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OpenJDK 14 Has Some Performance Improvements But OpenJDK 8 Still Strong

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 20:20
Given this week's general availability release of OpenJDK 14, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at all the major releases from OpenJDK 8 through 14 while looking at the JVM performance across multiple workloads.

Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 Released - Finally Supports SecureBoot, Home Encryption

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 19:55
The Linux Mint crew has released LMDE 4 "Debbie" as their hedge against anything dramatic happening to Ubuntu that would limit their ability to offer Linux Mint and for those preferring the upstream Debian base...

IWD Linux Wireless Daemon Adds Full MAC Randomization, Override Support

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 19:09
Intel's IWD wireless daemon for Linux systems has added full MAC randomization support as well as manual MAC override capabilities, similar to the MAC spoofing capabilities generally offered by other Linux networking components...

Intel Tiger Lake VRR Support Being Worked On For Linux, More PCI IDs Introduced

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 18:41
With the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel Intel Tiger Lake "Gen12" Xe graphics are considered stable as in enabled by default but that doesn't mean they are done working on features for the highly-anticipated next-gen Intel graphics...

AMD Begins Focusing On Bug Fixes For Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Code

Phoronix - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 15:47
Passing the point that new feature code is generally permitted into DRM-Next for in turn hitting the next mainline kernel merge window, AMD's open-source graphics driver developers have been turning their attention to bug fixes for all the new feature code set for Linux 5.7...

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