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AMD Ryzen 9000 vs. Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake On Linux For Q1-2025 In ~400 Benchmarks

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 23:40
For those wondering how the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" series and Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" desktop processors are battling it out on Linux, here are some fresh benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux with the latest software updates as well as the newest system BIOS updates for a fresh, all-new look at these Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen desktop CPUs on Linux.

Eight New Security Vulnerabilities Reported Against The X.Org Server & XWayland

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 23:39
Eight new security issues have now been made public around the X.Org Server codebase that also impact XWayland...

Rust-Written Zlib-rs Is Not Only Safer But Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 19:47
Zlib-rs as a Rust programming language implementation of the Zlib file format for better safety is now beginning to outperform the C implementations of the widely-used Zlib...

Linux 6.15 Intel Xe Driver Enabling PXP HWDRM, Survivability Mode & GPU + VRAM Temperatures

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 19:27
Complementing yesterday's initial set of Intel graphics driver feature patches planned for Linux 6.15, a drm-xe-next pull request was also submitted to DRM-Next containing a lot of new feature code for the modern Xe kernel Direct Rendering Manager driver. There's a few fun features on the Xe side for Linux 6.15...

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