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Early Ubuntu 21.10 Performance Is Looking Good - Especially For Radeon Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 08/25/2021 - 03:00
While there is still two months to go until the Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" release, since the feature freeze has now begun I've started some early testing of this next Ubuntu release. So far things are looking good as a nice upgrade over Ubuntu 21.04 and prior. Here is the first round of Ubuntu 21.04 vs. 21.10 development tests using an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X with Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics.

Haiku OS Gets TRIM Working For SSDs, Continues Bringing Up RISC-V Support

Phoronix - Wed, 08/25/2021 - 02:54
The Haiku open-source operating system project that continues advancing as the virtual successor to BeOS has been enjoying a successful summer...

DebConf21 Kicks Off Online For Annual Debian Conference

Phoronix - Wed, 08/25/2021 - 02:13
DebConf21 officially got underway this morning with being a second year of this annual Debian conference being held exclusively online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic...

Linux Kernel Changes Proposed So Intel TDX KVM Guests Avoid Crashing The Host

Phoronix - Tue, 08/24/2021 - 20:53
Shortly after Intel's TDX whitepaper was made public last year for better protecting virtual machines, Intel open-source engineers began posting support patches for bringing up Trust Domain Extensions under Linux. That work remains ongoing and now further Linux kernel infrastructure work is pending to better deal with the notion of guest private memory afforded by TDX...

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