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UBports' Ubuntu Touch 20.04-Based Build Offered In New Beta/RC Channel

Phoronix - Tue, 12/27/2022 - 04:15
As a long awaited gift for those using UBports' Ubuntu Touch, for Christmas the open-source, community-driven crew published a beta/RC build of Ubuntu Touch re-based atop Ubuntu 20.04 LTS...

Solidigm P44 Pro Linux Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 12/26/2022 - 23:45
A few months back we looked at the Solidigm P41 Plus NVMe SSD from this company that formed when SK hynix acquired Intel's NAND/SSD business. The P41 Plus was a budget-friendly consumer SSD with QLC memory while recently they launched the P44 Pro as a step-up and based on the SK hynix Platinum P41 design. I've been testing the Solidigm P44 Pro 1TB and 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs under Linux to great performance.

AMD Posts P-State EPP v9 Driver That Aims To Be Ready For Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Mon, 12/26/2022 - 20:05
While the Linux 6.2 kernel merge window just wrapped up, AMD's P-State EPP driver was deemed not ready for making it this cycle. However, with AMD having now iterated it to a ninth revision, it's looking like this P-State "Energy Performance Preference" functionality over the existing P-State driver support will be ready for merging come Linux 6.3...

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