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GNOME 43 Released With More Apps Ported To GTK4, Wayland Enhancements

Phoronix - Wed, 09/21/2022 - 23:30
GNOME 43 is out today as the newest version of this popular open-source desktop environment used by Fedora Workstation, Ubuntu, and many other Linux distributions...

Framework Laptop Launches Chromebook Edition With Google

Phoronix - Wed, 09/21/2022 - 23:15
The Framework Laptop has proven to be very popular with enthusiasts thanks to its focus on the ability for users to make repairs and upgrades to their laptop. Google has even taken notice and they in cooperation with Framework Computer Inc have launched a Chromebook Edition laptop...

Google Cloud Tau T2A Ampere Altra vs. T2D AMD EPYC Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 09/21/2022 - 18:00
Over the summer Google announced Tau T2A as the first Google Cloud Compute Engine VM to run on Arm. The T2A series is powered by Ampere Altra processors and complement the Tau T2D series powered by AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors that launched last year. I have been trying out the Tau T2A series for the past several weeks and have some initial benchmarks to share today for showing how the Ampere Altra Arm VMs can perform against the existing T2D series.

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