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Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 03:32
When carrying out our Windows vs. Linux benchmarks we normally are doing so on interesting high-end hardware but for today's benchmarking is a look at how a $199 USD laptop powered by an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U processor compares between Windows 10 as it's shipped on the laptop against the forthcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux distribution.

Intel Should Now Have Gen7 Graphics Mitigated Without The Hefty Performance Hit

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 00:54
Earlier this month when Intel disclosed CVE-2019-14615 as a security vulnerability affecting their graphics architecture, older Gen7 graphics saw a huge hit to their performance with the initial patches for addressing this vulnerability on Ivy Bridge and Haswell processors. Fortunately, a new mitigation patch series was sent out this week where they believe the performance costs are now avoided...

Linux Mint Debian 4 Coming - Rebased Against Debian 10, Adds "Boot With NVIDIA" Option

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 23:14
In addition to Linux Mint 20 coming this year that will be based off Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the Linux Mint crew is preparing LMDE 4 as their re-base of the Debian based variant...

Raspberry Pi Foundation Gets Back To Working On A Vulkan Driver - New Effort By Igalia

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 22:28
With the V3D Gallium3D driver hitting OpenGL ES 3.1 compliance, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and their partners have turned to focusing on getting their Vulkan driver off the ground for Raspberry Pi 4 and future SBCs...

NVIDIA Retiring Their Pre-Fermi "340 Series" Legacy Linux Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 20:30
NVIDIA has sent out word that they no longer plan to issue anymore driver updates for their 340 series Linux legacy branch...

UBports' Unity 8 Has Working Wayland Support

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 20:14
Lead UBports developer Marius Gripsgard has shared some exciting news: their Unity 8 code is now riding happily on Wayland...

KVM Virtualization Adds Protections For Spectre-V1/L1TF Combination Attack

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 18:05
Following the Xen hypervisor in mitigating against a possible Spectre Variant One and L1 Terminal Fault combination attack, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) has added its own protections with the Linux 5.6 kernel on top of all the other mitigations they've had to endure as a result of CPU vulnerabilities over the past two years...

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