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OpenZFS Lands Sync Parallelism To Drive Big Gains For Write Performance Scalability

Phoronix - Wed, 11/08/2023 - 04:00
A very enticing performance optimization was merged yesterday into the OpenZFS codebase to enhance the write performance scalability...

Intel Arc Graphics vs. AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce For 1080p Linux Graphics In Late 2023

Phoronix - Wed, 11/08/2023 - 03:12
Following last month's launch of the Intel Arc Graphics A580 for a sub-$200 graphics card backed by an open-source Linux driver stack I ran some benchmarks looking at the Intel Arc Graphics compute performance against NVIDIA's proprietary driver stack. In today's article is a fresh look at the 1080p Linux gaming/graphics performance across Intel Arc Graphics, AMD Radeon, and NVIDIA GeForce GPUs while using the latest Linux drivers.

Servo Browser Engine Receives Funding To Work On HTML <table> Support

Phoronix - Wed, 11/08/2023 - 01:00
The Rust-written Servo browser engine that started at Mozilla but now developed by Linux Foundation Europe with contributors from Igalia and other organizations has been enjoying a fruitful 2023...

Ubuntu's Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For Other Desktops

Phoronix - Wed, 11/08/2023 - 00:42
In addition to Canonical continuing to invest in developing Mir as a platform now built atop Wayland, over the past year Canonical developers have been quietly working on Miriway as a Mir-based Wayland compositor and it's becoming iteratively more useful...

AMD Releases Six New EPYC 7003 "Milan" Processors

Phoronix - Wed, 11/08/2023 - 00:28
While there is now the 4th Gen EPYC processors with the exciting and vast line-up from the very powerful general purpose Genoa(X) processors and Bergamo for CSPs and very dense servers to Siena for telco/edge, the 3rd Gen EPYC "Milan(X)" processors remain very viable. Especially for those seeking to minimize hardware costs, seeking very mature platforms, or looking to upgrade existing EPYC SP3 servers, the EPYC 7003 series remains quite competitive. Today AMD formally announced six new Milan processors...

Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers

Phoronix - Tue, 11/07/2023 - 22:07
While delayed by several weeks compared to their initial release goals, today marks the availability of Fedora 39 as a wonderful upgrade to this popular Linux distribution...

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