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Meteor Lake gets performance and efficiency tweaks via new Linux patch  Tom's Hardware

Earlier this month I posted some initial CPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper up against AMD EPYC Zen 4 and Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids processors. That was a very interesting battle and showed the interesting capabilities of the 72 Arm Neoverse-V2 cores paired with HBM3 memory. With this GPTshop.ai GH200 system actually being in workstation form, I also ran some additional benchmarks looking at the CPU capabilities of the GH200 compared to AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series workstations.

NVIDIA GH200 72 Core Grace CPU Performance vs. AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstations  Phoronix

Red Hat announced today some changes to how they handle their beta releases for minor updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux...

Red Hat Changing How They Handle Their Minor Release Betas  Phoronix

Best Free VPN for Linux in 2024 – Stay Anonymous at No Cost  CyberNews.com

Linux-Based Tools for Online Gaming Enthusiasts  Bromsgrove Standard

New Linux Patches Aim To Help Improve Intel Meteor Lake Performance & Power Efficiency  Phoronix

There are some new Linux kernel patches that were posted by Intel on Monday that aim to help enhance the overall performance and power efficiency of new Meteor Lake laptop processors under Linux...

This Patch Boosts Linux Gaming Performance By 50% and More  It's FOSS News

There are still no signs of a new X.Org Server feature release coming in the near-term with most of the major stakeholders divesting from the xorg-server besides the XWayland portion of the code-base. But for those interested in the past few days there have been some NetBSD/OpenBSD build fixes to the X.Org Server as well as clearing out some remnants of old compiler support...

High-Severity Squid Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu  Security Boulevard

What is x86-64-v3? Understanding the x86-64 microarchitecture levels  Android Authority

Setting Up VS Code Insiders on Aegix Linux (Or Any Arch-Based Distro)  Medium

Setting Up VS Code Insiders on Aegix Linux (Or Any Arch-Based Distro)  Medium

Understanding Linux Kernel Memory Statistics  Oracle

Hear a Buckling Spring Keyboard Sound for Every Key Press in Ubuntu  OMG! Ubuntu!

Firefox 123 Delivers Better Linux Gamepad Support + More  OMG! Ubuntu!

With Valve's release today of the Steam Audio SDK 4.5.2 they have made the software development kit fully open-source under an Apache 2.0 license...

For years Wine developers have been after a better synchronization API for the Linux kernel to better match the semantics of Microsoft Windows. Posted back in January was a request for comments on an "NTSYNC" Linux kernel driver to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives for the Linux kernel. At the start of the month a post-RFC version was posted of this open-source driver and today the latest iteration of that work has been published to the kernel mailing list...