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Linux 5.0 To Linux 5.9 Kernel Benchmarking Was A Bumpy Ride With New Regressions

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 00:25
Recently carrying out some benchmarks of all major kernel releases from Linux 5.0 through Linux 5.9 ended up yielding some surprising performance changes with the in-development 5.9 kernel. Here's details on this historical look at the kernel performance and what's going on with the Linux 5.9 kernel slowdowns.

AMD Begins Teasing Zen 3 + RDNA 2 With Dates In October

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 00:17
It's been widely expected AMD will launch their next-generation RDNA 2 graphics cards and Zen 3 processors in Q4 as they previously reported as well as leaks pointing to October reveal dates. Today the company is sharing actual dates for said announcements...

Systemd 247 Still Aiming To Integrate systemd-oomd

Phoronix - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 22:04
Systemd developers are still hoping to introduce systemd-oomd as part of the next release...

Rav1e 0.3.4 AV1 Encoder Now Running On Android, iOS

Phoronix - Wed, 09/09/2020 - 21:20
Along with Intel's SVT-AV1 0.8.5, another open-source AV1 video encoder seeing a new release this week is the Rust-written rav1e...

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