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Linux 5.14 To Feature Enhanced Support For MikroTik 10G/25G NIC

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 20:00
The Linux 5.14 kernel this summer will feature improved support for a new MikroTik 10G/25G NIC...

RenderDoc 1.14 Released With Support For Vulkan's Shader Printf

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 17:47
RenderDoc 1.14 was released on Friday as the newest feature update to this open-source, cross-platform / cross-API graphics debugger...

KDE Plasma 5.22 Faster For NVIDIA + Wayland, More Crash Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 17:27
KDE developers are wrapping up May with more performance optimizations and bug fixes in tow...

AMDGPU To Expose More Information About GPU Throttling Status

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 17:00
The AMD Radeon "AMDGPU" kernel driver for Linux is poised to report more graphics throttling status information to user-space...

My family's Linux story

opensource.com - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 15:00

My first attempt at Linux was one of those "maybe I should give this a try" kinds of situations.


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Raspberry Pi OS Updated With Faster OpenSSH, Software Upgrades

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 06:21
Released today was a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS (nee Raspbian) with various improvements over its prior update from March...

OpenZFS 2.1-rc6 Released - Will Now Scale Worker Threads With CPU Core Count

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 03:00
Yet another release candidate of OpenZFS 2.1 is now available for testing and this time around there are some interesting changes to note...

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U - Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 Linux Benchmarks

Phoronix - Sat, 05/29/2021 - 01:19
While yesterday was the Threadripper 3990X Windows 10 vs. Linux benchmarks, with recently picking up the $450 Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15 with Ryzen 5 5500U, prior to wiping the Windows 10 preload I ran some benchmarks to see how that default Microsoft Windows 10 Home installation compared to a fresh install of Ubuntu 21.04 for maximizing the performance potential of this budget six core / twelve thread laptop.

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