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My family's Linux story

opensource.com - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 15:00

My first attempt at Linux was one of those "maybe I should give this a try" kinds of situations.


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Raspberry Pi OS Updated With Faster OpenSSH, Software Upgrades

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 06:21
Released today was a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS (nee Raspbian) with various improvements over its prior update from March...

OpenZFS 2.1-rc6 Released - Will Now Scale Worker Threads With CPU Core Count

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 03:00
Yet another release candidate of OpenZFS 2.1 is now available for testing and this time around there are some interesting changes to note...

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U - Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 Linux Benchmarks

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 01:19
While yesterday was the Threadripper 3990X Windows 10 vs. Linux benchmarks, with recently picking up the $450 Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15 with Ryzen 5 5500U, prior to wiping the Windows 10 preload I ran some benchmarks to see how that default Microsoft Windows 10 Home installation compared to a fresh install of Ubuntu 21.04 for maximizing the performance potential of this budget six core / twelve thread laptop.

Chrome 91 Benchmarks On Linux Showing Off Even Better Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 05/28/2021 - 21:55
Chrome 91 released this week with WebAssembly SIMD by default, new JavaScript APIs, and other improvements. Plus there are also some performance improvements too, here are some benchmarks...

Dell Hardware Privacy Support Slated For Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Fri, 05/28/2021 - 19:19
Last year we wrote about Dell working on a hardware privacy driver for Linux as with 2021 laptops they are beginning to add hardware-based privacy buttons for disabling microphone and camera support. That Dell Hardware Privacy platform support is now set to be introduced to the mainline kernel with Linux 5.14...

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