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GNU Project Developers Debate A Restructuring As A "Bottom Up" Organization

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2019 - 02:52
GNU developers unhappy with Richard Stallman sticking around as head of the GNU Project and not planning to make any "radical" changes are now expressing their desire for the GNU to be restructured as a "bottom-up" organization whereby those active developers and volunteers involved could potentially have more say...

Intel Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake Linux Performance Benchmarks

Phoronix - Tue, 10/22/2019 - 23:30
Recently I picked up a Dell XPS 7390 Core i7 Ice Lake laptop for finally testing this Intel 10nm+ processor under Linux. I have delivered some results so far like the Windows vs. Linux OpenGL/Vulkan performance and the Spectre impact with Ice Lake while this article is the first of several really drilling down on the CPU performance. In this article are benchmarks showing how the Core i7-1065G7 compares in raw performance and performance-per-Watt to the earlier Core i7-8565U (Whiskey Lake) and Core i7-8550U (Kabylake-R) processors.

Updated AMD Zen CPU Microcode Lands In Linux-Firmware Tree

Phoronix - Tue, 10/22/2019 - 21:32
Updated AMD Family 17h (Zen / Zen 2) CPU microcode has quietly landed within the linux-firmware Git tree...

Firefox 70 Released With JavaScript Baseline Interpreter, Other Updates

Phoronix - Tue, 10/22/2019 - 19:37
Firefox 70.0 officially hit the web this morning as the newest version of Mozilla's web browser...

AMDVLK 2019.Q4.1 Vulkan Driver Brings Performance Tuning, Reworked Pipeline Cache

Phoronix - Tue, 10/22/2019 - 18:41
AMD has been off their weekly release regiment for their open-source AMDVLK Vulkan driver but this morning they issued their first new release in just about one month...

Intel's Graphics Compiler For Their NEO Compute Stack Now Supports Jasper Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 10/22/2019 - 18:29
The team maintaining the LLVM-based Intel Graphics Compiler as part of their "NEO" OpenCL/Compute Stack have rolled out v1.0.2714 that includes initial support for Jasper Lake among other improvements...

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