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Loongson 3A5000 Benchmarks For These New Chinese CPUs Built On The LoongArch ISA

Phoronix - Sun, 07/25/2021 - 01:55
While Loongson has been known for their MIPS-based Loongson chips that are open-source friendly and have long been based on MIPS, with MIPS now being a dead-end, the Chinese company has begun producing chips using its own "LoongArch" ISA. The first Loongson 3A5000 series hardware was just announced and thanks to the company apparently using the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org we have some initial numbers...

Fedora Workstation 35 Looks To Use Power Profiles Daemon By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 21:15
Fedora Workstation 35 is looking to ship with power-profiles-daemon by default and to have it enabled for benefiting newer laptops...

FreeBSD Working On A New Installer, Updates To Their Linux Compatibility Layer

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 18:16
The FreeBSD project just published their Q2-2021 report concerning all of their different development activities from April through June...

KDE Making It Easy To Tune Your Laptop's Power Profile, Other Improvements Land

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 17:55
KDE developers show no signs of slowing down during the pandemic or being distracted over the summer months as it was another busy week advancing this open-source desktop environment...

Intel To Finally Remove Cannon Lake Graphics Support From Their Linux Kernel Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 12:00
Intel "Cannon Lake" processors were rare in the first place with being limited to the Core i3 8121U but given that no production SKU ever materialized with the "Gen10" graphics enabled, Intel's Linux engineers are finally moving ahead in eliminating the rest of the Cannon Lake / Gen10 graphics support code...

Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" Gets An August Release Date

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 04:09
The Debian release team has just announced their planned release date for Debian 11...

Trying Out The "Folios" Patches On An AMD Linux Server

Phoronix - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 03:48
One of the low-level exciting kernel advancements being worked on at the moment is the new "folios" struct for improving Linux memory management. Tests by those involved found that in some conditions Linux kernel builds for example could be up to 7% faster. Given the recent folios v14 patches being published, I took them for a spin on an AMD EPYC server to see the impact on overall performance...

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