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F2FS With Linux 5.12 Lets You Configure The Zstd/LZ4 Compression Ratio

Phoronix - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 06:03
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) with the Linux 5.12 kernel will allow configuring the compression ratio when enabling the transparent file-system compression support with LZ4 or Zstd...

HP ZBook Studio G7 Aims To Attract Linux Developers, Data Scientists

Phoronix - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 03:48
The HP ZBook Studio G7 aims to attract Linux developers and data scientists by not only offering a powerful hardware combination and by pre-loading Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but in also shipping a variety of tools and other software packages pre-configured for a modern developer and data scientist workload. We have been testing the HP ZBook Studio G7 for the better part of two months for this Linux-loaded mobile workstation and in this article is a look at this new HP device along with plenty of benchmarks, including Windows vs. Linux performance tests and more.

Android 12 Developer Preview Released

Phoronix - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 03:15
The first public developer preview is out today of Android 12...

Linux 5.12 Hooks In LED Support To The TTY Layer

Phoronix - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 02:27
There is an interesting change with the TTY/serial changes for the in-development Linux 5.12 kernel...

NVIDIA Launching "CMP" Cards For Professional Mining, Limits RTX 3060 Mining Potential

Phoronix - Thu, 02/18/2021 - 22:27
NVIDIA is launching the CMP - the Cryptocurrency Mining Processor -- that will be a line of hardware focused on professional mining with an emphasis on Ethereum...

Linux 5.10.17 Backports CPUFreq Patches From 5.11 - Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 02/18/2021 - 20:27
Released yesterday was the Linux 5.10.17 LTS kernel and what makes this point release a bit more notable than usual is that it backports the CPUFreq patches from 5.11 that were used for addressing the earlier AMD performance regression on Linux 5.11 and often leading to net improvements as well over prior kernel series. The CPUFreq patches were back-ported while the AMD frequency invariance support was not, so what does the performance look like for the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel? Here are some benchmarks...

Many Networking Improvements Routed To The Linux 5.12 Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 02/18/2021 - 19:29
David Miller sent in the big batch of networking improvements today for the ongoing Linux 5.12 merge window...

Linux 5.11-ck1 Released With MuQSS 0.208 Scheduler

Phoronix - Thu, 02/18/2021 - 19:03
Independent kernel hacker Con Kolivas is out with his latest "ck" patch-set against the newly-minted Linux 5.11 stable kernel and re-basing the MuQSS scheduler against the latest code-base...

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