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Resources System Monitoring App For GNOME Now Displays NPU Usage

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 November, 2024

As an alternative to the GNOME System Monitor application for system monitoring, Resources has been in development as a currently unofficial, GNOME-aligned resource/hardware monitoring application written in the Rust programming language. Resources v1.7 was released on Friday and now has the ability to monitor NPU usage and other enhancements...

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Linux 6.13 Hits A "Tipping Point" With More Rust Drivers Expected Soon

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 November, 2024

In addition to the USB updates and big staging flush merged yesterday for the Linux 6.13 kernel merge window, the "char/misc" pull was also honored for that catch-all of various kernel changes. With the char/misc pull there are some notable additions for those wanting to write kernel drivers within the Rust programming language...

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Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 Supports For More CPUs & Improves EFI Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 November, 2024

The Rust Hypervisor Firmware is a project out of the Cloud Hypervisor umbrella for developing open-source, Rust-based firmware that can be launched from any environment able to load ELF binaries and run them via the PVH booting standard. Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 is out this weekend with the newest capabilities...

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KDE Ends November With More KWin Fixes & Other Polishing Ahead Of Plasma 6.3

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 November, 2024

KDE developers have wrapped up a busy November with many fixes and other refinements landing this last week of the month...

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Clang AutoFDO & Propeller Optimization Support Sent In For Linux 6.13: 5~10% More Perf

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 November, 2024

Making for an even more exciting Black Friday is the Kbuild pull request submitted today for the near-over Linux 6.13 merge window... And it includes Clang Auto Feedback Directed Optimization (AutoFDO) support for kernel builds as well as Clang's Propeller...

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LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 November, 2024

For those with some extra time over the US holiday weekend, LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 has been published as the newest feature version of this open-source, cross-platform office suite that is a great alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office...

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AMD BIOS Tuning Guide Impact For Boosting AI/ML Performance On EPYC 9005 Series

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 November, 2024

Following the release last month of the EPYC 9005 series processors, AMD published a BIOS and Workload Tuning Guide of straight-forward settings recommendations for those running new EPYC Turin servers to optimize the performance of different workloads like databases and Java to HPC and AI/ML software. Recently I started running some benchmarks to look at the impact of AMD's recommended BIOS tuning and beginning this comparison by looking at the performance (and power) impact across a range of AI / machine learning workloads on a 5th Gen AMD EPYC server.

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Improved USB4 Debugging Support With Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 November, 2024

Along with the staging changes, Greg Kroah-Hartman this morning also sent out the USB/Thunderbolt changes for the nearly-over Linux 6.13 merge window...

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FFmpeg Git Continues Landing A Number Of Vulkan Video Enhancements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 November, 2024

A number of Vulkan Video enhancements landed this week in FFmpeg Git thanks to open-source developer Lynne that has been advancing the Vulkan Video encode/decode capabilities in this widely-used multimedia library...