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Ubuntu 20.04 + Linux 5.5: Fresh Benchmarks Of AMD EPYC Rome vs. Intel Xeon Cascade Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 02/14/2020 - 00:19
Here are some fresh numbers looking at the current performance of various AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors up against Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processors when using an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS development snapshot and also upgrading to Linux 5.5 as the latest stable kernel. Beyond raw performance, power efficiency and performance-per-dollar for these different server CPUs are being compared as well for these sub-$5000 processors.

Flatpak 1.6.2 Released To Fix Performance Regression Of Slow Install Times

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 23:34
Flatpak 1.6.2 is out and users are encouraged to upgrade due to a recent Flatpak + OSTree regression that leads to slow install times...

New Patches: AMD Live Migration Support For VMs With Secure Encrypted Virtualization

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 22:13
Beyond the Linux kernel patches presented earlier this week for AMD SEV-ES "Encrypted State" support, another Linux patch series out overnight provides another improvement to Secure Encrypted Virtualization with AMD EPYC server processors...

Belated GTK 3.98 Puts GTK 4.0 One Step Closer

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 21:35
The release of the long sought after GTK 4.0 is one step closer to finally becoming reality with the slightly delayed GTK 3.98 now being available for testing...

Mesa Developers Discuss LTO'ing + PGO'ing Builds For Greater Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 19:23
Making use of Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) and Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) is currently being talked about by Mesa developers for their release builds in potentially squeezing out better performance...

An Open-Source Bootloader For Windows Lets You Run Off Btrfs, Other Possibilities

Phoronix - Thu, 02/13/2020 - 18:47
Quibble is a new open-source bootloader that supports booting Windows XP through Windows 10 and opens up new possibilities like booting a Windows installation off Btrfs...

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