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Google Cloud N4D Delivers Great VM Performance & Value Powered By AMD EPYC Turin

Phoronix - Tue, 11/11/2025 - 01:00
Google Cloud today is rolling out their N4D compute instances that are optimized for cost/price-performance and geared for general purpose workloads. The N4D instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" processors and offer very nice performance and value over their prior-generation general purpose VMs.

Can openSUSE Tumbleweed Compete With CachyOS Performance?

Phoronix - Mon, 11/10/2025 - 22:00
Last week when delivering some CachyOS benchmarks against Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 on the Framework Desktop with AMD Ryzen AI Max+, a few Phoronix readers wrote in with the question or belief that openSUSE Tumbleweed would better perform against CachyOS given the distribution's select x86_64-v3 packages and other advantages. As it's been a while since running any benchmarks of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed, here are those benchmarks now in the mix for seeing how the performance compares.

Firefox 145 Binaries Available - Aside From 32-bit Linux Being Removed

Phoronix - Mon, 11/10/2025 - 21:49
Firefox 145 release binaries are now available. Most notable with this release is what's not there: the 32-bit Linux builds are no more...

POLYVAL Work Bringing More Performance Gains To Linux Crypto Subsystem

Phoronix - Mon, 11/10/2025 - 19:07
Whenever seeing Linux kernel mailing list patches from Google engineer Eric Biggers it tends to be about performance optimizations to the Linux kernel's cryptography subsystem. That was once again the case on Sunday with the newest patch series providing some nice gains...

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