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New Linux Patch Officially Confirms AMD Family 26 As Being Zen 5 CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 01/05/2024 - 05:01
AMD's open-source Linux software engineers continue preparing the Linux kernel for supporting next-generation Zen 5 processors...

Fedora 40 Moving Ahead In Beefing Up Its Security

Phoronix - Fri, 01/05/2024 - 04:22
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" has signed off on two separate change proposals for further enhancing the system security with the in-development Fedora 40 Linux to be released in April...

AMD RDNA3 Refresh Graphics Support May Be In Good Shape With Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Fri, 01/05/2024 - 02:55
With some last minute fixes sent out today, the upcoming Linux 6.7 kernel's AMDGPU driver will be in good shape for some upcoming AMD Radeon graphics hardware...

GCC vs. Clang Compiler Performance On Intel Meteor Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 01/05/2024 - 00:00
Last week I posted a number of fresh GCC vs. LLVM Clang compiler performance benchmarks using an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX (Zen 4) system using the HP Z6 G5 A workstation running Ubuntu Linux. For those wondering about the performance of GCC vs. Clang generated binaries on something much more modest, here are some benchmarks when testing on a Meteor Lake laptop with the Core Ultra 7 155H.

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