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How to set a static IP in Rocky Linux  TechRepublic

RemotePC Adds Linux Support - socaltech.com  socalTech.com

Why Debian Might Include Non-Free Firmware in Future Releases  MUO - MakeUseOf

Why Debian Might Include Non-Free Firmware in Future Releases  MUO - MakeUseOf

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X / 7950X Linux Gaming Performance Review  Phoronix

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X / Ryzen 9 7950X Benchmarks Show Impressive Zen 4 Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

The review embargo just lifted for the AMD Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" desktop processors ahead of their retail availability this week. As such there are a few Phoronix articles today looking at these Zen 4 processors under Linux and many benchmarks whole several more follow-up articles will be coming over the weeks ahead. For the launch-day review I have the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and 7950X processors. Let's take a look at the significant performance improvements to find with the AMD Ryzen 9 7900 series under Linux.

While much of AMD's briefings for the Ryzen 7000 desktop series were focused on gaming and other consumer workloads, one of the most exciting aspects for me with the Ryzen 7000 series is AMD now supporting AVX-512. But rather going for a 512-bit FPU data path and the possibility of reduced clock frequencies and power/thermal concerns, they employed a 256-bit "double pumping" strategy. When getting the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X in the lab, exploring the AMD Zen 4 AVX-512 performance was one of the areas I was most excited to evaluate. From the benchmarks about to be shown, AMD's initial AVX-512 implementation is promising and has me all the more excited for finding it on AMD EPYC "Genoa" processors.

Today the review embargo expires on the AMD Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors ahead of their retail availability this week. Over the past two weeks I have been testing the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and 7950X processors as the initial review samples (I should be receiving the Ryzen 5 7600X and Ryzen 7 7700X CPUs this week, AMD is staggering their review seeding of the different models). In this article to get things started are my initial Linux gaming benchmarks with the Ryzen 9 7900X/7950X compared to an assortment of other AMD and Intel systems.

New SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux Version 9.6.2 Adds Support for the Latest Versions of Key Operating Systems and Azure Shared Disk  GlobeNewswire

Trombone Champ is my new favourite rhythm game  GamingOnLinux

Nick Desaulniers with Google who has been known for his contributions around compiling the Linux kernel with LLVM/Clang has recently taken to the challenge of being able to compile the Linux kernel under macOS...

Experimental Patch Gets The ARM64 Linux Kernel Compiling Under macOS  Phoronix

AMD engineer K Prateek Nayak recently uncovered that a ~20 year old chipset workaround in the Linux kernel still being applied to modern AMD systems is responsible in some cases for hurting performance on modern Zen hardware. Fortunately, a fix is on the way for limiting that workaround to old systems and in turn helping with performance for modern systems...

A 20 Year Old Chipset Workaround Has Been Hurting Modern AMD Linux Systems  Phoronix

Blizzard don't officially support Steam Deck / Linux but they still fix issues for it  GamingOnLinux

Blizzard don't officially support Steam Deck / Linux but they still fix issues for it  GamingOnLinux

Wine 7.18 rolls out with Unicode 15 support  GamingOnLinux

Wine 7.18 rolls out with Unicode 15 support  GamingOnLinux

How to Benchmark disks on Linux  BollyInside