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AMD EPYC Milan Performance Across 11 Different 2021 Linux Distributions

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 23:07
After looking recently at the FreeBSD 13.0 and DragonFlyBSD 6.0 performance on AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" using a Tyan Transport CX GC68-B8036-LE server, the next round of benchmarking from this server with AMD EPYC 7543 32-core processor was looking at its support (all tested 2021 Linux distributions were running fine on this latest-generation AMD server) and performance across 11 current Linux distribution releases from Arch, CentOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, and openSUSE.

Intel Confirms Q2'22 Ramp For Xeon Sapphire Rapids As Good News For Their Linux Bring-Up

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 22:27
While Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" was talked about for launching in late 2021, that was widely expected to be delayed. Intel today proactively confirmed that Sapphire Rapids will now begin production in Q1'2022 with their ramp beginning in Q2'2022...

Radeon Software for Linux 21.20 Released

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 20:37
Quietly released last week by AMD was their Radeon Software for Linux 21.20 driver providing the latest packaged "Open" and "PRO" (Closed) driver components for use within enterprise Linux environments...

Linux 5.14 Drops Its Legacy IDE Code

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 19:17
Linux 5.14 has cleared out its legacy IDE code from the kernel that means dropping more than forty thousand lines of code...

Firewalld Prepares For Its Major 1.0 Release For Linux Firewall Management

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 18:16
The Firewalld firewall management tool for Linux that is built around Netfilter/Nftables is preparing for its long awaited 1.0 release...

Btrfs With Linux 5.14 Has More Performance Tuning, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 06/29/2021 - 18:01
With Btrfs continuing to see new adoption by various enterprises, Linux distributions like Fedora Workstation/Cloud and SUSE/openSUSE embracing it, and there continuing to be nice upstream improvements to this file-system driver, Btrfs continues on a nice trajectory in 2021...

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