outline enhancements made to this open-source BSD operating system over the prior quarter...

Ubuntu tip of the day: Learn to love Snap  XDA Developers

Open source opens doors at Red Hat  Rochester Institute of Technology

SteelCloud Software Operationalizes STIG Compliance for Red Hat Linux  PR Newswire

While old Radeon GFX6/GFX7 era graphics processors are no longer actively supported by AMD on Windows and haven't been for quite a while, under Linux with the upstream open-source driver stack they remain supported and still enjoying improvements in large part from common code. The most recent fascinating aspect is the old AMD GFX6/GFX7 era GPUs seeing official Vulkan 1.3 support that has been deemed conformant by Khronos...

Mesa RADV Driver Delivers Conformant Vulkan 1.3 Support For Old AMD GFX6/GFX7 GPUs  Phoronix

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS has remained very active implementing more features and fixes as we approach the end of 2024...

Yet another feature merging into Mesa 24.3 with the code branching (feature freeze) yet to take place is Vulkan FIFO presentation mode support under Wayland...

Small security tweak Torvalds improves Linux performance  Techzine Europe