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AMD Linux Testing Captured All Top 10 Spots For Our Most-Viewed Articles In August


Over the course of August on Phoronix were 267 original news articles and 17 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles

Coming somewhat as a surprise, AMD Linux testing articles and hardware reviews managed to capture all top 10 spots for the most viewed content... Something no single vendor has pulled off in the past 21 years of Phoronix. On the open-source/Linux news side there was a lot of excitement around the Linux 6.17 kernel development, the Debian 13.0 release, Bcachefs drama, KDE Plasma 6.5 feature work, the FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library, and much more. For those wondering similarly how the top-end Strix Halo SoC in the Framework Desktop competes with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" flagship in performance and power efficiency, here are those comparison benchmarks.

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