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

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 is out and users are encouraged to upgrade due to a recent Flatpak + OSTree regression that leads to slow install times...

Wind River Pioneers Continuous Delivery Subscription of Commercial Embedded Linux  EE Journal

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...

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

Linux is ready for the end of time  ZDNet

Linux Operating System Market 2018-2024 : Global Key Players IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  Bandera County Courier

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...

MontaVista Launches a Linux® Migration Program for Windows® Embedded and Windows® CE Users  Yahoo Finance

MontaVista Launches a Linux® Migration Program for Windows® Embedded and Windows® CE Users  Yahoo Finance

MontaVista Launches a Linux® Migration Program for Windows® Embedded and Windows® CE Users  PRNewswire

A new Ubuntu Linux LTS is now available  BetaNews

Google to Samsung: Stop messing with Linux kernel code. It's hurting Android security  ZDNet

What to expect in Microsoft's new Windows 10 20H1 release, due soon  PCWorld

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...

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...

Linux Operating System Market Analysis By Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro, IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  Nyse Nasdaq Live

It's been a while since last having any new magical optimizations to talk about by DragonFlyBSD lead developer Matthew Dillon, but on Wednesday he landed some significant temporary file-system "TMPFS" optimizations for better throughput including with swap...

If you ask most developers when they prefer to work, many will say their most productive hours are at night. This may be especially true for open source contributors who are contributing to projects outside of their day job (though hopefully within healthy limits to avoid burnout).

Some like to start in the evening and work till the early hours while others get up super early—say, 4 a.m.—to get most of the programming work done before the daily grind kicks in.

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