AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Framework Desktop vs. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Performance

Last week alongside our Framework Desktop review with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" SoC I posted benchmarks of the Strix Halo performance compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X / 9950X3D socketed desktop processors. For those wondering similarly how the top-end Strix Halo SoC in the Framework Desktop competes with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Ar…
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Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 Released With Completed 64-bit Support, Rust Ported

Following this weekend's release of Debian 13.0 "Trixie", Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 has been released as the state of Trixie while running atop Hurd rather than Linux...
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ZLUDA Implements Kernel Cache Support To Help With Performance

ZLUDA as the open-source solution bringing CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware has been seeing a nice uptick in activity the past several months for its latest take on life. The latest feature merged to ZLUDA is the all-important kernel cache to help with performance...
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Itanium IA-64 Support May Revert Back To Being Deprecated/Obsolete For GCC 16

The GCC 14 compiler had marked the Itanium IA-64 code as being obsolete and slated for removal in GCC 15. But then last year the Itanium port was un-deprecated with plans to "support this for some years to come." Now one year later it's back to talking about deprecating/obsoleting the Itanium IA-64 compiler code in GCC...
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Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 8


Picture of the day
The Comet NEOWISE on 15 August 2020 from Konská, Žilina District, Slovakia. It resulted the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997, but it would have been exceeded in brightness by comet Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS in 2024.

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Windkraftanlagen werden auch im Sauerland mehr gebaut. In Iserlohn will eine Bürgerinitiative verhindern, dass Anlagen im Iserlohner Stadtwald gebaut werden.#[Windkraft #Iserlohn #MärkischerKreis #Bürgerinitiative #Stadtwald]

Reactive Stack กับ Servlet Stack ต่างกันอย่างไร [poolsawat.com]

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Early Linux 6.17 Tests Show Some AMD Strix Halo Performance Improvements & Regressions

Even prior to the Linux 6.17-rc1 release on Sunday I already had kicked off some Linux 6.17 Git benchmarking in being eager to see how the performance is beginning to shape up for this next kernel release that is set to power the likes of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43. There is some good news and bad news with my early testing on the ZBook Ultra G1a for AMD…
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