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PowerTop – Monitors Power Usage and Improve Laptop Battery Life

Tecmint - Thu, 01/18/2024 - 13:00
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One of the most important characteristics of a good Linux machine especially with laptops is power management in terms of prolonging battery life. Linux has

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TLP – Quickly Increase and Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life

Tecmint - Thu, 01/18/2024 - 12:31
The post TLP – Quickly Increase and Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

TLP is a free open-source, feature-rich, and command-line tool for advanced power management, which helps to optimize battery life in laptops powered by Linux. It

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Mesa 24.0-rc2 Released With This Quarter's Release Looking Good

Phoronix - Thu, 01/18/2024 - 08:21
Mesa 24.0 is shaping up to be a great release for this quarter's set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux and other platforms. Mesa 24.0-rc2 is out today to facilitate the latest weekly test release...

Linus Torvalds Gets Back To Merging New Code For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Thu, 01/18/2024 - 04:21
Last weekend the Linux 6.8 merge window was thrown into a mess with Linus Torvalds losing Internet access and electricity during some significant winter storms battling the Portland, Oregon area. After nearly five days without being able to manage the Git merges for the Linux 6.8 merge window, a few minutes ago activity was restarted...

Gigabyte G242-P36: A Great Ampere Altra Max Platform For AI/GPU Computing

Phoronix - Thu, 01/18/2024 - 02:30
The past two months I've been using the Gigabyte (Giga Computing) G242-P36 and it's been a refreshing delight for an ARM64 server platform running well with the mature Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors while boasting support for up to two GPUs and up to two DPUs or other PCIe adapters to make for a nice GPU/AI accelerated computing server.

NetBSD 10.0 RC3 Released With A Few Last Minute Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 01/18/2024 - 02:25
After being in development since 2019, the NetBSD 10.0 stable release looks like it will happen soon. Those wanting to help in last minute testing can find NetBSD 10.0 RC3 now available...

Many New Features Approved This Week For Fedora 40

Phoronix - Thu, 01/18/2024 - 02:00
This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off on a large number of change proposals for the Fedora 40 release due out in April...

Linux On IBM Z "s390" To See ~11% Higher Syscall Entry Performance On Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 23:46
For those interested in Linux on IBM Z / s390, there's a small change yielding measurable benefits to the s390 system call entry performance with the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel...

Linux Distributions Now Encouraged To Build GTK With Vulkan

Phoronix - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 23:20
Last week I wrote about GTK landing their new unified GPU renderer and as part of that the Vulkan API support is set to be enabled by default. Linux distribution vendors are being encouraged moving forward to indeed ship with the GTK Vulkan support enabled, so we'll be seeing more Vulkan API use on the Linux desktop with OpenGL slowly fading away...

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