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AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs. Intel Core i9 9900K Performance In 400+ Benchmarks

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 22:10
Given the recent AMD "ABBA" Ryzen 3000 boost fix, the upcoming release of Ubuntu 19.10 powered by Linux 5.3, here is a fresh round of AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs. Intel Core i9 9900K benchmarks in a side-by-side matchup . It's just not any comparison but our largest i9-9900K vs. 3900X comparison ever: 112 gaming benchmarks and 321 system/CPU benchmarks carried out for our most extensive look yet at how these ~$500 CPUs are competing in this fierce race.

PostgreSQL 12 Due Out Tomorrow With Better Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 18:58
Tomorrow is when PostgreSQL 12.0 should meet the world for this popular open-source SQL database server...

Intel Core i9 10900 Series Coming With Competitive Pricing For Taking On Threadripper

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 18:48
Details have emerged on Intel's forthcoming Core i9 10900 X-Series processors...

GCC Is Potentially Months From Seeing Radeon OpenMP 4.5 / OpenACC 2.6 GPU Offloading

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 18:15
At last month's GNU Tools Cauldron was an update on the Radeon GCN back-end state for the GCC compiler, which is likely to see more code land around year's end...

PHP 7.3 Is In Ubuntu 19.10, PHP 7.4 Hopefully Will Make It Into Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 18:03
One of the benefits of upgrading to Ubuntu Server 19.10 this month is for a newer version of PHP7 providing new features and better performance. While that took close to one year to land PHP 7.3 in Ubuntu 19.10, it looks like next spring's Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be pulling in PHP 7.4 that is shipping later this year...

Linux ‘tree Command’ Usage Examples for Beginners

Tecmint - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 17:55
The tree is a tiny, cross-platform command-line program used to recursively list or display the content of a directory in a tree-like format. It outputs the directory paths and files in each sub-directory and...

Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Focusing On Bettering The Arm Midgard Support

Phoronix - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 17:51
While there hasn't been too much to write on it in recent weeks, the Panfrost Gallium3D driver within Mesa for Arm Midgard/Bifrost graphics continues chugging along. The latest work on it is switching over to a new scheduler for Midgard...

3 command line games for learning Bash the fun way

opensource.com - Wed, 10/02/2019 - 15:02

Learning is hard work, and nobody likes work. That means no matter how easy it is to learn Bash, it still might feel like work to you. Unless, of course, you learn through gaming.


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