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The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series offer great performance out-of-the-box for Linux desktop/workstation users as shown in my Ryzen Threadripper 7970X and 7980X benchmarks along with the Threadripper PRO 7995WX. While a more common tunable on the EPYC side, the Threadripper 7000 series can also benefit from Nodes Per Socket (NPS) / Sub-NUMA Clustering (SNC) tuning for enhancing the performance of some workloads. In this article is a look at dozens of benchmarks while looking at the performance impact of SNC2/SNC4 adjustments for the Zen 4 Threadripper.

How Meta Patches Linux at Hyperscale  The New Stack

Fedora Linux Flatpak cool apps to try for December  Fedora Magazine

Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November ...  Phoronix

November was very busy on Phoronix with all of the benchmarking around the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series, the much anticipated Framework 13 laptop review, a lot of Wayland accomplishments being made this week, excitement building around the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release, and the Linux 6.7 kernel getting underway with new features like the Bcachefs file-system...

Small but mighty, 9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is here for the truly curious  The Register

Red Hat, due nuove versioni per la piattaforma Enterprise Linux  ImpresaCity

Servo Browser Engine Continues On Its Path To Be Embed-Friendly  Phoronix

Following good progress in October and this former-Mozilla browser engine project receiving funding recently for "table" support, Servo developers continued implementing more functionality over the course of November...

OpenZFS 2.2.2 & OpenZFS 2.1.14 Released To Fix Data Corruption ...  Phoronix

Following a rare but nasty data corruption issue, OpenZFS 2.2.2 and OpenZFS 2.1.14 were released this evening to address the problem...

CacheWarp AMD CPU Attack Grants Root Access in Linux VMs  Security Boulevard

How to Enable Blue Light Filter on Windows, MacOS and Ubuntu  Gizchina.com

Shotcut 23.11 Open-Source Video Editor Adds NVIDIA AV1 Hardware Encoding  9to5Linux

Linux ne gère pas assez de cœurs pour les dernières puces ARM  MacGeneration

Proton Experimental fixes Baldur's Gate 3, improves Nickelodeon All ...  GamingOnLinux

For the past number of months AMD has been actively working on enabling AMD P-State Preferred Core functionality for Linux so that their modern processors can communicate "preferred" cores to the Linux kernel scheduler for making better decisions around task placement and ultimately ensuring best performance of Ryzen and EPYC processors running on Linux. This week they are up to their 11th take on these kernel patches...

AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of P-State Preferred Core Patches For Linux  Phoronix

It's been a number of years since many in the Linux/open-source space have been excited by the Jolla smartphone efforts with their failed smartphone/tablet devices and more recently focusing their Linux-based Sailfish OS devices for running on existing devices. The latest chapter in Jolla is the former management acquiring the Jolla business...

Jolla's Former Management Acquires The Business  Phoronix