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Windows 10 Competing Well Against Ubuntu 20.10 On The AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 23:35
Earlier this month we were a bit surprised to see Windows 10 performing close to Ubuntu 20.10 on the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X. With prior AMD Ryzen (and Intel Core) desktop CPUs we normally are used to seeing Ubuntu Linux exhibit healthy performance advantages over Windows 10 in most workloads. But with Zen 3 the Windows vs. Linux performance is much closer and thus led us to also running Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu benchmarks on the higher-end Ryzen 9 5950X to reproduce the earlier findings.

Linux 5.11 Adding VirtIO-MEM "Big Block Mode"

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 22:14
The previously covered VirtIO memory (VirtIO-MEM) work on its Big Block Mode "BBM" will be landing with Linux 5.11...

DNF/RPM Copy-On-Write Eyed For Fedora 34 To Speed Up Package Installation

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 21:03
Fedora 34 is shaping up to be another exciting Fedora Linux release on the feature front. Among the material to look forward to in this spring 2021 Linux distribution release is routing all audio through PipeWire by default, enabling systemd-oomd by default, an independent XWayland package, and more. The latest proposal involves making use of DNF/RPM copy-on-write support atop Btrfs with Fedora 34...

AMD S2idle Support For Linux Getting Squared Away

Phoronix - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 19:51
Just in time for the upcoming AMD Ryzen 5000 series mobile processors, it's looking like the S2idle support is finally coming together on Linux for increased power savings...

How to use the Eclipse IDE as your text editor

opensource.com - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 16:02

Eclipse is an IDE (integrated development environment). It’s definitely not a text editor. Then again, an IDE is really just a text editor with a lot of extra features for specific kinds of text. Furthermore, an IDE is often home to a developer. Developers have their IDE of choice open all day long, so it’s natural to stay in that IDE when it’s time to write a project README file, or to jot down a quick note, or to just make a grocery list. So sometimes, an IDE is just a text editor, after all.


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10 Raspberry Pi project ideas from 2020

opensource.com - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 16:02

The Raspberry Pi is the small, low-cost, single-board PC that took the world by storm when it was released in 2012. Since then, educators, students, makers, and tinkerers have used the various Raspberry Pi models for many, many unique and interesting projects. The possibilities are nearly endless.

Over the course of 2020, Opensource.com published many great articles about Raspberry Pi projects; below, I explore the top 10. I hope these articles educate, entertain, and inspire you.


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9 stories about switching to an open source alternative in 2020

opensource.com - Wed, 12/23/2020 - 16:01

In 2020, as every year, new open source projects launched as alternatives to proprietary solutions. Here is a roundup of the top nine articles about open source alternatives that made the headlines in 2020 on Opensource.com.


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