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Gentoo On Android 64-Bit Sees New Release After 2+ Years

Phoronix - Wed, 07/08/2020 - 07:04
Gentoo's Project Android is out with a new stage3 Android prefix tarball for those wanting to enjoy a Gentoo experience atop a rooted Android device...

"ATGC" Aims To Offer Greater Garbage Collection Efficiency For F2FS

Phoronix - Wed, 07/08/2020 - 05:03
F2FS as the Flash-Friendly File-System for Linux continues to see a lot of interesting developments for this file-system beginning to appear on more Android devices and elsewhere given its feature set from flash optimizations to native encryption and compression capabilities...

Summing Up AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs. Core i9 10900K, Ryzen 5 3600XT vs. Core i5 10600K

Phoronix - Wed, 07/08/2020 - 00:00
Complementing this morning's AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT / Ryzen 7 3800XT / Ryzen 9 3900XT Linux benchmarks, here is a side-by-side look at the Ryzen 9 3900XT up against the Core i9 10900K and the Ryzen 5 3600XT up against the Core i5 10600K for these competing processors. This is a quick look at how these competing models stack up in the 130+ benchmarks utilized so far...

GNOME 3.37.3 Released With More Features, Code Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:46
GNOME 3.37.3 is out today as the newest development snapshot working towards the September release of GNOME 3.38...

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT / Ryzen 7 3800XT / Ryzen 9 3900XT Linux Performance In 130+ Benchmarks

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:00
After the AMD Ryzen 3000XT series was announced last month, these new higher-clocked Zen 2 desktop processors are shipping today. Here are 130+ benchmarks on each of the Ryzen 5 3600XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT, and Ryzen 9 3900XT parts compared to various Intel and AMD CPUs. Tests under Ubuntu Linux and also complemented by performance-per-Watt / power and performance-per-dollar data points.

OpenXR Conformance Tests Open-Sourced

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:00
The Khronos Group today continued with their relatively recent trend of the past few years of open-sourcing their conformance tests. The OpenXR conformance tests are now open-source...

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