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Windows 11 WSL2 Performance vs. Ubuntu Linux With The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Phoronix - Wed, 04/26/2023 - 23:16
When carrying out the recent Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 benchmarks with the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Zen 4 3D V-Cache desktop processor, I also took the opportunity with the Windows 11 install around to check in on the Windows 11 WSL2 performance. Here is a fresh look at Ubuntu with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2 on Windows 11) compared to the bare metal performance of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on the same hardware as well as the new Ubuntu 23.04.

Wayland's Weston 12 Alpha Brings Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control

Phoronix - Wed, 04/26/2023 - 22:38
Released today was the first alpha release of the upcoming Weston 12.0 release, which continues to serve as the reference compositor for Wayland...

100+ More ASUS Motherboards Enabled For Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Wed, 04/26/2023 - 21:00
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been pulled into the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel with ASUS Intel/AMD desktop motherboards being the big winners with these driver updates...

Intel Sierra Forest EDAC Lands In Linux 6.4, AMD's EDAC Driver Aims For GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 04/26/2023 - 20:30
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) device driver updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.4 merge window...

Linux Kernel Drama: AMD's Spectral Chicken

Phoronix - Wed, 04/26/2023 - 18:55
There's a bit of Linux kernel code for AMD Zen 2 processors called the "spectral chicken" and a call for cleaning up that code, which was originally written by an Intel Linux engineer, has been rejected...

GCC 13.1 Released With Modula-2 Language Support, More C23/C++23 Features

Phoronix - Wed, 04/26/2023 - 18:23
GCC 13.1 has been released as the first stable version of GCC 13 as this annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection...

xf86-video-ati 22.0 Released For Older ATI/AMD GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 04/26/2023 - 18:05
The xf86-video-ati 22.0 driver has been released as a rare update to this X.Org DDX driver used by older pre-GCN ATI/AMD Radeon graphics cards...

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