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      Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Leads Over Windows 11 In Creator Workstation Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:00

    The past few weeks I have been testing out the new HP Z6 G5 A workstation desktop PC. It's a beast in being powered by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9975WX, eight channels of DDR5-5600 memory, and paired with a NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q workstation graphics card. The full review on the HP Z6 G5 A workstation will be published on Phoronix in the next week or so but given the timing and that it shipped with WIndows 11 Pro, here is a look at how Windows 11 Pro is competing against the newly-released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in creator/workstation workloads.
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      AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:35

    Lemonade as the open-source local AI server backed by AMD and supported across AMD CPUs / GPUs / NPUs on Windows and Linux is out with a big update...
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      Sovereign Tech Agency Launches New Initiative To Help Open Standards

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:35

    Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (Sovereign Tech Fund) has provided critical financial resources to open-source software projects and maintainers the past several years. This has proven to be an incredible effort and today they announced their newest initiative as the Sovereign Tech Standards...
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      GCC 16's Improved Error Messages, Experimental HTML Output

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:13

    GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is releasing as soon as later this week if all goes well. Among the many improvements in this year's open-source compiler update are continued enhancements to the error messages as well as having an experimental HTML output option for messages...
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      Fedora 44 Released For Living On The Leading-Edge Of Linux Innovations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:31

    Fedora 44 is officially released for providing the very latest Linux innovations with GNOME 50 being the default desktop of Fedora Workstation 44, an improved KDE experience with Plasma 6.6 complete with the Plasma Log-in Manager, and other up-to-date software packages...
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      Proton 11.0 Beta 2 Updates VKD3D-Proton

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:00

    Following the release of Proton 11.0 Beta 1 from two weeks ago that updated against Wine 11.0, this heart to Valve's Steam Play is now out with a second beta release...
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      Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:25

    Following yesterday's polarizing news of Canonical to begin shipping AI features in Ubuntu Linux over the course of the next year, Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical has now provided some clarifications around their AI plans...
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      AMDXDNA Driver Preps Hardware Scheduler Time Quantum For Ryzen AI Multi-User Fairness

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:06

    The AMDXDNA accelerator driver for Ryzen AI NPUs is preparing a new feature called hardware scheduler time quantum for ensuring fairness between multiple users/contexts wanting to leverage this neural processing unit for AI workloads...
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      7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:55

    7-Zip 26.01 was released on Monday and making this release significant are huge pages support on Linux and some users may be interested in the new options around the path generation mode for the output directory when extracting archives...