Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake With ASUS Zenbook Performing Better After New Linux Patch lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

SysVinit 3.11 Released With An "Important Feature" At Long Last

For those still managing to avoid systemd use on Linux systems and preferring SysVinit as their init system of choice, SysVinit 3.11 is out today with a new "important feature" addition...
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Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board Update

Earlier this year SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board with plans for shipping in July. That timeframe for shipping since passed but SiFive today issued a new update on their RISC-V development board...
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ASUS NUC 14 Pro AI with Intel Core Ultra Processor, Delivering up to 120 Platform TOPS lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake With ASUS Zenbook Performing Better After New Linux Patch

On Sunday there was a new patch posted by an Intel Linux engineer to boost the Lunar Lake Linux performance out-of-the-box for ASUS laptops by adjusting the new ASUS Intelligent Performance Technology "AIPT" feature so that Linux follows the same behavior as Windows 11. My initial testing of this ASUS AIPT patch has indeed shown the Core Ultra 7…
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AMD Posts Linux Patches For EPYC To Further Enhance Performance-Per-Watt By Default

Making for an exciting Monday morning, AMD Linux engineers have kicked off the new week with a patch series introducing an exciting and long-awaited change: using the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver by default for EPYC server platforms moving forward rather than the ACPI CPUFreq driver...
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Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks

Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user() due to being "overkill and painfully slow." The conversation evolved into low-level discussions over CPU behavior and how to best handle, differing behavior/requirements with new Intel CPUs supporting Linea…
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Hangover 9.20 Restores Support For Running Win64 Applications On ARM64 Wine

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.20 for running Windows games/applications on Linux, Hangover 9.20 is now available for this extension of Wine that builds off that codebase while pairing it with an x86/x86_64 emulator for running Windows programs on other CPU architectures like ARM64 Linux. With Hangover 9.20 they have restored the ability for running W…
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