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Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 01:00
Last week marked the long awaited release of a 64-bit spin of Raspberry Pi OS. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has now made available a 64-bit build of their default Linux OS build derived from Debian for all recent Raspberry Pi hardware supporting AArch64. For those curious, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance improvement by switching from Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit to 64-bit.

AMD Is Hiring Again For Their Linux - Client - Effort

Phoronix - Mon, 02/07/2022 - 22:26
After establishing a new organization within AMD last year focused on improving AMD client platforms on Linux, they are now hiring again for this endeavor...

Convenient Intel PPIN Reporting To Come With Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Mon, 02/07/2022 - 21:00
With the Linux 5.18 kernel coming later this year, the Intel Protected Processor Inventory Number (PPIN) will be more easily exposed for their server processors...

Arch Linux Could Use Some Help With Toolchain Maintenance

Phoronix - Mon, 02/07/2022 - 18:30
While Arch Linux is known to be at the forefront of rolling-release Linux distributions, when it comes to its compiler toolchain the packages have fallen behind over the past year...

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