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Benchmarks: AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Performance Boosted With Ubuntu 23.10

Phoronix - Tue, 10/10/2023 - 01:52
With Ubuntu 23.10 due for release on Thursday, I've been benchmarking a number of systems to look at the Ubuntu 23.10 performance against prior releases like Ubuntu 23.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Besides the open-source graphics driver performance for Intel and AMD Radeon graphics always being a stand-out improvement, one area that is particularly exciting with Ubuntu 23.10 is for those with newer AMD processors where there are some nice performance gains to find with this new Ubuntu Linux release. Here are side-by-side benchmarks of an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktop along with an Intel Core i9 13900K desktop while testing Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS / Ubuntu 23.04 / Ubuntu 23.10.

Curl Preps For "Probably The Worst Curl Security Flaw In A Long Time"

Phoronix - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 20:29
The widely-used Curl project as a command-line tool and library for transferring data via a variety of protocols is preparing to roll-out Curl 8.4 early in order to address a particularly nasty vulnerability...

GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 18:39
A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment...

Intel APX Code Begins Landing Within The GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 18:27
In addition to Intel's compiler engineers pushing a lot of code into GCC -- and other open-source compiler components -- around AVX10, over the weekend code began hitting the GCC 14 Git codebase for the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) functionality...

Hangover 8.17 Released With Updated Box64 & FEX Integration

Phoronix - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 18:17
Hangover 8.17 was released this weekend as the newest feature release for this open-source Wine-based software that aims to make it easy to run Windows x86/x64 binaries on 64-bit Arm Linux systems as well as potentially other architectures too like RISC-V and POWER...

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