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Mageia 8 Beta 1 Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 06:23
The first beta of the forthcoming Mageia 8 is now available, the Linux distribution that traces its roots back to Mandriva/Mandrake...

ARM Now Defaulting To Schedutil Governor, Other Power Management Work For Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 04:00
There are a number of notable power management changes to find with the Linux 5.9 kernel...

How A Raspberry Pi 4 Performs Against Intel's Latest Celeron, Pentium CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 01:09
Following the recent Intel Comet Lake Celeron and Pentium CPU benchmarking against other x86_64 Intel/AMD CPUs, here was a bit of fun... Seeing how these budget Intel CPUs compare to a Raspberry Pi 4 in various processor benchmarks, all tested on Debian Linux...

Wine 5.0.2 Released With Fixes For Various Games, Windows Applications

Phoronix - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 00:39
For those using Wine in a production environment for running Windows software on Linux, Wine 5.0.2 is out as the latest stable update...

Linux 5.9 Exposes Device Link Details Via Sysfs, Allows Hiding DebugFS From User-Space

Phoronix - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 23:29
There are a few driver core changes for the Linux 5.9 kernel worth mentioning...

Intel Compute Runtime Preparing For The Upcoming oneAPI Level Zero 1.0

Phoronix - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 21:51
It looks like Intel will soon be tagging their oneAPI Level Zero specification as version 1.0...

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