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Loongson 3A5000 Benchmarks For These New Chinese CPUs Built On The LoongArch ISA

Phoronix - Sun, 07/25/2021 - 01:55
While Loongson has been known for their MIPS-based Loongson chips that are open-source friendly and have long been based on MIPS, with MIPS now being a dead-end, the Chinese company has begun producing chips using its own "LoongArch" ISA. The first Loongson 3A5000 series hardware was just announced and thanks to the company apparently using the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org we have some initial numbers...

Fedora Workstation 35 Looks To Use Power Profiles Daemon By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 21:15
Fedora Workstation 35 is looking to ship with power-profiles-daemon by default and to have it enabled for benefiting newer laptops...

FreeBSD Working On A New Installer, Updates To Their Linux Compatibility Layer

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 18:16
The FreeBSD project just published their Q2-2021 report concerning all of their different development activities from April through June...

KDE Making It Easy To Tune Your Laptop's Power Profile, Other Improvements Land

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 17:55
KDE developers show no signs of slowing down during the pandemic or being distracted over the summer months as it was another busy week advancing this open-source desktop environment...

Intel To Finally Remove Cannon Lake Graphics Support From Their Linux Kernel Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 12:00
Intel "Cannon Lake" processors were rare in the first place with being limited to the Core i3 8121U but given that no production SKU ever materialized with the "Gen10" graphics enabled, Intel's Linux engineers are finally moving ahead in eliminating the rest of the Cannon Lake / Gen10 graphics support code...

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