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Archinstall 2.7 Brings Unified Kernel Image Support To The Arch Linux Installer

Phoronix - Thu, 11/23/2023 - 20:02
The very convenient Archinstall for quickly deploying new Arch Linux installations with some level of defaults and making it effortless to setup an Arch Linux desktop is out with a new release...

System76 Stuffing More Features Into COSMIC Desktop Ahead Of The Holidays

Phoronix - Thu, 11/23/2023 - 19:46
The crew at System76 published a US Thanksgiving themed status update to their work on the open-source, Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment that will soon be powering their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

AMD Begins Preparing LLVM For RDNA4 With GFX1200/GFX1201 Targets

Phoronix - Thu, 11/23/2023 - 19:26
As a nice US Thanksgiving surprise, AMD engineers on Wednesday posted their initial patches for adding the GFX1200 and GFX1201 targets to the LLVM compiler...

AMD EPYC Genoa/Genoa-X & Bergamo vs. Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids On Ubuntu 23.10

Phoronix - Thu, 11/23/2023 - 03:34
While Ubuntu 23.10 isn't a long-term support (LTS) release and thus won't see too much exposure in the enterprise space, it's worthwhile today looking at the AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon server performance. It's interesting for a look ahead being just a few months until Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and with Ubuntu 23.10 incorporating GCC 13 that will also be the default compiler of Ubunu 24.04 among other close software package versions, the kernel not too far off from what will be in this next LTS release, and with Ubuntu 23.10's Linux 6.5 kernel bringing some nice performance optimizations. So with that said I recently wrapped up some fresh benchmarks looking at the current generation Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids performance against AMD EPYC 9004 Bergamo, Genoa, and Genoa-X processors.

Xen 4.18 Hypervisor Released With Support For New AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPU Features

Phoronix - Thu, 11/23/2023 - 02:27
The Linux Foundation today announced the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.18 for this open-source hypervisor that serves as an alternative to Linux KVM use...

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