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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U - Windows vs. Linux Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 12/21/2021 - 21:00
With the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen2 powered by the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U prior to blowing the default Microsoft Windows installation on the device I ran some benchmarks for seeing how the performance stacks up against various Linux distributions. Going up against Windows 11 on this AMD Zen 3 laptop were Clear Linux, Fedora Workstation 35, Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu 21.10, and Arch Linux.

Linux 5.17 Will Add Ethernet Support For AMD Yellow Carp (Rembrandt)

Phoronix - Tue, 12/21/2021 - 18:28
AMD's Yellow Carp enablement has been going back to early summer for this next-generation APU that is better known as Rembrandt for the Ryzen 6000 mobile series. While there has already been the graphics support to land, sensor support, and various other functionality, only coming now with the next kernel cycle will be Ethernet support...

Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Now Works On Android

Phoronix - Tue, 12/21/2021 - 18:02
The open-source Broadcom "V3DV" Vulkan driver within Mesa that is most notably used by the Raspberry Pi can now run on Android...

Zstd 1.5.1 Released With Even More Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 12/21/2021 - 16:00
Zstandard 1.5.1 is now available as the latest release of this widely-used data compression algorithm backed by Facebook that delivers on great performance. With the new release, performance is even better...

Open source desktop publishing with Scribus

opensource.com - Tue, 12/21/2021 - 16:00

One of my favorite shelves at my local comic book store is the zine rack. Filled with self-published booklets that are too niche, too quirky, or just too individual for any company to spend money on producing, zines are produced by one or two people who have something to say and want to express themselves through text and graphics. Zines are usually created by cutting out blocks of text and graphics and literally pasting them to a master page.


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