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Some Of The Possible Changes Coming For The Desktop With Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2019 - 07:30
While we aren't even half-way through the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS development cycle yet, Ubuntu's Trello board provides a look at some of the changes and new features being at least considered for this next Ubuntu long-term support release...

Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 1 Released

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2019 - 06:25
Debian 11 "Bullseye" isn't expected to be released until well into 2021 but out today is the first alpha release of the Debian Installer that will ultimately power that next major Debian GNU/Linux release...

NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2019 - 02:55
Start looking forward to March when NVIDIA looks to have some sort of open-source driver initiative to announce -- likely contributing more to Nouveau and we're crossing our fingers they will have sorted out the signed firmware situation to unblock those developers from delivering re-clocking support to yield better driver performance...

Purism Announces Librem 5 "USA" Model For $1199 USD

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2019 - 00:56
Purism announced today a Librem 5 USA model of their smartphone that has the same specifications and features of their Librem 5 Linux smartphone but manufactured in the US. That pushes the 720x1440 display, i.MX8M, 3GB RAM, 32GB eMMC, 802.11n device from $699 USD to $1,199 USD...

Intel Publishes oneAPI Level 0 Specification

Phoronix - Fri, 12/06/2019 - 00:12
Back at SC19 Intel released a beta of their oneAPI Base Toolkit for software developers to work on performance-optimized, cross-device software. Complementing that initial software beta is now the oneAPI Level 0 Specification...

An Extensive Look At The AMD Naples vs. Rome Power Efficiency / Performance-Per-Watt

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2019 - 23:00
Since the AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" series launch in August we have continue to be captivated by the raw performance of AMD's Zen 2 server processors across many different workloads as covered now in countless articles. The performance-per-dollar / TCO is also extremely competitive against Intel's Xeon Scalable line-up, but how is the power efficiency of these 7nm EPYC processors? We waited to deliver those numbers until having a retail Rome board for carrying out those tests and now after that and then several weeks of benchmarking, here is an extensive exploration of the AMD EPYC 7002 series power efficiency as well as a look at the peak clock frequencies being achieved in various workloads to also provide some performance-per-clock metrics compared to Naples.

BeOS-Inspired Haiku Continues Working On 64-bit ARM, Other Hardware Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2019 - 22:19
The open-source Haiku operating system project working off inspirations from BeOS continued to be quite active over the past two months in adding various modern features and fixes to their platform...

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