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Linux's Turbostat Utility Can Now Be Used For Reading Intel PMT Counters

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 18:16
Merged on Sunday prior to tagging the first release candidate of Linux 6.11 were some last minute updates to Turbostat, the tool that lives within the kernel source tree and used for reporting CPU frequency and idle statistics along with other useful metrics. With Linux 6.11, Turbostat is gaining some new abilities...

SDL3 Library Adds A Built-In Snake Game

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 18:07
For those enjoying the classic game Snake (Blockade) or rather wanting to learn about the SDL3 API to develop your own software using this cross-platform software/hardware abstraction library, a game of Snake has been added to the SDL3 repository to serve as a more full-featured example...

TrueNAS: Create Own “Home Media Streaming Server” Using Plex – Part 3

Tecmint - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 15:00
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Everyone has a collection of movies, songs, music videos, pictures, and more. Many people wonder how they can stream this

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Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake & Battlemage Graphics Might Be Officially Supported With Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 08:30
While the Linux 6.11 merge window ended just days ago, Intel engineers are already beginning to submit kernel graphics driver changes to the DRM-Next branch of material they want to get in for the Linux 6.12 cycle that will end out 2024. Notable is they are trying to wrap up the Xe2 graphics support for Lunar Lake and Battlemage discrete graphics so that the support can be exposed by default...

oneAPI Construction Kit 4.0 Brings RISC-V Host CPU Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 03:35
Last year the oneAPI Construction Kit was introduced by Intel-owned Codeplay Software for bringing SYCL to new hardware even for hardware outside of Intel's offerings. One of the early targets of this oneAPI Construction Kit support was for RISC-V processors and now with today's release of oneAPI Construction Kit 4.0 there is finally RISC-V host CPU support...

Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" Launching 3 September

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 01:47
With the AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" laptops now shipping this week, Intel has announced that their Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" processors as the successor to Meteor Lake will be formally launching on 3 September...

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance For The AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

Phoronix - Wed, 07/31/2024 - 00:39
After seeing how the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Zen 5 Strix Point performance is under Linux against a range of other Intel/AMD laptops, the next obvious question is... how does this compare to Windows? In this article is an initial look at the Windows 11 versus Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux performance for the same AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 SoC within an ASUS Zenbook S16 and running the same benchmarks in looking at the out-of-the-box performance difference.

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